More links…
- “If we outsource [knowledge] to machines, and lose our thinking-muscles in the process, then we increasingly hand control of that narrative over to an ever-smaller set of people” — Ellen Clarke on “students these days” and their understanding of what knowledge is
- “The tricky part is finding where that edge of ignorance is, and staying on it, but not letting students fall off the cliff edge” — Sara Uckelman on the joy of teaching logic
- History of philosophy factoid of the day — courtesy of Merriam-Webster
- “Bald-faced falsehoods… express a profound contempt for the basic rules of truth and falsity. And that contempt serves a long-term strategic goal of any authoritarian: to undermine common rules of truth and evidence” — Michael Lynch on politics, institutions, and “epistemic rules”
- “Why your 40s will feel weird” — Sean Illing & Kieran Setiya discuss midlife crises
- “It’s a real worry for a field when an outright majority of its practitioners are this blatantly incompetent” — Richard Y. Chappell on the results of a recent survey of bioethicists
- “Perceptual variation has misled you… colors are as objective as length and temperature” — Elay Shech and Michael Watkins on the objectivity of color
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At my blog, a reading list that presumes or assumes an incarcerated individual in our jails and prisons should be treated as persons in possession, so to speak, of human dignity, in which case they are, in principle, deserving of conditions conducive to individuation and/or self-realization in keeping with our perfectibilist capabilities in pursuit of an ethical life of meaning and purpose that lends itself to eudaimonia or human flourishing: The Prisoner as a Person: Education and the Arts behind Bars.