Nat Hansen

I haven't read this yet, but there might be some relevant stuff on "oh" in here:

academic.oup.com/book/45560

amazing review essay alert! a pleasure to read, to edit, to work with @nathansen.bsky.social ✨

Thank you Farah, it was great working with you on this!

I wrote about two recent books that offer advice on how to pay attention to art in the midst of *gestures broadly at everything*

Thanks to the awesome editors at the
@mid-theory.bsky.social
for their interest in this piece, they’re great to work with!

Yes, I think there have been more and more good subdiscipline open access journals. They are all worth taking seriously!!

A partial list:
liao.shen-yi.org/openaccess/

I've also tried to, individually, submit more to these journals.

Really enjoyed this essay J.D.! Goodreads should hire you guys to make data viz for readers—it'd be appealing to have graphs like this on profile pages

Yeah I think "epistemic backchannel" is hers, but "backchannel" is from linguistics/conversational analysis

Jennifer Nagel, Common Knowledge and its Limits - PhilPapers What is common knowledge? According to the dominant iterative model, a group of people commonly knows that p if and only if they each individually know that p, and they furthermore ...

There's also this forthcoming paper: philpapers.org/rec/NAGCKA

But I thought you were identifying a way that "oh" used by the speaker may differ from the audience use of "oh" to signal novelty in the backchannel.

A lot of work to be done around here! I’ve been trying to write a little section of this big thing I’m working on on the various roles of the discourse marker “you know”

Oh, do you know Jennifer Nagel's work on the role of "oh" in the "epistemic backchannel"? (I know you're talking about a speaker use of the term, but it might be a place to start)

Kind of what the book I’m working on is about

Really excited to see this piece come out! Studying eclectic readers has been a fascinating and extremely rewarding challenge. We wound up operationalizing both genre and eclecticism in ways that (classic DH stuff here) point to the limits of both concepts.

culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

This is the best thing on bluesky, thank you for posting these slices of California

Maximilian De Gaynesford, The Rift In The Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy - PhilPapers What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and ...

Max de Gaynesford has a book on poetry (philpapers.org/rec/DEGTRI-2)

Great to see that this is out!

Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...

1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.

We're delighted to welcome @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social to the position of Senior Researcher in Moral Psychology and Design Bioethics, at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
Read more about Kathryn here: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ka...

#morality #emergingtech #ethics #welcome

I tried to comment on the serious part not the joke part but it’s late where I am

Screenshot from the article: "First, with respect to the replication of the six earlier tests on proper names, significant cross-cultural differences were successfully replicated in the conditions using the original MMNS (2004) vignette and that of Li et al. (2018). Using the terminology common in experimental semantics, Chinese-speaking participants showed a tendency to endorse the descriptivist view, whereas British participants favored the causal-historical view."

The super dog race example from Li et al. (2018): We constructed stories similar to the original Gödel case about topics that are more appropriate for young children. A simplified version of one critical story is given below: Super Dog Race Long ago, there was a race called the Super Dog Race. Max, Pickles and Blaze participated in the race. Max crossed the finish line first, winning the race, but he got too excited and ran all the way to the North Pole. Pickles crossed the finish line second. He stopped and watched Max run away. The race announcer mistakenly thought that Pickles won the race. He told every newspaper in the world that Pickles won. He also told them that another dog, Blaze, ran very fast despite his short legs. Since then, everyone learned that Pickles won the race. They don’t know anything else about Pickles. Tom and Emily learned at school that Pickles won the Super Dog Race. This is the only thing they know about the dog race and Pickles. They don’t know anything about Max. That night, their dad asked: Do you know who won the Super Dog Race? Tom replied: Blaze was the dog that won the Super Dog Race. Emily said: Pickles was the dog that won the Super Dog Race.

I could be wrong, but I think the finding is more about cultural variation in responses to Gödel-"style" cases than about Gödel himself, since the replication finds cultural differences also with the "super dog race" example from li et al (2018) designed to be useable with kid participants

Appel à propositions/Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS Appel à propositions/Call for papers for an International Centennial Conference : Stanley Cavell at 100 (Paris, Rome, Boston, 2026)

Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/ap...

At Chicago we had epistemic metaphysics

This is how the book opens:

Great shots!

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I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

Is Pain “All in your Mind”? Examining the General Public’s Views of Pain - Review of Philosophy and Psychology By definition, pain is a sensory and emotional experience that is felt in a particular part of the body. The precise relationship between somatic events at the site where pain is experienced, and cent...

If you have a pain in your foot, is the pain something in your mind? Or something in your foot?

Experiments from Emma Borg and colleagues indicate: People can see it either way - either as something in your mind or as something in the world

Do any other concepts work in that same way?

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This is an incredible dataset, and it's a lot of fun to play around with it on the Post45 site!

When Words Are Stolen The real stakes of semantic fights.

"Even when a term has been captured, this doesn’t need to be the end of the story. ... strategies of appropriation and collective creativity that marginalized groups have long engaged in."

www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

@floresophize.bsky.social and Nico Orlandi on semantic fights.