New links…
- “In my (more) pretentious days, I gave epigraphs to academic articles” — Kieran Setiya on “front matter”
- “Philosophy: a safe space for the unfettered operation of mind” — Agnes Callard on lessons learned from Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities”
- The mystery of G.A. Cohen’s position on free will and moral responsibility — Ben Burgis is on the case
- Nationally syndicated public radio show “Philosophy Talk” reviews the year — with guests Alex Guerrero, Elie Honig, and me
- “While there are definitely differences between how you and I experience the world, there are also some similarities in the way we process information and form representations of our environment” — that’s Google’s Gemini 1.5 talking to Pete Mandik, who tries to convince it that it’s conscious
- “Chinese academics studying the Western classics are battling an increasingly popular conspiracy theory that Greek and Roman literature, philosophy… are hoaxes” — according to the South China Morning Post
- “Football is valuable in many, many ways” but it involves “a number of highly nuanced ethical issues” — a brief interview with Francisco Javier López Frías, a professor of both philosophy and kinesiology
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As I remarked on BlueSky when the Cambridge Skeptics posted the same link to that article in the South China Morning Post article on the conspiracy theory that Ancient Greece and Rome did not exist, the fact a very marginal view has become ever so slightly less marginal does not make it popular. It’s a sensationalist headline which is itself part of the panick-mongering the media has engaged in around belief in conspiracy theories over the last few years. It’s not really worth adding to lists like this.
I like epigraphs. I usually find them more fun than pretentious.
I think of them as being in immitation of Rocky and Bullwinkle episode titles, and that definitely falls on the “fun” rather than “pretentious” side of things.
Me too. They mix up the article form a bit.