Daniel Kuby

George Grosz's Pillars of Society (1926): A grotesque satirical painting showing bloated politicians, corrupt clergy, and nationalist fanatics. Figures wear blindfolds, spout nonsense, or clutch weapons and beer steins. Their heads are opened or hollow, symbolizing ignorance and violence propping up the Weimar bourgeois order. The scene is chaotic, crude, and scathing.

Is South Park's latest episode "Sermon on the 'Mount'" the "Pillars of Society" of our time? People may not grasp how crude and offensive George Grosz' 'shit for brains' was in the 1920s. Yet, I fear, it didn't really change things then, it won't change things now.

Also:

New Waves in the Philosophy of Mathematics, edited by Linnebo and Bueno

The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, edited by Mancosu

Foundations without Foundationalism, by Stewart Shapiro

Second Philosophy, by Pen Maddy

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics, by David Corfield

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice.In this book, Joel David Hamkins offers an introduction to the philosophy of...

Most of the suggestions so far are goodies but oldies… Hamkins book recounts more recent debates, with a focus on post-Cohen set theory. books.google.com/books/about/...

“…But after repeating her experiment for five years and obtaining the same result over and over, Jeanne Villepreux-Power demonstrated that the octopus is indeed this planet’s patron saint of the possible.” 2/2

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence “I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowned with happy confirmation.”

“She spent hours bent over the cage, watching this staggering feat of multiple intelligences. Naturalists before her, working only with dead specimens and theoretical conjecture, had declared this impossible. …” 1/2

YouTube video by Up and Atom The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws

Norton’s Dome has reached YouTube!

"An Operational Definition of Chrismas"

An Operational Definition of Christmas

(Warm Christmas wishes from the Skinners, Dec. 1940)

Sure! I was puzzled, that’s all :)

I’ve got an influx of new people following me here in the past few days… Was I added to some starter pack? Does anyone care to enlighten me?

I say responsible people have a duty to pursue dragon research as soon as possible in order to save mankind. Only by safely breeding and domesticating dragons will we be able to avert what could otherwise result in the destruction of humanity!

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There have never been dragons and there are currently no dragons. But genetic research, growing meat in a lab, and artificial wombs could make them a reality eventually. What if irresponsible, bad people will be first to achieve dragon-breeding?

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Dragons are potentially useful but also very dangerous. Indeed, big and highly intelligent dragons could be very bad for humanity.

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Example: Parfit: “Reasons and Persons as Well as All Things in General”

Why we should recover the philosophy of Christian Wolff | Aeon Essays Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher

This is a good primer on Wolff’s legacy—also, I think we should recover titles like “Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Human Beings, as Well as All Things in General”. Just add “as well as all things in general” to your next paper’s title!

Once you start criticizing the syncope, the path to DEI is inexorable, I tell you