Annette Baier

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• SRSkeptical Reflex

  8 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  7 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  7 / 10
• ESEmbodied Sensibility

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Bas van FraassenTOUCHSTONE

  Constructive empiricism — accept what is observable, suspend on the rest.

• Bernard MandevilleTOUCHSTONE

  Fable of the Bees — private vices, public benefits.

• Dugald StewartTOUCHSTONE

  Scottish common sense made systematic — philosophy of the mind.

• Maine de BiranGARDEN

  Effort and willing as the felt origin of the self.

• Richard RortyTOUCHSTONE

  Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. Solidarity over objectivity. Ironist liberalism.

• Gloria AnzaldúaPILGRIM

  Borderlands/La Frontera — the mestiza consciousness of bridging selves.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Annette Baier's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.