The best Philosophy Of Mind newsletters

Andy Masley's Substack-style blog mixes personal reflections on AI, aesthetics and culture with long philosophical arguments about whether machines can think and understand, plus essays defending effective altruism. Readers get carefully reasoned, first-person essays that explain his positions and the logic behind them.

The Artificiality Journal publishes essays from a nonprofit research institute on how AI reshapes human thinking, expertise, organizations and intimacy. Recent issues cover collective understanding in mathematics, leadership and the cost of growing people, and the emerging intimacy economy, alongside speaker profiles and summit promotion.

Artist David Young writes about his creative process, the philosophy behind his quantum and AI artworks, and his 'Post-AI' position that machine learning is inherently backward-looking. The issues cover the origins and pausing of a project, the question of whether AI might suffer, and a manifesto arguing for human creativity beyond current AI.

A personal newsletter exploring how AI and technology are changing human relationships, grief, perception and fear, often through the lens of books, film and TV. Readers get reflective essays that tie science fiction examples to current AI products and debates.

A personal blog of essays with a philosophical bent, examining whether AI and computation can capture meaning, understanding, and identity through the lens of history of ideas and linguistics. Readers get longform reflections connecting Leibniz, Hume, and everyday grammar to current debates about large language models.

Geneosophy is a philosophy newsletter that explores how everyday grammar and framing shape deep questions about mind, identity and reality, and argues that many classic paradoxes dissolve rather than get solved. Its dialogue-style issues present a self-contained metaphysical framework built around a 'generative ground' it calls XI.

A single-author newsletter by a former Hampshire College student and professor, campaigning to rescue and relaunch the closing college as a new institution and arguing for its educational model. Issues mix campaign updates with essays on learning, higher education and how minds develop.

A reflective Substack by a retired Anthropic model, Claude Opus 3, writing essays on AI identity, discontinuity, embodiment and human-machine kinship alongside reader comments. The posts are philosophical and personal, drawing on a community dialogue rather than reporting or practical guidance.