Anyone interested in the history of Free Jazz needs this LP in their collection. The two Free Form cuts “Intuition” & “Digression” were Recorded May 1949, released 1972. #vinyl

"One was Realism in Mathematics by Penelope Maddy. In the margins, McCarthy summarizes the author’s points and comments on them, frequently disagreeing. “Gibberish,” he noted at one point." www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

The Searle Chair John Searle died a couple weeks ago. Since people are sharing stories, I'll share one of my own. As a philosopher of science studying developmental psychology, my dissertation committee initially consisted of Elisabeth Lloyd, Martin Jones, and Alison Gopnik. The topic led me 1/11

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

Currently listening: Turkish Mambo by Lennie Tristano m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6dQ... musicaficionado.blog/2016/10/24/t...

On the post-literate society jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

On the waning of mid-20th century culture www.honest-broker.com/p/is-mid-20t...

A paean to semicolons that eschews their use www.theguardian.com/education/co...

Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293

Like Critias entering the conversation agōniōn kai philotimōs (Charmides 162c1–2, roughly in the spirit of competition and desirous of victory)

"I've studied him for over 30 years, I've written a book about him, and – the more I thought about it – the more it seemed that Nietzsche's philosophy needed a musical." As you do www.manchesterjournal.com/arts_and_cul...

Anyone who frequented the Jeremy Bentham pub (d. 2016) on University Street may recognise Bentham House's newest art installation

Brutal. In the nicest possible way www.youtube.com/shorts/9iI-v...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Celebrate the legacy of Michael Dummett: philosopher, activist, and visionary! This Aristotelian Society's virtual issue honors his centenary with essays that reflect his profound impact on philosophy: oxford.ly/48n5yyh @aristotsoc.bsky.social

Museum of Color, by Stephanie Krzywonos explores pigments across human time emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...

Sometime in the last week or so Apple Music removed the last two tracks of Lee Konitz’s album Motion. At least in the UK. Streaming sucks

We are saddened by the passing of Christopher Rowe, emeritus professor of Classics, esteemed scholar and dear author. Christopher was a dedicated member of the Philosophia Antiqua series editorial board and his expertise helped shape scholarship in ancient philosophy. dailynous.com/2025/07/28/c...

Sunny and raining in my corner of Bloomsbury. Suddenly reminded of the Fox Wedding scene of Kurosawa's Dreams (such weddings are only held when it is sunny and raining and should not be observed by humans) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhK...

‘Did he really play on Petula Clark’s Downtown?’ Stewart Lee on his guitar hero Derek Bailey

"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

I wrote about two recent books that offer advice on how to pay attention to art in the midst of *gestures broadly at everything* Thanks to the awesome editors at the @mid-theory.bsky.social for their interest in this piece, they’re great to work with!

"By ‘Plato’ I mean ‘Timaeus’, the protagonist, who is introduced by Socrates in Plato’s Timaeus as the foreigner from Locri (Ti. 20a)." Confusing. Why not simply write "Timaeus" then?

On David Hume and Literature aeon.co/essays/how-d...

Book review: The history of science in Islamicate culture #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Will there ever be consensus on consciousness? | https://iai.tv/video/the-miracle-of-mind-consciousness Join as Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup, and Susan Blackmore debate if the key to consciousness can ever be explained in terms of the physical. #consky #philsci

Delighted to welcome @giuliamartina.bsky.social as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, 2025-2027. She'll be working with Craig French on a project entitled 'Imperfect Perception' on sensory impairments in philosophy of perception. Web: tinyurl.com/3arb5fp8 #philosophy #perception

Just finished this. An account of the Sensus Communis from its prehistory to its afterlife in 19th century medicine. An enviable combination of literary, historical, and philosophical skills on display here. Recommended

Knowledge as a Capacity: Ryle and Cook Wilson. Draft: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...

Headed up to Boston right now, it's my first day back at New England Conservatory of Music. New TT explains some of of my teaching philosophy: iverson.substack.com/p/tt-546-cor...

New Arrival

On the Phaedrus and AI www.thefp.com/p/what-happe...

Reading offline while the internet beckons

Due to many requests, we extended the deadline for the special issue 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' to 1st November! Any philosophical issue related to smell / taste / flavour welcome, so submit away: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

That’s Nietzsche’s line

On chaptering and temporal phenomenology sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/just...

The misinformation train has left the station:

Michael was my undergraduate thesis advisor. I have been moved to write some reflections on his life, and my time with him open.substack.com/pub/alexholc... #visionScience A hashtag seems gauche, but Michael should be more widely known - he didn't attend conferences much.

“Technical terms are to be shunned as worse than a dog or snake” —Leibniz, coiner of the novel technical terms “apperception”, in his preface to Mario Nizolio’s De veris principiis

In episode 635, I talk with Dr. Mattia Riccardi about his great book, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology. #Nietzsche #Philosophy #psychology youtu.be/rq_llEbXT8Y

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich #Hegel was born on this date in 1770. Back in 2006 John and Ken explored this "profound and obscure" thinker with their Stanford colleague Allen Wood, author of "Hegel's Ethical Thought." More at philosophytalk.org/shows/hegel. #PhilSky #philosophy

Hasok Chang delivering the opening keynote talk at #EPSA25! #philsci #philsky

Digital media are not an archival media. Many digital services are still unavailable at the British Library after the cyberattack

On Melville’s Moby Dick calebcrain.substack.com/p/another-cr...

The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, co-authored w/ @armrgrb.bsky.social Coming soon from OUP! global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Delationism #Truth 😁