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I am Lulie Tanett. I’m based in Oxford, UK. I also travel — most of my summers are spent in Waterloo, Canada, and I periodically visit Northern California. I didn’t go to school, nor university. Instead, I follow my own problems and interests. It’s fun. I’m interested in what’s fundamental. What are the underlying principles? How must reality work, given our deepest knowledge? Which ideas that we take for granted would be revealed as impossible if we took our best ones seriously? As such, my main interest is epistemology — the study of knowledge, information flow, how thinking works. And philosophy in general. I’m interested in real problems, and I’m wary of the tendency to follow abstracts into the stratosphere. Philosophy is always the philosophy of something. I’m especially interested in the philosophy of: rationality, morality, aesthetics, science and discovery, relationships, parenting, meme theory and culture, Enlightenment liberalism, progress. I’m a generalist. The world isn’t divided into subjects. What really exist are problems. I’m interested in whatever my problems lead to (solutions always raise new problems) — and since everything is connected, I’m interested in everything.