Frank Jackson

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
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10

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

• Werner HeisenbergCARTOGRAPHER

  Uncertainty — what we know depends on what we ask.

• Erwin SchrödingerCARTOGRAPHER

  What is Life? — the order from order across the boundary of physics.

• Wolfgang PauliCARTOGRAPHER

  Exclusion principle; Jungian correspondence on synchronicity.

• AnaxagorasCARTOGRAPHER

  Nous (mind) orders an infinite mixture of seeds into a cosmos.

• AnaximanderCARTOGRAPHER

  The boundless (apeiron) is the source of all things — pre-Socratic first physics.

• HusserlCARTOGRAPHER

  Bracket your assumptions and return to the things themselves. Phenomenology as rigorous science.

Concepts where Frank Jackson sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Consciousness
  Why is there something it's like to be you? Why isn't the lights-on, no-one-home alternative just as physically possible?

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

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

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