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harveylederman.bsky.social
Professor of philosophy UTAustin. Philosophical logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of language, Wang Yangming. www.harveylederman.com
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I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019. bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Me: "Philosophy today has fallen into pointless use of symbols!" Wm. James, 1879: "When...we think we have rationally explained the connection of the facts A and B by classing both under their common attribute x, it is obvious that we have really explained only so much of these items as is x."

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I felt this intution intensely when I saw the Bayeux Tapestry.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@rkubala.bsky.social, @adamlovett.bsky.social, and I have a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy. It’s called “On the value of irreplaceable objects” – Here’s a thread! philpapers.org/rec/KUBOTV 1/n

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Confucius squeaked through with the edited vols

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Publish or perish: the untold story of Socrates

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I had some thoughts about this excellent paper by Harvey, @christiantarsney.bsky.social, and Dean Spears. I thought they would be long thread length, but they grew to long blog post length, and the post is here: brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts... (1/10)

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment