ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Snoozing in a sunbeam
#dogsofmastodon

Universiteiten zijn belangrijk, maar ze moeten echt een ander verhaal gaan vertellen over *waarom* dat zo is. En ze moeten zich daarbij richten tot een ander publiek. Extreemrechtse, rancuneuze politici overtuig je echt niet met een vertoog over het (economische) belang van kennis en innovatie.

Ons verhaal zou moeten gaan over sociale mobiliteit, over kritisch onderzoek als bron van tegenmacht, over onderwijs en emancipatie. Het zou moeten gaan over hoe deze samenleving er uit komt te zien als jij of jouw kinderen niet meer kunnen studeren, als de macht niet meer wordt weersproken.

Het falen van onze universiteiten om met iets anders te komen dan het zoveelste vertoog over hun economische meerwaarde, laat zien hoe ver de neoliberale rot er is doorgedrongen. Universiteiten kunnen zélf niet eens een engagerend verhaal vertellen over waarom of waarvoor ze eigenlijk bestaan.

The Spanish translation of The Ethics of AI is available on Amazon 😊

Ética de la inteligencia artificial (Biblioteca de Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
https://a.co/d/007IUJm

We moved on from Plato to Aristotle in my morning Foundations of Philosophy class today. Got another class session coming up in 25 minutes. Here are reflections about what I discuss with my students as we look at Aristotle's Metaphysics book 1

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/class-reflections-aristotles-metaphysics
#Aristotle #Class #Knowledge #Desire #Reasons #Causes #Metaphysics

I periodically fuss about paywalls on various things, but especially climate. I advocate for what I tentatively call a "paywall exception". I finally wrote a short blog essay explaining what this is about.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/unhelpful-paywalls.html

#climate #pandemics #storms #hurricanes #typhoons #capitalism #paywall #paywalls #copyright #FairUse #IntellectualProperty #easement #easements #democracy #PaywallException

Teaching two sections of my Foundations in Philosophy class, walking to and from Marquette University, meeting with a friend and colleague, and writing a short piece in my Substack wore me out. Clearly still sick. Had to lie down after I got home and take a nap. Now back to work

Good morning from the Tay

#dundee #TayFirth #walking

On #projectEPIC blog we report on Elisabetta Lalumera's participation in Festivalfilosofia last weekend in Modena: https://epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/09/health-and-epistemic-injustice-at.html @philosophy

YouTube certainly is capricious. Had the video of this public talk I gave recently restricted to limited or no monetization for "inappropriate language". What was the timestamped word that even a human reviewer thought was dirty? "Kant"

If you installed the latest macOS 15.0 Sequoia on your primary Mac for work, how’s it going?

I'm particularly interested in the experiences of those working in computational and/or quantitative sciences, but the more input the better!

To learn more about the new OS: https://apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia/

#Apple #computer #Mac #OS #macOS #Sequoia #software #work #productivity #R #Jamovi #stats #cogSci #compSci #psychology #academia #higherEd #edu

Issue #74 August 2024

Max Ernst and the Schizoanalysis of Nature

by Mehdi Parsa

https://epochemagazine.org/74/max-ernst-and-the-schizoanalysis-of-nature/

#Philosophy @philosophy

The philosophy of craft. "Only idiots care about IQ." Why more philosophers should blog. What the newest LLMs can do. Demanding better reasoning from the intelligentsia. Orwell as outsider philosopher. Interview with Skye Cleary. https://dailynous.com/2024/09/18/mini-heap-609/