Michael E. Markunas

Buridan's ass - Wikipedia

I have N projects that need writing up.

I have T time available.

Each project takes t(n) time to write up.

The total time to write up all projects is greater than T:

Σt(n)(1...N) > T

I divide my time proportionally.

∴ I will wrote no papers ever again.

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Congratulations! Sounds like a great project!

Remember when, for Republicans, the Feds were the enemy?

What is the origin of the term “phenomenology”? It famously occurs in Husserl and Hegel but their projects are clearly different. Where did the word come from? Were they both drawing on a common source? A thread...

Thanks! It was the five month drought that was hard 😆

😂 #academia #tenure

It is!

I also got an email from a first year student asking for summer reading on perception over the summer. Hooked em! #philperception #academia #metaethics #phillanguage #philosophyofmind

It was nice to find out my metaethics module was the second highest ranked in the department by students. Especially since it was my first time teaching it and I designed it from scratch…Now back to the marking marathon that is the end of term.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...

‘How do historians deal with rapid change, with what is left when it starts to be called heritage? What do we do when even the victors didn’t bother writing history, let alone the dispossessed?’

Colm Tóibín on the transformation of rural life in Ireland: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I find it a bit funny I unintentionally scheduled my module such that I am lecturing on Mackies Error Theory on valentine’s day. I found this colorised clip of Mackie at a wedding I think i’ll open the lecture with. Enjoy

#happyvalentinesday #philosophy #metaethics #ethics #academia #philperception

You too! Thanks again for the great talks

Great set of Agnes Cuming Lectures by Tim Crane at UCD Philosophy the last couple nights. I particularly loved the shout out to my daughter’s favourite movie Zombies. Perhaps more philosophers of mind would benefit from also watching such complex cinematic masterpieces @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social

This looks so great! I would love to join but can’t make it this time. Hopefully it’ll be on offer again.

😂

thank for all the responses! they are very helpful

i was considering Clark’s ‘perceiving as predicting’ in Matthen, Biggs and Stokes edited volume “Perception and its Modalities”.

Or possibly ‘whatever next? predictive brains, situated agents and the future of cog sci’ also by clark

I’m about to teach a course on #philosophyofperception in a few weeks to first years. Any recommendations on readings for predictive processing theories? I have some ideas but would warmly welcome suggestions that people have found particularly engaging to newcomers to the subject. #philsenses

5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know Who and what is the mind? Let’s take a look at some of the women who are tackling this perennial question.

5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know | Most of the philosophers on this list are members of the APA, including Pacific Division past president Patricia Churchland. www.thecollector.com/women-philos...

So, I'm embracing eternal recurrence this year by sticking to last year's resolutions, which are actually resolutions from the year before, in an effort to be authentic and take responsibility for past and future shortcomings.

Michel Foucault: Even when the Elf is not on the Shelf, you are never free of it. You carry the Elf within you, monitoring your own conduct for Naughtiness. You hold yourself prisoner within a self-surveilled snow globe of Santa’s making.

Enjoyable highlights. I particularly liked the idea of turning my skin translucent and seeing what’s going on without surgery.

thanks Yuri! currently reading your “knowing what it’s like” in cambridge elements and really enjoying it

thanks Keith!

✨ New research from the Department.

"Acquaintance, knowledge, and luck" by Dr @michael-markunas.bsky.social, published in Synthese, December 2024.

Read it here 🔽
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#philsky #philosophy #Aristotle #academicsky

@tcddublin.bsky.social @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social

Acquaintance, knowledge, and luck - Synthese Is knowledge a uniform kind? If not, what relation do the different kinds of knowledge bear to one another? Is there a central notion of knowledge which other kinds of knowledge must be understood in ...

Great way to start to the week with my latest article on knowledge, perception, and acquaintance out in Synthese today!

#philsky #philperception
#philmind #epistemology
#knowledge #aristotle #academicsky
#tcdphilosophy

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