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clintunplugged ,
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in one of my final seminars we discussed and the impact of on real politics.

turns out none (!) of my (European, Dutch) students had ever heard of either or . they knew and , but left populism was a primarily theoretical concept to them.

that is perhaps a strong argument against it, no?

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Gonzalo ,
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@clintunplugged @politicaltheory @philosophy I would argue that as your students didn’t know about left populism is the reason they needed your class. They were unaware of it probably because of the media bias. Podemos has frequently framed the need to expand the populism framework.

imperfectcognitions ,
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On the blog today, Anneli Jefferson and Katrina Sifferd discuss their recent on paper on the role of audience and feedback in the development of moral agency. @philosophy
http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/06/responsible-agency-and-importance-of.html

Lupposofi ,
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@imperfectcognitions @philosophy 👍 👏

steeznson ,
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So glad I am able to bridge the generations on the philosophy sub-lemmy @philosophy

ewisniowski ,
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Drake knows Phenomenology?

steeznson OP ,
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@ewisniowski @philosophy As a creature of pure id, it's actually all he knows. Any kind of analytic philosophy is outsourced to his uncredited co-authors.

EVDHmn ,
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At the height of the great method debate in the 20th century what were Carl Popper and Thomas Kuhn debating about? How long did the discourse start last etc? Who won the debate? What was the take away and where are we at with it today?

Context: reading some of lately as well.
I picture the mind kind of like a garden, all the parts I’m learning revolve around a similar theme which is mostly around some of the nuts and bolts of .

mirekdlugosz ,
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Popper is now mostly known for refutation, which most scientists know, but rarely follow in the pure form. Kuhn was much closer to how science is actually being done. Arguably, Kuhn was more of sociologist of science than philosopher of science. Both are considered wrong in their own way, i.e. their theories have known problems and gaps.

EVDHmn OP ,
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@mirekdlugosz @philosophy
Yes I do understand however I was hoping to get human input on the topic, not trying to run anyone under the bus, just get some friendly perspectives that’s all! Thanks for answering!

For some broad questions I just like to hear from others first maybe get some organic answers. Before I form anything about the subject that’s all.

I do use Plato @ Stanford anytime I have any questions regarding specifics. I was more interested in contextual and chrono that’s all :)

TheConversationUS ,
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To make the moon a graveyard goes against the beliefs of various human religions.

Here’s a look at what believers would say about this winter’s attempt to send a probe holding the remains of paying customers to the lunar surface

https://theconversation.com/why-having-human-remains-land-on-the-moon-poses-difficult-questions-for-members-of-several-religions-221399
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I see. There's a good deal more going on here (& w/ religion in general). A key insight from RS is that “religion” has no singular non-reductive definition, only a family resemblance of features. So can only define religion for the purposes of a given discussion. You take value derived from myth as religion's core here.

What's the most helpful way to think about myths and values?

Screenshot from a lecture that reads as follows: Reductive Definitions of Religion - Below are examples of definitions of religions different scholars have used. - Each is reductive (misses stuff about religion that’s important to talk about) in some sense. FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER (Protestant theologian) | Religion is “the feeling of absolute dependence. KARL MARX (economic and political theorist) Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Text continues WILLIAM JAMES (psychologist and philosopher) “Religion... shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. EMILE DURKHEIM (sociologist) A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden —beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. SIGMUND FREUD (psychologist) | Religion would thus be the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.
PAUL TILLICH (Protestant theologian) | Faith is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern. CHARLES LONG (religious studies scholar) Religion will mean orientation-orientation in the ultimate sense, that is, how one comes to terms with the ultimate significance of one’s place in the world. Source o Prothero, Stephen. Religion Matters.

An illustration of Wittgenstein's Notion of “Family Resemblance”. Text reads: "Each member of the set contains three of the four features, but none of them have all four, much like the features of a genetic family." There are four shapes to the side. There are then four bundles of shapes, each with unique combinations of shapes.
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    • Anarchy_How ,
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    @skydog @TheConversationUS @philosophy

    Myths are stories that fill the world with meaning and value. Humanism has its myths (answers to questions of meaning) too---and some are quite cosmological in scope.

    “Values are ideas about what people ought to want.”

    exnihilo ,
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    @philosophy Delirium of Images https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/delirium-of-images?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    bibliolater ,
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    How To Think Like a Philosopher

    “Throughout history, philosophers have tackled a number of questions, but on the side they have provided something almost as valuable - an implicit guide on how to think like some of the brightest minds in history. And that is what we shall be exploring today.”

    🎥 length: twenty five minutes and forty one seconds.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVwjXhZ2Y

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    epochemagazine ,
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    The new issue of Epoché is live! With writing on Bataille, Schelling, Adorno, Derrida, Benjamin, and adventures through the enlightenment. Politics, biology, literature, metaphysics and laughter. Get in it.

    https://epochemagazine.org/issues/72/

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    imperfectcognitions ,
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    On the blog today, Martina Orlandi discusses what post-self-deception confessions can tell us about the nature of self-deception itself. @philosophy
    https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/06/post-self-deception-judgements.html

    exnihilo ,
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    @philosophy Das Delirium der Bilder https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/das-delirium-der-bilder?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    PhilosophicalPsychology ,
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    Call for papers: The Nature of Devotion https://buff.ly/3xyTqdJ Submit your work by the end of October 2024. @philosophy

    lisabortolotti ,
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    This week on the EPIC blog, postdoc Fred Cooper shares his thoughts about interdisciplinarity and epistemic injustice https://epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/06/epistemic-injustice-across-disciplinary.html @philosophy

    lisabortolotti ,
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    Here is my short take on why epistemic injustice in healthcare matters! From the launch of project EPIC: https://youtu.be/VZ02s29xKNw?si=B3WyFlaFADwX2E8c Please visit the project website to view what the other researchers had to say. @philosophy

    PhilosophicalPsychology ,
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    Latest papers: Itzel Cadena-Alvear & Melina Gastelum-Vargas aim to deepen into a theoretical account on the role of behavioural settings and relational affordative space and how this perspective can be used to reconceptualise human cognition https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2360132 @philosophy

    lisabortolotti ,
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    Four exciting calls for papers at Philosophical Psychology right now! Get involved: the nature of devotion, causation in memory, mystical experiences and entropy, the philosophy and legacy of Daniel Dennett @philosophy

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