Im TU-Hauptgebäude ist jetzt immer lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

I am afraid that for the conflation of transcendent–transcendental, the only solution is clearly a licensing board. Only people able to prove they've read and understood the Critique of Pure Reason will be licensed to handle "transcendental".

"You there, good sir! Would you mind giving me the time?" "But of course, my good man. It is now time t." "Is It really?! Time t already? Then I'm afraid I must be off, for at time t I must Φ!"

Cartesian propaganda! Descartes was epistemically crushed by an all-powerful evil demon who created him such that he even god the most basic a priori insights wrong. The only cop-out left to him was: 'but I know god, my creator is nice to me'

Nothing unites philosophers like our shared hatred of The Philosophy Documentation Center.

es ist völlig unproblematisch paypal als finanzdienstleister zu nutzen obwohl es peter thiel gehört schließlich sind wir immer noch in deutschland

Inflatable tube men will be shipped until whackiness improves

Completely merited

Scams have gotten absurdly good: yesterday I got this text for a reservation I had actually made with accurate details, I even opened the link. The generic bookingdotcom aesthetics tripped me up. As it turns out there was a hack in April. I suspect things will become only more sophisticated.

I am generically in favour of mods banning people, and whenever people point to imbalances in who they mods target I always want the correction to be that the complainer stays banned and the people they are pointing to re hypocrisy get banned too. Only when we are all banned shall we escape saṃsāra.

– Dark Star (1974)

Also known as "deviant chains of causation" in epistemology and philosophy of mind.

Breaking! Richard Dawkins confirmed a P-Zombie! That automated quote-maker gets it wrong, it's Gary Marcus citing Richard Dawkins. "I really don't know what you mean by [extremely common sense phenomenon]" is a peak Oxbridge gambit.

„Tubby“ - he was so fat they had to widen the door of his cell to get him out once he died

Corollary; children are immigrants from the future. They will take our jobs, mock our traditions, and transform our culture.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein, PI §244

- Zeno of Citium, refuting Epicurean atomism

Observed a mother and child pair of quantifiers in the wild. By the summer, the child will leave its mother and begin binding its own variables.

And as I'm making my round in the supermarket, I see that <someone is making a mess>, bad philosophy papers strewn across the floor. I follow the trail of bad philosophy papers, I end up in the same place as I started, even more of a mess on the floor now. I realise <I am making a mess>.

"Pegasus does not exist." "I think, therefore I am." "Request for a Certificate of Non-Existence." 😝 #metaphysics #philosophy

And as I'm making my round in the supermarket, I see that <someone is making a mess>, bad philosophy papers strewn across the floor. I follow the trail of bad philosophy papers, I end up in the same place as I started, even more of a mess on the floor now. I realise <I am making a mess>.

*pats roof of baby* this bad boy can fit so many innate concepts

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

If panpsychism isn’t true then how come my Cinnamon Toast Crunch is sentient?

What did you think "be gay, do crimes" meant? Vibes? Essays? Papers?

Endlich hat Herr #Storch etwas angeschleppt womit die Störchin sehr einverstanden ist. Ich mag den Storch 🥰 #Betzenhausen #Störche #Stork #Birds #Animal-Cam betzenhausen-bischofslinde.de/storchenkame...

PARFIT: not even once!

quine was absolutely an alien wearing a flesh suit, exhibit #72

Barbers who shave everyone who don’t shave themself

Barbers who shave everyone who don’t shave themself

Ein wenig Wasser darüber streuen.

1/3 Einer der interessantesten Nachrufe auf Habermas, die ich bisher gelesen habe. Musall arbeitet eine Spannung in Habermas’ Denken heraus: Sein Universalismus gewinnt seine normative Kraft aus einer partikulären Quelle: der deutschen Auseinandersetzung mit Auschwitz als normativem Bezugspunkt.

Wrote a bit on Habermas and my unease with some parts of his thinking (while I admire others): crookedtimber.org/2026/03/18/h...

Propaganda goes brainrot Brainrot squared so to speak

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

Das peinliche ist, ich könnte mir da sogar ein paar pädagogische Anwendungen (zb Joint carving/ Rule following) mit vorstellen

„A runaway trolley hurtles down the tracks towards discourse, if it isn’t averted it will run over Kantian notions of duty. You happen to stand next to a lever that can divert the trolley, in that case it will however run over consequentialism. What should you do?“ TIL it ran over both.

To all who contribute to and receive arte (Germans & French I guess?) : twin peaks currently streams on arte.tv (for free)

This piece annoyed me to no end. Doctors know very well why; but how do you, a dermatologist, convince your patient to see a psychiatrist? As a patient you're in physical discomfort from bugs (you think), and they tell you to see a psychiatrist? This is impossible (Psych has its problems, obvsly)

- So you wanted to get back to your wife? - Yes, I missed her dearly. - So, how long were you on Ogygia? - Seven years. - And you liked Calypso? - Well look, she’s a supernatural nymph with magic powers! - Right.

Now do it again, but send a guy in a lab coat to everybody while they fill out the questionnaire! (He’ll just hover, and not make any demands himself)

- So you wanted to get back to your wife? - Yes, I missed her dearly. - So, how long were you on Ogygia? - Seven years. - And you liked Calypso? - Well look, she’s a supernatural nymph with magic powers! - Right.

"Kulturstaatsminister Weimer kann Künstler, die sich um eine Förderung bewerben, vom Verfassungsschutz überprüfen lassen. Ein wenig bekannter Erlass des Innenministeriums macht es möglich. Beim Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis gab es jetzt die ersten Ausschlüsse." www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

I saw a talk version of this paper and came away having learned so much about how distortions in medical data are produced from the top down through the categories we use. So glad it’s out now!

journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph... We have just published Herman Cappelen's replies to his critics on our website.