ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

This Thursday 2 May, 19:00 > Join for a big 🇵🇸 sit-in at the Monument on Dam Square, Amsterdam! 🍉 #Week4Palestine #FreePalestine

I was saddened to hear that Charles Parsons (1933-2024), the philosopher of mathematics, has died.

His 1965 paper "Frege's theory of numbers" re-inforced my early fascination with logicism, and I've been reading Parsons with great admiration on and off ever since.

I had the pleasure of reviewing his 2008 Big Book, *Mathematical Thought and Its Objects* -- OK, I was unpersuaded by some of his major claims, but that's philosophy for you. Here's the review (short version): https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/ParsonsReview.pdf

But that review really only touches on two of his themes, and there's much more to wrestle with. I battled at length with the twists and turns of his book here, learning (I hope!) a lot: https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/ParsonsLongReview.pdf

The most precious of all capitals: "Semantic Capital, Its Nature, Value and Curation" freely downloadable @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3840746

According to YouTube, a whopping 92% of my viewers are male. That's pretty disconcerting to me, although I wonder:

(1) How accurate these statistics are, given that surely almost nobody tells Google their gender.
(2) What the overall gender distribution on YouTube is.

I could certainly do more videos about women philosophers (although the epistemology course I'm currently making features a good number of contemporary female philosophers), but it seems unlikely to remove this massive gap.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1114240159/andrew-bird-and-iron-wine-tiny-desk-concert Andrew Bird and Sam Richards from Iron And Wine.

Added a new resource page to my Substack with links to all of the playlists of the Sadler's Lectures playlist. I've produced over 1,100 episodes on thinkers in philosophy, literature, psychology, and religion

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/the-sadlers-lectures-podcast
#Podcast #Resources #Philosophy #Playlists

Susan Neiman explica a Ricardo Araújo Pereira porque é que a esquerda não é woke. Longa entrevista com a filósofa e escritora - Expresso: https://expresso.pt/semanario/revista-e/-e/2024-04-24-susan-neiman-explica-a-ricardo-araujo-pereira-porque-e-que-a-esquerda-nao-e-woke.-longa-entrevista-com-a-filosofa-e-escritora-dd0d5a8f https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-04-28T21:31:10Z

Good Evening

40 milliards d'investissements supplémentaires sur l'IA par l'Arabie Saoudite (s'ajoutent aux 100 milliards du fond souverain).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/saudi-arabia-ai.html | continuons à cramer le pétrole et son argent plutôt qu'investir sur la transition

Le groupe alimentaire japonais Ajinomoto détient le monopole de l'isolant électrique utilisé pour la construction des micro-processeurs. Au départ, un résidu de la recette de leur condiment emblématique.
https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/chip-material-abf-china-japan | Intéressant : les compétiteurs n'arrivent pas à les remplacer, du fait du trop haut niveau d'intrication des composants.

Data centers, encore : Émirats et Arabie Saoudite dans la course pour multiplier les data centes dans le désert
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-11/race-for-ai-supremacy-in-middle-east-is-measured-in-data-centers | comment ça, ça chauffe ?

Histoire de maintenance : les trains de San Francisco utilisent encore des disquettes de 5 pouces 1/4
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-muni-trains-floppy-disks/

Yarn package arrived, without yarn :)
Two #knitting books and some handmade-labels and a needle gauge. It was 50% off all books at Stephen and Penelope last week, so I 'splurged'.

I live in the Netherlands but never really go to Amsterdam, so never visited their shop, but happy to be able to delve into some Stephen West patterns now 😀

Interesting Facebook memory. Here's a videorecording of the class session https://youtu.be/7Hh8OGEsmqA
I routinely teach non-majors philosophical works in intro classes. In my experience, if you give them what they might need, many students will come away having learned quite a bit

My article on fine-tuning arguments for the multiverse is now online at Noûs!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nous.12502 #philsci

I examine the muddle of issues involved in the debate on whether the fact that life would be impossible if cosmological constants were different warrants belief in a multiverse (the division between Bayesian background and evidence, indexicality, semantic rigidity, selection effects) to sort things out.

The article is in open access thanks to Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Here's a recent interview ranging over a number of topics in philosophy Javier Rivera did with me over in his channel.

https://youtu.be/BBMClUzWCko