@anitaleirfall.bsky.social Entre Deux Choses: My year end musing is available now. grotron.ghost.io/entre-deux-c...

@textcontainer.bsky.social Entre Deux Choses: My year end musing is available now. grotron.ghost.io/entre-deux-c...

@gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Entre Deux Choses: My year end musing is available now. grotron.ghost.io/entre-deux-c...

@annaezekiel.bsky.social Entre Deux Choses: My year end musing is available now. grotron.ghost.io/entre-deux-c...

Entre Deux Choses: My year end using is available now. grotron.ghost.io/entre-deux-c...

Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man” Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky

Articles including references to nonexistent research material are themselves being cited in other papers — effectively laundering their erroneous citations. The more these false citations are repeated, the more the illusion of their authenticity is reinforced. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Generalists do better. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

MIT study on AI use. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Warning, this movie is about a lot of sad stuff, especially if you’re a parent!

Here is the short and pretty version of a paper I published at the beginning of the year in which I argue that sleeping is valuable aesthetically, interpersonally and intrinsically. Happy to say that a short book on this topic is forthcoming with Princeton U press. #philsky #philosophy #sleeping

I had no idea there are so many philosophy podcasts. I envy people with the ability and time to listen to many of them!

I second this advice. I’ve been a donor since I was in grad school, and a monthly donor for several years now. It’s a great organization that does work in all the (too many) places that need it.

Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle review – a philosopher’s guide to enlightenment Can we experience something bigger than ourselves in the midst of busy, humdrum lives? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #enlightenment #PhilosophySky #philsky

@gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Thank you, as always. You are too kind. I hope you and your family find some peace despite the madness.

@textcontainer.bsky.social Danke schön! You are too kind!

@saraprotasi.bsky.social My thoughts on Tove Ditlevsen’s‘Childhood’ is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

@textcontainer.bsky.social My thoughts on Tove Ditlevsen’s‘Childhood’ is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

@gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social My thoughts on Tove Ditlevsen’s‘Childhood’ is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

@annaezekiel.bsky.social My thoughts on Tove Ditlevsen’s ‘Childhood’ is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

@anitaleirfall.bsky.social My thoughts on Tove Ditlevsen’s ‘Childhood’ is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

My thought on Tove Ditlevsen's startling book, 'Childhood', is now available. Please read it at your leisure. grotron.ghost.io/the-odour-of...

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1975 film Mirror is a work of tremendous beauty and powerful nostalgia, but also a deeply confusing movie, full of dreams and memories, presented out of chronological order, and in several different styles. youtu.be/LXinQ_zdPu0?... #Tarkovsky #Mirror #film #art #philsky

"Nationalism is made for nobodies. This explains its eternal appeal. It allows them to claim solidarity with something great." —Julien Benda, Les Cahiers d'un clerc, 1936-1949 (Paris, 1949),15 (13 February 1936).

Alison Stone's quick and excellent account of "Why We Should Read Frances Power Cobbe As a Philosopher" - and I fixed the broken links to the footnotes: acezekiel.com/2022/08/04/w...

We need to evolve beaks and wings

Name change reminder: my book “Philosophical Fragments” is now titled “Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings.” Translations of #Günderrode's most philosophical works with accessible introductions. Forthcoming February 2027 and already available for preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

In a culture that prizes efficiency, sleep is often seen as a waste of time, or something to ‘hack’. But, as @saraprotasi.bsky.social argues, sleep is more than just a tool for higher productivity; it is intrinsically valuable and has its own aesthetic pleasures to be enjoyed aeon.co/essays/sleep...

Nothing alive is alien to me Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush. Animals, plants, even trees are our kin, and so treating them well isn’t optional, but a moral obligation aeon.co/essays/shoul... #PhilosophySky

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #Mentalimages #PhilosophySky #philsky

Compassionate Curmudgeon | Why we must root ourselves in the real world | Review by Robert Zaretsky Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods; University of Chicago theamericanscholar.org/compassionat... #Schopenhauer #philsky #PhilosophySky

Germany’s Wollstonecraft In 1802, a work of philosophy was published under a woman’s name. In On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Development, Amalia Holst declared that it was time someone spoke out about the plight of women in Germany ‘from a woman’s standpoint aeon.co/essays/amali...

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins.” — James Baldwin | @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2... #Baldwin #literature #art #philsky

"I find that [in] the mainstream philosophy... everything is regulated, controlled, and monitored until the life is squeezed out of it. We’ve lost the ability to cope with anything inhomogeneous or unexpected." | By @axdouglas.bsky.social www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation... #PhilosophySky #philsky

Plato vs The Algorithm: Beauty is the path to virtue | What Plato got right about beauty For most of history, beauty was seen not as a trap but as a necessary precondition for virtue: a capacity that, properly cultivated, could train our desires toward the good iai.tv/articles/pla... #philosophysky

Hedda Hassel Mørch: Consciousness & Integrated Information Theory (I) Consciousness: Not only do neuroscientists have no fundamental explanation for how it arises from physical states of the brain, we aren't even sure whether we ever will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bei2... #consciousness #philsky

University: a good idea Students should be careful not to underestimate the value of academic study thecritic.co.uk/university-a... #university #academia #PhilosophySky #philsky

Karoline von Günderrode’s Notes on History of Religion The notes translated here are taken from Günderrode’s manuscripts held at the Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt, which are in the public domain.[1] German transcriptions of these notes can also be found in the…

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"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." time.com/7332888/we-n... #AI #ethics #PhilSky #PhilosophySky

““Writing clearly” can’t mean stripping away all ornamentation and ambiguity where these are playing a crucial role in working on the feelings and desires of the reader. Doing that would mean failing to convey the whole thought.” open.substack.com/pub/axdougla... #writing #philosophy #PhilosophySky

The pursuit of beauty is fragmenting the self | The philosophy behind social media and the beauty industry The worry isn’t that beauty or vanity exists; it’s that our digitized beauty culture has weaponized them against the self. iai.tv/articles/the... #beautyindustry #PhilosophySky #philsky

AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #AI #flawed #tests #philsky

AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia youtu.be/nXEA05STn1k?... #AI #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

Mass psychosis | How an entire population becomes mentally ill Aiming to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed? youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...

Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80” www.openculture.com/2013/12/akir... #Kurosawa #Bergman #film #creativity #philosophysky #philsky

Wolff's diaries&letters contain writing that is more ritualistic& intentionally tied to her work (...). The postcards materialize an unselfconscious act, a persona not quite public, a version of herself meant to be seen by one other person for a fleeting moment www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...

The risks of AI are clear—but the warning signs have been there all along The training data has been shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypical &derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity& disability status www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Reposting this on Emil du Bois-Reymond's birthday today

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