John C. Brady

Kant on the Problem of the Organism From the archive: "Kant on the Problem of the Organism", by John C. Brady

From the archive: "Kant on the Problem of the Organism", by John C. Brady #Philosophy #Philsky

iPhone notification I should turn headphone volume down because I listen too loud too often.

Thanks iPhone, you do keep saying this. But did you consider that maybe I’m built different [partially deaf from listening to loud music on headphones all the time]?

The Motion and Energy of Technology: A Philosophical Investigation From the archive: "The Motion and Energy of Technology: A Philosophical Investigation", by Taylor J. Green

From the archive: "The Motion and Energy of Technology: A Philosophical Investigation", by Taylor J. Green #Philosophy #Philsky

Wilhelm Reich on Class Consciousness and Voluntary Servitude From the archive: "Wilhelm Reich on Class Consciousness and Voluntary Servitude", by Timofei Gerber

From the archive: "Wilhelm Reich on Class Consciousness and Voluntary Servitude", by Timofei Gerber #Philosophy #Philsky

"It is so easy to fail to imagine even relatively obvious possibilities that this fact can be easily exploited for humorous effect:" Screenshot of tweet by MikeBenchCapon on May 8th 2021: "People think that if two people are facing each other then one of them's left is the other one's right, but that's only true if neither or both of them are upside down" Main text continues: "This works as a joke because (sorry, as philosophers we have to explain this) as you read it the words ‘facing each other’ prime you to expect that indeed, one person’s left is the other person’s right, and so when the author describes people as “thinking” this, you think ‘of course they think it – it’s true’. And then the humor comes from obviousness in retrospect that this is not, in fact, generally true, but only true under the ordinary kind of circumstances that we imagine when we imagine two people facing one another. The same thing, we know, has happened repeatedly in the recent history of metaethics. Before Mackie [1977], it was easy to define moral realism in contrast to noncognitivism..."

People say that posting has no real-world impact but an article in the Oxford Handbook Of Moral Realism carefully explains one of my hilarious jokes, so

Sorry I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. I recommend you go read some philosophy. it’s great. then you can maybe work out “how belief is a part of truth” because I have no idea what you mean. I explained why the article was bad: the writer made up a guy and then got mad at that guy.

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Some people are so *tiresome*.

And unfamiliar with the actual ties between physics/astronomy/geography and 16th-17th Century Catholicism. Part of proselytizing (for both Catholics and Protestants) was that they had "better" explanations for the Earth/Heavens than others, for example.

Beep boop beep. Bloop.

Yes, there is no coherent way of understanding a fact as a belief. That’s why no philosopher has ever held that definition.

Yup, for about 400 years. Any proponents of phlogiston and the four humours still kicking in this year of our lord 2026?

But that argument is banal. No one would disagree with it. If I wanna know where my keys are, I need to go look for them. So what? The author pretends that there are these philosopher-goblins who would try to refute that, but these creatures don’t exist. I saw a hobgoblin say “2+2 is banana“ etc.

heres the Borges method for writing great philosophical fiction:

1) there’s a guy in a room
2) he has a book in the room
3) the book is insane
4) the room is also insane (optional)

New issue, number #88, if hot off the digi-press. With writing on mathematics, religion, clarity, and revolution. The whole gamut. Dive in at: epochemagazine.org/issues/88/

#philosophy #Philsky

To drill deeper, it’s inciting incident is an elementary school teacher who presented him with a cute paradox to get him interested in thinking about science. He interprets this experience as “me the small child am so much smarter than teacher, I will pursue science!” The man is a mess.

It pretends to demonstrate some reading of philosophy, but nothing beyond book titles and proper names, but this piss poor understanding (worse than undergrad level) is presented in scholarly tone? Only saving grace is the date of publication, reminds one of a simpler time.

It just makes up what philosophy is? Including a completely fabricated anecdote about meeting a colleague who works in philosophy? It contradicts itself from paragraph to paragraph as it ties itself in knots making counter arguments to positions no one holds, for stances no one should defend?

I had to check it on the basis of that recommendation, and I immediately took 2d20 psychic damage. I’m hobbled. I shan’t forgive you. It is so so so bad.

“When a fluctuation appears or forms, it is never a beginning, not a sowing, it is just one of the myriads, of noise, indistinguishable, incapable of differentiation. It is a sowing only if it is or has an echo.” –– Michel Serres, Genesis (1996)

A Locus of Contradiction: On Georges Bataille’s Sovereignty From the archive: "A Locus of Contradiction: On Georges Bataille’s Sovereignty", by Tung-Wei Ko

From the archive: "A Locus of Contradiction: On Georges Bataille’s Sovereignty", by Tung-Wei Ko #Philosophy #Philsky

Gaze Against the Machine: Counter-visuality and hyperreal strategies in the Hong Kong protests From the archive: "Gaze Against the Machine: Counter-visuality and hyperreal strategies in the Hong Kong protests", by George Harry James

From the archive: "Gaze Against the Machine: Counter-visuality and hyperreal strategies in the Hong Kong protests", by George Harry James #Philosophy #Philsky

Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’ From the archive: "Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’", by Rowan Anderson

From the archive: "Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’", by Rowan Anderson #Philosophy #Philsky

Listen to/watch all my Deleuze audio-visual jams~

Happy Deleuze b'day-day to all who celebrate! At Epoché we are a hotbed of cool Deleuze scholarship, bleeps and bloops and words. Check it out in this mega-thread:

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A Short Meditation on Grief From the archive: "A Short Meditation on Grief"

From the archive: "A Short Meditation on Grief" #Philosophy #Philsky

Crashing the Metaphysical Party: Walter Benjamin on Knowing and Thinking From the archive: "Crashing the Metaphysical Party: Walter Benjamin on Knowing and Thinking"

From the archive: "Crashing the Metaphysical Party: Walter Benjamin on Knowing and Thinking" #Philosophy #Philsky

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Stolen Stadium 2. Labyrinth of Beehives 3. Flood of Styrofoam

IMINT #816 from Topaz 3 (L CLEARANCE)

1. Stolen Stadium
2. Labyrinth of Beehives
3. Flood of Styrofoam

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