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What I Read This Year

A list of books and essays in the world of scholarship that changed my thinking and writing in 2025

Dec 31, 2025 • Adam Robbert

From Teleology to Procedure

On John Rawls’s claim that pluralism requires procedural justice absent metaphysical claims, and my rejoinder that procedure may be a civic form of a…

Dec 16, 2025 • Adam Robbert

Found to Constructed Orders

On How, in Charles Taylor’s Reading, the Practices of Participation in Plato and Augustine Are Transformed in Descartes into the Construction and…

Dec 9, 2025 • Adam Robbert

November 2025

Disputations 3: Contemporary Natural Philosophy Needs a New Theory of Forms

This is the third in our new disputations series on Substack Live, featuring Matthew David Segall, Jacob Given, and yours truly

Nov 21, 2025 • Adam Robbert, Matthew David Segall, and Jacob Given

2:02:14

On the Good as "Beyond Being"

A brief exegesis on a much commented upon passage in Plato's Republic

Nov 9, 2025 • Adam Robbert

October 2025

Full transcript and video below of my talk for the Toronto Society, September 24, 2026.

Oct 6, 2025 • Adam Robbert

September 2025

Practice in Still Life 8: The Desert Philosopher

An introduction to Evagrius Ponticus (c. 345–399 AD), and his teachings on afflictive and virtuous thinking, put into the service of contemplation…

Sep 12, 2025 • Adam Robbert

Speaking in Toronto

I’ll be in Toronto giving a talk on September 24 as part of the Toronto Society's Viaduct speakers series for this fall. Details and tickets below.

Sep 5, 2025 • Adam Robbert

August 2025

Practice in Still Life 7: The Craft of Contemplation

An investigation into philosophy and contemplative prayer through the works of Dionysius the Areopagite and the anonymous fourteenth-century English…

Aug 21, 2025 • Adam Robbert

Disputations 2: The Desire for Truth is the Desire for Justice

This is the second in our new disputations series on Substack Live, featuring Pedro Brea, Jacob Given, and yours truly

Aug 15, 2025 • Adam Robbert, Jacob Given, and Pedro Brea

1:36:34

The Practice of Bergson’s Intuition

Henri Bergson makes clear that philosophy is upheld by transformations in perception, but we could do more to make those practices explicit. The…

Aug 11, 2025 • Adam Robbert

Thinking is Creating

A description of thinking, via negativa, using Henri Bergson’s account of memory and perception—a thinking enabled by ekstasis, theōria, and poēsis.

Aug 1, 2025 • Adam Robbert

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