*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Join us - physically or online - on the 1st of October, 10 a.m. CET for this fascinating lecture by Quassim Cassam at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He will explore whether there are cases of benign extremism. Register via the link: extremebeliefs.com/event/lectur...

Some might be interested!

Gestern hatte ich einen Artikel in der digitalen FAZ darüber, dass diese Attentate aus einem emotionalen memeifizierten Nihilismus entspringen. Mir wäre weniger so unmittelbar bestätigende Evidenz lieber gewesen.

And that's why you should call them the Greater Hebrides

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

I just watched Brazil, won’t again. Also preemptively (never watching) any Cronenberg, half of Crimes of the Future was enough

apparently psychohistory is just warmed over poetry studies and philosophy: philpapers.org/rec/SELPRO-4

We should fine-tune an LLM on Stanisław Lem’s writings and call it an “LLLEM” Btw, fun fact: Philip K. Dick at the height of his paranoia thought that “Lem” was in fact not a person but a secret collective of Soviet spies smuggling coded messages through sci-fi novels

For 2€ a day you can take a regional train to anywhere in Germany (as well as some stations across from the border)!

Ich schätze, die Dialekte werden zu ihrer eigenen Sprache wenn LLMs genug davon in ihrem Korpus haben. (NB das Appenzellerdeutsch ist hier ein bisschen seltsam, aber dass innert 10 Wörtern "huere" vorkommt ist sehr appenzellerisch)

Very funny

"If a cow had tools, we could not understand them" Wittgenstein

I see the troubles are troubling in the states I fear this ambient violence will keep on festering

A Sixtine Chapel for the internet

The world iseverythingthatisthecase.

I miss when Google fucked up in honest ways instead.

Friendly reminder

The Kant car is right, you know

It's hard to find, since it's buried in Derek Parfit's On What Matters, and is moreover entitled 'Humanity as End in Itself', instead of something useful like 'Before You Construct A Trolley-like Problem, Read This'. But the excerpt below will give you (or Dan Davies) a sense of why.

Was ist diese Website? Die Werbung ist nicht echt, die Artikel scheinen entweder kopiert zu sein, oder KI-generiert, ein Impressum gibt es nicht, etc. Ist das ein Stück dead internet um LLMs zu manipulieren? (Offensichtliche Propaganda habe ich jetzt nicht gefunden)

"Elite publication" journalist syndrome: never call a spade a spade

When it’s rotated to 45• (at 2“) It’s a duck, given that all rabbits at the right angle are ducks

They’re moving a (1) church (whole) across town! You’ve got to love the 21st Century for stuff like this

Strange things wash into my Philpapers digest. This one even invented (founded?) a journal. I guess this is the REAL(tm) epistemic threat of AI: crank philosophy being supercharged

German politician PhD level! (Guttenberg 2009; Schavan 1989)

Wolpertingers are a thing? The thing's called Shope Papilloma Virus? Why has nobody told me this? Also it makes me very uncomfortable

So, AI=0?

Breaking: 2300 Jahre alte Vorlesungsnotizen auf preussisch übersetzt sind nicht allgemein zugänglich (hilfreiche Gedanken?). Die Nikomachische Ethik wäre direkt daneben gestanden

This looks interesting. #PhilSky #Philosophy

Happy to have played a small role in this project (which will be continued)

They put an llm behind the veil of ignorance!

Finnisch

Don't mind Robin, his book is great, and we (Nastja, Nora, and I) wouldn't have been able to make these criticisms without Robin's groundwork!

JUST ONE MORE INTERPRETATION OF THE HERR-KNECHT-SZENE JUST ONE MORE INTERPRETATION JUST ONE MORE BRO I SWEAR

Annalisa Coliva - 'Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology', free to download for the next two weeks - it's presumably in part building on her chapter in the handbook, which was on social hinge epistemology:

German academic publishers:

I’m co-hosting an online conference: Wittgenstein, On Certainty and Religion, July 28th and 29th. For more info, including schedule & book of abstracts: philevents.org/event/show/1... (to join, email me, [email protected] for a link) #conference #philosophy #religion #Wittgenstein

“Customers find the book offers good value for money, with one mentioning it provides helpful background information about different ideas. The writing quality receives positive feedback, with one customer noting the style is easy to digest.” AI review. Guessed the book? Durkheim On Suicide.

So that’s why storm troopers always miss

Philosophy Sky: What are your examples of long-term successful philosophical ideas or theories? I'm looking for counterexamples to a pessimistic meta-induction about philosophy. 3 of mine: -externalism about meaning and reference. -modern logic and applications to language -Gettier cases

Hegelian E-Girls finally crash into Die Zeit

Showing off your new look at McDonald’s

Well where did 1960s Germans get all that food from? Apparently these splendid newfangled "supermarkets", open at night and reachable by car

Well, I just started a position at Aachen technical university. I'm at the chair of applied ethics and at a big consortium on the development and implementation of neuronal computation. Also our stairwells are pretty

You can also have stew with Kraut. Please admire the only documented use of a glass pot ever! (I guess it is fun to see, but would be terrible to use)

The most gravy boat must be a bowl to transport gravy across vast seas of gravy