The ancient philosophy feed is filled with US politics. It must mean something.

👇 "Another concern that has recently drawn attention is the linguistic insularity of mainstream Anglophone philosophy – that is, the neglect of work written in other languages." #philsky

From thought experiments to live experiments lacking any form of thought.

What we really need is a change in the publication/credit system. There are too many papers, fewer reviewers (with increasingly few remaining, biasing review), overworked editors, and journals holding up an artificial gatekeeper bottleneck and charging money for it. This is not about "quality".

David, dressed, to avoid the "adult content" label.

Decision maker device

Bald-faced bullshit: "Like other cases of bullshit, they are characterized by the speaker’s utter disregard for the truth. Unlike other cases of bullshit, they are such that the speaker does not conceal that indifference, but displays it openly." #philsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Misread "the diachronic unity of bodily existence" for "the draconic unity of bodily existence."

"When we talk about belief here, we are talking about a kind of standing or persisting state or attitude. A state is an instantiation or an exemplification of a property. In the case of belief, it is the property of believing something, a property that can be instantiated by many subjects." #philsky

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? —Bertolt Brecht

👇👇 The Nature of Belief #philsky

Word of the day: "around the bend"

A revision of the notion of self-control 👇 #ethics #philosophyofaction #self-control

George Orwell's safe conduct during the Spanish Civil War.

Argument is useless with him.

'Walter Benjamin once wrote that one must approach memory “like a person digging:” but memory is not what is hidden under the rubble, but rather, the rubble itself, all its layers, gaps and fillings'.

Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam labeled as "adult content," and so continue to be many other masterpieces. @bsky.app, some recognition adjustments to the moderation system are still needed.

Humans could have as many as 33 senses #philsky #philosophyofperception #philosophyofthesenses theconversation.com/humans-could...

Another episode of season 2 of "Drops of God." Addictive. Stylish. Set against an unusual background. Competition, family, and personal struggle of two very different half-siblings with almost superpowers for tasting unique ancestral wines.

Why AI Doesn’t Need A ‘Mind’ To Matter We’ve been searching for a mind inside the machine. The rise of AI agents suggests its shell may be enough. #philsky #AIphilosophy www.noemamag.com/why-ai-doesn...

The instrumentalisation of everything #philsky aeon.co/essays/instr...

Remarkable things for a change Food art

Don't feed the hasslers

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"Writing is thinking — yes. I grant that. But the inverse isn’t true."

Squint your eyes

The best part of writing/editing is letting it sit.

A sunny Sunday. Unusually pleasant 19°C in Madrid.

Saturday reading 'The polysemy of “I”'- Susanna Schellenberg #philsky #philosophyofmind #first-personthougts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'...the underlying ideology of “superhuman” AI fosters the growing devaluation of human agency and autonomy and collapses the distinction between our conscious minds and the mechanical tools we’ve built to mirror them.' #philsky #AI

🤦🏼‍♀️ Unsufferable.

"Reading uses some of the oldest circuitry in the human brain. For most of our evolutionary history, we were readers — just not of books. We read animal tracks in mud, storm patterns in clouds, danger signals in the rustle of leaves."

Philosophy Facts "I’m probably the only philosopher in the world who holds that (i) there is tremendous agreement amongst philosophers on the truth-values of many substantive philosophical claims..." #philsky dailynous.com/2026/02/19/p...

Philosophy (final state) https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28529

Is the inability to appreciate the wrongfulness of one’s actions a sufficient criterion for not holding someone morally accountable? #philsky #agency #moralphilosophy philosophyofbrains.com/2026/02/16/a...

As of today

Restructuring. Taking breaks from everything more often and longer.

Doors

If 'Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics' were a cartoon

Happy Valentine's Day, #philsky

Does Consciousness Require a Subject? The Self, Agency & AI Limitations www.mindbodysolution.org/kevin-mitche... - really enjoyed this chat with Tevin Naidu! 😊 cc @cdj.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social

Looks as if you could feel the touch of those fragile wings

Why we should embrace ‘nepantla’ – the in-betweenness of life #philsky psyche.co/ideas/why-we...

"Be grateful for all the things you don't know. Ambiguity is a wonderful sleep aid. Because once you know, there is no going back." —from a tv show

Not just Philosophy of Neuroscience but Philosophy and Neuroscience by @barrycsmith.bsky.social #philsky #neuroscience share.google/bFX12Jtn4YBO...

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