I love the sickos mode historians of philosophy get into where they're so history-pilled they come out saying the least initially-plausible thing about a figure they could think of. Nietzsche was a moral realist. Hume wasn't a skeptic. Descartes programmed LLMs. Very here for it - ThreadSky

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social • 53 days ago

I love the sickos mode historians of philosophy get into where they're so history-pilled they come out saying the least initially-plausible thing about a figure they could think of. Nietzsche was a moral realist. Hume wasn't a skeptic. Descartes programmed LLMs. Very here for it

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miles-hentrup.bsky.social•51 days ago

I heard that Petrus Ramus invented the personal computer.

ersatzdoctor.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ok but Kant really was a consequentialist

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

kenaizawa.bsky.social•53 days ago

Hume was an anti-Humean.

agholdier.bsky.social•53 days ago

i think that's called "Deleuzing"
(right, @vernonwcisney.bsky.social?)

agholdier.bsky.social•53 days ago

Them: "THAT's not what Deleuze was doing!"

Me:

gibbonitathought.bsky.social•53 days ago

Kant was a direct realist

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

Lmao this one broke my brain

dog-envier.bsky.social•53 days ago

Kant was a madhyamaka practitioner

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

noamchompers.bsky.social•53 days ago

step your kant game up bb
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/manifest-reality-9780198747130?cc=us&lang=en&

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

noamchompers.bsky.social•53 days ago

though i sorta fw the 'kant has a fregean/evansian object-dependent senses thing going on' take
https://philpapers.org/rec/TOLKOT-6

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

noamchompers.bsky.social•53 days ago

'how does noam know about this stuff??' i'll have you know that i received a B+ in nick stang's grad seminar on hegel's critique of kant, so you are in the presence of a genuine expert

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

When will you listen to me and turn this into "Critical Hegelian machine learning" tho

mljanderson.bsky.social•52 days ago

I’d say a B+ in a grad seminar on Hegel is about as close to genius as you can get.

kristophergphillips.com•53 days ago

Descartes was a mystic and actually rejected (many formulations) of the PSR. He was not, by most descriptions, a “rationalist” at all.

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

hane.bsky.social•52 days ago

this deserves to be here
https://bsky.app/profile/grundlegung.bsky.social/post/3lfhuhhx53c2e

grundlegung.bsky.social•52 days ago

I'm also almost serious about it. One simply needs to bring in some Lévinas and some Løgstrup and some Weil and the good work is done.

saditious.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's incredible the number of people who go for the take that Spinoza was an empiricist

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

ostrichstrauss.bsky.social•53 days ago

Man i would love a good nietzsche was a moral realist reading.

My god i can alreqdy imagine an avenue to get there by laundering it via an (also wild but easier to get to) aesthetic realism.

This must be what serial.killers mean when they say they feel like God

djesseph.bsky.social•53 days ago

Well, purely for purposes of career advancement, it can be convenient to attack the received view. If a journal publishes your contrarian piece “Spinoza as Substance Dualist”, you’ll rack up citations quickly as everyone leaps to refute it. Better wrong and published than right and ignored?

jacovides.bsky.social•53 days ago

I believe that Hume wasn't much of a skeptic and also that he thought that laws of nature were general volitions of God

oldjerryfodor.bsky.social•53 days ago

jacovides.bsky.social•53 days ago

Not looking for trouble, just compelled by the text

energeia.bsky.social•50 days ago

Somewhat related: I love to ask philosophers which philosopher they think is the most different from the "standard/received" version of them that gets taught to undergrads. Personally I think it's Leibniz.

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