Liebe #MedEth -Bubble, gibt es Debatten, Ideen, Literatur dazu, das Verhältnis zwischen Ärzt*in und Patient*in als Kooperation zu verstehen? Wenn ja, wo finde ich die?

“I think Ludwig Wittgenstein was a philosophical ignoramus too arrogant to learn some history” Am not even going to get into it. And I am assuming it’s written tongue in cheek. But note that the list seems to include only men and no reflections on philosophical historiography. Curiouser & curiouser.

Here's the talk I gave in Vienna last month as part of the Wittgenstein Week, held in the very splendid Palais Schönborn. youtu.be/Cgl5cgoInNs?...

Fat Tuesday means Paczki Day in metro Detroit. Rooted in Polish American history and tradition, the sweet treat marks the last indulgence before Lent. George Kurzatkowski of the American Polish Cultural Center shares the culture and meaning behind Paczki Day. wdet.org/2026/02/17/t...

Audiobook now available for this introductory philosophy collection. I coauthored a chapter with Dana Tulodziecki @193.bsky.social. Overall it seems like a really interesting approach to introducing philosophical topics.#philsky

Missing Helen for many reasons today. I checked on the go fund me for their children and it’s so close to goal. Can we get this across the finish line? www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

4.025 The translation of one language into another is not a process of translating each proposition of the one into a proposition of the other, but only the constituent parts of propositions are translated. [not here obviously]

#HistMath & #PhilMath — here's the CfP you didn't know you needed! *FRAMING MATHEMATICS: EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS* Taking place at the Université Paris Cité on 10-11 September 2026. Full CfP in the poster. Please share! 🤝 @bernalessel.bsky.social 🤝

THOT: Thoreau in His Own Time.

Well, I like that I have been placed at the VERY FRINGE.

Philosophy of language waffles

Putting off writing a thing by writing another thing

Go Lions, go birbs

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." On the 107th anniversary of Fred Korematsu's birth, Faulkner's words seem more apt than ever. Visit korematsuinstitute.org for more, or catch George Takei’s brilliant play “Allegiance.” 5/5 [The things they carried. Suitcases at @jamuseum.bsky.social]

Ope, there goes gravity

Gotta love Sarah Silverman. youtube.com/watch?v=PYc-...

First international congress of the Chilean Society for Philosophy of Science starts tomorrow in Valparaíso. So grateful to the colleagues for the invitation to give the first plenary of this amazing new initiative. Among the barrage of dreadful news, it is heartening to see initiatives such as this

More please: bsky.app/profile/euth...

«So you see how our discussion concerns that which should be of the greatest importance to any person even if he has only a modicum of sense — that is to say, how one should live.» #Socrates in Gorgias (500c) Really enjoying Why #Plato Matters Now by @profangiehobbs.bsky.social.

Get in loser, we are reading Willard Van Orman Quine

And non-worlds

Happy World Philosophy Day!

Here is one hand. ✋ And here is another. 🤚 Ergo external objects exist.

NYC subway service is trash

What is the grammar of “be not afraid”? HT @euthyphro.bsky.social

Philosophers when someone on the Bachelor talks about being here for the right reasons

Book haul!

Citizen slab! #Wittgenstein

Everything is terrible but Maine is beautiful

Learning a language as a little kid is best, obviously, but one advantage of doing it as an adult is the feeling of experiencing a legitimate miracle whenever your brain just understands words that were, for most of your life, incomprehensible to you: 10/10.

How your e-mail finds me

Harvard University hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

Minga Oida.

Locate bookshop. Find the Wittgenstein. Repeat.

Whenever I travel somewhere new in Europe I like to explore the cuisine.

Welcome to Bluski 🩵@inthetwilightzone.bsky.social

The poet philosopher of the piano. RIP Alfred Brendel

Bald eagle!

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

Klimt, by Schiele. In honor of @semimetic.bsky.social's Wien wisits

Soliloquy (1996) for Cello Joyce Mekeel youtu.be/lhU7_gIpjN8?...

Timeline cleanse

Wisdom from my calendar

Happy Wittgenstein’s Birthday! Celebrate by repoetizing Philosophy. #Wittgenstein #BlueskyPhilosophy #philosophy #botd

What better day to launch a Bluesky account than our birthday? We turn 225 today! 🎂 🥳 Here's a brief summary of the Library's history, courtesy of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress. www.loc.gov/about/histor...

Big day here in Maine. The first piping plover eggs of the season have been spotted!