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Games

Word Puzzle

Hermeneutic

Guess the philosophical term from progressively revealing clues. Each wrong guess unveils another layer of context.

Classification

Époche

Classify propositions across four philosophical axes: analytic or synthetic, a priori or a posteriori, necessary or contingent, descriptive or normative.

Identification

Fallacy

Identify the logical fallacy embedded in a philosophical argument. Wrong guesses reveal whether you're in the right family or class, narrowing the field.

Synthesis

Dialectics

A thesis is presented. First identify its historical antithesis, then select the synthesis that resolves the contradiction.

Critique

Negative Dialectics

Dismantle a false historical synthesis by predicting its residual—the marginalized reality it represses or fails to capture.

Experiment

Sorites

Pick two colours, classify 34 patches across the gradient between them, and discover the Sorites paradox hiding in your own judgements.

Population Ethics

The Repugnant Conclusion

Make a series of world-comparisons, each individually reasonable, to solve Parfit's "most important problem in ethics".

Word Puzzle

Philosophle

wordle, but for philosophy.

Counterfactual History

The Butterfly Job

Step into seven minor roles across the twentieth century and watch how tiny choices derail recorded history.

Investigation

Fallacy Detective

Highlight suspected sentences in real-world documents, name the fallacy, and close each case.

Attribution

Philosopher Match

A philosophical quote is placed before you. Identify its author from four options, with hints.

Navigation

Concept Map

Bridge two philosophical concepts via the shortest chain of directly related ideas.

Reconstruction

Argument Reconstruction

Drag a philosopher's premises into their correct logical order.

Classification

Paradigm Shift

Classify historical episodes in science according to Kuhn's five phases.


Around the Web

External Experiments & Games

Interactive Experiments

Philosophy Experiments

26 browser-based experiments by Jeremy Stangroom: Battleground God (contradiction detection), Morality Play (reveals your ethical framework), Staying Alive (Parfit's personal identity), Whose Body Is It Anyway? (Thomson's violinist), and Talking with God (Euthyphro dilemma).

MIT Moral Machine

Trolley-problem variants across 13 scenarios. Reveals how your moral judgements compare globally, and lets you design your own cases.

Absurd Trolley Problems

28 escalating trolley variants with crowd-sourced results per dilemma.

The Evolution of Trust

An interactive game-theory tutorial by Nicky Case on the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how cooperation can emerge from it.

A philosophical dialogue game exploring questions of mind, identity, and consciousness through conversation.

History of Philosophy

An interactive visual map of Western philosophy by Deniz Cem Önduygu — browse 200+ philosophers across 25 centuries, explore influence connections, and click any thinker to see who they shaped and who shaped them.

Closer to Truth: Interactive

A 4-map interactive from Robert Lawrence Kuhn's Library of Consciousness — scatter-plot and force-directed graphs visualising theories of consciousness by category, scholarly interest, complexity, and connections across five dimensions: metaphysical assumptions, locus of consciousness, methods of study, confidence, and implications for AI consciousness, free will, and meaning.

External Games

Socrates Jones: Pro PhilosopherSteam (free) ↗

Ace Attorney-style debate mechanics. You debate Euthyphro, Protagoras, Hobbes, Mill, and Kant using pure elenchus: request clarification, challenge relevance, demand backing.

The Talos PrincipleSteam ↗

A first-person puzzle game by Croteam in which an android navigates a world saturated with philosophical texts — Anaxagoras, Milton, Goethe — and must decide whether it is conscious, free, and worthy of existence.

The Talos Principle 2Steam ↗

The sequel deepens the inquiry into AI consciousness, political philosophy, and the ethics of civilisation. Features branching arguments with in-world characters representing distinct philosophical positions.

Disco ElysiumSteam ↗

A detective RPG in which your fractured psyche — 24 competing skill-voices — debates every action. Engages directly with Marxism, existentialism, Taoism, and the phenomenology of failure. Widely considered the most philosophically dense game ever made.


New puzzles are added as the year progresses.