Neil Levy

This sort of story is pure propaganda. The 'struggling' public sector couple serve as a smokescreen for the people the Times carries water for.

I think you're confusing him with Dorothy Sayers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Pe...

Analog clocks are basically a thing of the past. No one uses coins anymore. If Ford stops making cars, epistemology will be over.

This might also increase the power of prestige bias in hiring. My confidence that it would at best be no better than what we have now is however fairly low.

I've no doubt there are multiple problems, some general (rapacious publishers, a reviewer crisis) some specific to philosophy. My worry with publish everything (give up on journals) is that established names will attract all the attention. There won't be a mechanism for lesser knowns to attract any.

I don’t see the point of keeping the journals if they’re publishing everything. Preprint servers are cheaper and easier.

You win.

Is that the one two doors from Jerome K. Jerome? They didn't overlap, which is a huge pity.

My favorite was Synthese. They told me to repeat the title on the main document. I did. They then told me to remove the title on the main document. I said no, cc-ing the editor.

Huh, did not see that discussed.

Australia has implemented caps on internatonal students, but the figures I've seen suggest that the caps won't be reached. Certainly there's a real reduction in funding, but isn't that happening here?

Is Australia destroying its academic system harder than the UK? Both countries seem to be pursuing a policy of malign neglect.

Never did philosophy at undergrad and therefore skipped the logic courses. I suspect logic would have filtered me out of philosophy. This is not me disagreeing with you.

Derk Pereboom (1957–) : l'incompatibilisme dur et la vie sans libre INFOS-CLÉS Origine Pays-Bas, États-Unis Importance ★★★ Courants philosophie analytique, philosophie de l'action, philosophie de l'esprit

It’s about time someone started giving philosophers ratings out of five.
Admittedly, they’re only rating importance, but it’s a start.

www.philosophes.org/biographies/...

A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Bjørn Sætrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka... According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...

And this. Cognitive dissonance can no longer be regarded as established.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Facts like electrons are smaller than atoms, or that venus is not the closest planet to the sun aren't the sort of thing we hope that people would know. Knowledge like that isn't the point of an education, in science or anywhere else.

I wasn't blown away by "who disagrees w/scientific consensus?" My problem is the measure of objective knowledge. It's (somewhat) interesting that those who report disagreeing with the scientific consensus are also less likely to know scientific factoids, but it's not at all clear what it means....

It is vital we never complete the felicific calculus.

Enrolled in and bombed out of journalism. Did nothing for a year. Enrolled in an English degree. Did better than I expected. Liked "theory" more than literature, so did atheory PhD. Couldn't get a job, so did second PhD. Was at the right place at the right time for a job, then another, then another.

John Major famously used Orwell's image of "old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist" as a symbol of what it means to be British.

There's this verse form called
haiku you probably have
not heard of it yet.

Andy Weir is honestly a bad writer. I love his books anyway.

It’s odd but it fits my intuitions. I experience imaginative resistance to “Bond is fine” in the next film, and little to “Bond is now Olivia Colman”. Should be a constraint on a possible world semantics IMHO.

I’m at a loss to explain why this is the thumbnail for Daily Nous on my iPad.

Also Marlow:
Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?

Okay, but things like that are designed to be crap. There's no upside to designing a good system. No one minds if you kick the poor: even if they weren't committing benefit fraud, they're surely up to something.

I’m more interested in why people think it’s interesting than in consciousness. I suspect that though philosophers are careful to distinguish different kinds of consciousness, they often assign it an importance it could have only if these distinctions collapse.

N/A: no appearance.

“So responsibility is hereditary —not just biologically, but ethically.”

I found this (apparent) quote online, attributed to one Neil Levy. Not sure who he is, but he seems to be full of shit.

*cognitive.