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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 12h

Super helpful, thank you! I’ll reach out to him.

Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 13h

Whenever scholars claim a great work of philosophy is loose and disunified, I assume that a) we haven’t collectively worked hard enough at it, and b) it’s probably got serious juice that we’d benefit from. (Cf. Heidegger’s Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics.)

Excited about this on Kant’s 3rd C.!

Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique

One may wonder why we had to wait for so long for a book like Kristi Sweet’s to be published. It is in the Second Introduction to the Critiq...

ndpr.nd.edu

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 13h

Do you know how they’re connecting plans to model to build? There’s a building I’d like to build, and I have no idea how to go about it.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 17h

“I try to get a likeness,” Hockney says, “but in the end, I don’t care what the other person thinks of it, it’s what I think of it that counts.”

Hockney is my favorite living artist — maybe my favorite, period. Lovely (and lively) interview in the Telegraph.

David Hockney: ‘I assume I’ll die soon, so I want to work every day’

Ahead of a show revealing his transcendent new direction, our greatest living artist discusses why at 88 he’s still happiest when painting

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 20h

This is very helpful, David, thank you!

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?

www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...

2 Novels From Albert Camus, a project from Dr. Michael Buso

Help me give my students a physical copy of a book we will read in our AP Literature classroom. This will allow each student to read the novels of Albert Camus in printed form. Since his novels are...

www.donorschoose.org

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 1d

You got it.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 1d

There's an excellent @neglectedbooks.com review from about 12 years ago here.

The Cook, by Harry Kressing – The Neglected Books Page

neglectedbooks.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 1d

The Cook by Harry Kressing (aka Harry Adam Ruber) may be my favorite book of the year so far. Spine-tingling, witty, and by the end the characters you feel for are not the ones you expected!

The Kind of Face You Slash - Day 15: The Great Kitchen

Say what you will about Bentley Little's fiction (as I have done ), but the man seems to have very good taste. Of the ten novels chosen by L...

wwwbillblog.blogspot.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 2d

I'm finishing up "The Cook" but will read this one next :-)

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 2d

This looks really good!

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I can't explain my process at all. My notes probably look like Charlie's conspiracy board in It's Always Sunny. But it means I can hop in and out of my work when the kids need me and maximize every few minutes. So there's that.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

Writing requires reading, and *reading* requires fairly intensive writing. I love what @vcarchidi.bsky.social has done here. It tracks with how I grew and changed during my MA. If I "read" in a meaningful sense, it means I've reconstructed the author's argument in my notes & linked them.

Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 3d

Some quick and honest thoughts on frustration and how (not) to deal with it in my experience.

vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/getting-fr...

Getting From A to D Requires B and C

On the importance of persisting through frustration.

vincentcarchidi.substack.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 3d

Wow!

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

The blurb from John Fowles was an anti-recommendation, which I happily ignored. The Magus is still the worst book I've ever read.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

Just started this last night, and it's really entertaining so far...

Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...

Book cover for THE COOK by Harry Kressing

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

This looks interesting...

Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 5d

Is our world driven by technology—and is #technology itself neutral? Is #AI really disruptive? A new book by @lodelauwaert.bsky.social & Bartek Chomanski examines technologies from hammers & drills to autonomous cars & ChatGPT 🤖👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsky #philtech #HPS

Book cover of "We, Robots: Questioning the Neutrality of Technology, Ethical AI and Technological Determinism" by Lode Lauwaert and Bartek Chomanski, published by Springer. The design features large white and dark blue text on a bright orange background.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

There are three or four songs from "Life of a Showgirl" that I can't get out of my head since this weekend.

Lots of negativity from the critics, but I'll admit, one of my all-time favorite songs is Joe Diffie's "Pickup Man". Not every banger needs to be Nobel Prize-worthy writing.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sure he has said more since, but I assume he's referring to the ideas in the New Yorker piece from last year.

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

www.newyorker.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 5d

It turns out that talented practitioners of X are not necessarily talented philosophers of X, for any given X.

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 5d

This is an interesting debate about AI stories between an OpenAI researcher who works on AI writing and one of the greatest living short story writers.

Now that we have machines that can write novel stories, and increasingly very good or moving stories, we need to think more about what that means.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

Those are narrow conditions, which lots of human persons don’t satisfy. But yes, I think there has to be a setting-aside of traditional philosophical intuitions to make sense of these things. They’re not “mere” objects even though they are also not persons. Not sure they’re even on that continuum.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

That is an interesting point. Though they do “command” incredible (compute) resources & will begin to “control” physical objects. Interesting analysis to be done there along the lines of possession is 9/10s of the law.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 6d

Found a really old paper that argues that chatbots are props that people use to engage in games of make-believe. This seems like a plausible analysis: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Fictionalism about Chatbots

According to widely accepted views in metasemantics, the outputs of chatbots and other artificial text generators should be meaningless. They aren’t produced with communicative intentions and the syst...

journals.publishing.umich.edu

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. There's an analogous problem in phil of trust literature, which tries to distinguish trust from reliance via Strawson's participant stance (or epistemic warrants).

I think we take the participant stance towards lots of non-agents, contrary to philosophers' intuition. Hence Eliza & bot romance.

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 6d

Agreed.

And have no fear about the better toolkits, that's my dissertation topic so you only have to wait ~5 more years to get one!

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