I was once going to illustrate a children’s book based on Plato’s apology. Here are some of the illustrations I did for that.

Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”

Rawlsian heterosexual who dates both genders because their own gender is hidden behind the veil of ignorance.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

Check out my article on love and practical wisdom in @psyche.co

Psyche Magazine@psyche.co · last yr.

‘Ideally, a person reflects on the reasons they have for loving certain persons and not others, and this reflection allows for the discovery of a deeper, more valuable love.’ buff.ly/3bnLSN9 Photo by Leonard Freed/Magnum.

RIP Robert Paul Wolff Besides his books and blog, there’s an excellent series of his lectures on Kant, Marx, and Freud that were posted on YouTube several years ago. Definitely worth watching. youtu.be/35cr_whPC88?...

Marx, Robert Paul Wolff Lecture 1

YouTube video by Alex Campbell

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Very happy to see this review. It’s an excellent book by an excellent philosopher (and person)!

Michael Cholbi@thatwhichischolbi.bsky.social · 2y ago

really honored to have reviewed Paul Katsafanas' The Philosophy of Devotion for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It's truly one of the most intriguing books in ethics in recent years ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...

really honored to have reviewed Paul Katsafanas' The Philosophy of Devotion for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It's truly one of the most intriguing books in ethics in recent years ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...

Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals

Human beings have a wide range of commitments, but we assign some of our commitments a privileged practical, axiological, and epistemic status. The succ...

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Mt Fuji saying hello on the way to the station this morning. It’s nice to see a snowy top once again. This year was the longest snowless peak on record.

If you’re a philosopher and you’re ever coming through Tokyo, you should hit up tfap. We have a great group of regular attendees. #philsky (On a totally unrelated note, I’m presenting there this Friday.) tf-ap.com

From a local Facebook group, coupled with relevant statistics showing relation between vaccination and infection and death in UK.

I have a new article out on love. It’s about why we should love people for their valuable qualities and why the importance of grace is often over-estimated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finite love

It seems like a problem to say that love can be merited – its value is located in its transcendence of comparative judgments. However, we commonly make judgments about who is and is not worth lovin...

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Except that we invented emojis, didn’t we? So maybe it’s a wash?

old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital

CNN@cnn.com · 2y ago

At least 10 people, including children, died in Gaza on Saturday after a drone strike hit the school they were sheltering in, according to local health workers.

We pulled the trigger: The editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 have informed Wiley that we are resigning en masse. We will be starting a new diamond open-access journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social, the same publisher that is now publishing 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺. #philsky #PolTheory #polisky

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journal

The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resig...

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This week - an exciting new area of HPS! Philosophy of the Geosciences, with Aja Watkins & @miguelohn.bsky.social (with dues to @alisabokulich.bsky.social). Consider the challenges of quantifying earthquakes, comparing past & present climate conditions & measuring Earth! #hps #philsci #histsci ⚒️

S3 Ep 10 - Aja Watkins & Miguel Ohnesorge on 'Philosophy of the Geosciences' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

Today we are joined by Miguel Ohnesorge and Aja Watkins to talk about a new subfield of HPS - The Philosophy of the Geosciences.  Miguel and Aja recently co-authored an article titled 'What is the Phi...

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“There is no “banality of evil,” and Hannah Arendt, who wrote about it in her Eichmann book, knew the enemy of mankind only from hearsay, saw him only through the glass cage.” Jean Amery At The Mind’s Limits

Two weeks ago, I found out my position at St. Norbert College had been eliminated due to budget cuts: one of 21 faculty positions (13 in the humanities) eliminated at the college so far this year. I was under tenure review, and now I'm not. I have until May, and then my contract will be done.

leah toth@thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2y ago

St. Norbert College AAUP's official response to the college's faculty cuts yesterday, mostly in the Humanities and all untenured or tenure-track faculty. Please read and share, as the narrative currently circulating in the local media mostly cites administration. buttondown.email/SNCAAUP/arch...

This news is very unfortunate. I received my BA in philosophy from SNC. A “liberal arts” education without adequate support for the humanities is shameful and goes against the very mission that SNC touts. I’m very disappointed.

Just landed on a Wikipedia page with information that was obviously incorrect and followed the citation link which directed me to ChatGPT generated news garbage. Wikipedia has long been almost impossibly resilient, but LLMs are really reallllly going to strain this resource

"What did come as a surprise to me was Raz’s choice of subject matter and the quality of his images. Black-and-white film, varying depths of light and shadow, and intricate details in the natural environment characterise his work." www.strandmagazine.co.uk/single-post/...

Joseph Raz: Philosopher and Photographer

Joseph Raz (1939–2022) was an eminent legal, moral and political philosopher, best known for his seminal work on normativity and reasons for action. In 2011, he joined King’s College London’s Dickson ...

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Had such a gorgeous walk after lunch on Friday.

An interesting contrast teaching in the US vs Japan: students in both tend toward subjectivism in ethics. But in general very strong objectivist aesthetic intuitions here vs US (very limited sample size—these are just the classes I’ve taught)

One of the coolest projects I was assigned in grad school was during a grad seminar on Spinoza’s Ethics. We had to deduce an original proposition and proof in Spinoza’s geometric style. It was much harder than I thought but really really interesting.

Words cannot tell you how happy I am that this project is finally finished. If you have a few hundred bucks, you could buy a copy. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence

What one can know depends on one’s evidence. Good scientific theories are supported by evidence. Our experiences provide us with evidence. Any sort of inquiry involves the seeking of evidence. It is...

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There’s a lot of great work on well-being, but there really needs to be more work on rational and ethical egoism. It’s such a prominent view historically, and it’s often thrown out along with psychological egoism.

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An individual cannot be ‘captured’ in a photograph | Aeon Essays

It’s often said that a successful picture ‘captures the essence’ of a subject. But a great photograph does so much more

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Thanks to Charles Pence and Max Bautista Perpinyà for organizing a workshop on Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity at the Brussels' Natural Science Museum, last week. I had a great time presenting my work in progress on a "theory of evidence" for evidence-based conservation!

Halloween night and trick-or-treating in Yokohama’s Chinatown.