Brian

Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...

I was _extremely_ annoyed reading that book the first time. It was mostly Austin's style that annoyed me. Too playful. I need my philosophy boring and serious. But, even so, I think it's one of the most important and insightful works ever written

Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers - Volume 122, Issue 4, April 2025 Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capaciti...

This was the centerpiece of my dissertation and has been forthcoming for a while - I'm excited to finally see this paper in print! Link here again: www.pdcnet.org/jphil/conten...

I am very much looking forward to reading your work

Exactly this, except I would go further: evidence resistance can be rational.

My own 'thesis' on rationality is predicated on the fact that we are finite creatures that must act under conditions of genuine uncertainty in a dynamic world (our social systems being a part of that dynamism).

"If you scowl at children, it means that you are a baby yourself in need of a hug."

That is strange. I'm not sure empiricism is married to a particular theory of truth, much less one that is incompatible with this, is it? I can't really comment on whatever theory is dominant in the POS, but this seems unlikely

A topic worth discussing

Sickening how so-called happiness scientists try to cash in on inane life advice books. I wrote about this pseudo-science and its dangers. See chapter 7 of my article "Philosophy of Happiness: A Critical Introduction": philpapers.org/rec/JANPOH-3 Please help me spread the word.

Ok. I've got to read this one

Provocative title. Love it

Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.

philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

A bit. I suppose I need to find a way to access the British journal for the philosophy of science. It's been a while since I've had an edu

Just from the abstract, I already love it

Looks interesting but I don't see a way to download the article (or even read the abstract).

Iiiinteresting

Kelly Weirich, Brazen Dogwhistles - PhilPapers A dogwhistle, in its most centrally-discussed sense, seeks to obscure part of its meaning from part of its audience. Yet, as many have noted, dogwhistles that are flaunted at an opposing ...

A paper I'm really proud of has found a home. In “Brazen Dogwhistles,” I give a name to those dogwhistles that are not quite meant to be secret, placing them alongside standard accounts and illuminating the role each of us can play in furthering or hindering their use. philpapers.org/rec/WEIBDV

*New Teaching Article*

This one is for those who want to introduce their students (or themselves!) to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics but need some support for them to make the most of primary texts.

philpapers.org/rec/SISTGL

Looks very interesting. Saving to read tomorrow

St. #Augustine of Hippo was one of history’s dirty dogs 🐕 until he discovered #happiness through suffering and became the early church's greatest scholar ✝️

Read on to find out more about the patron saint of brewers 🧵

Why the Great Philosophers Aren’t that Great Toby Svoboda Colgate University , United States tobysvoboda@gmail.com Abstract: The important philosophers in history aren’t all that great. First, their works are full of bad arguments, confused concepts, falsehoods, implausible claims, and lack of clarity. We can see this by using a “peer-review test,” which asks us to evaluate these claims and arguments as if they were submitted to us as anonymous work. Second, I make the case that canonizing some philosophers as great is damaging to the philosophical project of seeking truth regardless of its source. I suggest an alternative hypothesis. The putatively great philosophers were just intelligent individuals who had the right ideas at the right time. They are worth reading not because of their intellectual genius but rather for their creativity and insight, offering novel solutions to certain problems and noticing implications others had missed. Accordingly, my position does not entail that the “great” figures are of no philosophical interest. However, we should do away with the idea of a “great philosopher.” Philosophy might then come to resemble other disciplines that seek the truth, which generally do not revere their historically important predecessors. Keywords: Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Great Philosophers, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Mill, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Plato

Just based on the abstract I like this, reading it now and adding it to my noheroes list (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/p/no-heroes-...).

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📢 New Publication!

Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge

Open access link below

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

Study: People show verbal hesitation towards left-wing political terms Researchers found that Israeli participants were slower to respond to left-wing political terms in spatial tasks—a delay that increased after political priming. Follow-up tests ruled out sound or spat...

“A recent study published in the journal Cognition and Emotion has found that individuals in Israel may exhibit an unconscious aversion to left-wing political concepts.” #behavior #geography www.psypost.org/study-people...

Interesting. The most noteworthy word in the title for me is the word 'terms'. I guess I'll find out when I read this, but I wonder if the bias exists against the terms, but not necessarily the underlying concepts and values

"Rather than focusing solely on individual pathologies, [SIA] considers how social and structural factors influence and shape adjustment following adoption."

This approach seems obviously correct. E.g. I don't think you have adoption based trauma without adoption related stigma.

The Social Identity Model of Identity Change is completely new to me. Going to have to look that up

re: social identity

I have a 'theory' that strong identification with related social group (and domain) increases vulnerability to relevant stereotype threat by rendering dissonance caused by relevant stereotypes unresolvable.

This drawing from the action based model of dissonance.

If you are interested in social identity, social identity loss, adoption, trauma, and/or mother and baby homes, you should 1. Read our paper, out today, open access! And 2. Follow @dearbhlamo.bsky.social! #socialpsyc

Well done Dearbhla on a fabulous first PhD paper.

‘Civil War’ and Spectacle Journalism ‘Civil War’ is disinterested in the truth. It only cares about spectacle.

Have you ever wondered what 'Nightcrawler' has to do with 'Civil War' then read this essay I wrote.

#journalism #war #civil_war #movies #philosophy #politics

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Oh, I didn't think about that, but I instantly see the connection