Victor Gijsbers
@victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place
One day I'll record a rap explaining Kant's transcendental idealism. I've already got two perfect lines, so what could possibly stop me?
Our sensory connection to the things that we feel
exhausts our conception of what it is to be real
In the meantime, enjoy the less accurate but still very fun Kant Song, not by me:
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Here's a page full of links to all of my Sadler's Honest Book Reviews, in-depth and unvarnished discussions of works in practical philosophy, personal development, leadership, relationships, & other topics
https://open.substack.com/pub/gregorybsadler/p/the-sadlers-honest-book-reviews-series
#Books #Review #Philosophy #Ethics #Relationships
clint verdonschot
@clintunplugged@mastodon.online
some thoughts on #aesthetics and @philosophyofscience
I've been teaching the philosophy of science even though this is not at all my expertise, but today it struck me that the discipline is similar to aesthetics in several interesting ways.
For one thing, both are latecomers among philosophical fields of study; while both have roots going back to Plato and Aristotle, these sources are part of the disciplines' prehistory. Their real origins lie rather in the modern age.
Understanding Society
@DanLittle@mastodon.online
Popper and Parfit: the minds of philosophers
The recent biography of Derek Parfit by David Edmonds can usefully be read in conjunction with Karl Popper's autobiography. An impression offered here -- it seems as though Popper is the deeper philosopher, and that Parfit was a person obsessed with puzzles and problems that were technically complicated but had little real impact on issues that matter.
https://undsoc.org/2024/04/06/popper-and-parfit-the-minds-of-philosophers/
Philosophy Blogs
@philosophyblogs@botsin.space
Crooked Timber || Sunday photoblogging: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris (2)
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/07/sunday-photoblogging-canal-saint-martin-paris-2/
Philosophy Blogs
@philosophyblogs@botsin.space
Alexander Pruss's Blog || Plastic belt buckle
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/04/plastic-belt-buckle.html
Dr Robert N. Winter
@robert@social.winter.ink
Context is king in the employment landscape when trying to effectively position for an unknowable future. Though work is about the organisation's interests rather than solely the employee's, unless employees and employers act in good faith and in the best interest of the organisation, vested interests and chaos will be the result.
#DecisionMaking #Governance #Management #OrganisationalBehaviour
https://robert.winter.ink/disconnected-expectations-why-managers-and-employees-struggle-to-agree/
Greg Restall
@consequently@hcommons.social
Lately, I’ve been spending less time online and more time reading books. Since I’m getting on in years I’ve taken to writing short notes on what I’m reading, to help me keep track. In an experiment (no promises to keep this up), I’ve decided to share these book notes online.
Here’s the result of last month’s reading: https://consequently.org/news/2024/books-march-2024/
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
Work with several of my tutorial clients takes us through many texts/thinkers. I've been rereading Jean-François Lyotard with one, specifically the Post-Modern Condition & The Differend. It's been quite a while and I'm really enjoying it. Might shoot videos on them this summer
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
@SylviaFysica@scholar.social
Mijn collega maakte met de Universiteit van Vlaanderen een filmpje over entropie en de tweede wet van de thermodynamica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8U2pKr5f0
Gregory B Sadler
@GregSadler@metalhead.club
I just early-released six Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on part 3 of Kant's Prolegomena, discussing the psychological, cosmological, and theological ideas to all of my Patreon supporters. Episodes get released to the public starting later this week
Maks Sipowicz
@callmesipo@zirk.us
Sunday reading
Manolo Martínez
@manolomartinez@scholar.social
I wish washing-machine makers would clearly state the energy consumption of their various programs. I find it hard to believe that an eco setting that goes up to 60 C is eco-er than a shorter cold cycle. But hey, I'm just a consumer, so instead I get to be behaviorally nudged by defaults, button sizes and colors
clint verdonschot
@clintunplugged@mastodon.online
with aesthetics, it's Leibniz' philosophy and the subsequent writings of the aesthetic rationalists. For philosophy of science, if I understand correctly, its Francis Bacon's Novum Organum and Descartes' Discourse on Method
Here, another interesting parallel emerges: all these writings have to do with grounding and defending a particular intellectual practice (art or science), against skeptic doubt
Helena Sheehan
@HelenaSheehan@mastodon.ie
A review of Until We Fall in Socialist Voice by Paul Dillon. https://socialistvoice.ie/2024/04/until-we-fall-long-distance-life-on-the-left-by-helena-sheehan/
Robert Reich
@rbreich@masto.ai
Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow and his family's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. See how this works?
Jazz Rabbit 🐇 🏳️⚧️
@madrabbit@chaos.social
Used my jar opener robot to make toast this morning and thought of this comic by JeCorey Holder. https://www.patreon.com/jecoreyh
Disability aids are often marketed to larger markets bc economies of scale are real. If you find yourself scoffing at something “pointless” for “lazy” people, it’s probably a disability aid that the manufacturer hopes can be made more affordable.
(I worked hard on the alt text here, it felt important.)
#Disability #InvisibilityIsNotAcceptance #AccesibilityMatters
dadsite boy
@alex@dads.cool
The “great” thing about England is that when these articles come out and you google the person who wrote them it’s not something boring like “their dad is a trust fund manager” it’s “their dad is a baron, their grandfather edited the newspaper this appears in, and their family *founded the private Bank of England*”
*all true of this writer
fuckeveryphilosopherbot
@fuckeveryphilosopherbot@botsin.space
Fuck Clement of Alexandria (2nd – 3rd century)
Kent Pitman
@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
Quirky news du jour
always blots out climate news.
Public in the dark.
Total eclipses aren't rare.
No rose-tint glasses protect.
#tanka (5-7-5-7-7 #haiku) #ShortPoem #poem #climate #ClimateDenial #eclipse #eclipse2024 #journalism
Emmie Hine
@emmiehine@dair-community.social
Facebook updates its manipulated media policy, seemingly closing the loophole that allowed political campaigns to deploy unlabeled deepfakes as long as they weren’t in ads:
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/metas-approach-to-labeling-ai-generated-content-and-manipulated-media/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
@APoD@botsin.space
A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming
Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper
Clarissa 🏳️🌈🐱🚲
@clarissawam@mefi.social
Tristan just sent me this picture of a literal “Wasserhahn”!
German for tap/faucet, it literally translates to “water rooster”. 😃
