Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • image/svg+xml Ello Ello

Daily Nous

Daily Nous

Primary Navigation

  • About
  • Comments Policy
  • Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events
  • Philosophy Comics
  • Value of Philosophy
  • Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
  • Non-Academic Hires
  • Supporters
  • Heap of Links
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)
Home
Daily Nous Features

Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

By
Justin Weinberg
. November 10, 2015 at 12:09 pm 0

Lake - 2015-11-24 - lion spoke teaser

Chaospet
by Ryan Lake

Lake - 2015-11-24 - lion spoke

Previous Daily Nous Comics / More Info 

Daily Nous Philosophy Comics square - Lake

Categories Daily Nous Features
Tags ChaospetDaily Nous Philosophy ComicsRyan Lake
33 likes
Login
guest
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Paid Advertisements

Recent Comments

David Duffy on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

May I suggest Section 3 of: http://irafs.org/stoqatpul/lat/materials/basti_paper_cle_new2.pdf
Evan on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Is it sufficient to understand identity by just defining number 1? The “=“ sign can mean two things: identity or result. While the “+” sign […]
Tyler on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

There is also the related category of technical statements that seem strange or at least fanciful when the specialist terminology involved is interpreted as ordinary […]
Jen on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

I'm talking about the Moon example, above. If you're talking about the Caesar example, I agree with you: it is in response to a definition
Jen on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

That's a fair assessment when considering the overall importance of the example for the Fregean project. But my view is that, in the context of […]
David Wallace on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

I recall Frege’s point being more that his own proposed definition doesn’t solve the JC problem, and is thus deficient. (But it’s a long time
David Wallace on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Cantor and von Neumann, to name two, offered explicit definitions of the number 1. Hilbert and Brouwer were concerned with closely related questions.
Jen on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Are you still under the impression that these things strike philosophers as bizarre? If you are, I'm beginning to wonder whether you've studied philosophy!
Theaetetus on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

"What is the number 1?" - I think you're digging Frege's hole deeper!
Evan on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Misunderstandings arise because a lot of science articles fail to define their abstract terms. A health science article does not necessarily need to define “cardiovascular […]
Jen on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Frege is not puzzled about whether Caesar is a number. He wants mathematics to have a satisfactory answer to the question: what is the number […]
Scheneighnay on Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists

Sounds to me like the scientist wasn't thinking about what they're writing, and instead meant "free will" in the context of "willpower" that is "free"

Subscribe

Archives

  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
Paid Advertisements
click to learn more
Paid Advertisements

