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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

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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins, 2020

With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a bestselling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.

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This is the book Dawkins was meant to write: A brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn’t), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting. “A love letter to science, an attempt to counter the perception that science is cold and devoid of aesthetic sensibility . . . Rich with metaphor, passionate arguments, wry humor, colorful examples, and unexpected connections, Dawkins’ prose can be mesmerizing.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliance and wit.” — The New Yorker
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    @ren @CartyBoston @appassionato @bookstodon You are right

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    @CartyBoston @appassionato @bookstodon

    He has a response to that on his substack. His intellectual 'sin' is one of logical consistency, it's not always a simple and singular conclusion.

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    A United States of Europe

    “A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?”

    https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-recover-the-radical-vision-of-a-free-and-united-europe

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    @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @philosophy it was Winston Churchill’s dream as well

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    After the Second World War, Churchill became the greatest pioneer of the European ideal. “If I were 10 years younger,” he told his wife, “I might be the first President of the United States of Europe.”

    Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-173/churchills-europe/

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

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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.”

    đŸŽ„ length: twenty five minutes and forty one seconds.

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

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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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    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

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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

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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

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    Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 2013

    Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea.

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    The pursuit of truth, says Felipe FernĂĄndez-Armesto, is "the quest for language that can match reality." He believes that the nature of that quest has never quite been fully understood; Truth aims to fill the void. He identifies four key methods of determining the truth--what we feel, what we are told, what we figure out, and what we observe--which are given poetic names such as "the hairy ball--teeth optional" and "the cage of wild birds." These four methods always exist together in every culture, although each one may be differently valued in different places at different times. But Western philosophy after Descartes, in FernĂĄndez-Armesto's assessment, has been largely hostile to these ways of knowledge, and has steadily come to question the very existence of truth. His summation of post-Cartesian philosophy is a largely negative one, which veers dangerously close to ad hominem assaults. Nietzsche, for example, who "was praised too much in his youth for his superior powers of mind and never achieved prowess or position to match," is dismissed as "a sexually inexperienced invalid" whose philosophy was "warped and mangled out of his own lonely, sickly self-hatred." Pragmatism and existentialism, two of the 20th century's most important philosophical movements, are found inadequate; the former is "the philosophy of lovers of technology," while the latter "represents the retreat of Luddites and pessimists into the security of self-contemplation."
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    @philosophy The Return of the Monster https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-monster?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    Latest papers: François Recanati compares their account of IEM to the simple view and argues that their account complements the simple view by answering why no identity assumption is needed to ground the singular judgment in the IEM cases https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2359493 @philosophy

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    Wittgenstein and the liar

    “In what follows, a reading of Wittgenstein’s remarks will be offered according to which Wittgenstein subscribes to a form of dialetheism (that is, the view that there are sentences that are both true and false). In contrast to modern dialetheist approaches to the Liar, however, some of Wittgenstein’s remarks suggest combining a dialetheist position with what is called ‘logical nihilism’ (that is, the view that there are no universally valid inference rules).”

    Bromand, J. Wittgenstein and the liar. Synthese 204, 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04620-0 @philosophy

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    Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism

    The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”

    https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/iberian-scholasticism

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    A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos by Ken Wilber, 2024

    A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory—by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.

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    Our overwhelmingly divisive socio-political climate is among the greatest challenges of our time. Not only in America but also internationally, it seems that almost every issue raises incredibly vocal oppositional views. Not least of all, the arising of vast networks of disinformation is a testament to our deepening rifts. With so much hostility, antagonism, cynicism, and discord, how can we mend the ruptures in our society? Acclaimed philosopher Ken Wilber examines our polarization through the lens of Integral Theory to show what led to these fractures, both in America and around the world—as well as what is needed for humanity to move forward. In his provocative analysis, he explores how the arising of support for antagonistic authoritarians represents a backlash against the failure of those at the leading edge of consciousness (postmodernism and pluralism) to acknowledge the challenges that persist amidst our imagined progress: that, to date, society has been not proven to be equal, and liberty and justice have not been consistent for all. But a new Integral force is emerging that can move beyond the narcissism, nihilism, and cynicism to offer genuine leadership and move us all toward greater wholeness. All of us can be part of the movement, and here Ken Wilber shows us how.
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