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Professor of Philosophy, UFRPE & UFPE (Postgraduate Studies) | PhD, KCL | https://rb.gy/trsamv "And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin’ on Like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue"
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Now reading Tolstoy's "A Confession". Just great.

Nesta quinta! Até lá!

It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.

what replaces due process under fascism is the assurance of protection for favored groups. even though it’s precarious, a lot of people feel just as protected under that framework as they do under one with due process

Triste

Oportunidade de bolsa de pós-doc da linha 6 “Arcabouço teórico-conceitual” (Instituto Nacional de Ciência Cidadã), a ser supervisionada pela Sarita Albagli (Ibict) e por mim: incc.tcti.ibict.br/wp-content/u...

Why do I keep fuckin' up? Keep fuckin' up

Fixed it for #academia

I’ve uploaded a pre-print of my new paper ‘How Not to Hate Humanity: Schopenhauer’s Response to Misanthropy’ (forthcoming in Mind). Building on recent literature on philosophical misanthropy, I present two of Schopenhauer’s proposals for avoiding hatred of humankind. philarchive.org/rec/BATHNT

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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Cormac McCarthy is a genius. Wow.

Um dos melhores westerns já feitos

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Come out, ye gifted kings and queens And hear my sad complaint No martyr is among ye now Whom you can call your own But go on your way accordingly But know you’re not alone

CFP for a Special issue of Crítica: Revista Hispanoamerica de Filosofía on "Thought and reasoning in non-human animals". The deadline for submission is July 15. Please, consider sending your manuscript!

George Foreman is dead. This doc is a must-watch, one of the best docs that I’ve ever seen

Faleceu o George Foreman e tem um livro muito legal sobre a luta dele com o Muhammad Ali no Zaire escrito pelo Norman Mailer. Mesmo que você não goste de boxe, é uma obra muito importante e bem escrita. Curtinha, coisa para ler em uma tarde. *link de associado do Vira amzn.to/4hIbC5O

Legend among legends. R.I.P.

Qualia were never what made life worth living. It's always been about...color! —And they're objective New paper out with Philosophy of Science. Enjoy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!

Apparently 2-3 people liked, “What is rational belief?” and Wiley wanted me to know it’s in the top 10 cited papers 😅 Hope Ma and Pa will put this on the fridge. Here if you want a read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcC...

Pesquisa da empresa Delfos sobre aprovação de Javier Milei, está aí o resultado da cartilha do mercado. 🟢Aprova 37% -13 🔴 Desaprova 59% +12 ⚫NS/NR 4%

Happy to share the good news that my paper "Semantic Naturalism and the Normativity of Meaning: Against Semantic Prescriptivism" was accepted for publication at Revista Filosofia Unisinos. 🥳 🎉

Concordo, é o governo mais igualitário/progressita que ja tivemos do ponto de vista tributário. Apesar de tudo...

Rolling Stone USA listou em 2023 os 50 melhores discos latino-americanos de rock de todos os tempos! Lista traz 9 álbuns brasileiros! screamyell.com.br/site/2023/09...

Late at night, thinking about death. Or deciding which book to read next. Mary Magdalene by Georges de la Tour.

New book from one of the most important scholars of the Brazilian right @odiloncaldeira.com is free online until the end of the month. Link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)

I don't believe in heaven I keep some heat inside Like a red brick in the summer Warm when the sun has died I don’t believe in Heaven I keep some heat inside Like a red brick in the summer Warm when the sun has died

Indico esse filmaço, "O Som ao Redor"

The war can be reduced to the formula: you die for your ideals, because it’s not worth living for them. - Robert Musil