I haven’t seen the film yet, and I intend to (and hope to like it), but this is so very much to the point about so many US adaptations of non-US stuff. Read the whole thread please.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Honoured to deliver a guest lecture today at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Many thanks to Markus Gabriel for the invitation! I will try to show how ontological issues can influence our ethical and political choices. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!

What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.

…and can also be found you know where ;)

Rein Raud@reinraud.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

For those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn.

Dagsson@dagsson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available.

Power: a processual view

The article proposes a new way to define power and to evaluate it in ethical terms, based on a processual view instead of the habitual object-oriented one. It first presents an outline of process o...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

Delightful story about a 17-year-old homeschooler who disproved the 40-year-old Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture. She decided to apply straight to graduate school, skipping the rest of high school and college. When she finishes, a PhD will be her first degree.

Coming out this spring! Stay tuned! Cover art © Peeter Laurits

Very happy to note these perceptive comments on my "Being in Flux" by Thomas Fröhlich, a German scholar working on rather different topics than myself, have now been made public. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Garret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country.

White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta

A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent

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One of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/2

Just discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following!

There is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age.

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out Wow! That escalated quickly. Last time I filed my supposedly funny column, only two weeks ago, Los Angeles wasn’t on fire;…

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Now that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long.

A metaphysician is a physician who cures other physicians. And metastable? A building where metahorses live.

Anyone interested in process ontology might want to look at Dynamic Realism - Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, by Tina Röck (Edinburgh UP 2022). We share a lot, but there are interesting differences - she relies a lot on Husserl, quite surprisingly!

A common myth used by many pundits is that Russia is somehow invincible. It is not. Losses in Russo-Japanese war, World War I and Soviet-Afghan war led also to regime change. Ukraine must be supported so that imperialist Russia collapses. euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/08/i...

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There's no fuzz on the lesson we must take from the ascension of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in U.S. politics: when you fail to equitably apply the rule of law to all persons regardless of their wealth or connections, you create a class of criminal as shameless and pathological as they are dangerous.

I almost managed to get through this year without publishing anything. Almost. Just a moment ago, I got the notice that my "Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought" is now out (open access). A nice present! A happy turn of the year to you too! www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought

The article addresses one of the central issues of Buddhist thought, the status of selfhood and individuality, as they are discussed in the work of the Japanese Zen thinker Dōgen (1200–1253). It discu...

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam@jaxwendy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

…unlike, you know, the other bearded old man?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Primary school children left in tears after vicar tells them ‘Santa isn’t real’

The whole thread about neural AI networks is interesting, but this is something exceptional (also what I have suspected for quite some time).

Martin Hebart@martinhebart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some people have even proposed that this is inevitable, not because networks are overfitting to the data distribution, but because all networks will at some point, given enough data & enough parametric flexibility, approximate the true underlying function of the world. 14/n arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987

Asking for advice: I hope to be teaching a seminar on the philosophy of mental health this spring term and I already have a rather nice list of texts for my syllabus (in the first comment), but I am likely to be missing some imporant names. Please point them out to me.

Misinformation spreads more quickly when it provokes moral outrage, and readers are less likely to fact-check as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...

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An exercise in conceptual analysis: find the contradiction in the following statement by the founders of the “American Academy”, planned to become the leading US university: “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that's going to be allowed.”

Janet Vertesi@cyberlyra.bsky.social · 2y ago

The plan: replace accreditation & “take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments… to endow a new institution called the American Academy.” FYI #AcademicSky www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!