Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕

How the George Floyd Protests Changed America, for Better and Worse

you can read the full review here. the reviewer clocks the exact same thing i have, which is that williams is shallow, facile and unwilling to attribute agency to the political right, impairing his analysis to the point of it being useless www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Serious question -- what's the political economy of pickleball? Who is funding all of these clubs popping up? It's like some unholy nexus of sports gentrifiers, housing developers, and others...

Yes good point!

I don’t think I’ve seen this connection explored elsewhere but that might just be my ignorance? Or that it’s banal?

Anyway it would be interesting to hear what others think.

At the same time, though, the rise of gig economy is, in addition to all the other downsides for labor, a way to disaggregate jobs into tasks!

So there’s a sense in which someone who depends on multiple gigs is more replaceable than someone with a job, given the way things are going.

For example, being a philosophy professor is not just teaching classes (itself a mishmash) or authoring PDFs (ditto) but like a bunch of other random things too long to enumerate.

So it’s much more plausible to use task-specific AI to replace specific tasks, rather than the aggregate.

There is a subtle connection between the present attempt to replace human labor with AI and the rise of gig economy over the last decades.

The thought goes like this.

A line that I find persuasive is that AI cannot replace human jobs because jobs are standardly a mishmash of different tasks.

But as I’ve written to an author of this article, the article itself uses a “native” vs “nonnative” framing instead of proficiency, which ironically reinforces this way of thinking about language use?

Taipei has a new waterfall.

acab but this is VERY funny I'll give them that

A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

There’s some irony that the way in which these elite universities have maintained control over the academic curriculum (but not really) echoes the way in which faculty governance maintained control over the academic curriculum (but not really).

Uwe Peters, Yener Cagla Cimendereli, Alex Davies, Charlotte Gauvry, Kiichi Inarimori, Anna Klieber, Sitian Liu, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Federica Russo & Juan Samuel Santos Castro, Epistemic Challenges of ... The widespread use of English in the field of philosophy facilitates international collaboration but may also pose significant challenges in understanding, analyzing, or producing information for both...

Epistemic Challenges of Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey
philpapers.org/rec/PETECO

Alex Rails and the 'how to fix the journal referee crisis' posters should join forces and write the most powerful Daily Nous guest article of all time

Congrats!

Congrats!

1000 word philosophy thanks daily nous for sharing their most recent essays

1000-Word Philosophy... no..

i hope to become the #1 RSS influencer

The Philosophers' Magazine needs to host an open comment thread on that Daily Nous post. #freespeech

Juan Murillo Vargas, How Language-Like is the Language of Thought? - PhilPapers The language of thought hypothesis (LoTH) claims that thoughts are underpinned by language-like vehicles. A central motivation is that there is a relevant similarity between language and thought expla...

Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!

Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3

Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options – along with how to keep your playlists

Useful article which tells you (among other things) how to transfer your playlists from Spotify.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Philpeople is an echo chamber.

Cover of new book.

Is starvation in Gaza really Israel's fault? The facts are clear Rising starvation in Gaza may have a number of factors. But Israel's wartime policies on humanitarian aid are inarguably among them.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

So you could play Doom on a murmuration

I hope your index will include

Aristotle ... APPEARS ON LIKE EVERY PAGE!

In the index: "belief ... APPEARS ON LIKE EVERY PAGE"

Now you need to do it in the index, like in the (now classic) Routledge Handbook on Imagination.

Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording: The Art of Taylor’s Versions If you follow Brandon Polite’s work, and you should, you will immediately recognize this anthology’s roots in his Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics Case S

Check out the incomparable Jennifer Judkins' generous and enthusiastic review of *Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording: The Art of Taylor’s Versions* at JAAC!!! doi.org/10.1093/jaac...

Guys I finally updated my academic website. All I had to do was:

1. Update the content
2. Tried to compile and failed
3. Update Git
4. Update Hugo
5. Tried to compile and failed
6. Update the theme
7. Update wget
8. ...
9. Success!?

Now it has this weird CSS for ext. links that I can't get rid of.

I realize that this may be a true post-tenure post™, but it really seems settled now that people think empirical research can be valuable and important to draw on in philosophy. 🧵

It was a weird time in the earlier 2000s... /1