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Associate Professor of Philosophy, NYU Shanghai • https://bweslake.org/
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Christopher Walken.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

150 years ago you could get random observations of your baby published in Mind. Indisputably the most famous person to ever publish there—guess who!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Unless your multiverse has endless hells lurking in the triangular gaps between worlds, I don't buy it.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Regret calibration.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Very sad to learn today that Yanyou—the founder of Jiazazhi, the Chinese photo book publisher and bookstore—was arrested in June and is still being held. There is a small note about it in this AP story. #china

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The magic spell hypothesis: just as magic spells are written distinctively to make them appear special, so legal language is made complex in order to signal a special kind of authority. See: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Shibata Zeshin, Monkey Posing as a Collector, 1835. Justin Sun posing with Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Two excellent new articles on the cultural wasteland produced by corporate streaming— @tavlin.bsky.social on Netflix: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess... and @lizpelly.bsky.social on Spotify: harpers.org/archive/2025...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

An 18-chapter volume on Levels of Explanation, co-edited with Katie Robertson. It's out in hardback on 31 Dec, but it's also open access and the PDF is already free to download: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

“a labourer working to put down lasting foundations in the midst of the waves” —Proust on memory of music.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Prediction: the only good consequence of generative AI will be improved public understanding of cryptographic methods to prove authenticity.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Pascal Quignard, The Roving Shadows.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Analia Saban, Perceptron, 2024.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Shanghai at night. Photo taken from the International Space Station, 27 March 2012.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Wonderful article on Zabihollah Mansouri, the prolific Iranian writer who simply made up much of what he “translated“. His Persian rendition of Lolita is twice as long as the original; his The Three Musketeers is ten times as long! See: yalereview.org/article/amir...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

murderers still sailed on

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

We should also arrest everyone else who gave five stars to a Dan Ariely book.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A story about a story to tell, next time you teach Descartes.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments