Links for the long weekend…
Discussion welcome.
- “Proust takes this obsession with knowledge to another level” — Troy Jollimore (CSU Chico) & Rick Furtak (Colorado College) discuss the philosophical dimensions of Proust on “Philosophers on Culture”
- “Landscapes convey information, they ‘speak.’ As long as people are there to listen, to engage with, to regard land as community member, that information stays relevant” — Joel K. Jensen (North Hennepin) on the epistemic value of land and the epistemic limits of archives
- “To create your fantasy philosophy league, you will need ten colleagues…” — so begins the detailed and possibly workable instructions for playing fantasy philosophy, from Steve Gimbel (Gettysburg), at McSweeney’s (via Sophia Stone)
- “That inextricable relationship between intelligent decision-making and responsibility is an essential ingredient for a well-functioning, civilized society” — and it seems AI lacks it
- “When failure is obscure and private, it feels shameful, it’s to be feared and suffered alone. When failure is manifest and public, it can be embraced as a challenge and birth camaraderie” — Michael Barkasi (Wash U. St. Louis) on how this is relevant to teaching
- “By encountering difficult and foreign ideas, we are freed from the natural parochialism of our immature brains and our many subcultures, freed from unthinking loyalty to whatever creeds and norms shaped our families and early schooling” — a series of reflections on the value of college from Sara Hendren (Northeastern) (via The Browser)
- “What we’re trying to capture here is… ethically important experience” — the latest episode of Many Minds features a conversation with Jonathan Birch (LSE) on how to understand sentience
