jakobohlhorst.bsky.social
Epistemologist postdoc at the Extreme Beliefs Group at VU Amsterdam
I know about Virtues, Wittgenstein, Extremism, Philosophy of Psychology & Conceptual Engineering
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Entweder du zahlst 5 oder 10 Euro.
Ok keine Ahnung...
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Naja wenn's im Indikativ noch stabil ist (à la entweder du isst den Apfel, oder den Kuchen) dann wäre es ja kein Problem.
"Du musst entweder x oder y" ist ambig zwischen "Musst(entweder x oder y)" und "Entweder Musst(x) oder Musst(y)". In letzterem Fall ist x&y zu tun keine Verletzung, oder?
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‚Müssen‘ generiert Komplikationen wegen seinem Skopus, also kein Gegenbeispiel, aber es scheint einen naheliegenden inklusiven Fall zu geben.
‚Entweder oder‘ scheint mehr eine exklusive Implikatur zu haben, im Kontrast zu ‚oder‘?
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Oh interesting, works the same in German! But I feel the three third case would at least be surprising because the causal role of foolishness would not be adequate, ‚he’s saying that because he’s lying and foolish‘ means he lies out of foolishness.
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My German instincts are to think that either means exclusive disjunction, because entweder means that…
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And once again the Swiss are vindicated for using the only reasonable solution, the apostrophe.
1‘000‘000.05
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Y is THE Greek letter that was being used across history to make you sound smarter. Why replace it with psi? Also omega and delta feel left out.
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I choose to believe that it's her cognomen, like Cicero, which makes the other names obsolete, not null though.
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Feel free to, you wash the pot after.
(Tea is glorified water that can be rinsed out, Milk on the other hand is fatty protein water that sticks everywhere and needs to be washed)
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Anyways this book is very cool, also just as an introduction to electromagnetism for a broader public! And it is a neat piece of reconstruction of history of science. I can't recommend it enough.
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ISO Phil 342.115 says that they are the same.
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Time to crack out this all time classic!
There’s also lots of meta moves that would’ve made early 2000 analytic philosophers blush
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I believe it’s a Catholic thing; also Italian high school students basically are better trained in history of philosophy than undergrads.
In Switzerland philosophy exists only seriously in schools in the Catholic cantons.
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Elizabeth Spelke points to a bunch of studies in that direction in her latest book
Even with adults, some perceptual categories are just there, while others have to be learned
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„What if we fired a huge cannon from up in the sky?“
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Everything sucked because – checks notes – hordes of even whiter Germanic people burnt everything down.
(this is not an endorsement of this theory)
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Also the Asian Journal of Philosophy is quite open about formats, and has already published symposia:
link.springer.com/journal/44204
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But seriously, I am very happy that it's coming out as a more affordable paperback!
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A mushroom? Or is that also a continuous natural body?
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MacIntyre makes an argument going into that direction.
(It’s about getting candy for playing chess, but still)
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While Thornton is right that there are norms on pizza eating, he adheres to the wrong ones!
Mostly, don’t drink wine with pizza
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Pei hua huang has a fun paper on the ethics of mood manipulation (vs emotion manipulation) in the works; given that bioethics is not quite my area, I can’t tell you how important it is.
From my Phil of mind perspective mood vs emotion is a significant issue though
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Yeah, Eco probably should be thankful for Brown making his material more popular and accessible
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I always was impressed by how 'Foucault's Pendulum' read like a satire of 'The Da Vinci Code'.
And by Dan Brown's apparently absolute lack of self-awareness about that.
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I always was impressed by how 'Foucault's Pendulum' read like a satire of 'The Da Vinci Code'.
And by Dan Brown's apparently absolute lack of self-awareness about that.
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It diagnosed me with postdoc burnout
That's just an essential feature of postdocs
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Thank you!
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It sadly happened to me recently with this marvellous globular rabbit. mymodernmet.com/bigpicture-p...
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Granted, it only treats trusting people as a particular case, but still there's social epistemology going on.
philpapers.org/rec/OHLTRN
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Thanks! The engineer is the main character, I think, Settembrini is indeed the Italian.
The Jesuit would be Nafta, who's also a Nietzschean so he shouldn't like metaphysics but wouldn't use words like "evil" unironically. (It's been forever that I read it)
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Which one is it? The Italian or the Jesuit? (they are the only part of the book I liked, so it must be one of them)
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Also, in the same broader tradition, Anna Pederneschi has the following recent paper: philpapers.org/rec/PEDAAO-2
And Annalisa Coliva (UCI) is working on something interesting, but it's not out yet, she might share it though.
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And just because I'm a big fan of it: William James's The Will to Believe describes faith as a kind of trusting the universe as you would trust a person.
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If it's about trusting people then this is of secondary relevance, but if it's about trusting that things are the case, my (open access) book develops a/the broadly Wittgensteinian position in the first few chapters. doi.org/10.4324/9781... (I do go into trusting people as well)