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My newest philosophy video is fairly political and potentially interesting to a broader audience: Does Might Make Right?
I got inspired by reading a horrible interview with a so-called 'neo-realist' who was praising the foreign policy of the second Trump administration to review and dismantle this phrase.
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I love this toy. There's a lot of trial and error, which makes it a bit like programming, but the physicality of it makes a real difference: there's a pleasing stubbornness and unpredictability to the materials you're working with. #gravitrax
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Quiz: welk Nederlands woord heeft deze student geschreven? (Ik kan het juiste antwoord uit de context afleiden.)
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I couldn't name a Taylor Swift song if my life depended on it, but I do have concert tickets for Nigerian Afropop singer Yemi Alade and British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. 👩🏿🎤
Stay weird, friends.
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I'm very honoured that my interactive fiction game Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates has won in three categories at the IFDB Awards, two for genre and one for programming language:
* Outstanding Historical Game of 2023
* Outstanding Romance Game of 2023
* Outstanding Ink Game of 2023.https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=4g63bkqoba65hqfk
#InteractiveFiction #IF #Inkle #Romance #Xanthippe #Socrates #GameAwards
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I love this (spoiler-laden) review of Xanthippe's Last Night wist Socrates, which has just now been put on the IFDB:
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=pinimlyjdv6njlil&review=77316
If you want to play my 30-minute game/story for yourself, you can do so here:
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A new (and again quite long) philosophical reflection, this time called "Normativity and Korsgaard". I criticise certain ways of thinking about morality, reasons, and moral laws; and end with some vague remarks about love.
#philosophy #ethics #metaethics
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2023/11/24/reflection-2-normativity-and-korsgaard/
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I've read the 1941 book Cours d'Assises by George #Simenon (translated in Dutch as De zaak Louis Bert). Simenon is famous for his detective novels starring inspector #Maigret, so it was very interesting to me that this psychological novel was a sort of anti-detective, anti-policier. The protagonist is a small-time crook who ends up in a monstrous judicial machinery that cares only about itself, its process, its judgements, and not at all about the people it judges.
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Exactly one week ago, I wrapped up a 3-session game of My Life with Master, the 2003 RPG by Paul Czege @paulczege. We played in a contemporary high school setting in a rural Dutch town. The master, Esmeralda van Eersthoven, was a teenage witch who wanted to become the most popular girl at school and the girlfriend of local cool guy Floris. Her minions were three girls from school whose various talents were used to gain ingredients for harmful potions and spells. #MyLifeWithMaster #ttrpg 1/n
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Exactly one week ago, I wrapped up a 3-session game of My Life with Master, the 2003 RPG by Paul Czege @paulczege. We played in a contemporary high school setting in a rural Dutch town. The master, Esmeralda van Eersthoven, was a teenage witch who wanted to become the most popular girl at school and the girlfriend of local cool guy Floris. Her minions were three girls from school whose various talents were used to gain ingredients for harmful potions and spells. #MyLifeWithMaster #ttrpg 1/n
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Exactly one week ago, I wrapped up a 3-session game of My Life with Master, the 2003 RPG by Paul Czege @paulczege. We played in a contemporary high school setting in a rural Dutch town. The master, Esmeralda van Eersthoven, was a teenage witch who wanted to become the most popular girl at school and the girlfriend of local cool guy Floris. Her minions were three girls from school whose various talents were used to gain ingredients for harmful potions and spells. #MyLifeWithMaster #ttrpg 1/n
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Exactly one week ago, I wrapped up a 3-session game of My Life with Master, the 2003 RPG by Paul Czege @paulczege. We played in a contemporary high school setting in a rural Dutch town. The master, Esmeralda van Eersthoven, was a teenage witch who wanted to become the most popular girl at school and the girlfriend of local cool guy Floris. Her minions were three girls from school whose various talents were used to gain ingredients for harmful potions and spells. #MyLifeWithMaster #ttrpg 1/n
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Exactly one week ago, I wrapped up a 3-session game of My Life with Master, the 2003 RPG by Paul Czege @paulczege. We played in a contemporary high school setting in a rural Dutch town. The master, Esmeralda van Eersthoven, was a teenage witch who wanted to become the most popular girl at school and the girlfriend of local cool guy Floris. Her minions were three girls from school whose various talents were used to gain ingredients for harmful potions and spells. #MyLifeWithMaster #ttrpg 1/n
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Just finished Lavinia (2008), Ursula Le Guin's last novel. She tells the story of Lavinia, a character from Vergil's Aeneid who is crucial to the plot (she's the woman that Aeneas and Turnus end up fighting over) but about whom we learn almost nothing. Until now. A great and wise book, a fitting final novel for a great and wise author.
