ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Creeping strangler vine,
Wasting stealth skills on plant friends.
Men* are your true threat.

#haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #ShortPoem #environnent #sustainability #weeds #gardening #collapse #extinction

* Normally I prefer gender-neutral pronouns in these situations, but haiku favors brevity. Also, it IS probably disproportionately MEN insisting on doing environmental damage for sake of quick profit, so maybe it's best for me to take a moment, now and then, to acknowledge and own a bit of that.

Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast on Nishitani's The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism. This one looks at chapter 9, where he argues that one way to deal with the crisis of nihilism is reappropriation of tradition

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/nishitani-keiji-the-self-overcoming-of-nihilism-nihilism-and-reappropriating-tradition
#Podcast #Nishitani #Philosophy #Japan #Nihilism #Tradition #Buddhism #Confucianism

#Atheism and #parenting — discuss!

Dr. Anna Strhan (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fL68noIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate&inst=2438481962696796233) & Dr. Lois Lee (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nw-eyMoAAAAJ&hl=en&inst=2438481962696796233&oi=ao) shared rousing quotes from both #children and their #parents in #England who thought aloud about parenting, religion (e.g., #God, #Jesus, etc.) and #myth (e.g., #Santa, #toothFairy).

Themes:

#autonomy: kids and parents were against indoctrination

#humanism: kids and parents contrasted #science/#logic and #religion

#myth: they still appealed to non-religious kids, parents

Coming up tomorrow Noon Central, in Classic Metal Class, Scott and I take another look at what criteria we can have for saying an album by a band is their "best". We're using 5 L.A. bands as examples. Zoom link for the session available in class site https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/classic-metal-class

I think this is from the calendar year I taught 15 classes at 4 institutions (MIAD, Marquette, MATC, and Carthage College. That was the most I ever did in a year, though I did have one semester early in my career where I taught 8 classes for 3 different institutions.

Later today (Noon Central/ 1 PM Eastern), I'll be going on the Acid Horizon podcast/show to chat about philosophy, the emotion of grief, and what Stoics made of it
Streaming here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/-rd5K9cLK6E
And on Twitch https://t.co/1e4SdWVCQk
#Philosophy #Event #Grief #Stoicism #Memory #Sadness #Loss #Emotion #Ethics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jjq2vynq7o

Many think #science isn't #religious, but may it be #spiritual?

Jesse L. Preston et al. developed a #Spirituality of Science (SoS) scale in 3 studies (https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231191356).

And experimentally showing students inspirational quotes from science figures like Carl Sagan (vs. non-science figures?) made people see "the typical scientist" as more competent, moral, trustworthy, and *spiritual*.

Follow Dr. Preston for alerts of their forthcoming results: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse-Preston

#xPhi #psychology

On to my second #Oxford conference:

The 8th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive (and Evolutionary) #Science of #religion (#IACESR, formerly #IACSR)

iacesr.com/conferences

#Spirituality seems like one of the themes of this year's meeting.

Note: my presentation (top post) began with what I presented in 2018.

(Feels appropriate that my route to the venue takes me down Divinity Road)

#psychology #neuroscience #anthropology #philosophy #sociology #socialScience

Book Challenge:  20 Bücher, die dich geprägt haben. Ein Buch pro Tag, 20 Tage lang. Keine Erklärungen, keine Bewertungen, nur Buchcover. #20books #20books20days #20tage20bucher #booksthatinfluencedyou 7/20

In the #Religiosity and #Thinking session, I'm sharing different aspects of the new #data I presented Wednesday (at #AtheismExplained, see top post in thread):

In addition to the aforementioned findings, we found that #spirituality correlated with #reflection test performance less reliably than #religiosity (and #apostasy) did: https://nerdculture.de/@ByrdNick/112683095691417678

On Wednesday, I posted 2 of the other 3 talks in today's session (Omid's and Nori's). So below I'll post only about the new one by Meara Geraty.

#Rituals are often handed down, allowing them to change slightly over generations.

How might people's prior beliefs (e.g., in #God) impact the rituals they learn/inherit?

Sarah E. Wright reported results of an iterative ritual learning experiment (N = 72).

Self reported religious belief improved transmission of the verbal content of the transmission (regardless of whether one was told whether the #ritual worked).

Sarah's on #LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-wright-77526ba9/?originalSubdomain=uk) and TwiX (@sazzum95)

#religion

There's growing evidence that #ritual is not necessarily #religious — we incorporate ritual into many aspects of life, including non-religious aspects.

So ritual may be more of a tool/#technology than a religious activity.

So how do people think about rituals across cultures?

Dr. Chris Kavanagh shared data from WEIRD and non-WEIRD countries finding cultural similarities and differences.

You can follow Chris on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Kavanagh

#religion #culture #socialScience #habit

Evil storm supreme...
Power courts clouded judgment.
Injustices reign.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SCOTUS #justice #injustice #metaphor #politics #shameless #PowerGrab #ethics

Morning walk