ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

I almost admire Liz Truss’s ability to convince herself that her utter incompetence is the fault of everyone unconnected with her decisions rather than her own boundless stupidity and awful values. Being dreadful and deluded might be the only things she’s good at.

And I have a cover for my forthcoming book! Due out in July from the University of Chicago Press. If you just want an e-copy, though, don't pre-order -- it will be available to download for free, #openaccess

#EnvironmentalEthics #PhilBio #HPB #EnvironmentalHistory #ConservationBiology #Ecology

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo219284936.html

#tfw when a colleague, after winning an ERC grant and a professorship, starts to parade his far right convictions publicly. Not nice.

Pretty good meme I came across earlier today!

The first (?) philosophy bot is now available. Nicolas Gertler and Rithvik “Ricky” Sabnekar have created LuFlot, a generative AI chatbot trained on my works https://news.yale.edu/2024/04/16/student-developed-ai-chatbot-opens-yale-philosophers-works-all
LuFlot: https://luflot-bot.vercel.app/bot
🤓🤖

you may not agree with Jodi Dean's position. but the attempt to silence here, punish her for speaking about her viewpoints, is beyond the pale. anyone who cares about #FreedomOfSpeech or #AcademicFreedom should sign this petition

https://chng.it/TVyrdXcTNv

@philosophy @politicaltheory

Gemeinsam gestalten, statt einsam zu resignieren: In meinem
#ArbeitInDerWiss
Newsletter geht's heute um die Handlungsfähigkeit, die wir gewinnen, wenn wir uns zusammen für Verbesserungen stark machen. Dazu erinnere ich mich u.a. an die Anfänge von #IchBinHanna zurück. Das stimmt zuversichtlich! https://open.substack.com/pub/arbeitinderwissenschaft/p/unser-wissenschaftssystem-umgestalten?r=26dsaw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I am rarely interested in books, but Dr. Lindsey Cormack's How To Raise A Citizen (#JosseyBass, 2024) has my attention. You can find out more and pre-order at https://amzn.to/4aWaCYv

#politicalScience #parenting #civics #education

My article "Lagrangian possibilities", co-written with Alexandre Guay, it's now out, and open access!
It provides an analysis of different levels of modalities in classical and quantum Lagrangian mechanics.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-024-04550-x

Rousseau says animals lack a understanding of death: ‘an animal will never know what it is to die, & a knowledge of death & its terrors is one of man’s fist acquisitions upon leaving the animal condition’. 10 pages later he tells us: ‘An animal never passes a dead creature from its own species without uneasiness; there are even some that give their dead a sort of burial; & the sorrowful lowing of cattle entering a slaughterhouse bespeaks their feelings about the horrible spectacle facing them’.

It's another day of being irritated by Rousseau's complete inability to remain consistent over even a few pages, never mind between books. This time, it's the Discourse on Inequality. #philosophy

I’m really coming to dislike Rousseau, and I have some serious regrets about agreeing to write a chapter on his thought. I should stick to analytic moral philosophy, it’s much less annoying than historical work.

Red-eared slider. #nature #turtle #photography

One thing that fascinates me is the idea of animals that become 'man-eaters'. There's a very weird idea, that people seem to accept without question, that once a predator tastes human flesh they will almost become addicted to it. Until they taste us we are relatively safe, but once they've tried us once then they'll forever be a threat. It's a really weird idea once you start to think about it. Do humans have especially tasty flesh? More so than any other species? Who found this out, an how?!

New post by Catalina Carpan on the EPIC blog: Female Sterilization and Epistemic Injustice https://epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/female-sterilization-and-epistemic.html @philosophy

Week 8: Carston 'Implicature, Explicature, and Truth-Theoretic Semantics'
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246430630_Implicature_Explicature_and_Truth-Theoretic_Semantics

Carston, as a relevance theorist, defends a theory of the 'explicature' of an utterance which goes beyond Grice's 'what is said', but is not an implicature.

Carston says that we should not have a theory according to which an implicature entails the explicature of an utterance. The question that arose is whether there is a good, independent reason for that.