ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

A web browser that automatically rejects all optional cookies ...every time.

That's it. That's the idea.

#internet #webDev #cookieConsent #privacy #tech #software

There's more than one kind of hustle

Louise Richardson has just published a groundbreaking new paper called 'Shared emotion without togetherness: the case of shared grief' in Synthese. Instead of trying to work out how emotions can be shared, Richardson focuses on a particular emotion, grief, and shows how groups can grieve even while feeling different things. This then has important implications for the broader question about how we share emotions. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-024-04760-3

I’ve been updating my draft on generics, inference and accommodation in response to some reader comments, and I’m glad that I’ve ended up with a paper where I get to cite a broader-than-usual (for me) range of literature.

Highlights include Cristina Bicchieri on social norms, Patricia Hill Collins on Black feminist thought, Sally Haslanger on ideology, José Medina on the epistemology of resistance, and Sarah-Jane Leslie on the cognition and acquisition of generics, along with the more traditional fare of Paul Boghossian on inference, Bob Brandom on inferentialism and Bob Stalnaker on the common ground. This one was a long time in production, but a whole heap of fun to work on.

https://consequently.org/writing/gen-inf-acc/

Grazie a Stefano Vaccara per questa bella intervista nel contesto dell’incontro su deepfakes and democracy alla NY Academy of Sciences.

https://youtu.be/lNhEFFyHq-4

Is AI another Tech Bubble? If it is, why? And how does it compare to other Tech Bubbles? I offer some answers, and advice on how to deal with the AI Bubble, in a new paper: "Why the AI Hype is another Tech Bubble"
freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4960826

Here's the second of two Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Ursula K Leguin's story "On The High Marsh", which looks at the terrible backstory of the animal healer Irioth and a kind of redemption

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/ursula-k-leguin-tales-from-earthsea-ged-irioth-and-emer
#Podcast #Earthsea #Magic #Leguin #Conflict #Literature

Greg Currie is pleased to announce that his article, "Art and civic values: the case of fiction reading" has just appeared in the Journal of the British Academy. Among other things, it outlines the results of a very large meta-analysis Greg and colleagues did of empirical work over the last thirty years on the effects of fiction reading on people's beliefs and attitudes. You can read it here:
https://journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/3/a37

Is there anything more awkward than German and Americans emailing each other?:

Subject: 19 Sep 24 Round Table

Dear Robert (if I may),
graciously would you allow me to attend your meeting?
Yours in most sincerity,
Dr. Prof. Hans-Joseph Fritzberger

Re: Meeting

Hey Hans!
Great!
- Bob

On the blog today, Vanessa Schipani looks at the role journalists can play in cultivating trust in science #philosophy @philosophy

http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/09/why-journalists-are-crucial-to.html

Very interesting post by Vanessa Schipani, showing how idealising "scientists as depositories of indisputable, value-free facts" causes mistrust when scientists change their minds or do not reach consensus https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/09/why-journalists-are-crucial-to.html @philosophy

Last chance to see PHILOSOPHY STORYTIME: Erotic Tales of and for Lovers of Wisdom at the Dundee Fringe Festival.
8.45pm Thursday (19th) at the Keiller Centre Dundee.
Tickets, £7, still available online or at box office. Walk ups welcome.
See you there, lovers!