My book is now out! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy... It's about wine—but also about much more! It introduces a special kind of artifacts, naturefactual ones, which are artifactual vehicles for the appreciation of nature. Natural wine is offered as a paradigm case. 🧵

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Anyone teaching Scheler on ressentiment atm? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I just read two of the big classics of Balkan literature lately, The Bridge On the Drina by Ivo Andrić and Alamut by Vladimir Bartol, and, unsurprinsingly, these might well be two of the most insightful novels to shed some light on our present times

Pre-order on SALE! Get this book, I've heard it's fun!

New paper on creativity just out in Synthese: rdcu.be/e7ZV5

I'm sure he got wiser and smarter in the last years.

Swiss graphic design at its finest😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDgr...

Only took notice now of the death of Malcolm Budd. Never had the chance to meet him, but very fine philosopher. Also, he never replied to my emails, which shows his soundness of judgment.

Book incoming! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy...

See the ski jumper Domen Prevc of Team Slovenia fly through a snow squall during a competition.

I dreamed I found a 6 volume PhD thesis on Wittgenstein by ex-cyclist Richard Virenque in an obscure French academic library that also happened to serve good Italian food. The first volume was a historical contextualisation and contained only reproductions of Belle Époque ads for aperitives.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

En Croatie, une manifestation massive contre la montée de l’extrême droite et le révisionnisme ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/jpf

Today is philosophy day. Philosophy is hard (as Gareth Evans once put it). But that doesn't mean that, thereby, today is a hard day. How strange.

Since we’re not supposed to use “Two birds, one stone” anymore, I suggest we replace it with “One raclette, two neighbors”

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

You see this, post a concert pic that you took

And one more for the road... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjdo...

There is probably not enough Tom Waits on your TL, so just take one minute to listen to this wonderful voice reading a beautiful poem (as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...

Not surprising that your public debt is out of control if you’re a country that can’t distinguish between an espresso and an Olympic swimming pool

I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."

Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.

In a world where many children are starving in Gaza and factory farming still exists on a large scale some people are worried about AI welfare…Has too much interaction with bots dulled their critical faculties? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Fitting time to repost this. european-alternatives.eu

🧪 President Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced that Apple would devote $100 billion to additional investment in the US . The announcement came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praise🤮

Great to know that all these em-dashes tell us Nietzsche was in fact AI. I was always suspicious that anyone human (whether sub, normal or super) would ever pretend philosophizing with a hammer

Spot the cat

What perfect albums came out when you were 16? 2002:

In this advance article, Chris Earley defends the collaborative cognitive achievements that artworks make possible. #philsky doi.org/10.1093/aest...

Best reason to dislike AI yet.

Are all these people still going on about the distinction between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy, using or mentioning it?

Using food to show where I grew up

I was planning to launch my substack on "Human, life, AI, and future" in a few months, with something very different. But life doesn’t always care about our timelines. Events erupt. Emotions build. And suddenly, waiting feels like avoidance. My first post: atoosatopia.substack.com/p/valid-and-...

The conference "The first 10 years of Inbegriff, the Geneva seminar for Austro-German Philosophy" will take place June 11-13, 2025. An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...

Switzerland is world champion of direct democracy, but there’s very little „people” behind it. ≈80% of all initiatives are launched by political parties or business lobbies, *not* grassroots citizens. And initiatives backed by org interests are far more likely to succeed www.nzz.ch/schweiz/in-v...

That time of the year again 😅

The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely! Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...

Never forget: “We can insincerely promise a donkey to give it a carrot.”

APSC ONLINE SEMINAR — Next Session June 4th, 2025 | 5pm (CEST) | 4pm (BST) | 11am (EDT) | 10am (CDT) Lindsay Brainard (Univ. of Alabama): “Artistic Creativity as Aesthetic Inquiry" Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/88590923866 More info: www.aps-creativity.com

New interview with yours truly on #linguisticjustice & letting 100 flowers blossom: www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...

Spooky visit to vacated #ceu in Budapest 😥

The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, was summoned to the criminal police in New Belgrade. Faculty staff, students, and many other citizens have come out to support him. #studentprotests

Re-reading Naming and Necessity this morning reminded me that Gödel was right to be worried about the possibility of the USA becoming a dictatorship. Does that mean he was also right about only eating frozen food?

The next session of our Half Baked online seminar will take place April 9, 2025, 5pm (CET): Nicola Perullo (Univ. of Gastronomic Sciences): "Is there such a thing as a “food criticism”? Metacritical reflections on the difference between criticism, review, advertising, and branding" Register here:

APSC ONLINE SEMINAR — Second Session April 3rd, 2025 | 5pm (CEST) | 4pm (BST) | 11am (EDT) | 8am (PDT) Prof. Anna Abraham (Univ. of Georgia): “Redefining Creativity: Acknowledging the Creator’s Perspective” Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8319490413... Or sign up here: www.aps-creativity.com

“Definite descriptions, I shall argue, have two possible functions. They are used to refer to what a speaker wishes to talk about, but they are also used quite differently.” Re-reading this masterpiece and can’t stop chucking at this beautiful piece of understated philosophical humor.