Heap of Links

  • A philosopher teams up with the biggest art festival in Britain -- Vid Simoniti (Liverpool) and the Liverpool Biennial produce a series: "Art Against the World"
  • The Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory is “unquestionably the real deal” -- Vogue profiles Amia Srinivasan (Oxford)
  • “Panpsychism’s appeal may stem partly from the fact that scientists currently can not explain what consciousness actually is” -- philosophy of mind covered at Salon
  • “There are grounds for doubt… about the power of comedy to effect social change. But I don’t think that robs it of social value. We need to revise our expectations” -- Kieran Setiya (MIT) on political comedy
  • “This was a matter of redeeming humanity, of whether mathematics is what we always thought it was” -- why logicians and mathematicians are excited about a new proof about the sizes of infinity
  • Using the capabilities approach to assess the wellbeing of renters -- a report from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence makes use of Martha Nussbaum's ideas
  • A new series interviews scientists and philosophers on questions about consciousness -- hosted by Philip Goff (Durham) and Keith Frankish (Sheffield)
  • “If you are a sage, and you can’t do wrong, then there is no room for moral anguish or angst… But what if you are not a sage?” -- Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) on compassion, mercy, the military, and the social side of Stoic grit
  • “I keep looking to traditional… epistemology and finding it mostly unhelpful. But I keep finding bits of aesthetics and the philosophy of art incredibly useful” -- C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on why philosophy of art and social epistemology are "intellectual soulmates"
  • “To say you’re giving up on the problem of demarcation does not mean that you are giving up on the idea that there is something distinctive about science” -- and we can acknowledge the limits of science while still vigorously defending it, says Lee McIntyre (Boston University), interviewed at 3:16AM
  • “What we need isn’t a kind of positive hermeneutics to be inculcated in viewers of pornography, so that they can better interpret what is going on… what we need is the onslaught of images to just stop for a moment” -- Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) interviewed on pornography and sexuality
  • “Seeing that I don’t write about things or topics but about what people say about things was one of the most important lessons I learned” -- Martin Lenz (Groningen) explains
  • “I found myself astonished by idea that the structural simplicity I associate with piano keys is the result of an ‘acceptable compromise’ to solve practical problems of musicians playing together” -- Patricia Marino (Waterloo) on subjectivity, simplicity, elegance, and the philosophy of keyboard engineering
  • “Narcissistic academic professionalism”, “cowardly deference”, “intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy” -- excerpts from Cornel West's letter of resignation from Harvard
  • Africana Philosophy in the 20th Century -- a series of episodes of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, with several guest philosophers
  • Logic puzzles recently used to screen applicants to philosophy degree programs at Oxford -- from the collection of Joel David Hamkins
  • “Policing boundaries – whether between genders or between literature and philosophy – is only necessary if the line in question is liable to be transgressed” -- Carrie Jenkins (UBC) on literature, philosophy, gender, and emotion
  • “Philosophy is probably the most internationalized of the humanities subjects in Sweden” -- Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå) on what it's like being a philosopher in Sweden
  • “If you’re blind to the way circumstance shapes someone’s behavior, it’s going to be hard to really appreciate how the world looks to them” -- Robert Wright on Lee Ross, the fundamental attribution error, and cognitive empathy
  • Looking for some philosophy to listen to? -- a list of nearly 100 different philosophy podcasts
  • “The work of a professional philosopher in Ghana is significantly constrained” -- Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani (University of Ghana) on what it's like to be a philosopher in his country
  • “There’d be much less pessimistic skepticism about the future of analytic philosophy if people were more familiar with some of the reasons to reject [the ‘grand march to Kripke’] narrative” -- Preston Stovall (University of Hradec Králové) defends analytic philosophy
  • “College vaccination requirements decidedly do not violate the core principles of medical ethics” -- Nathan Nobis (Morehouse) responds to critics of the requirements
  • “Clear writing… is aggressive and sadistic—not in its content but in the domination it attempts” -- Simon Evnine (Miami) on clarity
  • “The world’s foremost consequentialist signed. The world’s foremost deontologist signed. Two of the most prominent bioethicists in the world signed…” Not good enough? -- on the effort to hold human challenge trials in the U.S., and other aspects of COVID-19 response
  • Philosophy has “a tradition that you cut other people down… I sometimes hear our female students say, ‘I can’t really be a philosopher because that’s not what I feel like doing'” -- "I say to them, 'There are many different ways of doing philosophy'" -- Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
  • Getting students to do the readings -- at The Philosophers' Cocoon, with helpful suggestions in the comments
  • “A young man smoking a pipe cannot do so without looking like a pompous dick… and Classics finds itself in a similar quandary” -- actor Stephen Fry on breaking the cycle of elitism and showing the value of the classics to today's youth (via The Browser)
  • Philosophers as public intellectuals -- a roundtable discussion with Anastasia Berg (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), Agnes Callard (Chicago), and Justin Weinberg (South Carolina)
  • For two decades, he “encouraged his students to examine the meaning of life and become active and conscientious citizens who help build societies based on values such as justice and liberty” -- now, visiting his former students in prison is part of the life of Chow Po Chung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

2021 ©Daily Nous
wpDiscuz
0
0
Discussion welcome. Click to comment.x
()
x
| Reply