Justin Vlasits

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Sure!

I find it useful to connect bureaucracy and literacy to see the connection between the form and content.

I'm still working it out, but your idea helps. I want to understand reflective or philosophical skepticism as looking for a way to consistently express moral/epistemic humility in a way (writing) that was designed to express dogmata, which explains the literary experiments of Sextus, Zhuangzi, etc

I realize now that I didn't get the significance of the title!

I think that's very plausible. Have you thought at all about the connection between philosophy as a discipline and literacy? I've been thinking a lot about this in connection with global skeptical traditions.

Enjoyed the post! Do you think there is a tension between the claim that philosophical natures can be found anywhere and the search for specific social conditions for philosophy? Or do you mean the latter as a stable discipline, not just isolated thinkers?

The Nancy Meyers movie would be called "Logic of Love"

Van Gogh's painting of cows in a field. The sky is a weird yellowy green colour, there is a crow in the distance and five cows in the field.

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Image unrelated, I just really like Van Gogh's painting of cows

This is a very good piece of advice. Will make sure none of my future sentences make this mistake.

Also missing Anthony Laden I believe.

d. Winterreise can be played on repeat

Which gods have I angered such that I have TWO sets of indices for books to do today?!

Has anyone ever collected all of the ancient criticisms of Plato's theory of forms? It seems like that would be a useful resource!

Wüsthof makes a good knife!

8 year old came home from school with the assignment to get faster with single digit multiplication, but had discovered on his own that x^2 = (x+1)(x-1)+1 by working through examples.

Socrates: Philosophers must rule as kings

Glaucon: okay but what if we give them journals and blogs to manage first, to see how it goes?

That would be interesting to know!

Interesting that the author references Epicureans and Stoics, neither of whom really make such a strong distinction between Sophia and Phronesis. Maybe they are somewhat more relevant in the Hellenistic period?

A view from Tübingen's Neckarbrücke

Today I arrived in Tübingen for a year of research leave! I've been teaching or taking care of babies more or less non-stop since 2012, so I'm pretty stoked!

That's my sense as well. Although I still think Snell's observations about the way the archaic Greeks described 'mental' phenomena in poetry is very interesting in it's own right.

Syllabus, syllabi, syllabusiest, syllabusted

Cantor's diagonalization proof for an 8 year old

Some light math tutoring for the 8 year old.

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Some support from German, where "Guten Morgen" is in the accusative and is usually expanded to "ich wünsche dir einen guten Morgen"

Protagoras on Homer redux

What We Do When We Do Philosophy

(a blog post on the masterclass on methodology that I gave yesterday at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

https://diaryofdoctorlogic.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/what-we-do-when-we-do-philosophy/

#philsky

Submitted my translation of a hefty selection (~40k words) of Aristotle's fragments for a new edition of his collected works. About four years in the making, as long as it took to write my PhD! Definitely the hardest project so far in my career, but I also learned a lot.