@laurencelevesque
Étudiante de philosophie, intéressée par les théories médiévales du langage et de l'esprit, en particulier les écrits de grammaire spéculative et sur la conscience de l'animal non-humain. Photographie, cinéphilie, aime bien les plantes 🌿
Alanis Obomsawin laying on a rock with a camera.
Alanis Obomsawin looking through the viewfinder of a camera.
Alanis Obomsawin sitting on a comfy chair
Alanis Obomsawin standing next to a projector.
OK, I totally dropped the ball on Noirvember. Noirs are all feature films and that's too much for me (especially since I often need to rewatch the movies I'm teaching on top of that). But I'm determined to have an Alanis Obomsawin December. I'm ready to immerse myself in the work of a master.
New version of the entry on Peter Olivi is now out! Read it here: plato.stanford.edu/entries/olivi/
I learned today that our sun is a third generation star, having been formed from the remnants of at least two previous stars.
In other words, it’s a grandsun.
Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.
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A dictionary of Sanskrit philosophical terms (Sanskrit-French-English)
Jean-Marie Verpoorten, Répertoire des termes sanskrits des Ecoles philosophiques indiennes, Strasbourg, 2025, 751 p.
histoire.unistra.fr/websites/his...
#SanskritPhilosophy #philsky #philosophy
#medievalsky
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
Terrifying, apocalyptic.
And yet many of us remain inert and elect officials to pour more citizens’ money into yet more pipelines and extraction, mine and burn coal, and watch the daily unreality show put on by one of the world’s worst.
Un article troublant sur les humains derrière l'IA.
“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.”
Leading, inevitably, to some of the worst ubi sunt laments ever.
Where is the spreadsheet and Linux?
Where is the Python that was coding?
They have passed like silicon degrading. Like windows in the meadow.
Adobe producs have gone down in the west.
How did it come to this?
CFP: Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy
Looks like a great conference
#philsky
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Facebook reminded me of this meme
Harry Frankfurt - Wikipedia Harry Frankfurt (1929-2023) was an American philosopher who made contributions to ethics, philosophy of mind, and free will. He is known for his concepts of caring, higher-order volitions, Frankfurt cases, and bullshit.
Simultaneously true, impressive, and yet not what I'd want as a summary of my life
Black and white baby goat sitting normally, chilling in someone's lap
Black and white baby goat rusting its chin on a person's hand
Black and white baby goat passed out on someone's knee
The three stages of lap goat
📚 [Parution] "La conscience" de Pierre de Jean Olivi. Traduction de Stève Bobillier et de Véronique Decaix - Vrin, juin 2025.
👉 cutt.ly/nrW0ccVI
C'est une bonne idée. Je suggérerais de regarder la carte de l'application aVélo à différents moments avant d'arriver à Québec. Il y a beaucoup de stations, mais dû au succès de cette année il y a des problèmes de services dans plusieurs secteurs (stations vidés ou pleines).
"Philosophising in ..." – An interview series by our fellow Jonathan Egid devoted to exploring the philosophical richness of lesser-studied languages from across the world:
www.philosophisingin.com
I spy a medieval bird house. 👀 🐦 #medievalsky
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
Et j'ai repéré ce superbe texte sur le site de
@medievalists.bsky.social qui propose plein d'articles passionnants !
www.medievalists.net/2024/11/you-...
Pourquoi prendre autant de risques et le payer de leur liberté ? « On a essayé les pétitions, les manifs, je me suis présenté en politique cinq fois, on a tenté l’action citoyenne. Ça ne donne rien. Riez pas de moi, mais je le fais par esprit chevaleresque. »
Quelques photos pour illustrer un fait : il n'y a aucun endroit où attacher un vélo dans le centre historique de la ville de Québec. Rien. Le néant. En ce moment, à Québec, c'est comme si on voulait encourager les déplacements en voiture mais qu'on ne prévoyait aucun stationnement.
«Le gouv. Legault répond à une demande phare de l’industrie forestière pour lui permettre de faire plus de profits à court terme, en lui redonnant une responsabilité publique qu’on lui avait retirée avec raison à la suite de l’Erreur boréale.» @aasimard.bsky.social
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Colloque – Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500
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La programmation du congrès 2025 de la SPQ est affichée!
event.fourwaves.com/fr/spq2025/p...
It's "paradoxical: the more the world is felt to be stable & outside of our minds, the more we feel connected to it; but when a derealized person feels the world to be a projection of their own mind, they feel ... detached from it." G. Ferretti on derealization bit.ly/433pZNM #philsky #philmind
As someone who studies philosophy and also has experienced derealization long-term (and felt alone living through it), it's really uplifting to see your field of study bring to light and actually care about this more marginal experience.
Flashing-back to when a few undergrads sent our lecturer by showing them a panorama we had made of the evolution of Thomas' tonsure and balding in painting.