Folk Psychology: Batchelor's Pruning, Subjectivity's Ontology

The philosophical essay from the "Philosophics" blog provides a detailed comparison between the author's concept of Transductive Subjectivity (TS) and the secular Buddhist philosophy of Stephen Batchelor. Both frameworks fundamentally agree in rejecting the continuous metaphysical self, defining identity instead as an unfolding process generated by specific conditions. Their divergence lies primarily in aim: Batchelor seeks ethical and therapeutic liberation from attachment to the self, whereas TS pursues metaphysical accuracy to provide structural clarity and critique systems of retributive justice. The author identifies the key separation point in their methodology: Batchelor accepts the phenomenological feel of continuity as a starting point for gradual transformation, essentially working with folk psychology. In sharp contrast, TS dismisses the continuous self sensation as a category mistake and a narrative compression artefact, opting instead to rebuild the ontology of the self from entirely new principles.👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/02/a-key-point-of-departure-he-accepts-the-folk-psychology-i-reject/https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/02/a-key-point-of-departure-he-accepts-the-folk-psychology-i-reject/