ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Even if you are already aware of the renunciation of the hard right by Granbury, Texas school board member Courtney Gore, do read this story detailing how billionaires are orchestrating a total assault on public education - part of what led Gore to change her positions. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore

Ik weet niet wat de bron is, maar wilde 'm toch met jullie delen.

UK is so stressful right now. It‘s living in constant fear that yours will be the next university to announce cuts. It‘s knowing, no matter how hard you work, how good at your job you are, how great your department; none of that will matter, because the government as set the system up to fail.

Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Franz Kafka's short piece "On Parables", which arguably turns out to be a meta-parable

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/franz-kafka-on-parables
#Podcast #Kafka #Language #Parable #Wisdom #Interpretation #Philosophy #Literature #Existentialism

"Let's hope it stays relevant until I get tenure."

I wonder what people now getting jobs in "Ethics of AI" will do in 5-10 years in case the bubble bursts.

Privacy is not only individual, it is also: "Group Privacy - A Defense and an Interpretation" freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3854483

@SteveCooke for people of my generation (let's just say I graduated in the 90s) this is next to incomprehensible, especially if you were socialised in an analytic context.

Sharing some zen. #NewMexico photos, taken in my yard. #bloomscrolling

Crooked Timber || Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/19/sunday-photoblogging-pezenas-5/

Introduction to the Handbook of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by David J. Gunkel :: SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4830981 https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-19T09:07:00Z

While anyone can ask questions, effective questioning requires skill and strategic thinking, especially for senior leaders whose role it is to help other managers and employees to explore ideas they didn't realise needed exploring. To foster innovation and effective decision-making, leaders must cultivate an inquisitive mindset and prioritise strategic questions over merely operational ones.

#DecisionMaking #Leadership #CapabilityDevelopment

https://robert.winter.ink/better-questions-make-for-better-decisions/

The Philosophy Garden aspires to be a virtual philosophy museum producing and gathering free and fun resources to reflect on problems that matter to us all https://sites.google.com/view/the-philosophy-garden/home Watch our eight animated videos on a variety of topics! #philosophyforeveryone @philosophy

Here's another YouTube short excerpted from my Intro to Philosophy lecture on Hegel's Self-Consciousness section & the Master-Slave dialectic, explaining a bit about what Hegel means by "certainty of self"

https://youtube.com/shorts/6igFpplZ9Aw
#Short #Video #Hegel #Philosophy #Certainty #Self #Dialectic

I took and posted a lot of pics of the landscape and the moose at Wyoming Stoic Camp this last week. Here's a group pic of most of us participants on the last day!

Looks like 10 years back, my YouTube channel passed 1 million views. I produced a video discussing that milestone back then, which I'll have to take a look at later today https://youtu.be/BbDhOyR11G4

We're currently at 14.8 million views, and 2.1 million hours (or 239 years) viewed