Well it’s early days but I think the Fleadh in Belfast might be the greatest event in world history
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The Odyssey was fun but you just know that Hollywood is going to release some pointless prequel telling you what every ship that went to Troy was called or something.
I’m feeling very tempted to read Tyler Burge’s The Origins of Objectivity but it’s quite a commitment. Does anyone know of any reason I shouldn’t read it?
I wrote a little post about my old teacher, the late David Berman (the philosopher, not the musician), and one of his ideas.
David Berman and the Typical Mind Fallacy
David Berman was an old-school philosopher who, for reasons you will not be expecting, encouraged his students to see philosophy as a project of self-discovery.1 I haven’t spoken to him in over a d…
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Mayo have lost 11 All-Ireland Finals since the curse began. They won 5/13 National Football League titles in that time. Taking base probabilities from this, the curse is statistically supported. I don’t know how to factor their winning this match (after the curse was lifted) into my model though.
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.
I haven’t seen The Odyssey yet but my only hope is that Matt Damon uses the accent he invented for The Great Wall.
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w agoTime keeping is my passion.
My take on this game: I rewatched Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer last year and it really holds up. Great film for the whole family!
Is AI rapidly concentrating epistemic and political power in the hands of a small number of companies many of which have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments?
The All-Ireland Hurling Final today will have a larger attendance than the World Cup Final. 82,000 in Croke Park compared to 80,663 in the MetLife Stadium.
Philosophers, we need your help We are running a study on philosophers’ intuitions about thought experiments moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/ Only takes a few minutes!
My department is hiring a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. It's an open call in terms of research specialization, but we're keen to hire someone whose teaching/research speaks to PPE in some way. This is a great job in a great department. Please help me spread the word!
Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History@irph.bsky.social · 3w agoJOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...
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Travelling a lot recently has really called to mind the old zen proverb, wherever you go, there are German backpackers.
It’s hard to remember that ordinary people only know two or three amygdaloids — plus geodes, of course
He’s right! This is exactly word-for-word what I do when I’ve arrived somewhere new. Humboldt has captured something completely normal and universal here.
Surely the right solution to Newcomb’s Problem is to reject both boxes thereby working to overcome attachment and ultimately to escape saṃsāra?
Umeå University is advertising two assistant professor positions in the humanities: www.umu.se/en/work-with... I was a postdoc at Umeå and it's a great place to work! @ethannowak.bsky.social would back me up on this.
Two positions as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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In the spirit of Roger Scruton, I feel it’s best to be up-front about my fees. So if tech companies are following, I’ll write articles arguing: Language models are moral agents: £5000 (+£2000 for patienthood) Running PyTorch makes GPUs feel pain: £7000 NLTK toolkit was always sentient: £10,000
Fintan Mallory@fintanmallory.com · 4mo agoIf any tech companies want to give me an obscene amount of money to be their in-house philosopher and to argue that AIs have developed extrasensory perception, just get in contact.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences is such a cool journal. We're all quite lucky that it's there doing its thing.
Does anyone else feel like the past/present perfect tense of 'row' is 'row'n'? e.g. she has row'n her boat to Hawaii. Please tell me there is some dialect where this is the case.
Surprised that no other major film has decided to pair its release with The Odyssey. Moana could have marketed itself as the alternative aquatic-wanderer-who-meets-a-god-film.