Khora is live!
January 28, 2026
Some of you may be aware that for the past year I have been working with Palinode Productions on Khora, their AI assistant for philosophical inquiry. I am a curator, selecting the most interesting texts I can find and to which I have legal access for Khora to ingest, and refining the results of her analysis. As Palinode broadens out, I will probably also be doing other things with them, such as teaching online courses.
After a lengthy period of preparation, Khora has finally been unveiled to the public, and you can see what I’ve been doing here: https://khora.world/.
Khora will continue to be refined, and new features rolled out over time. But Khora needs engagement and feedback from users in order to realize her potential, so I encourage you to get involved. Try searching with Khora. For the latest developments, follow us on Substack, or even better, join our Discord server.
There is also much in Khora’s algorithm, courtesy of the brilliant Karin Valis, of Mercurial Minutes, that will only really be able to express itself as Khora has more material to work on. Since we don’t scrape the web and steal content, it’s essential to get the community interested in and involved. So I’ll take this opportunity to invite you to submit your content to Khora, or content that you might be able to help us gain permission to use. There’s no transfer of rights involved: the texts themselves won’t appear on the site, just the summary Khora generates, as well as the nodes and links formed by analyzing it. The author is credited, and a link provided to whatever site the copyright holder wishes to associate with the content.
We are seeking primary and secondary texts that are philosophical in the broadest possible sense of the term, which includes not only every subdiscipline of academic philosophy and allied fields such as aesthetics, critical theory or psychoanalysis, but also, and crucially, mythology and theology, and works representing Indigenous wisdom traditions from around the world. We’re not accepting fiction at this time. We can accept works in languages other than English in some cases, and while we’re still primarily text based, we can ingest podcasts and videos for which a transcript can be generated. I hope that you’ll consider getting involved; it’s another way to get your content out there, and to aid others in their pursuit of truth.
“Elenchus Against Ontology”: New Substack post in collaboration with Palinode Productions
November 5, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/palinode/p/elenchus-against-ontology
My latest Substack post is a collaboration with Palinode Productions, with whom I am working to try to create a philosophical artificial intelligence. I hope that you like it.
New Essay Free on Henadologia Substack
July 19, 2025
Initially available in full only to paid subscribers, in honor of the Panathenaia I have decided to make my new essay, “Hephaestus and the Theophany of the Technical”, available free on my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/epbutler/p/new-essay-hephaestus-and-the-theophany
Henadologia on Substack
June 11, 2025
Having noticed that a number of friends were using Substack as a platform for their occasional writings, I decided to start one up myself. I named it Henadologia. I’ve already posted one piece there, a response to some remarks by my friend and colleague Antonio Vargas: https://open.substack.com/pub/epbutler/p/on-shared-domains
I’m not committing at this time to a rigorous schedule for posting there, and I don’t intend for this to displace my work on longer or more rigorous projects, but I think that it will be nice to have a home for writing that goes beyond threads, and that takes advantage of the community I already have there. So if you are interested, I hope that you will subscribe, and if you feel moved to do so, paid subscriptions are available as a way of supporting my work generally.
New Book: Polytheism in Greek Philosophy
April 28, 2025
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Bookshop.org Affiliate Link https://bookshop.org/a/17266/9798349274329
Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/polytheism-in-greek-philosophy-edward-p-butler/1147326779
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/polytheism-in-greek-philosophy
My new book, Polytheism in Greek Philosophy, is now available from in ebook and paperback (see links above). This book contains the lectures from my three-part course of the same name, which recently concluded and which marked the completion of my four-year residency with Indic Academy. Polytheism in Greek Philosophy is once again published by my own imprint, Phaidra Editions. Here’s the description:
Polytheism in Greek Philosophy challenges the perception of philosophy as a march of reason distancing itself from religion and spirituality, and most of all from polytheism. The ancient Greek philosophers were polytheists who worshiped the many Gods of their heritage, not as a concession to popular sentiment, nor as a transition to a more ‘enlightened’ monotheism or atheism, but with sincere piety, seeking to understand the blessedness of the Gods and how humans can share in it. They sought to illuminate the myths and rituals of their tradition with knowledge about the nature of Gods and the role of worship, beyond the tangible things we pray for, striving to understand what it means to be with the Gods. This book takes you on a journey through myths, instilling an appreciation for their wisdom, and the ideas by which philosophers conceptualized the Gods, such as unity and multiplicity, immortality, beauty, and cosmic order. It studies poets inspired by the Muses, tragedians writing for Dionysos, and thinkers who saw theoretical speculation as the highest form of devotion. It spans the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Late Antique periods, including the Platonists who confronted Christian hegemony and formulated a theological framework unsurpassed in its sophistication.
“Considerations Regarding Worship in Extraterrestrial Habitats,” 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (November 2021)
March 9, 2025
This is a paper I gave at an online panel hosted by New School Policy and Design for Outer Space at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice in November 2021.
Considerations Regarding Worship in Extraterrestrial Habitats
Polytheism in Greek Philosophy 3 begins on November 9th!
November 4, 2024
If you’re interested in the classical philosophy of radical polytheism, please join us. All enrollees will have access to the written lectures from the previous two courses, participation in which is not a prerequisite for this course. All sessions are recorded so the class can be done completely asynchronously. Recordings are available for one year from the end of the course, but only to those who enroll while registration is open. Registration typically stays open for a short time after classes begin, but I would not count on being able to enroll late. Besides, we have a lot to cover and I intend to hit the ground running! There is no access to recordings of past courses if you did not enroll when the course was open. So if you are at all interested in having the chance to pick my brains about these texts, and about the whole fascinating tradition of Hellenic philosophy—polytheist from start to finish—I urge you to enroll. It is likely that I will be taking a break from teaching these courses after this, so this opportunity may not come again. Register at the link below.
https://indica.courses/enroll/cohort/polytheism-in-greek-philosophy-iii/
Register now for Polytheism in Greek Philosophy 3!
September 4, 2024
Registration is now open for the third and final segment of my online course Polytheism in Greek Philosophy, in which we shall be studying the Platonists of Late Antiquity. Enrollment in the prior courses is not required, and all sessions are recorded, allowing for fully asynchronous participation.
https://indica.courses/enroll/cohort/polytheism-in-greek-philosophy-iii/
SHWEP Interview, Parts One and Two
June 14, 2024
In my previous posts, I mistakenly indicated that my two-part interview with the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast would eventually be available without a subscription to SHWEP. That is not the case, and I have edited the original posts to reflect that. Here, at any rate, are the links to both parts.
SHWEP Interview, Part Two
June 12, 2024
The second part of my interview with the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast is now available, for SHWEP subscribers only.
Henadology 
