ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

My governor! Having lived in the District of Columbia for 30 years, a subjugated territory without a state government, it is refreshing and reassuring to now have one. #NewMexico

Lujan Grisham lambasts Trump on CNN over abortion, border bill

http://enewmexican.pressreader.com/article/6793139335556220

I've been slow to accept the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, in part because genocide -- like murder -- requires intention. And that's just hard to believe!

Well, it's this kind of news article that makes me rethink my position. If elements within the Israeli defense forces are actively sabotaging humanitarian aid to Gaza, literal food sent to starving people, then genocidal intentions would seem to be the only explanation for such behaviour.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks

I published Mind & Desire podcast episode 3 a month and a half back for my paid Substack subscribers. It's now been released to the general public, and you can listen to it here!

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/episode-3-stoic-advice-about-grieving
#Seneca #Stoicism #Podcast #Grief #Mourning #Sadness #Emotion #Happiness

New at #SEP: Divine Illumination https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/illumination/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-22T18:05:02Z

The pure version of the meme

Here's a short piece on a key insight from the Stoic Epictetus about what we need to do with philosophical principles - digest them!

https://medium.com/practical-rationality/epictetus-insight-about-digesting-our-principles-51ca7a4bc88f
#Stoicism #Epictetus #Philosophy #Practice #Understanding #Practice

bring back the dinosaurs

Some birds this morning

How completely unsurprising that Nikki Haley is voting for Donald Trump.

#politics #history

monitoring (via google scholar) for research on "Yajnavalkya"
returned (somewhat surprisingly) a nice short article (by A.S.Salunkhe, Mumbai university) from the "GAP BODHI TARU" open access humanities journal - on relations of

#feminism and #philosophy in #AncientIndia

which may be of broader interest

https://www.gapbodhitaru.org/search.php?keyword=EARLIEST%20SYMBOLS%20OF%20FEMINISM%20IN%20WORLD

On the blog today, Matthew Cull, Jules Holroyd and Fiona Woollard talk to Kathleen about their new project, 'Inclusive Language in Perinatal and Postnatal Care'.
http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/05/inclusive-language-in-perinatal-and.html

BSPS || Ioannidis & Psillos, Mechanisms in Science // Reviewed by Katherine Valde

https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/valde-on-ioannidis-and-psillos/

On me dit que certain-es hésitent encore à lire Les raisons et les personnes, j'ai du mal à le croire. Alors une petite incitation en lien.
https://agone.org/prendre-la-morale-au-serieux/

Whither I may go,
Deftly dodging summer's scorch,
Crops will still wither.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #climate #FoodSecurity #travel #famine #CropFailure #ClimateDenial #collapse

More great news in the philosophy publishing landscape:

https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/

I hope this kind of journal becomes more and more common!

#academicpublishing

https://cpverdonschot.xyz/blog/translating-the-oppressed/
New blogpost, on #translation and @poetry

What kind of lived experience is it necessary for a translator to have? Is it possible for white authors to translate Black poetry? I argue that while, certainly, lived experience is important for poetry, this does not render translators incapable simply in virtue of their social location.