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  1. Is there an up-to-date list of #philosophers on the #Fediverse? Or have they all moved to #Bluesky? Where are you all?

    #philosophy

  2. Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Roland Barthes (EPUB)
    Author: Roland Barthes
    File Type: EPUB
    Download at sci-books.com/album-unpublishe
    #Philosophers, #RolandBarthes

  3. On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (PDF)
    Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
    File Type: PDF
    Download at sci-books.com/on-the-genealogy
    #Philosophers, #FriedrichNietzsche

  4. Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics (Synthese Library Book 406) by Cordero (PDF)
    Author: Cordero
    File Type: PDF
    Download at sci-books.com/philosophers-loo
    #Theory, #Cordero

  5. Philosophers here definitely need a proper Mastodon hashtag like #histodon and #mathstodon folks have. So far I've seen #philscidon, but not #philodon or #philosodon. Is there any such hashtag in other instances? If not, which one should we use?

    #Academia #Philosophy #PhilosophyTwitter

  6. @philosopher
    Started to use it nine years ago to learn Chinese. Now I just make a card for anything I want to remember, a fact that I run into that I think is worth having in my head 🙃

  7. Philosopher #ThomasHobbes wrote that laughter is “a sudden glory, arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly”. 

    My interpretation: we laugh when we are good, when others are not, or at our previous (not good) selves.

    open.substack.com/pub/paninid/

  8. Philosophers, going back to #Plato and #Aristotle, have observed a link between #comedy and #cruelty. In the seventeenth century, #ThomasHobbes pegged #laughter as the companion of scorn. He framed #humor as an act of self-aggrandizement premised on the debasement of others.

    1/3

  9. Philosopher of science working at the interface of causality, spacetime and quantum structure. I explore functional approaches to temporal ordering beyond metric geometry.

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Causality #QuantumGravity #ScientificMetaphysics

  10. #philosopher G. E. Moore.
    at least some of our established# beliefs about the world are absolutely #certain, so they can be legitimately called "#facts".

    these beliefs are #commonsense.
    #philosophy #epistemology #epistemological
    [Your thoughts?]
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defenc

  11. #philosopher G. E. Moore.
    at least some of our established# beliefs about the world are absolutely #certain, so they can be legitimately called "#facts".

    these beliefs are #commonsense.
    #philosophy #epistemology #epistemological
    [Your thoughts?]
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defenc

  12. #philosopher G. E. Moore.
    at least some of our established# beliefs about the world are absolutely #certain, so they can be legitimately called "#facts".

    these beliefs are #commonsense.
    #philosophy #epistemology #epistemological
    [Your thoughts?]
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defenc

  13. #philosopher G. E. Moore.
    at least some of our established# beliefs about the world are absolutely #certain, so they can be legitimately called "#facts".

    these beliefs are #commonsense.
    #philosophy #epistemology #epistemological
    [Your thoughts?]
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defenc

  14. "Philosophers are well aware of losses to the field in the form of budget cuts, faculty layoffs, closed departments, dropped majors, narrowed curricula, and declining enrollments. At least we’re aware of them anecdotally, alongside occasional examples of growth. This [#MacArthur-funded] project will go beyond anecdotes to trends, and quantify the cuts to the field in the past several decades, primarily in the United States."
    futureofphilosophy.org/macarth

    PS: I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Humanities #Philosophy #Universities

  15. "Philosophers are well aware of losses to the field in the form of budget cuts, faculty layoffs, closed departments, dropped majors, narrowed curricula, and declining enrollments. At least we’re aware of them anecdotally, alongside occasional examples of growth. This [#MacArthur-funded] project will go beyond anecdotes to trends, and quantify the cuts to the field in the past several decades, primarily in the United States."
    futureofphilosophy.org/macarth

    PS: I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Humanities #Philosophy #Universities

  16. "Philosophers are well aware of losses to the field in the form of budget cuts, faculty layoffs, closed departments, dropped majors, narrowed curricula, and declining enrollments. At least we’re aware of them anecdotally, alongside occasional examples of growth. This [#MacArthur-funded] project will go beyond anecdotes to trends, and quantify the cuts to the field in the past several decades, primarily in the United States."
    futureofphilosophy.org/macarth

    PS: I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Humanities #Philosophy #Universities

  17. "Philosophers are well aware of losses to the field in the form of budget cuts, faculty layoffs, closed departments, dropped majors, narrowed curricula, and declining enrollments. At least we’re aware of them anecdotally, alongside occasional examples of growth. This [#MacArthur-funded] project will go beyond anecdotes to trends, and quantify the cuts to the field in the past several decades, primarily in the United States."
    futureofphilosophy.org/macarth

    PS: I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Humanities #Philosophy #Universities

  18. "Philosophers are well aware of losses to the field in the form of budget cuts, faculty layoffs, closed departments, dropped majors, narrowed curricula, and declining enrollments. At least we’re aware of them anecdotally, alongside occasional examples of growth. This [#MacArthur-funded] project will go beyond anecdotes to trends, and quantify the cuts to the field in the past several decades, primarily in the United States."
    futureofphilosophy.org/macarth

    PS: I'm proud to be a co-PI on this project and member of the planning committee thinking about new and complementary ways to support the teaching and study of philosophy.

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Humanities #Philosophy #Universities

  19. Philosopher #PeterSinger, author of #AnimalLiberation is releasing an updated book called #AnimalLiberationNow. Here is an interview he had with #ZoëCorbyn:

    theguardian.com/world/2023/may

    I look forward to reading both the old and updated book, and see how much/little has changed. Looks like it will give a bigger spotlight on the #ClimateEmergency aspect in relation to the animal agricultural industry.

    A few things I am disappointed about, from a #vegan perspective (#AnnoyingVegan bias incoming):

    1. Describing himself as 'flexibly vegan'.
    2. Eating oysters (even if oyster farming is apparently an environmentally sustainable industry).
    3. His defense of 'consientious omnivores'. Q&A in full:

    "Conscientious omnivores oppose factory farming but continue to eat animal products from farmers who treat their animals well and don’t subject them to suffering. Do they get a pass?
    Honestly, I can’t show that they are wrong. Assume that the cows wouldn’t have existed if they weren’t going to be sold for their meat and the conscientious omnivores investigate how their food is produced, and can be confident that the animals really do have good lives and are killed painlessly and without suffering – then I think they do get a pass. They’re allies in the movement against factory farming, and a world of conscientious omnivores would produce much less meat and dairy products, with vastly less suffering."

    Let me expand on point 3:🧵

    #vegans #veganism #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #AnimalRights

  20. 👣THE PHILOSOPHER'S BLOSSOMS🌸

    The Path of Philosophy runs between Nanzen-ji and Ginkaku-ji.
    It came to prominence after the philosophers and Kyōto University professors Nishida Kitarō (西田幾多郎 1870-1945) and Tanabe Hajime (田辺元 1885-1962) used the trail as an exercise route.

    #PhilosophersPath #PhilosophersWalk #Kyoto #Japan #sakura #cherryblossoms # #京都 #哲学の道

  21. Philosopher's Tower in Wimborne Saint Giles, England

    A small tower where a philosopher once speculated on human nature and morality.#follies #philosophy #buildings #towers #section-Atlas
    Philosopher's Tower