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Uncertainty without dogmatism
Two invitations to inhabit uncertainty without turning doubt into paralysis.
Ideas & Content
Texts to return to — not merely scroll past.
Essays and reflections on skepticism, practical philosophy, ethics, science, culture, education, work, music and contemporary life. Different themes crossed by the same demand: think more carefully before concluding.
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The archive keeps growing. Use search to move across recent and older texts rather than relying only on publication order.
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Seven paths into the archive.
The categories reflect the site’s actual archive. A single text may cross more than one when the problem calls for more than one lens.
Practical philosophy
Choices, limits and ways of living
Concrete questions examined without rushing to turn reflection into a recipe.
Explore texts → Skepticism & MontaigneDoubt, experience and judgment
Texts connected to the core of the philosophical research and its contemporary resonances.
Explore texts → Ethics & public lifeResponsibility, pluralism and coexistence
Philosophy in the face of conflict, public discourse, democracy and collective responsibility.
Explore texts → Music, art & philosophyListening, creation and aesthetic experience
Songs, literature and art as ways of questioning experience, time and meaning.
Explore texts → Work & professional lifeCareer, decision and organizations
Problems of judgment, responsibility and meaning in the world of work.
Explore texts → Attention & digital lifeTechnology, time and presence
Reflections on screens, attention, rhythm and the effects of the digital environment on experience.
Explore texts → Education & formationLearning to judge
Teaching, intellectual formation, technology and the difference between information and understanding.
Explore texts →Start here
Four texts that show the spirit of the project.
They are not “the best,” nor do they claim to summarize the archive. They are entry points into four recurring movements: living without closure, revising beliefs, distinguishing skepticism from denial, and thinking of writing as practice. The articles themselves are currently in Portuguese.
The dignity of uncertainty: living without closure
A critique of the idea that every difficult experience must end in a conclusive or redemptive narrative.
Chimpanzees, evidence and the courage to change one’s mind
What an experiment on revising choices may suggest about evidence, conviction and flexibility.
Climate denial is not merely a lack of information
Distinguishing legitimate doubt, philosophical skepticism and misinformation without turning the debate into caricature.
Murakami and the practical philosophy of writing
Writing, discipline and passage as ways of thinking about the relation between creation and a way of life.
Reading paths
Two paths through the translated archive.
The translated archive is still selective. These paths group essays already available in English without pretending the collection is complete.
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Habit, judgment and public life
How habit shapes us — and how intellectual humility can become an ethical and political practice.
Latest publications · Portuguese archive
The archive remains in motion.
This section is dynamic: new texts enter automatically as they are published. Most are currently available in Portuguese.
Editorial criterion
More inquiry than opinion.
The texts begin from facts, readings, events, research, music or concrete situations. The goal is not to produce an instant position on everything, but to create room for distinctions, legitimate doubts, revision of assumptions and arguments that better resist haste.
Rigor
Distinguish evidence, interpretation, hypothesis and opinion — especially where rhetoric tends to run faster than facts.
Plurality
Consider different perspectives without treating every position as equivalent or using “balance” to erase differences in evidence.
Revision
Treat changing one’s mind as a normal part of thought when new reasons or experiences call for reconsideration.
Experience
Keep reflection connected to lived experience: decisions, relationships, work, art, science, education and public life.
Another way to explore
Some ideas can also be listened to.
In Music & Philosophy, songs, repertoires and concerts become starting points for philosophical, contextual and aesthetic analysis.
Pillar pages
Four guides for deeper reading.
Long-form pages that organize the site's central problems and connect the essays already available in English to the broader philosophical project.
Practical philosophy
Skepticism & practical life
Doubt, experience, revision, and action without final certainty.
Open guide → AuthorMontaigne
Experience, custom, body, judgment, and skepticism in the Essays.
Open guide → Public lifeEthics & public life
Dignity, disagreement, evidence, recognition, and responsibility.
Open guide → PresentTechnology, AI & attention
Mediation, pace, attention, and judgment in digital environments.
Open guide →Editorial path
Translated essays
Four essays available in English that deepen the work on skepticism, uncertainty and practical philosophy.