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Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89 Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who played - and even boxed - with Miles Davis and was known as "The Sorcerer" for coaxing tunes from everything from a live piglet to water-filled kettles, died on Saturday aged 89.

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Vacancy — PhD Position in Political Theory A fully-funded, four-year PhD position in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. We are open to research proposals in any area of political theory. We are particularly interested in candidat...

A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I found that place to start cutting government spending...

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil Former president has denied breaking the law after police report accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power

I feel like i can breathe a bit better already www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Brazilian national public health service employs 2.5 million people. For comparison, Walmart employs (globally) 2.1 million.

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

Will join the research team “The crisis of philosophy in the 1930s” led by Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva) and Mario Porta (São Paulo).

42-month funded postdoctoral fellowship in Brazil.

Knowing What It Is Like Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like

My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Mr. Burns, from the Simpsons, saying "Truth, Beauty, Goodness: These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in pragmatism."

Since bsky is taking off I'm gonna repost the best thing I ever made.

For 3: I don't think so. Again, there's no specific marker that this is a losing (or winning) ticket. It's like looking to the sky and saying "that doesn't seem to me the place where a meteor would come and strike the Earth". Nothing about that spot seems to mark it as such.

Just my two cents!

For 2: I think it does make sense if you identify something about the race itself that may put Nibbles at a disadvantage. So, it might seem to you is that Nibbles is more impressive (speed), but it can still seem to you that Nibbles won't win if you think it's too hot today for a horse of its size.

For 1, I'm happy to say that Nibbles seems more impressive because it has the marker of being stronger. But I don't think the bump up in credence itself licences saying 'it seems Nibbles will win'. I would reserve saying that to a case where there's a marker that Nibbles is ahead in the race.

I'm also coming at this from the lit on intuitions as seemings. So, my use of 'seems' might be idiosyncratic.

What is strange (for me) is that your cases link seemings and credences in a direct way. But my impression is that seemings speak to whether something has a certain 'marker' of being true.

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It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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Steun ons in strijd voor hoger onderwijs! WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

Call to action: national demonstration against budget cuts in HE, Nov 25 in The Hague. English text follows Dutch in link.
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A great big heatmap about COP29. The columns are countries/blocs and the rows are particular issues at COP29. Each cell is coloured according to a priority judgement made by Carbon Brief. The dendrograms on rows and columns pick out similar positions by countries/blocs and on issues. The blog describes what is happening in greater detail

“Consensus at COP29? (Bitch Better Have My Money)”

I try to see the big picture of negotiations at COP by building on work from the good people at Carbon Brief.

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Philosophers at family gatherings

officieel statement van de coalitie van organiserende partijen van de afgelaste demonstratie van donderdag 14 november.
Maar we gaan morgen naar de Tweede Kamer met onze speeches, en lokaal gaat het protest in alternatieve vormen door. En de demonstratie komt er binnenkort alsnog!

And since no thesis can be established short of three examples, here it is

Another case in point

I like it that many of Singer's book covers just feature him looking as if he knows what you're thinking.

Two more days to submit an abstract to our conference at the end of April!

Yep. Especially because the dialogue is so witty and quick. I missed so many things the first time around

Definitely The Wire. I have gone through all seasons 3 times now (and I'm not really into watching series, especially not on repeat)

Although possibly being too humble to say it, Sander Verhaegh also did so (ERC and the Dutch Vidi grant)
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