Derrida keeps breaking Zotero. I can reference anyone else but whenever it’s Derrida, it breaks.

Not bad!

Enough for a month in the Alps? I’m terrified I’ll leave the books I need at home.

I wrote a thing about Heidegger and animals: open.substack.com/pub/goingalo...

Evelyn De Morgan

I’ve now done all the Welsh on Duolingo and I still can’t speak Welsh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rae has grudgingly admitted that whilst she has access to beings, she does not apprehend them as beings.

“….everything depends upon correctly grasping the obvious…” (FCM). Easier said than done!

“…truth is not in objects, but also not in subjects, and so it comes up with a third realm of meaning, an invention that is no less doubtful than medieval speculation about angels.” BPP

I’m just going to ignore what is happening today and continue reading about the “is”.

I look forward to the summer and then once it’s here I remember I’m a better person in the winter.

Viktor Kolář. viktorkolar.com

“Your literature review should be 5,000 to 10,000 words.” 25,000 words later… 😐

“…whenever common sense is taken to be philosophy’s highest court of appeal, philosophy must become suspicious…The demands and standards of common sense have no right to claim any validity or to represent any authority in regard to what philosophy is and what it is not.” BPP

Birthday gifts!

A good start to Christmas.

Starting on this today!

Found in Krell’s Daimon Life.

The best of welcomes at Arrivals.

What modern psychology would consider to be “good” is, I suspect, some kind of peak average everydayness where Dasein feels fully at home. I suspect this is why my non-philosopher friends tend to say things like “all the philosophy will make you go mad”. It does the opposite, of course.

Are there any vegetarians in West Virginia? I have been visiting and I am wasting away after 4 days. Help!

This, at the start of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics is rather funny but seems out of character for Heidegger. Maybe he’d just had a particularly strong coffee.

I wrote my MA dissertation on the hard problem of consciousness, but now, after two years of studying Heidegger for my MRes, I can no longer understand what the problem is. It’s like my brain has rewired itself.

The first of hopefully many Heidegger shelves is complete.

Members of the Edinburgh Ladies’ Climbing Club, circa 1908. “Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken climbing on Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh.They were barred from joining the men-only Scottish Mountaineering Club.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%...

Heidegger’s Nietzsche lectures hat mich kaputt gemacht.

It continues…

Birthday gifts from my mum. From one end to the other…

More of this this weekend.

Microsoft Word trying to remove the “as a whole” from “beings as a whole” is become a bit tiresome.

Have worn myself out trying to write about what Heidegger said about Nietzsche. Back to work tomorrow for a break. 🌳

The important task of arranging books so that there is a “best shelf”…

I look forward to the day that the King’s Christmas speech discusses Zarathustra and his animals.

A good Christmas!

Mondays.

To the Dreyfus Room.

Next one.

Autumn is finally coming.

Holiday is done. Back to work and also first day of a new term. Better start with a walk.

How do we make computers give a damn about us? We can’t design responsible AI models, but we could evolve them through artificial selection, I argue, in this piece in September’s @epochemagazine.bsky.social issue. #philsky