Study Sessionin Philosophy & Human Nature
Study session: The Human Condition, §24–27 (action and plurality)
On the idea: Does a digital public square require a shared history?
Opening note
Close reading, four sections, ninety minutes. Come with the text marked up; we read aloud and stop often.
NSNoémie SimardOpened 7 Jul 2026
Participants: Noémie Simard, Miriam Haas, Rosalind Grant
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MHMiriam Haas8 Jul 2026
§26 is where the argument turns: action is unpredictable because it begins something, and irreversible because it lands among others who will act in response. Every governance mechanism we design for online speech is an attempt to repeal one of those two properties.