"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. "
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian 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: #philosophy war.
Excited to announce that from 2024/25, #UCD will offer a taught Masters programme in #PhilosophyOfMind and #EmbodiedCognition. In addition to a wide range of #philosophy modules, students can select options from UCD’s interdisciplinary #CognitiveScience programme. Email or message for details!
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. "
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.
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? #baseball#ColoradoRockies#SanDiegoPadres#philosophy#MLB
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.
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.
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
“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.”
@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 #books#philosophy
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist George Herbert Mead died #OTD 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.
Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born #OTD 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.
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.