Antinatalist Grinch: The Motion Picture

Antinatalist Grinch vs Natalist Santa Claus first appeared as a comic published at DailyNous December 24, 2019. The following year I made a barely-animated video version of it, posted to YouTube December 24, 2020. People who know me know whether I agree more with Grinch or Santa. For the rest of you, figuring that out is left as an exercise for the reader. If you’ve never seen these before, I HO-HO-hope you like them.

Antinatalist Grinch, Animated (slightly)

Antinatalist Grinch, The Original Comic

Mary, the Futuristic Super Scientist

These pages are part of a proposal for a project currently in limbo and on the back burner. Philosophy of mind aficionados will recognize the famous Mary from Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument in his 1982 paper “Epiphenomenal Qualia.”

(See also: Nida-Rümelin, Martine and Donnchadh O Conaill, (2021) "Qualia: The Knowledge Argument," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.)

In case anyone cares about my own view of the knowledge argument, it’s this:

Everything’s physical, and knowing what it’s like to see red is a kind of propositional knowledge of a physical fact. Further, it’s knowledge that Mary can have in advance of seeing red in exactly the same manner (and for the same sort of reasons) that someone can know what Hume’s “missing shade of blue” is like in advance of finding it. People who find this counterintuitive are in the grip of (1) a dopey theory of knowledge whereby the paragon of knowing something is having the known thing “in” one’s own mind and (2) a dopey theory of ideas wherein some of them are atomic (that is, not constituted by their relations to other ideas).

Heart Parts

Heart Parts was first published in 2017 in Eros Livieratos (ed.) Mereological Nihilism Orange, NJ: In a Rut Comics. pp. 19-21. Sold at Birdcage Bottom Books https://birdcage-bottom-books.myshopify.com/products/mereological-nihilism

Mereological Nihilism was a one-shot new-comics anthology organized around Livieratos’ prompt, “I lost my wife to mereological nihilism.” I think my Watchmen parody turned out to be the most literal of the reactions to the prompt.

The Complete Smith Jones, Metaphysically Private Investigator

Smith Jones, Metaphysically Private Investigator, first appeared in a couple of Mind Chunks comics in 2021, although proto-Jones arguably shows up as early as 2018. Anyway, here’s the whole Smith Jones/Proto Jones collection to date.