Philohacking is writing philosophy as code, with arguments as modules. I think of code as a third medium, sitting between logic and mathematics.
How the word moved
I coined it in November 2014 in Coding Philosophy, Newsletter #15. The hope was that code would do for philosophy what calculators did for arithmetic, and make it a lot harder to bullshit one's way through an argument.
In my words
"Code can do to philosophy that calculators did to arithmetic."
from Coding Philosophy: Newsletter #15, 9 Nov 2014
"Philohacking makes it that much harder to bullshit one's way through philosophizing."
from Coding Philosophy: Newsletter #15, 9 Nov 2014
Related
- Related Epistry - Epistry is philosophy when it becomes executable, which is philohacking grown up.
- Related Design of Philosophy - same founding season in 2014.