Mike Jacovides
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I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer
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I wrote a book that I'm proud of:
www.amazon.com/Lockes-Image...
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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter
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Texas A&M has suffered a great loss: the resignation of Dr. Martin Peterson. First Plato, now Dr. Peterson! Out the Door at TAMU....
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Julia M. Rohrer
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TIL despite the opening sentence of “Reasons and Persons”, Derek Parfit did in fact *not* own a cat.
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Gizmodo says 'poems' but I think it's lines. The press release says 'verses' because there aren't any spaces in ancient Greek, and the meter is how you figure out where the line breaks are
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"Eating the retributive version of skittles" is a good line
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Dr. SkySkull
5 days ago
Shows that there's even a lower bottom to the Crazification Factor than the 27% previously reported. I guess that's a bit of a plus.
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...
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Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
John: ... I mean, what will it take? That last speech literally made no sense . It was crazy drunken bar talk! Islamic radicals are lik...
https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html
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leon
about 1 year ago
my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
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Jon Bois
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i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him
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Practical reasoning
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McSweeney's
18 days ago
1. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since your last insurance payment? 2. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since you first took out your insurance policy? 3. Have all the planks of your ship been replaced?
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Theseus Files a Boat Insurance Claim
1. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since your last insurance payment? 2. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since you first took o...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/theseus-files-a-boat-insurance-claim
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Good Trailcams
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Mary Joy
29 days ago
Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
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"All the kids in Springfield are S.O.B.s."
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My paper, "Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology," was accepted by the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, which is nice. It's on section 1 of the first Enquiry, both as a manifesto for a future science and as a guide to the rest of the Enquiry
philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4
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Michael Jacovides, Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology - PhilPapers
In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem ...
https://philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
about 1 month ago
3/3 Michelangelo's grocery list. Because even great artists have to eat! Especially on their birthday, and his is today.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
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Dennis B. Hooper
about 2 months ago
please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™
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You might think that 'homo sapiens' means 'wise human being,' but, really, it's a human being with taste
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A beer bottle at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
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Franz, Duke of Bavaria, your time has come
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about 2 months ago
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Scholarship
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about 2 months ago
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Richard Pettigrew
about 2 months ago
I sometimes worry our advertising material isn’t as welcoming as it might be
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New-Cleckit Dominie
about 2 months ago
Friends fear he's had to look up something on this diagram again.
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I was behind George C. Scott at the DMV
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about 2 months ago
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Letters of Note
about 2 months ago
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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okay Kelly
about 2 months ago
Two things can be true. That's the first one. You're gonna want to choose the second wisely. Actually, hold up. Now up to thr... aww dammit.
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John McCafferty
about 2 months ago
Lion Albrecht Dürer (Albertina, Vienna)
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ContempraInn 🌹
2 months ago
The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶
#saturdayvibe
📹 Bilimtüel
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Darren Dahly
2 months ago
An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.
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noam chompers
2 months ago
Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL
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kennan
2 months ago
people keep telling me that llm hallucinations are decreasing, but I'm slightly concerned about a few of the women philosophers represented here
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John Garrison Marks
2 months ago
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work.
america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
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Zach Weinersmith
2 months ago
I suppose it's tedious for me to argue about whether or not something is weird, but it's worth noting that Poincaré would've found it weird. Here's him talking about Hilbert's program, from 1913. Wonder what he would've thought of today's "logic piano" !
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2 months ago
why’s it called ‘trepanation’ and not ‘skullduggery’ ha ha words, amirite
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Five College Classes: Stuart England Uncertainty and heuristics Minds and machines Real analysis Ancient Philosophy
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John Attridge
3 months ago
"In this essay I will" - spoilers - over-confident - rigid, boring "In this essay I *might*" - creates suspense - nonchalant - adventurous, fun
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Dana Tulodziecki
3 months ago
Join us at Purdue for the 2026 Midwest Junto (17-18 April) -- submit your abstracts by 15 Feb:
midwestjunto.wordpress.com
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midwestjunto
For the History of Science
https://midwestjunto.wordpress.com/
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This skeet will self destruct
3 months ago
Writing something about ML and the Infinite Monkey Theorem and found this which made me laugh.
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molly conger
3 months ago
ages ago, when i had an ongoing beef with a real unhinged neoconfederate, he went to the trouble of finding out where my family cemetery plot is. he drove there & desecrated their graves. he went to all that trouble but didn't bother to find out the bones in some of those old graves were on his side
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The River Rouge, which sounds fancier than it is
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John Holbein
3 months ago
“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
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There's a session on Locke and Tyranny this evening at 7 at the Eastern APA. Holly Brewer will speak on Locke’s experience with tyranny and his reaction to it, Dan Layman on how a American revolutionary used Locke's analysis of tyranny, and Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke
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surrogate corpse
3 months ago
i hope this email finds whewell
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Poor handwriting as a mark of status
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Phil Plait
3 months ago
Jupiter and the Moon just now. [Astronomer for scale]
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If grok started spamming twitter with demands that Musk be arrested for producing child porn, that would be something interesting
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜
about 1 year ago
Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.
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Kate Kirkpatrick
4 months ago
Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!
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New-Cleckit Dominie
4 months ago
Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.
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dan mentos
over 2 years ago
michael stipe: stand in the place where you live santa: ok michael stipe: now face north santa: fuck you
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