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Shieber’s “Nietzsche Thesis” posits that our true aim in conversation is self-presentation and social standing, not necessarily truth-seeking.
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In other words, we accept or reject statements based on utilitarian goals, not on their truthfulness. In Nietzsche’s words, we will accept and look for truth only when it has “pleasant, life-preserving consequences.” Conversely, we are hostile “to potentially harmful and destructive truths.”
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. [Plato in The Allegory of the Cave]. (2024).
iPhone camera, digital processing, Polaroid i-Type film emulsion lift on watercolor paper.
Art for sale.
A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time, Second Edition by Adrian Bardon, 2024
Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time--from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond.
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor, 2024
For many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.
I'm looking for some texts or philosophers who have talked about the "quantum of free will".
Specifically the weighted ball conceptual model of possessive will and the freedoms illustrated between the ball's environment and it's internal information (i.e. the weight's pos) I think it was on a hill in one example.
I can't remember if the ball has to be opaque or not for the informational theory and what copyability means for the model.
On the blog today, Pablo López–Silva and Tom McClelland discuss their new edited book 'Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion'. #philosophy@philosophy@philosophyofpsychiatry
Today, I’m continuing my reading of Confucius's Analects and I’m really enjoying it so far.
I feel like I’m chilling out reading Chinese parables and ethical teachings.
I have always loved studying #philosophy, but doing it in an academic context is much more difficult and requires a lot more depth than I was expecting. Not a bad thing, just an observation. :)
“All microsubjects featuring in the relevant structure relationally determine the phenomenal character of only one microsubject in a way that gives it a full human experience. […] The relevant relational structure is whatever is minimally necessary to produce my current conscious experience at any given time…”
Venetian scholar Elena Cornaro Piscopia was born #OTD in 1646.
She was the first woman in the world to receive a doctoral degree. On June 25, 1678, Elena became the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Her doctoral examination was held in the cathedral of Padua to accommodate the large audience, including prominent scholars and nobles. The next female doctorate was granted by the University of Bologna in 1732 to Laura Bassi.