Folk Psychology: Batchelor's Pruning, Subjectivity's Ontology

Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings · Dec 2, 2025 · 14m

The philosophical essay from the "Philosophics" blog provides a detailed comparison between the author's concept of Transductive Subjectivity (TS) and the secular Buddhist philosophy of Stephen Batchelor. Both frameworks fundamentally agree in rejecting the continuous metaphysical self, defining identity instead as an unfolding process generated by specific conditions. Their divergence lies primarily in aim: Batchelor seeks ethical and therapeutic liberation from attachment to the self, whereas TS pursues metaphysical accuracy to provide structural clarity and critique systems of retributive…