Essays

• What this questionnaire is

  NOEMA is an exploratory philosophical questionnaire. It is not a psychological instrument.

• How to read an axis

  Zero and one hundred are poles. Fifty is not uncertainty, and it is not wisdom.

• Why compatibilism is missing from the line

  The agency axis cannot place compatibilism between determinism and libertarian free will.

• Virtue and the other ethics

  The moral axis is a line between outcomes and constraints. It leaves virtue ethics, care, and role ethics off the line.

• Meaning is not a slide into nihilism

  Creating meaning is a positive claim. The absence of a cosmic purpose is not yet the claim that nothing matters.

• Limits of the model

  Six axes, two poles each, and a family map are editorial devices. They omit more than they contain.