ttpphd, to linguistics
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Speech Acts
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

"Recognition of the significance of speech acts has illuminated the ability of language to do other things than describe reality. In the process the boundaries among the philosophy of language, the philosophy of action, aesthetics, the philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and ethics have become less sharp. "

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/speech-acts/

mythologyandhistory, to Stoicism
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Did you know that Jean-Paul , the literary , may have asked for money after he declined the ?

In 1964, Satre won the Nobel Prize for for his (depressing) catalogue of novels.
He declined.

His rejection caused a scandal (to Satre's chagrin), & the prize remained unawarded.

In 1975, the received a letter asking if the prize would still be available.

It isn't known if Satre or someone close to him sent it.

Rhube, to history
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Amazing news! They found a scroll describing Plato's last moment and his burial place: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site

The most on-bran thing ever is that he spent his last moments critiquing a musician.

benroyce, to mastodon
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I need the help of .

Why the f*** would try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel ?

It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on / pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that thinks supports recent behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).

Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: war.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/german-chancellor-accuses-putin-of-misusing-philosopher-immanuel-kants-teachings/articleshow/109561696.cms

keithwilson, to philosophy
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Excited to announce that from 2024/25, will offer a taught Masters programme in and . In addition to a wide range of modules, students can select options from UCD’s interdisciplinary programme. Email or message for details!

putmyspellonyou, to philosophy
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ttpphd, to philosophy
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Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990

"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203981115-14/narrative-conventions-scientific-discourse-rom-harr%C3%A9

This is my new favorite thing.

ttpphd, to philosophy
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I learned about ethogenics today.

Wikipedia:

Ethogenics ("the study of behavior as generated by persons who exhibit a character, an ethos") is an interdisciplinary social scientific approach that attempts to understand the systems of belief or means through which individuals attach significance to their actions and form their identities by linking these to the larger structure of rules (norms) and cultural resources in society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethogenics

cbtryon, to baseball
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I have questions:
How did Brenton Doyle become a good hitter over the winter?
Why did Jurickson Profar decide to become a good hitter after leaving the Rockies?
How did Nolan Jones become a bad hitter over the winter?
Do I have free will?
How far away is the edge of the universe?

skarthik, to philosophy
@skarthik@neuromatch.social avatar

Good riddance to what was a colossal waste of money, energy, resources, and any sane person's time, intellect, and attention. To even call these as exploratory projects is a disservice to human endeavor.

"Future of humanity", it seems. These guys can't even predict their next bowel movement, but somehow prognosticate about the long term future of humanity, singularity blah blah. This is what "philosophy" has come to with silicon valley and its money power: demented behavior is incentivized, douchery is rationalized, while reason is jettisoned.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism

appassionato, to books
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How Physics Makes Us Free by J. T. Ismael, 2012

The problem of free will raises all kinds of questions. What does it mean to make a decision, and what does it mean to say that our actions are determined? What are laws of nature? What are causes? What sorts of things are we, when viewed through the lenses of physics, and how do we fit into the natural order? Ismael provides a deeply informed account of what physics tells us about ourselves.

@bookstodon



GregSadler, to random
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The rot in techbro brains on full display here, in multiple manners. They're too cleverly stupid to even grasp how silly the stuff they say is, much of the time

janettespeyer,
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@GregSadler I’d love a conversation with Rousseau and Plato

janettespeyer,
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@GregSadler All those philosophers during the French Revolution were persnickety. I think Voltaire was the worst

markmetz, to jazz
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“Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad, but what we're doing to it. All I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.”

― Louis Armstrong




eyesquash, to Bloomscrolling
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Competitive treadmill, where the daily word is disasters, natural and man-made, people f*cking up and lying, and now, sports and weather.

Where a few excel and are awarded comfort, most don't, and then we all die, having made things just a little bit worse. Most don't know or don't care.

Any escape would be welcome.
And the company of like minds.

Here's some dogwood.

eyesquash,
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@NigelTufnel I was kind of taking ideas from Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse, A Night of Serious Drinking by Renee Daumal, and the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

exnihilo, to philosophy
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si_irini, to poetry German
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In the night
love appears
a glimpse
of what could be

A glimpse
of what should be

si_irini

everton137, to philosophy
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I just discovered Daniel Dennett after one week he passed away. 😔

With some online support, I've translated to Portuguese an article he wrote on 'How to make mistakes'

https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/288/1/howmista.htm

There's nothing more grave done by schools than teaching us to be afraid of making mistakes.

I'm adding in the replies the link to the version in Portuguese.

RIP

lessbutbetter, to mentalhealth
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Do you have to like others in order to love them? 🙂
Rishi Dass

Live a less, but better life. 🌎
lessbutbetter.com





gutenberg_org, to books
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American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist George Herbert Mead died in 1931.

He is considered one of the founders of social psychology and the school of thought known as symbolic interactionism. Mead’s most influential ideas revolve around the concept of the self, which he saw as arising from social interaction. Mead’s ideas were mostly published posthumously, with his students assembling his lectures and notes into books.

gutenberg_org,
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"Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle."

George Herbert Mead (1926). "The Nature of Aesthetic Experience." International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jul., 1926), pp. 382-393; p. 382

Books by George Herbert Mead at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36564

~George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931)

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in 1899.

In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he attempted to delineate the limits of language. The book is structured around a series of numbered propositions and sub-propositions, which build on each other to create a dense, almost mathematical argument. In Philosophical Investigations, he introduced the concept of how words take their meanings from their function in various forms of life and activities.

gutenberg_org,
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

Books by udwig Wittgenstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861

~Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)

ChrisMayLA6, to workersrights
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Before I retired (and sometimes since) I have talked with students & ex-students about their careers & how they would like them to move in a different direction;

at the centre of most of their disquiet & aspiration for change(s) is a desire to be doing 'meaningful' work.

However, its not always clear (even to themselves) what that might actually mean. Here Caleb Althorpe (Trinity College) has a pretty good go at making sense of that desire.


https://theconversation.com/what-is-meaningful-work-a-philosophers-view-226569

stoicteacher, to Stoicism
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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