About Philosophical Marginalia

I analyse fiction through the lens of philosophy.

I started Philosophical Marginalia because sometimes I have too many thoughts about the books I read. I’m a PhD student in philosophy and my brain won’t stop thinking about it. Maybe I think too much into these stories, and find philosophy the author never intended, but I needed a space to explore these ideas. I write about what I think about when I’m reading. Hopefully you enjoy these thoughts.

This isn’t a space for self-help or tidy conclusions. It’s for wondering. For turning ideas over until they shimmer.

If you stay for a while, you’ll find:

• Essays that read fiction as philosophy.

• Notes and fragments about reading, writing, and consciousness.

• Occasional meta essays — reflections on how philosophy lives in everyday thought.

Thank you for reading, and for thinking with me.

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The main essays are free to read. Paid subscribers get access to the deeper, more personal writing — the “meta” reflections and behind-the-scenes marginalia — as well as The Philosophical Marginalia Reading List, a short guide to the books that changed how I think about being human.

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