It's not absolutely necessary, but you'll probably enjoy the book more after reading the Aeneid. #Vergil #LeGuin #Fiction
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In the past eleven months, I got 30 new books, of which I've by now read 13. I wonder whether that's a justifiable reading rate...
(Posting this now rather than next week, because I'll be receiving a box set of 15 of George Simenon's psychological novels...)
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I played the #ttrpg #MyLifeWithMaster by @paulczege yesterday, with three friends. We created a master and the three minions, and then played a few initial scenes. Next time the story will really start unfolding. But this was already a lot of fun -- four people creating the characters and the setting in an atmosphere of joyously shared creativity. Some #ActualPlay notes, and #GMAdvice, in the thread below. #storygames #roleplaying 1/n
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I played the #ttrpg #MyLifeWithMaster by @paulczege yesterday, with three friends. We created a master and the three minions, and then played a few initial scenes. Next time the story will really start unfolding. But this was already a lot of fun -- four people creating the characters and the setting in an atmosphere of joyously shared creativity. Some #ActualPlay notes, and #GMAdvice, in the thread below. #storygames #roleplaying 1/n
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I played the #ttrpg #MyLifeWithMaster by @paulczege yesterday, with three friends. We created a master and the three minions, and then played a few initial scenes. Next time the story will really start unfolding. But this was already a lot of fun -- four people creating the characters and the setting in an atmosphere of joyously shared creativity. Some #ActualPlay notes, and #GMAdvice, in the thread below. #storygames #roleplaying 1/n
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I played the #ttrpg #MyLifeWithMaster by @paulczege yesterday, with three friends. We created a master and the three minions, and then played a few initial scenes. Next time the story will really start unfolding. But this was already a lot of fun -- four people creating the characters and the setting in an atmosphere of joyously shared creativity. Some #ActualPlay notes, and #GMAdvice, in the thread below. #storygames #roleplaying 1/n
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I played the #ttrpg #MyLifeWithMaster by @paulczege yesterday, with three friends. We created a master and the three minions, and then played a few initial scenes. Next time the story will really start unfolding. But this was already a lot of fun -- four people creating the characters and the setting in an atmosphere of joyously shared creativity. Some #ActualPlay notes, and #GMAdvice, in the thread below. #storygames #roleplaying 1/n
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I wrote a possibly nice introduction to anti-realism about truth a while ago:
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/10/11/anti-realism-and-the-decline-of-truth/ -
@kameryn This paper is quite interesting for philosophers too, delving into some dark nooks of method. #philosophy #metaphilosophy
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A question for epistemologists! When Bayesians talk about degrees of belief, do they have any resources to explain why a 0.5 degree of belief ('no idea whether it's true or false') is a worse epistemic position to be in than a 0.99 or 0.01 degree of belief ('very confident about my judgement')? My sense is that the answer is 'no', and that Bayesian epistemology turns inquiry into mechanical rule-following rather than a goal-directed rational process. #Bayesianism #Philosophy #Epistemology
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New philosophy video, this time on the recent paper "An Empirical Argument for Presentism" by David Builes and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello.
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Posted a short philosophy blog post on disjunctivism and conjunctivism in the philosophy of perception. It mostly explains the issue, but is different from standard presentations in that it considers perception as an act. Very much inspired by James Conant's book The Logical Alien.
"Disjunctivism, acts, and attempts"
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/12/13/disjunctivism-acts-and-attempts/
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Posted a short philosophy blog post on disjunctivism and conjunctivism in the philosophy of perception. It mostly explains the issue, but is different from standard presentations in that it considers perception as an act. Very much inspired by James Conant's book The Logical Alien.
"Disjunctivism, acts, and attempts"
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/12/13/disjunctivism-acts-and-attempts/
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Posted a short philosophy blog post on disjunctivism and conjunctivism in the philosophy of perception. It mostly explains the issue, but is different from standard presentations in that it considers perception as an act. Very much inspired by James Conant's book The Logical Alien.
"Disjunctivism, acts, and attempts"
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/12/13/disjunctivism-acts-and-attempts/
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Posted a short philosophy blog post on disjunctivism and conjunctivism in the philosophy of perception. It mostly explains the issue, but is different from standard presentations in that it considers perception as an act. Very much inspired by James Conant's book The Logical Alien.
"Disjunctivism, acts, and attempts"
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/12/13/disjunctivism-acts-and-attempts/
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Neo-Quineanism and the method of metaphysics: a new blog post in which I take issue with the idea that ontological disputes must be formulated in a framework that presupposes 'unrestricted existence'. I argue that such a framework prejudges many of the most interesting ontological questions.
http://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2022/11/25/neo-quineanism-and-the-method-of-metaphysics/