Branch Press

Essays

Suggested to start with

The Definition of Things

How tools change familiar ideas.

DEFINITIONSHISTORYKNOWLEDGE

A Mind Beyond Its Boundaries?

Where does the mind end?

COGNITIONDEFINITIONSPHILOSOPHY

Long Live the Books

Why books still matter.

BOOKSDEFINITIONSREADING

Knowing in an Age of Access

Finding an answer and knowing it.

KNOWLEDGEDEFINITIONSLEARNING

The Essay as an Attempt

Writing to think something through.

ESSAYSDEFINITIONSWRITING

The Work of Understanding

How we come to understand.

UNDERSTANDINGDEFINITIONSLEARNING

Whose Words Are These?

Writing with AI.

AUTHORSHIPDEFINITIONSWRITING

Where Memory Lives

Remembering and keeping a record.

MEMORYDEFINITIONSKNOWLEDGE

Thinking with Tools

What tools change in thinking.

TOOLSDEFINITIONSHISTORY

When Knowledge Branches

Following an idea through other essays.

CONNECTIONSDEFINITIONSKNOWLEDGE