ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Ebenfalls im ICE nach Passau zur #DHd2024. Noch schnell die letzte Folie bestückt, die ersten Kolleg:innen live getroffen und die heutige @RaDiHum20 Folge gehört. 😎 Die DHd kann kommen.

Random question for philosophers:
What is your subfield, and what do you predict will the the 'hot topic' in that subfield in 5 years?

#philosophy #academia #philosophers #academics

A nice memory from a decade ago. Andi invited Temple Grandin to the Culinary, and we actually had good bit of conversation with her over those days. Gradin is best known as an expert on meat production and autism, but the topic on her mind with me was our vulnerable power grids

Today I brushed up on one of the funnier counterarguments in philosophy.

There's a view called the Equal Weight View which says that if you and an epistemic peer disagree about something, you ought to give their opinion equal weight to your own, and so you should give up your belief and become agnostic until further investigation breaks the impasse.

But philosophers disagree about whether the Equal Weight View is true. So defenders of the Equal Weight View ought to give up on their view.

@pjw in political philosophy it's pretty clear: either socialism or barbarism

in aesthetics I'm not so sure. I've a feeling the field might be too small to sustain trends

@pjw animal ethics...
probably the same we do for 50 years now. we just hope somebody listens...

phenomenology, who knows.... probably about how we can make or discern whether computational models can have phenomenological experience. it will probably have something to do with 'ai' and neuronal computing

Wondering why it can be so confusing to deal with minds and machines? New, OA article by @kianobre and me on "Anthropomorphising machines and computerising minds: the crosswiring of languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain" https://lnkd.in/e-wz5N5m

How can we protect the sense of agency of young people experiencing a mental health crisis in clinical encounters? We discuss this issue in an open access paper where we introduce the agential stance: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09593543221095079 I believe the agential stance applies to many other contexts too! #philosophy @philosophyofpsychiatry @psychiatry

#til: der Mettigel ist eine Erfindung der 2000er.https://www.dwds.de/wb/Mettigel

The best thing about this Truss, Braverman, Anderson Tory racism row has been Oliver Dowden, the most supine, craven man in politics, laughably claiming he‘d have spoken out against Bannon‘s hate speech if he‘d been in Truss‘s shoes, before going on to defend a torrent of bigotry from his colleagues. Joke of a man. #ukpolitics

I still think that the real audience for the Haley campaign is SCOTUS.

J'aurais jamais cru que je lirais ça un jour sur le site de l'assemblée nationale mais je pense que toutes les barrières sont déjà tombées ces dernières années et ça en dit long sur la gravité de la situation.

Los geht’s!

Mit dem
@forTEXT|lab auf der #dhd2024
@DHdKonferenz in Passau

New video, the 11th one in my Course on Epistemology: "Foundationalism and Coherentism: What I Think".

In which I claim that experience is an active process involving judgement; that some beliefs are not up for grabs; and that justification is not about the in-the-moment structure of my beliefs, but about my responsibility as I pursue the project of enquiry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWmPVpGxM

#philosophy #epistemology

A nice memory of the sweet little Sassy girl, from a month and a half before we lost her