Writer & Researcher · est. Cambridge, MA
Maya Krishnan
I write about how we come to know things — the machinery of attention, the ethics of intelligence, and the quiet argument a good sentence makes with the world.
Selected writing§ 01 — About
I am interested in the places where thinking gets difficult.
My work moves between the academy and the essay. For the better part of a decade I have been reading and writing about theories of mind, the history of rationality, and the strange new position of the machine that appears to reason. The through-line is a single question: what does it actually take to understand something?
I hold a doctorate in philosophy and spend my days somewhere between a seminar room and a text editor. When I am not writing, I am annotating in the margins of other people's books — a habit I have never managed, or wanted, to break.
- Fields Philosophy of mind, ethics of AI, the essay
- Based Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Currently A book on attention & judgment
§ 02 — Selected Writing
Recent essays & papers
Links resolve to full pieces once published — edit in index.html.
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
— a line I keep near the desk
§ 03 — Contact
Say hello.
For commissions, talks, or a note about something you have read — the door is open. I read every message, even if a reply takes a week of term-time.