GregSadler

GregSadler, 3 days ago to random

It's that time of academic year again
"SETs do not measure teaching effectiveness, and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring, promotions, and merit increases encourages poor teaching and causes grade inflation"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817

GregSadler, 15 days ago to random

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

GregSadler, 20 days ago to random

No guarantee it will be right away, that's for sure!

GregSadler, 23 days ago to random

This works pretty well . . . .

GregSadler, 1 month ago to random

An interesting reminder in the FB memories today. You see this sort of thing a lot in philosophy, people confusing teaching, discussing, or producing resources on a thinker as endorsement of them and their position. You also see people avoiding study of thinkers on that basis

GregSadler, 1 month ago to random

Seems like there's some issues out there in the interwebs today. Internet Archive and Librivox both seem completely down for the moment

GregSadler, 1 month ago to philosophy

In 2 weeks, I'm offering a new section of my 8-week online class Aristotle on the Moral Virtues. Here's the class site https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/aristotle-on-the-moral-virtues-2024
Got ANY questions about the class? Ask away!

#Aristotle #Class #Online #Virtues #Vices #Ethics #PersonalDevelopment

GregSadler, 1 month ago to random

Since Dune stuff has bubbled up in the popular mind again, a dryly funny Facebook memory

GregSadler, 1 month ago to ilaughed

I've produced a new video identifying & discussing 10 commonly shared or reposted fake quotes of a famous philosopher. This time, they're quotes misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche

https://youtu.be/szG5MRyhuEA
#Video #Philosophy #FakeQuotes #Nietzsche #Misattribution #Existentialism

GregSadler, 1 month ago to random

I've definitely turned a corner in healing up from my surgery last week. Pains at incisions are minimal. I'm looking forward to seeing what not feeling daily pain from my gallbladder that I dealt with for 6 months will be like. Went to bed early, slept in late. Having coffee and some kringle now, with a pretty packed week ahead.

GregSadler, 2 months ago to random

I myself would never openly tell my students should get their copies of textbooks (for the few classes where I use textbooks instead of public domain texts) for free from online sites rather than shelling out scarce money to publishing houses who rip them off and make massive profits. . . But hypothetically, if they were to go to certain sites, they might just find what they're looking for. . .

GregSadler, 2 months ago to random

I'm from a big family, so I also had some "uncles" who served the same purpose

GregSadler, 2 months ago to random

In the coming months, I'll be adding new videos to this playlist providing guidance for self-directed study in philosophy. I'll be doing videos specifically on Aquinas, Augustine, Hobbes, and Locke. But I'm going to produce some more general videos as well
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgFVZpisYc8GTl7rxuyRtwm

GregSadler, 3 months ago to philosophy

In Republic book 10, Plato examines how poetry, or as we'd call it today, media more generally, affects the different parts of the human soul. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode looking at that discussion!

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plato-republic-book-10-poetry-and-parts-of-the-soul
#Plato #Philosophy #Poetry #Soul #Media

GregSadler, 5 months ago to random

It's that time of year. . . . to repost this one

GregSadler, 5 months ago to random

Let's be real about the WI GOP: "it’s not just DEI driving the budget crisis in Wisconsin; after generations of legislative commitment to higher education as a public good, a political shift in the early 2000s has led to years of cuts and stagnation"

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/state-policy/2023/12/08/wisconsin-board-rejects-funding-and-dei-deal-legislature

GregSadler, 5 months ago to fantasy

I've organized all 78 of the videos I've produced so far on the works and thought of Ursula K Leguin into one playlist. The vast majority of them are on her Earthsea novels and stories, and cover all the series' main characters, ideas, and plot points!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIja6UIs7ufpX9uB9UwjWEen
#Leguin #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Criticism #Essays #Videos #Resources #Earthsea

GregSadler, 6 months ago to random

Rest Of World - How AI reduces the world to stereotypes: "As generative AI image generators are used for more applications, their bias could have real-world implications. The scale and speed of AI means it could significantly bolster existing prejudices."

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/

GregSadler, 6 months ago to random

Follow your nose. It always knows.

apodoxus, 6 months ago to random

@GregSadler

Hey, just so you know, some of your videos in the Core Concepts series seem to be in the wrong order.

GregSadler, 7 months ago to random

Not feeling great today. One of those days I wish I didn't have to go in to teach
But, we're looking at contracts and duties in Business Ethics and at Stoic ethics (Cicero's On Ends, bk 3) in Foundations of Philosophy. So if there's any day I really should fulfill those duties I've committed to, it's probably this one

GregSadler, 7 months ago to random

This is an interesting piece, but I'm unconvinced that "fantasy, as an enduring publishing genre, is hardly older than I am" (author born in 80s). Not to say that Tolkien and Del Rey weren't important catalysts, moderls, innovators, etc. but there were plenty of fantasy stories in pulp that got turned into books & series. Not so much epic fantasy, but a lot of swords and sorcery

https://slate.com/culture/2023/10/lester-del-rey-invention-fantasy-book-publishing.html