professor @Tallinn University process philosophy, cultural & social theory, subjectivity & selfhood, Dōgen & comparative philosophy in general fiction (in Estonian) work in progress: a process theory of ethics & politics more: www.reinraud.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3ms3dbg6auc2gI haven’t seen the film yet, and I intend to (and hope to like it), but this is so very much to the point about so many US adaptations of non-US stuff. Read the whole thread please. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3dbg6auc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3moct3h5rlk2dHonoured to deliver a guest lecture today at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Many thanks to Markus Gabriel for the invitation! I will try to show how ontological issues can influence our ethical and political choices. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!15 Jun 2026 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3moct3h5rlk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3m73mxtoolc2oWhat the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.03 Dec 2025 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73mxtoolc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3m64ipjzha22t…and can also be found you know where ;) [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Nov 2025 04:58 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m64ipjzha22thttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3m4dbabl24s2p"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!29 Oct 2025 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dbabl24s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3m3wi32bbtc2gFor those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Oct 2025 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wi32bbtc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lwyfslkzak2wThis is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QRDJYGJ3MWUKKPKKN52S/full?target=10.1080/2158379X.2025.2546874#abstract22 Aug 2025 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyfslkzak2whttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lwqmjbixnc2o19 Aug 2025 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwqmjbixnc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lo2nc3vkwc2oComing out this spring! Stay tuned! Cover art © Peeter Laurits30 Apr 2025 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo2nc3vkwc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3ll7nqvoygs2vVery happy to note these perceptive comments on my "Being in Flux" by Thomas Fröhlich, a German scholar working on rather different topics than myself, have now been made public. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390166007_Thomas_Frohlich_Comments_on_Rein_Raud_Being_in_Flux25 Mar 2025 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7nqvoygs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lhv2qcshf22gGarret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nationalist-forces-consolidate-power-alongside-musk-s-junta11 Feb 2025 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhv2qcshf22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lgmvt2avz22pOne of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/226 Jan 2025 07:31 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgmvt2avz22phttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lgmq5tkb2k2dJust discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following!26 Jan 2025 05:49 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgmq5tkb2k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lgalkbnlrs2vThere is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age.21 Jan 2025 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgalkbnlrs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lg3mjy2qhk2jNow that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long.19 Jan 2025 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg3mjy2qhk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lfzzwtiozs2aA metaphysician is a physician who cures other physicians. And metastable? A building where metahorses live.18 Jan 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfzzwtiozs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lfk4al4wls2wAnyone interested in process ontology might want to look at Dynamic Realism - Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, by Tina Röck (Edinburgh UP 2022). We share a lot, but there are interesting differences - she relies a lot on Husserl, quite surprisingly!12 Jan 2025 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfk4al4wls2whttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lfckijzeu22a0:009 Jan 2025 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfckijzeu22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lelr3spjkc27I almost managed to get through this year without publishing anything. Almost. Just a moment ago, I got the notice that my "Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought" is now out (open access). A nice present! A happy turn of the year to you too! https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/2931 Dec 2024 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lelr3spjkc27https://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3ldkqtljisk2t…unlike, you know, the other bearded old man? [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Dec 2024 06:41 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldkqtljisk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3ldknlbhky22tThe whole thread about neural AI networks is interesting, but this is something exceptional (also what I have suspected for quite some time). [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Dec 2024 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldknlbhky22thttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lc7qmmprbc2aAsking for advice: I hope to be teaching a seminar on the philosophy of mental health this spring term and I already have a rather nice list of texts for my syllabus (in the first comment), but I am likely to be missing some imporant names. Please point them out to me.01 Dec 2024 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc7qmmprbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lc3miycovc2oMisinformation spreads more quickly when it provokes moral outrage, and readers are less likely to fact-check as well. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl282929 Nov 2024 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc3miycovc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/reinraud.bsky.social/post/3lbrqyno5ww24An exercise in conceptual analysis: find the contradiction in the following statement by the founders of the “American Academy”, planned to become the leading US university: “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that's going to be allowed.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2024 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:7hdvx6bwfj5tdeq62buzymvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrqyno5ww24