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The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:
Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming
by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff
The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.
The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.
Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420
3/3 🧵
#recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ
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The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:
Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming
by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff
The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.
The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.
Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420
3/3 🧵
#recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ
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Check out my new paper!
Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice-Based Theories of Reference
I argue against a recent view about the reference of proper names (held by two people who have supervised me) and discuss the wider implications of this for metasemantics.
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Check out my new paper!
Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice-Based Theories of Reference
I argue against a recent view about the reference of proper names (held by two people who have supervised me) and discuss the wider implications of this for metasemantics.
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A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.
I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses -
A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.
I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses -
A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.
I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses -
A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.
I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses -
Does the #Nicomachean #Ethics have epistemological value? I teach it as a good introduction to personal and experiencial #knowledge, in discussion with texts like the Tao Te Ching. But #Berkeley Philosophy doesn't think so. #philosophy #Aristotle #AcademicPhilosophy #Academia
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Does the #Nicomachean #Ethics have epistemological value? I teach it as a good introduction to personal and experiencial #knowledge, in discussion with texts like the Tao Te Ching. But #Berkeley Philosophy doesn't think so. #philosophy #Aristotle #AcademicPhilosophy #Academia
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A genuine #pedagogy question, esp. for #AcademicPhilosophy:
It is reasonable to ask for the style of paper assignments we do given the expected audience for the paper is precisely 1 (namely, the person grading it)?
I find myself occasionally giving feedback to students about how to approach writing within the style of the philosophy essay, and sometimes I think, "this approach with e.g. the introduction, is that just for my sake isn't it? Is that like stapling on the top left?"
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A genuine #pedagogy question, esp. for #AcademicPhilosophy:
It is reasonable to ask for the style of paper assignments we do given the expected audience for the paper is precisely 1 (namely, the person grading it)?
I find myself occasionally giving feedback to students about how to approach writing within the style of the philosophy essay, and sometimes I think, "this approach with e.g. the introduction, is that just for my sake isn't it? Is that like stapling on the top left?"
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A genuine #pedagogy question, esp. for #AcademicPhilosophy:
It is reasonable to ask for the style of paper assignments we do given the expected audience for the paper is precisely 1 (namely, the person grading it)?
I find myself occasionally giving feedback to students about how to approach writing within the style of the philosophy essay, and sometimes I think, "this approach with e.g. the introduction, is that just for my sake isn't it? Is that like stapling on the top left?"
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It's #PhD application season so here's a question:
If you are in a #Philosophy PhD program and have a "fellowship year" or more than one, how does that work and what do you do during it?(We do not, which means you're working as a TA or something the whole time).
For instance, some places have funding packages setup such that you wouldn't be required to work during the coursework period of the degree--this would surely yield a different relationship to #coursework!
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It's #PhD application season so here's a question:
If you are in a #Philosophy PhD program and have a "fellowship year" or more than one, how does that work and what do you do during it?(We do not, which means you're working as a TA or something the whole time).
For instance, some places have funding packages setup such that you wouldn't be required to work during the coursework period of the degree--this would surely yield a different relationship to #coursework!
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It's #PhD application season so here's a question:
If you are in a #Philosophy PhD program and have a "fellowship year" or more than one, how does that work and what do you do during it?(We do not, which means you're working as a TA or something the whole time).
For instance, some places have funding packages setup such that you wouldn't be required to work during the coursework period of the degree--this would surely yield a different relationship to #coursework!
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#Philosophy teachers:
Say you are teaching a class at the 3rd year level that is open to any student but mostly populated by majors/honours students.If you assign a reading of about 25 pages, how long do you expect students to take to complete it?
(Comments sought on this)
#SoTL #teaching #TeachingAndLearning #AcademicPhilosophy #HigherEducation
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#Philosophy teachers:
Say you are teaching a class at the 3rd year level that is open to any student but mostly populated by majors/honours students.If you assign a reading of about 25 pages, how long do you expect students to take to complete it?
