Pelagia
@pelagia.bsky.social
Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet (not a Jesse Singal follower, you are welcome to check)
My paper on experts and trespassers that is part of a special issue 'Gatekeeping in science' edited by Eric Winsberg @ewinsberg.bsky.social and Katherine Dormandy is now out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Experts and trespassers: origins of experimental method, ‘craftization’ of science, and scientific expertise - Synthese
Synthese - Epistemic trespassers are often defined as individuals who have the expertise in one field but pass judgments, make assertions, and hold beliefs about the research and findings in...
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Just in time for Christmas break! 🎄📚My take on why we should read primary texts, old books, and go through original reports/findings even if we use LLMs for research (even if we use it a lot!). Spoiler: not bcs it's cheating. Enjoy! :) social-epistemology.com/2025/12/22/w...
Why Should We Read Old Books in the Time of LLMs? (And, No, Not Because Using LLMs is Cheating), Ljiljana Radenovic
Recently on X (formerly Twitter), an account that promotes various uses of LLMs (Large Language Models) to their academic followers posted a thread on how to write 4,000 words of one’s PhD thesis in…
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Sometimes the best way to face and sort out life difficulties is to take a break and read some metaphysics. Beside philosophical counseling I offer one-on-one philosophical tutoring too. www.lradenovic.com/tutoring.html
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I offer one-on-one philosophical tutoring. You can take with me courses on great philosophical figures such as Wittgenstein, or on specialized topics (e.g., Good Life), where we cover different...
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This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...
Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within, Ljiljana Radenovic
Knut Hamsun’s Pan is famous for its love story and the extraordinary psychological portrayal of infatuation. Its very title and the magical North, where wilderness seeps into human settlements…
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This is a piece I wrote early in the summer. It's on the sublime in Knut Hamsun's Pan. Those who subscribed to my Patreon page have seen it already but now it's open to everyone interested. Hope you enjoy it! social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/k...
Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within, Ljiljana Radenovic
Knut Hamsun’s Pan is famous for its love story and the extraordinary psychological portrayal of infatuation. Its very title and the magical North, where wilderness seeps into human settlements…
social-epistemology.com
Scenes from a marriage 😄 Me to hubby: Look, I got us this Zink/vitamin C supplement. You should take it too. It's good for immunity. Hubby: Nah I don't believe that it works but ok. Me: But you should believe! If you did it would work.
I'll do references when I am done writing. Me doing references:
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · last yr.Boy it’s boring putting in the references after you’ve written the paper. Next time I’ll do it as I write. (Yeah, right.)
My new Patreon post: "In search of lost faith: Pascal, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy". Subscribe and enjoy! Link in the comments as always.
My new Patreon post! On magical healing, medical healing, and God's will in the Late Antiquity! The next one remains to be on Father Zosima (Dostovesky), Father Sergius (Tolstoy), and Pascal. Stay tuned and subscribe! www.patreon.com/posts/medici...
By thy gift, O Lord, we are set on fire, and are borne aloft: we burn, and we are on the way. We climb the ascents that are in the heart. With thy fire, with thy good fire, we burn and go on, for we go up to the peace of Jerusalem. --Augustine ⚓
My new Patreon post is out, please purchase or better yet subscribe! It's about Knut Hamsun's Pan, the Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, his experience of transcendence & the question "How did we become these lonely souls living under indifferent skies?" Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/knut-h...
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along W.H. Auden December 1938
Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime Though this might take me a little time. - W. H. Auden
"Thanks, my God, for every heather bloom I have ever seen; they have been like small roses on my way, and I weep for love of them."
In Hamsun's Pan Lieutenant makes a note that Edwarda wears the same dress & shoes as the day before but has a new hat ... and now I am worried that men have been lying to us all this time how they do not notice & do not care about such things. 😅
Dear friends, I wrote a piece in which I explain why I think reviving ancient views of phil life can work only partially for us today. I also explain why I think that bringing great books to the counseling table is the key to self-transformation. social-epistemology.com/2025/06/04/p...
Prolegomena for a Philosophical Practice in the 21st Century, Ljiljana Radenovic
The history of modern-day philosophical counseling is short. It starts in the 1980s of the last century. Its official founder is the philosopher Gerd Achenbach, who became the first philosophical…
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My thoughts on Aristotle & Huxley in the link below. Coming up next (mid June or so): K. Hamsun's Pan.
Based on what I see on my lines USA ministry of health and human services is all about making Galen great again. 🫤
Is 'awfulizing', i.e. reasoning from bad to worst a fallacy? 😁 a) Yes, except for Slavs b) No, Slavs are right
There are two views on semicolons: Vonnegut's and Le Guin's. Vonnegut's is winning but reconsider Le Guin's:
There is this part in Andrei Rublev where he is asked to paint the judgment day but time drags on & he never starts & one of his co workers complains how they could have finished it long time ago all with demons, smoke, & fire. And Andrei shouts: But that's not the point!
"We need to keep certain important stories within reach; there will be many times in our lives when we will need to review them and remind ourselves what our real values are." That would be me (reading myself today, not a bad thinker really 😁)
The very last entry in Tolstoy's diary: Oct 29th, 1910 Sergey has arrived. Everything is the same, just worse. Just so I don't offend. And so I'm not mean. Right now I'm not.
This is the three vol collection of all Dostoevsky's letters in which he mostly describes how broke he is, asks for money and promises to return it as soon his next manuscript is out.
