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4 More Innings!

Isn’t it amazing? The tone is perfect, and the acting is unreal

The Circularity of Welfare Judgements - The Journal of Ethics Some theories of welfare hold that whether you are living well depends upon whether you think you are. But then the very phenomenon we want to understand gets deployed in its putative explanation. Vie...

A couple new articles on well-being stuff. Thanks to all y’all who heard inchoate versions of these ideas.

philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.

So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.

Time for a transcen-dental abduction

New idea to create artificial intelligence that exceeds human capacity, not by programming a machine to be more intelligent than we currently are, but instead by making all the humans stupider by replacing reading and formal education with playing with a chatbot, thereby lowering the bar to clear

I am doing only in-class assessment in my Intro this fall.
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Was traumatized by 2017-2020. Now for the sequel!

Yes, the green, but the font of the white!

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

philosophers today

Politics and Prose Presents Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva in conversation with David Zirin 1/17 @ 7pm P&P Conn Ave

My Canary Mission page

I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.

I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.

They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

Diarrheatical Materialism

The whole thing is worth reading

funny discourse where tech guys go 'i cannot tell the difference between LLM output and stuff written by professional humanists' and humanists are like 'exactly: *you* can't tell the difference'

2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition - American Philosophical Association 2024 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies (Claremont McKenna College)2024 Article Prize: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation,” Inquiry (2023)

Obligatory brag: My book The Philosophy of Envy was awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Prize (which in my head I keep calling Glitter) by the American Philosophical Association My prize was announced earlier, but now everyone else’s been announced too. Congrats to all the winners!

Donald Trump’s Victory, the Elitism of Democrats, and the Need to Build a Hospitable Left Analyzing the 2024 election and its aftermath.

"The problem is that the bottom of the Democratic Party literally fell out."

here an excerpt from @danieldenvir.bsky.social's interview of @keeanga.bsky.social

hammerandhope.org/article/elec...

We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists. The Israeli army spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 people, the next unit aims for 200. Recently discharged Division 252 officer

When I described Israelis hunting Palestinian children for sport I was not exaggerating or being purposefully outrageous. It is literally what the IDF is doing in Gaza. They are actually, literally, shooting civilians for fun.

www.instagram.com/p/DDxdPV1v1BN

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

This is brilliant. And, if you’ve never seen _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace_, change that in the next 72 hours

www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-al...

Sweet from Howie hua reads: pro tip, instead of cooking your turkey for 4 hours at 350° f tomorrow, save some time by cooking it for one second at 5,040,000° f

When I read conversations about "accelerating learning" I can't help but think of this @howiehua.bsky.social classic:

Yum

Snitches get stitches. Unless you’re denied coverage—then, no stitches

You know who else pardoned his son all of his sins?

Welcome @bufordrat.bsky.social (Matt Teichman) to bluesky! Matt started his philosophy podcast well before others in 2009. The interview I did with him and Charlie Wiland was both fun and philosophically deep (but I'm biased). Give his podcast a listen and him a follow! You won't regret it. #philsky

If utilitarians knew how much their view pains me, wouldn’t they finally have to stfu about it?