Recent links…
- “Lectures are just an occasion, a trigger, for something more vital in… students. Their attempt at collaborative reconstruction of the lectures after the fact allows for a shared project of understanding” — Eric Schliesser on Schelling on the philosophy lecture
- “When you submit an essay, you should be able to explain and defend every significant choice you made” — Matthew Hammerton favors an “intellectual responsibility” approach to teaching in the era of AI
- “A concept comes with something like a definition or a paradigm that fixes what it represents. The referent of a unicept is whatever it has been collecting information about” — Ruth Millikan’s idea of “unicepts” is the focus this week at the Brains Blog, starting with remarks from Dan Burnston
- “Philosophy is born of the realization that we already are, or seem to be, at some distance from reality even in our default mode of consciousness. Why not, then, explore all the modes of consciousness available to us, considering what each of them might have to tell us about the relationship between mind and world?” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on philosophers and psychedelics
- “Later today I am going to buy some really spicy salsa, from the only grocery store in my area that sells it, and on some level I don’t really know why” — Daniel Pallies puzzles over his love of burningly spicy food
- “Looking back before Hume, we can catch a glimpse of an alternative, more literary mode of philosophy—one that existed before a commitment to general principles foreclosed it” — Katie Ebner-Landy on Hume’s role in cleaving philosophy from literature
- “The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having are those that go on inside a single head,” said Jerry Fodor — Paul Bloom explains why he agrees
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