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- It’s thought that “publicly-oriented scientific disagreement… undermines trust in science [and that] emphasizing the uncertainty will mean anything goes, that scientists don’t know anything” — “And I wanted to push back against that,” says Zeynep Pamuk (UC San Diego)
- “Welcome to the minefield that is race humour” — Matthias Pauwels (North-West University) on the “extremely complex operation, involving many interlaced factors tricky negotiations” of ethical comedy about race
- You’ve probably read about the metaphysics of holes, but what about their aesthetics? — some art history of the hole, from Kim Beil (Stanford)
- Controversy over a proposal to add a statue of 17th-century philosopher Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia to a monument with 78 statues of men — in Padua, Italy
- “To appreciate the ingenuity of Locke’s philosophical views, I think it is important that we resist the tendency to apply common metaphysical classifications” — Ruth Boeker (UCD) interviewed about her work on Locke, personal identity, mind, and more, at 3:16AM
- Video resources on Stoicism — a collection curated by Gregory Sadler (MIAD)
- Free logician-themed 2022 wall calendar w/ Hamkins, Turing, Haack, Manzano, Rayo, Stebbing, & Williamson — from LógicaMX, with art by María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz and concept by Alejandro Estrada-Giron and Moises Macias-Bustos
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At first I thought the calendar had a theme of free logicians, and was surprised at some of the names listed.
Yes!! I became paranoid that I have been reading Williamson completely incorrectly all this time.