Wittgenstein's Mouse

I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.

I just completed a certificate in wargaming from MORS! I learned a lot about professional & recreational game design this past week; I'm struck by how many spicy opportunities there are for analyzing wargames through an embodied cognition/economics lens. 10/10 recommend.

2025 Gaus Memorial Essay Prize Winner Announced! - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society The 2025 Gaus Memorial Essay Prize Winner Announced! The PPE Society is pleased to announce the winner of the fifth annual Gerald Gaus Memorial PPE…

It's always nice to see a friend's well-earned success! Congrats to Ismail Kurun on winning the Gaus Memorial Prize #PPESociety

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It seems that an identity does not in fact obtain between Socrates and Quine's Socratizer, and this should be hilarious.

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Assisted dying vote is Parliament’s most shameful day Parliaments used to have nicknames. Barebone’s Parliament of 1653 was named after the improbable Fifth Monarchist agitator Praise-God Barebone MP. A few years previously, the Rump Parliament was what ...

We've had the Long Parliament, the Rump Parliament, and even an Useless Parliament. But if this parliament goes down in history, it will be as the Death Parliament. My write-up of this afternoon for UnHerd. unherd.com/newsroom/ass...

Only a couple of days left to submit something on dynamical systems for our special session at Philosophy & Neuroscience at the Gulf. Have a new idea you want to try out? This is the place to do it!

Canada’s National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa defaced overnight Crews are cleaning up Canada’s National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa on Monday, after it was defaced with red paint.

I can't describe the rage I felt this morning at seeing the words "feed me" sprayed on the National Holocaust Museum back home... The spike in violent antisemitism across Canada this past year has been absolutely shocking; I thought we were better than this.

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Featuring Cincinnati Philosophy alum Luis Favela.

Never forget

US halts student visa appointments and plans expanded social media vetting It comes during a Trump crackdown on top universities, which he accuses of failing to combat antisemitism.

When I graduated from my BA (in Virginia) I was voted most likely to be deported, and years later I'm still inadvertently keeping it a live prediction 💀

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Love it 😆😆😆

Cognitive Ontology by Colin Klein: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.6ddb1c41

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure the likes of which this world rarely produces. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that his influence extended far beyond his scholarship:

Metaphor for philosophy?

Every time I open this app, I find myself opening at least 5 new tabs for papers I righteously intend to read

Very cool! I confess to an archaic, historicist pleasure in seeing Aristotle's casual framework more sympathetically referenced than is typically the case.

Academics At Large: If you have a Macbook, is it worth it to your workflow to have an iPhone for continuity purposes? If so, how specifically?

My daughter wouldn't sleep until about 1:30 AM, and I've now rediscovered that 3 AM is actually the ideal time for productivity 🤪

I wrote a thing 😎

We are hiring a postdoc.

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PhD student Kyle Yrigoyen will be presenting his paper ‘When is AI Development Irresponsible? Engineering Role Responsibilities and Responsible Innovation’ at the 34th Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference in Norfolk VA! #philsky #philtech #aiethics

Why Every Teacher Should Know About Ecological Psychology! A Conversation with Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Vicente Raja — Good Impact Labs As educators, a great deal of our understandings of what learning is has been dominated by behaviourist and cognitivist ideas, but what if our decisions about how we design learning environments, and ...

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology, the ecological handicap, teaching, and learning in the Future Learning Design Podcast. You can check the episode here: www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/migu...

I think Anscombe was very prescient in calling for a moratorium on ethics until an adequate philosophy of psychology (especially of intention) could be sorted out. Seems very pertinent to this bizarre argument in favour of coercion, too.

How Philosophy Departments in the U.S. Can Support Their International Graduate Students In July 2024, I had the opportunity to attend the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Teaching and Learning Seminar. The three-day, activities-packed seminar opened me up to seeing…

PhD student Damilola Oduola recently published ‘How Philosophy Departments in the U.S. Can Support Their International Graduate Students’ in the APA Grad Student Chronicles!

Can't wait to read this!

a good PDF will have a computer gasping for air when you open it