(Comments sought on this)
#SoTL #teaching #TeachingAndLearning #AcademicPhilosophy #HigherEducation
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#Philosophy teachers:
Say you are teaching a class at the 3rd year level that is open to any student but mostly populated by majors/honours students.If you assign a reading of about 25 pages, how long do you expect students to take to complete it?
(Comments sought on this)
#SoTL #teaching #TeachingAndLearning #AcademicPhilosophy #HigherEducation
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Nice to see Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa's review of Tom Dougherty's "Scope of Consent" now out in Mind:
https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzac054/6845553
Had a really good time reading this with a small group at Michigan in the summer, will interesting to compare Jonathan's review to that from Elise Woodward once it's out in Ethics.
Other things being equal I found Dougherty's book *interesting* but not necessarily convincing. Often had different intuitions than those being pumped.
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Nice to see Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa's review of Tom Dougherty's "Scope of Consent" now out in Mind:
https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzac054/6845553
Had a really good time reading this with a small group at Michigan in the summer, will interesting to compare Jonathan's review to that from Elise Woodward once it's out in Ethics.
Other things being equal I found Dougherty's book *interesting* but not necessarily convincing. Often had different intuitions than those being pumped.
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Nice to see Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa's review of Tom Dougherty's "Scope of Consent" now out in Mind:
https://academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzac054/6845553
Had a really good time reading this with a small group at Michigan in the summer, will interesting to compare Jonathan's review to that from Elise Woodward once it's out in Ethics.
Other things being equal I found Dougherty's book *interesting* but not necessarily convincing. Often had different intuitions than those being pumped.
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Have noticed that some academics care a great deal about various "X Review of Books" and "X Literary Supplement" magazines.
Does anyone have a story about the role of these culturally? Who do these publications tend to speak to? I didn't really realize they existed until very specific genre of professor asked if I'd read an essay in a recent issue and wondered "what is this and am I supposed to be reading them too???"
#LondonReviewOfBooks #ReviewOfBooks
#Academic #AcademicPhilosophy #PhD -
Have noticed that some academics care a great deal about various "X Review of Books" and "X Literary Supplement" magazines.
Does anyone have a story about the role of these culturally? Who do these publications tend to speak to? I didn't really realize they existed until very specific genre of professor asked if I'd read an essay in a recent issue and wondered "what is this and am I supposed to be reading them too???"
#LondonReviewOfBooks #ReviewOfBooks
#Academic #AcademicPhilosophy #PhD -
Have noticed that some academics care a great deal about various "X Review of Books" and "X Literary Supplement" magazines.
Does anyone have a story about the role of these culturally? Who do these publications tend to speak to? I didn't really realize they existed until very specific genre of professor asked if I'd read an essay in a recent issue and wondered "what is this and am I supposed to be reading them too???"
#LondonReviewOfBooks #ReviewOfBooks
#Academic #AcademicPhilosophy #PhD -
Really enjoyed this Part 1 of @nescio13 's discussion of #WhatWeOweToTheFuture by MacAskill.
We also get some helpful links to articles I hadn't encountered before but look forward to reading:
@ksetiya 's review:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/Peter Wolfendale's review:
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-weight-of-forever(thought he was on Mastodon, he's on Twitter @deontologistics)
And Srinivasan's "Stop the Robot Apocalypse"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse -
Really enjoyed this Part 1 of @nescio13 's discussion of #WhatWeOweToTheFuture by MacAskill.
We also get some helpful links to articles I hadn't encountered before but look forward to reading:
@ksetiya 's review:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/Peter Wolfendale's review:
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-weight-of-forever(thought he was on Mastodon, he's on Twitter @deontologistics)
And Srinivasan's "Stop the Robot Apocalypse"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse -
Really enjoyed this Part 1 of @nescio13 's discussion of #WhatWeOweToTheFuture by MacAskill.
We also get some helpful links to articles I hadn't encountered before but look forward to reading:
@ksetiya 's review:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/Peter Wolfendale's review:
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-weight-of-forever(thought he was on Mastodon, he's on Twitter @deontologistics)
And Srinivasan's "Stop the Robot Apocalypse"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse -
I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.
If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!
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I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.
If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!
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I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.
If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!
