Marabel

Teaching a philosophy seminar feels like an elaborate magic trick, where you get people to talk and ask questions, and if you pull it off, a learning outcome seems to appear out of thin air

if you’re a researcher into extremism, conspiracism and disinformation but you feel you’re above “distractions” like racism, misogyny, anti-queer ideologies etc, then you’re not actually doing the job. unfortunately those are animating forces behind the movements you’re supposed to be analyzing!

Extra baffling because observing correlations between circumstances and behaviour is literally the only way we can learn to interpret animal behaviour at all. There is no independently verified dog language cheat sheet, all our knowledge is based on contextual observation

bro are you a homeostatic property cluster? because you are naturally kind

This is great news. An institution that prides itself in creating an excellent environment for education and personal growth for some should not be invested in taking this right away from others forever, whether through wars, occupation, or the climate crisis. I hope others will follow this example!

EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!

Love that idea haha

Ethics people and puzzle enthusiasts, I need help. A puzzle I bought at the charity shop is missing a piece, do I re-donate it, knowing full well that someone might have an unsatisfying experience but maybe helping dying children a little, or do I throw it out?

The ceiling of King's College Chapel in candlelight.

Brb, I just need to stare at the ceiling for a little while

I'm glad to hear, and happy I got you interested in reading some philosophy of chemistry! 😊

I am arguing that the assignment doesn't make sense in the first place, not that it is or isn't.

This intuition (and the opposite, namely chemists saying that this doesn't make sense) is precisely what I'm addressing in the paper!

Yes of course it is. I'm not sure why that would be confusing?

(2) there is certainly a point to be made about isolation being perceived as a step away from nature in a similar but perhaps less pronounced way as synthesis, I think some the other papers in this (fantastic!) volume bring these nuances out very nicely

You are right, I focus on chemicals in isolation for the purpose of this discussion, but I don't think my argument hinges on that. I am arguing that synthesis (and not isolation) is what makes a sample synthetic as opposed to natural, so it does not make a difference what system it is in

Can Chemical Substances be Natural? This paper explores the philosophical and practical implications of the natural versus synthetic distinction in chemistry. I consider several interpretations of the term natural as pertaining to su...

Exciting news! My paper "Can Chemical Substances Be Natural?" is out now

doi.org/10.1080/0002...

#philsky #philosophy #philsci #chemistry

Thank you, that's very helpful. To be honest, I don't quite know what I would like to happen (or even what could plausibly happen) with the paper. But I don't mind alterations, and any commercial use that I would object to seems pretty unlikely anyway, so I decided to go with CC-BY.

Does it make any practical difference whether I choose a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND copyright licence for publishing a philosophy paper? Which one would you recommend?
#academicsky
#academicchatter
#philsky

Academic publishing is such a scam. Babe I just wrote you a chapter for free and now I am also ... copy editing it for free. And I will make zero monies from this. Cool cool cool cool. Well at least the book will be affordable and lots of people can read it? Wait I am getting some information...

Me hedging judiciously for every conceivable objection: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me navigating an illegible verbal labyrinth of my own doing: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Letting drunk people play around with explosives eve went great in Berlin, nothing to see here

Reallyover her work, this is so cool!

Couldn't be me. If your paper has a fun title, I'll find a reason to cite you

Oof that sucks. I bought this one in a museum giftshop, I guess they're everywhere. The cover art does seems human made and the artist listed on the back is definitely a real person, but everything inside is clearly AI.

An advent calendar with a wintery scene in front of a building resembling King's College Cambridge. There's a Christmas tree, people, a chestnut stand, lots of snow and gold accents. About half the doors are open, revealing AI generated Christmas scenes with no coherent art style

I bought a pretty advent calendar but sadly discovered that the pictures inside are clearly AI. Instead of a whimsical advent tradition I'm getting a daily reminder that artists everywhere are being replaced by AI slop.
AI christmas is here and it's snow inside houses and deer that make no sense

Sorry we’re not riding at dawn. We’re having coffee and catastrophizing the day at dawn. Then we’re doing Wordle. Then we’re doing 35 minutes of doomscrolling, then we’re taking the longest hottest shower, then we’re sitting on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for a while, THEN maybe we ride.

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

That's so cool!

Somebody had to do it! Here's a History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Starter Pack.

Reply or DM if you want to be added to or subtracted from the list! I tried my best, but there are certainly many HOPOI whom I missed. #hopos #philsky #philosophy #philsci #hps #histsci

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