In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. Such an ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day.

📢 A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world's most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.

Māori word 'kaitiakitanga' named world's most beautiful by language app

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A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

I am delighted to share that the thematic collection of Topoi that I edited with the brilliant Emily Hughes is now complete. Read 20 excellent articles, plus my editorial introduction, on the “Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration.” #philsky link.springer.com/collections/...

👀 Job opportunity! Key Researcher, Benjamin Schnieder's research group Phlox (buff.ly/0mEPyhR) is looking to employ a 'University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics' for an initial contract of 6 months. You'll also actively collaborate with us at KiC! Job details 👇️ #philsky #jobopp #vienna

University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics

University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics

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This stings a little until you recall that one of the things those Philosophy people just made up was Sociology.

Tim Gill@timgill924.bsky.social · last wk.

Let’s be honest. If Philosophy hasn’t been ‘liquidated’, Sociology will not be. For all the criticisms, at least Sociologists collect data. Meanwhile the Philosophy people just make things up out of thin air. Just whatever they want. Doesn’t matter.

RIP Bill Oddie. Legend.

A new paper out (open access), co-authored with Chris McCarroll. We presented this at the first Eurasian Memory Meeting in Taipei (March 2024). Thanks to many for questions and comments. Nice to see it finally out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What Memory Teaches: Experiential Knowledge, Imagination, and Accuracy in Remembering - Review of Philosophy and Psychology

This paper clarifies and then indicates a conflict between, on the one hand, influential and longstanding ideas in the epistemology of imagination and, on the other, an emerging view of the accuracy c...

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getting everyone in the office to do the countdown like for nye but for the ausalert

Found a philosophy themed crime novel in a charity shop today. As well as its perfect title, it looks like the killer names all their victims after philosophers 😆 #philsky "My next victim, codename Bertrand Russell, was an art lover."

At a time when organisations say that what they desperately need isn't more coders or exam takers but young people with critical thinking and independent reasoning skills, it's a profound injury to the future to allow the closure of Philosophy programmes across the UK and US, including Dundee's.

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Leave. The. Stage.

Trump half starting his silly dance move and then pulling out of it was hilarious 😂

Thank goodness.

The football gods are cruel and capricious, but surely Spain can hang on here...

FFS Spain

I have managed to get up for this second half. Still 0 - 0, what a shock. And I guess Spain has had 80% of the possession?

Tech in sports is usually just a source of complaints (hello VAR and spider-cam), but I liked the referee view camera shots in the world cup. Gives you a nice immersive sense of what it would be like to be on the field.

First time seeing a rakali (Australia's awesome native water rat), and after watching it swim around (they really are like an otter in the water), it suddenly popped up right beside us!!

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

What a great strike

There is a "Melbourne Philosophy of Mind Workshop" on next week organised by Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social with talks by Michelle, Tim Bayne, Margot Strohminger, and myself. Should be fun, full details at the philevents link. #philsky philevents.org/event/show/1...

I think I have woken up early to watch the 2nd half of the World Cup semi, but my cat insists it's all about feeding him early.

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Workshop | New Developments in Epistemology and Metaphysics: ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w... #philosophy #philsky

You Kant always get what you want

Lydia Moland@lydiamoland.bsky.social · 3w ago

This just in: Mick Jagger admits in a NYT interview that he is reading philosophy, specifically Kant, because it is fashionable. Well, vaguely, but still. Also: so many arguments! #philsky

Feeling sad that there's only 3 world cup games left. And also sad that there is zero chance now of a new country winning it for the first time.

Down to 10 men for that?? That's so harsh.

At least Trump's golf buddy didn't score