Socrates sleeping eternally
Socrates as a gadfly
Socrates bothering some eternal being in the afterlife
Athens as a (metaphorical) horse
I was once going to illustrate a children’s book based on Plato’s apology. Here are some of the illustrations I did for that.
Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”
Rawlsian sexuality: when someone is attracted to people with the best worst qualities.
Rawlsian heterosexual who dates both genders because their own gender is hidden behind the veil of ignorance.
Maximin love: Choose the relationship in which the worst possible moments will be the least bad.
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
I vaguely recall Spinoza dealing with this issue. According to Descartes there are two attributes, but Spinoza argues there are infinite. I think there is some argument in the ethics about how there’s no good reason to stop at just two
I’m at a university where English is not the primary language. LLMs are amazing for helping me to write admin-related emails.
Check out my article on love and practical wisdom in @psyche.co
At the beginning of section 5 of this paper, there’s a fairly extensive list of different things philosophers have called love
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RIP Robert Paul Wolff
Besides his books and blog, there’s an excellent series of his lectures on Kant, Marx, and Freud that were posted on YouTube several years ago. Definitely worth watching.
youtu.be/35cr_whPC88?...
Leopold?
Very happy to see this review. It’s an excellent book by an excellent philosopher (and person)!
really honored to have reviewed Paul Katsafanas' The Philosophy of Devotion for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It's truly one of the most intriguing books in ethics in recent years ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...
Mt Fuji saying hello on the way to the station this morning. It’s nice to see a snowy top once again. This year was the longest snowless peak on record.
This has some interesting stuff that might be relevant: philpapers.org/rec/MARATP-4
Wonderful! I joined last year as a regular attendee. We get a lot of really interesting presenters who come through.
If you’re a philosopher and you’re ever coming through Tokyo, you should hit up tfap. We have a great group of regular attendees. #philsky
(On a totally unrelated note, I’m presenting there this Friday.)
tf-ap.com
Doing this a few days after gnx drops and dominates the charts..
Two young boys looking serious and anxious waiting for diphtheria immunisation in 1941.
Chart showing virtual disappearance of diphtheria after vaccination starting 1940.
From a local Facebook group, coupled with relevant statistics showing relation between vaccination and infection and death in UK.
I have a new article out on love. It’s about why we should love people for their valuable qualities and why the importance of grace is often over-estimated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
But they would pronounce it “lazy fair”
Except that we invented emojis, didn’t we? So maybe it’s a wash?
old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital
We pulled the trigger: The editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 have informed Wiley that we are resigning en masse. We will be starting a new diamond open-access journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social, the same publisher that is now publishing 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺.
#philsky #PolTheory #polisky
This week - an exciting new area of HPS! Philosophy of the Geosciences, with Aja Watkins & @miguelohn.bsky.social (with dues to @alisabokulich.bsky.social). Consider the challenges of quantifying earthquakes, comparing past & present climate conditions & measuring Earth!
#hps #philsci #histsci ⚒️
“There is no “banality of evil,” and Hannah Arendt, who wrote about it in her Eichmann book, knew the enemy of mankind only from hearsay, saw him only through the glass cage.”
Jean Amery At The Mind’s Limits
Two weeks ago, I found out my position at St. Norbert College had been eliminated due to budget cuts: one of 21 faculty positions (13 in the humanities) eliminated at the college so far this year. I was under tenure review, and now I'm not. I have until May, and then my contract will be done.
