Robert Boyle
1627–1691
“The Skeptical Chymist launched the experimental program under a clockmaker God.”
The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.
- TETrust in Experience8 / 10
- TRTrust in Reason7 / 10
- VAVital Affirmation6 / 10
- RTReverence for Tradition6 / 10
The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.
- Edward O. WilsonCARTOGRAPHER
Consilience seeks the unity of knowledge across the natural sciences.
- Thomas ReidGARDEN
Common sense names the principles every philosophy must already presume.
- LeucippusCARTOGRAPHER
The first atomist held reality to be nothing but void and indivisible atoms in motion.
- John McDowellCARTOGRAPHER
In Mind and World, second nature lets the space of reasons reach all the way.
- AnaximenesPILGRIM
Air is the underlying substance, condensing and rarefying into all phenomena.
- Jeff McMahanCARTOGRAPHER
The Ethics of Killing weighs moral status across the boundary cases of life.
Short exercises in the same tradition as Robert Boyle's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.
Three doors lead onward.
- 01 · QUIZThe InheritorFind your archetype — discover whether you'd argue with Robert Boyle or alongside them.CONTINUE ▶
- 02 · COMPARERobert Boyle vs Edward O. WilsonOn Mull's map Edward O. Wilson sits closest. See where they agree and where they part.CONTINUE ▶
- 03 · DAILYToday's SparOne philosopher, one topic, five minutes. A new one drops every day.CONTINUE ▶