Work is more than just a means of survival. | https://bit.ly/3MYEq0m
Drawing on Heidegger’s metaphysics, philosopher @bs-rousse.bsky.social argues work is our main way of connecting with the world beyond our own minds.
Work is more than just a means of survival. | https://bit.ly/3MYEq0m
Drawing on Heidegger’s metaphysics, philosopher @bs-rousse.bsky.social argues work is our main way of connecting with the world beyond our own minds.
and my new collaboration with Professor Julian Jonker (Wharton School) on frameworks for assessing how AI will reshape human work.
25.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This writing enabled me to draw together my scholarly training in phenomenology, my extensive experience working as a consultant and coach with Fernando Flores and Pluralistic Networks, my work with Stuart Dreyfus on updating the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition,
25.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I have a new piece of public philosophy out today in IAI News. My preferred title was "Why Work Matters in the Age of Automation." The editors of IAI News opted for one with a bit more philosophical flair.
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13.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I reply to a reader's assessment that my writing about care didn't adequately capture his experience of caregiving for his aging parents. This provided occasion for much-needed clarifications and extensions of my recent explorations of care. Link in bio!
13.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I recently gave a talk on the connections between AI, autonomy, nihilism, and how to live a meaningful life. Check it out !
12.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
My neon halo urges you to check out my new post: Why Care Matters for Al. A recent talk at the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington
See it on YouTube and my post about it on Without Why. Let me know what you think! Links are biographical
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28.12.2025 21:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0His voice speaks directly to questions many of us are struggling to articulate today, as AI systems become increasingly pervasive.
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A prescient critic of early AI and a legendary teacher at Berkeley for nearly fifty years, Dreyfus offered unusually clear and grounded ways of thinking about how technologies shape human skill, meaning, and everyday life.
28.12.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our first major project is the launch of the Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive, a professionally restored and curated collection of his philosophy lectures, drawn from a vast body of recordings currently confined to aging cassette tapes and unofficial YouTube copies.
28.12.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I’m writing to share exciting news from The Hubert L Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by the Dreyfus family to carry forward Professor Dreyfus’s philosophical legacy.
28.12.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I’m delighted to announce the Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive Project.
28.12.2025 21:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Punk is a response to technological nihilism. It creates meaning where the world increasingly withholds it. Read my last post of the year to see how. Link is biography.
27.12.2025 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The path of human flourishing is the path of giving a damn.
03.12.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post on my philosophy blog, Without Why! I share a philosophy talk I gave explaining why humans are not LLMs. Link is bio!
24.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are not on the verge of a post-human future of AI-automated work. Instead, we are entering a more demanding future where human involvement matters more than ever.
Link is bio!
Every new tool we build is also building us. As we design AI: what kind of humans are we designing ourselves to be?
Check out my new post, occasioned by an awesome talk Terry gave yesterday at the Topos Institute colloquium, "What's Up with AI." Link in bio!
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I talk about the importance of helping young people develop skills for using AI to relate to the world in active wonder and inquiry, rather than passive consumption of “content.” Link is biographical!
24.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post ! Why doesn’t progress in LLMs does not easily translate into progress in robotics? It helps to connect back to Hubert Dreyfus’s observation in 1972 that “the meaningful objects among which we live are not a model of the world stored in our mind or brain; they are the world itself.”
27.09.2025 04:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Post on Without Why! I discuss the recent conversation between Brendan McCord and Jonathan Bi at Cosmos Institute bout AI and human autonomy. I show that flourishing in the age of AI automation requires more than autonomy: it requires a revitalization of our capacities to care. Link in bio !
20.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post in my Heidegger series ! Link is biographical.
27.08.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post on my philosophy page, Without Why. I sketch a phenomenology of care. Today we need to learn to care more about care. Check it out. Link is biographical!
12.07.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who cares about values? What are “values” ? What if they are an inadequate abstraction from our care? These are the questions i ask in my most recent talk at Topos in Oxford.
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Went punting in Oxford, after attending an amazing seminar on “AI and the Future of Human Autonomy” in London, convened by Brendan McCord of Cosmos Institute and Liberty Fund. PS- check out the new post on my philosophy page, Without Why! Link is biographical.
21.06.2025 15:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week I wrote a post on Heidegger’s notion of Dasein. To be Dasein is to be intrinsically susceptible to outstanding questions of worth, care, and mattering. Click the link in my bio to read more !
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