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  1. Hermead of Surazeus
    Epic of Philosophers
    presents lives and ideas of 26 Philosophers over 600 years in 126,680 lines of blank verse.

    Hermead Day 16 July 2011

    tinyurl.com/HermeadEpic

    #Epic #Hermead #HermeadDay

  2. Hermead of Surazeus
    Epic of Philosophers
    presents lives and ideas of 26 Philosophers over 600 years in 126,680 lines of blank verse.

    Hermead Day 16 July 2011

    tinyurl.com/HermeadEpic

    #Epic #Hermead #HermeadDay

  3. 🎯 What happens when a philosopher, a psychologist, and a computer scientist walk into a bubble tea bar to talk about Explainable AI?

    Only one way to find out!

    🎉 Join us at the *MAIN EVENT* for the #HCXAI workshop at #CHI2023 with our invited speakers Andrés Páez, Tania Lombrozo, and Tim Miller

    ✨ We're so excited for this crossover episode of the XAI multiverse!

    w/ @Riedl @hal @jweisz

    #AI #ML #XAI #ExplainbleAI #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #HCI #UX #academicchatter #academia

  4. William Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated.

    I'll be posting more quotes of his in this thread as I'm going through the book for my chapter 13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

    Our daily Wimsatt quote gives useful advice to philosophers of science about giving advice to scientists. What we want is a philosophy that is useful to science, not condescending, but also not purely descriptive ... (quote 👇)

  5. Bill Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

    This one is so long that I'm posting it as a picture. Not easy to parse, but if you understand what it says, you've made a huge step towards understanding the multi-perspectival (but not arbitrary!) nature of scientific knowledge construction.

  6. Bill Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, & a paper that I'm writing.

    This one simply says: science isn't perfect, but it adapts like nothing else.

    "A naturalistic worldview of the genesis and operation of functionally organized evolving systems is heuristics all the way down — as far down as entities or configurations of them are products of selection."

  7. William Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting more quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

    And another one that's bleedingly obvious, but apparently not to some philosophers and silicon-valley types:

    "We aren't God and we don't have a God's-eye view of the world."

  8. William Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting more quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

    Today's quote is kind of obvious. But most philosophers still ignore it:

    "We need a philosophy of science that can be pursued by *real* people in *real* situations in *real* time with the kinds of tools that they *actually* have — now or in a realistically possible future."

  9. «‘Unjust on almost every possible count’ Philosopher Cécile Fabre on the moral criteria for war and whether Russia’s assault on Ukraine is comparable to the U.S. invasion of Iraq» — Meduza
    #MilitaryEthics #Ethics #Russia #Ukraine #US #UK #Iraq #RussianWarInUkraine
    meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/3

  10. @kameryn This paper is quite interesting for philosophers too, delving into some dark nooks of method. #philosophy #metaphilosophy

  11. The concept of time has puzzled philosophers and scientists relentlessly. At FQxI.org we're asking the big questions and seeking answers. ⁠

    Can the future affect the past? ⁠

    #BigQuestions #SeekingAnswers

  12. Let the following words of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer set the tone for your new week:

    "Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of their world. A few do not. Join them."

    #Philosophy #quotes #MotivationalQuotes #Inspiration

  13. Annika Harris (#Cognitive scientist and philosopher's Sam Harris wife) whos a neuroscience and physics journalist...

    1.5 hours interview about #consciousness being the fundamental underpinning of reality.
    A reality where #time #space may well be emergent properties of consicousness.

    If you are remotely interested in the topic of who we are, "god", #reality, #physics and even #ancestorsimulationtheory

    You will defo enjoy this;

    This is not woo woo anymore, really serious people are talking about it...

    youtube.com/watch?v=4GL4YvX76wg

    #neuroscience

  14. RT @UN: Do you have a favourite philosopher?

    Thursday's #PhilosophyDay is an opportunity to highlight the role of critical thinking in building fairer & more inclusive societies.

    More from @UNESCO: unesco.org/en/days/philosophy

    🐦🔗: nitter.eu/EUatUN/status/159326

  15. Between Two Worlds: Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist (Springer Biographies) by Mario Bunge (PDF)
    Author: Mario Bunge
    File Type: PDF
    Download at sci-books.com/between-two-worl
    #, #MarioBunge