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YouTube video by British Society for the History of Philosophy Antognazza Lecture 2025: Professor Sandrine Bergès, 'ASTELL, MARRIAGE AND CHATTEL SLAVERY''

Wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up on @sandrineankara.bsky.social lecture for @thebshp.bsky.social on Mary Astell, the language of freedom, & chattel slavery

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...

Amsterdam Kant Conference 2026: Moral Epistemology & Metaphysics CFA. Amsterdam Kant Conference 2026: Moral Epistemology & Metaphysics    22nd and 23rd October 2026, University of Amsterdam   Confirmed speakers: Andrew Chignell (Princeton Univers...

CFA: Amsterdam Kant Conference 2026: Moral Epistemology & Metaphysics

22nd and 23rd October 2026, University of Amsterdam

Abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding references) can be submitted to t.m.smits@uva.nl until March 1st.

For more info: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Beautiful Mind, Unconquerable Soul: Productive Imagination and the Unity of Kant’s System - Croatian Journal of Philosophy Monika Jovanović, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Abstract: In this paper, I examine the scope and relevance of Lara Ostaric’s thesis on “The ‘Moral Image’ of the ‘Supersensible within’” and ...

In 'Beautiful Mind, Unconquerable Soul: Productive Imagination and the Unity of Kant’s System', Monika Jovanović, leaning on Lara Ostaric's views about Kant's aesthetics, claims that Kant was an aesthetic cognitivist in a strong sense of the word. All CJP papers are open-access. #philsky

David Barnett, The Simplicity Intuition and Its Hidden Influence on Philosophy of Mind - PhilPapers Huxley’s Explanatory Gap: There can be no explanation of how states of consciousness arise from interaction among a collection of physical things.

btw, read and enjoyed your "Monadic Panpsychism" paper. I've been convinced by the paper below that the simplicity intuition is plausibly a driving force in philosophy of mind so nice to see a view that respects it.

Rethinking Metaphysics Amie Thomasson is a leader of a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics and finding something better for philosophers to do. She locates ...

"a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics"

...though seemingly one unencumbered - like the review of it here - by the very project set out on the first page (even in the opening sentence) of the Preface of the first edition of Kant's first Critique 🙈

Why Kant’s 250-Year-Old Ideas Are Exactly What We Need Right Now — Harvard University Press In his new book Kant: A Revolution in Thinking, Marcus Willaschek—Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University—shows how the great philosopher’s ethical insights remain more relevant than ever. Here, ...

Why Kant’s 250-Year-Old Ideas Are Exactly What We Need Right Now

In his new book Kant: A Revolution in Thinking, Prof. Marcus Willaschek shows how the great philosopher’s ethical insights are more relevant than ever. www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ide... #Kant #today #PhilosophySky #philsky

YouTube video by North American Kant Society NAKS Symposium: Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences

NAKS Symposium: Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences | North American Kant Society

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. youtu.be/sKwthKn4454?... #Kant #systematicity #sciences #PhilosophySky #philsky

Maker’s Knowledge Giambattista Vico's Design of Philosophy

Maker’s Knowledge | Giambattista Vico’s Design of Philosophy

At first, Vico’s idea might seem obvious: to truly understand something, we need to make it ourselves. But taken seriously, it calls for a fundamental shift in how we learn, teach, think, and create ia.net/topics/maker... #AI #Vico

Human Judgment: Your Most Valuable Skill in an AI-Driven World Why Cultivating Wise Decision-Making Is Essential When AI Does All the Thinking

Human Judgment: Your Most Valuable Skill in an AI-Driven World

Why Cultivating Wise Decision-Making Is Essential When AI Does All the Thinking medium.com/@hjbarraza/h... #human #judgment #AI #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

YouTube video by Academia Kantiana Lydia Patton: Reason in Kant’s Theory of Matter in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Lydia Patton: Reason in Kant’s Theory of Matter in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science youtu.be/_x5CKPWTtkI?... #Kant #reason #matter #naturalscience #metaphysics #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Freedom and fate An individual

From criminal justice to creative expression, free will and responsibility are central to our culture and our personal lives. Yet neuroscientists and materialist thinkers commonly maintain that freedom is an illusion. iai.tv/video/freedo... #freedom #freewill #materialism #illusion #PhilosophySky

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Most cited books in Anglophone epistemology since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED) I list all books with at least 1,900 citations (which got the original list to twenty). In the case of Sellars’s classic “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” the book version,…

Most cited books in Anglophone epistemology since WWII (according to Google Scholar)

#philsky #epistemology

leiterreports.com/2026/01/22/m...

The shape of time

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant, forever changing how those in the West experience the world | by Emily Thomas aeon.co/essays/when-... #time #linear #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model’s influence
on human spoken communication

(🤔 But aren't LLMs built upon human communication?)

arxiv.org/pdf/2409.017...

H/t @birchlse.bsky.social

Wittgenstein: The Only Genius of the Century? | By Thomas Nagel | The Village Voice 1971 (February 11):14 ff (1971)

Thomas Nagel provides a brief summary of Wittgenstein's thought, both early and late, for the general public. x.com/birchlse/sta...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

For those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!)
doi.org/10.1002/brv....

Neil Sinhababu, Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence - PhilPapers The idea of the eternal recurrence is that everyone will live the exact same lives again an infinite number of times. Nietzsche appreciates that this would multiply the value of a ...

I really enjoyed @neilsinhababu.bsky.social's "Nietzsche on the eternal recurrence". Together with Paul Loeb's work it's persuaded me that Nietzsche believed his eternal recurrence doctrine to be literally true, or at least probably true. (1/4)
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Wow!

A very short guide to Bayesian reasoning

Bayes wasn't well-known
in his lifetime. Once you understand what is, you'll spot Bayesian reasoning in science, medicine - and many aspects of daily life. x.com/d_spiegel/st... #Bayesian #reasoning #science #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

#FrescoFriday - A real favourite! The paintings from the Fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii (VI.8.20), showing the stages of the laundry process, with an owl (symbol for the Fullers) atop the 'viminea cavea'. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺

Image: MANN (9774). Link - mann-napoli.it/numismatica/...

Atlas Press on X: "How to Ascend During Decline: Study History (With These Resources)" / X How to Ascend During Decline: Study History (With These Resources)

How to Ascend During Decline: Study History (With These Resources)
x.com/realatlaspre... #history #decline #ascend #literature #historysky #philsky

"Even if you don’t speak the language in question, always take at least a look at the original text in the form of a critical edition. This gives you information on how the text was actually established, whether there are variants or emendations and such like. A text is never a given."
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Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning: “To Follow a Rule Blindly” Interest in the thought of the later Wittgenstein was hugely revived by Saul Kripke’s groundbreaking Wittgenstein On Rules and Private Langua...

Paul Boghossian reviews Alex Miller (2024), 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜: “𝙏𝙤 𝙁𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙍𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙮”.
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/witt... #Wittgenstein #meaning #rulefollowing #review #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky