David Velleman

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

• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  6 / 10

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

• Rae LangtonTOUCHSTONE

  Pornography as silencing — speech-act theory turned to ethics.

• Sarah BussTOUCHSTONE

  Autonomous Action — the conditions of self-governing agency.

• Maruyama MasaoCARTOGRAPHER

  From feudal to modern — Japanese political thought's genealogy.

• Stuart HampshireTOUCHSTONE

  Thought and action; freedom found in deliberation, not behind it.

• Helen FroweCARTOGRAPHER

  Just war revisited — defensive liability and individual moral standing.

• Tamar SchapiroTOUCHSTONE

  Inclination as raw material for the will; agency reformed by reasons.

Short exercises in the same tradition as David Velleman'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.