Mark Eli Kalderon
@markelikalderon.bsky.social
Philosopher working on philosophy of perception and its history
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Spent a good part of my morning talking to a young animation artist who had questions about visual attention, cognition and art. Left the poor guy overwhelmed with further questions, and he told me this: "If I ever knew that Philosphy could be *this* relevant to my work, I wouldn't have ignored it"
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Spent a good part of my morning talking to a young animation artist who had questions about visual attention, cognition and art. Left the poor guy overwhelmed with further questions, and he told me this: "If I ever knew that Philosphy could be *this* relevant to my work, I wouldn't have ignored it"
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The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour.
While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.
Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:
While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.
Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour.
While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.
Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:
While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.
Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:
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This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document
Beer, goats, and grains: here's what the oldest document reveals.
www.zmescience.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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Mildly interesting curio: in Sherrington's 1906 work, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, the bibliography appears to be ordered chronologically.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mildly interesting curio: in Sherrington's 1906 work, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, the bibliography appears to be ordered chronologically.
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Mark your calendars! On Thursday, Oct 30 at 5:00 pm EDT, join us in celebrating 20 years of Henry Frankfurt's groundbreaking book, On Bullshit. Come in person or via livestream to hear our panelists discuss why bullshit is so dangerous—perhaps now more than ever.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Mark your calendars! On Thursday, Oct 30 at 5:00 pm EDT, join us in celebrating 20 years of Henry Frankfurt's groundbreaking book, On Bullshit. Come in person or via livestream to hear our panelists discuss why bullshit is so dangerous—perhaps now more than ever.
RSVP for free here! buff.ly/Z6qv9nD
RSVP for free here! buff.ly/Z6qv9nD
“analytic philosophy emerges, not as the house philosophy of neoliberalism, nor as the favored intellectual exercise of a certain obnoxious personality type, but rather as a contingent, historically constructed sequence of texts, together with a way of reading them”
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
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October 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“analytic philosophy emerges, not as the house philosophy of neoliberalism, nor as the favored intellectual exercise of a certain obnoxious personality type, but rather as a contingent, historically constructed sequence of texts, together with a way of reading them”
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Officially published today! Link in Alt Text.
(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Officially published today! Link in Alt Text.
(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)
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A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times
A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times
Above, you can watch 81 video lectures tracing the history of philosophy, moving from Ancient Greece to modern times. Arthur Holmes presented this influential course at Wheaton College for decades, an...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times
"...the “problem of perception” needs to be reconceptualized as arising not from a challenge to our ordinary understanding of vision, but from a patent conflict within this understanding."
That is the central thought of Mike Martin's defense of disjunctivism
That is the central thought of Mike Martin's defense of disjunctivism
In philosophy of perception, we find different intuitions pulling people in opposing directions
New studies from Eugen Fischer et al. show something important about that opposition:
It is not different people having different intuitions; it's each individual person having *conflicting intuitions*
New studies from Eugen Fischer et al. show something important about that opposition:
It is not different people having different intuitions; it's each individual person having *conflicting intuitions*
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"...the “problem of perception” needs to be reconceptualized as arising not from a challenge to our ordinary understanding of vision, but from a patent conflict within this understanding."
That is the central thought of Mike Martin's defense of disjunctivism
That is the central thought of Mike Martin's defense of disjunctivism
WTF is this?
It is streaky bacon purchased at a UK supermarket being pan fried
It is streaky bacon purchased at a UK supermarket being pan fried
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
WTF is this?
It is streaky bacon purchased at a UK supermarket being pan fried
It is streaky bacon purchased at a UK supermarket being pan fried
Elaine Scarry on the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry
www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Elaine Scarry on the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry
www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
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Were you paid to write this? Or are you posting pro bro pro bono?
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Were you paid to write this? Or are you posting pro bro pro bono?
Just encountered a hilarious term of contempt for those who cook at home rather than order out: "Grocery Bro"
Proud Grocery Bro here
Proud Grocery Bro here
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Just encountered a hilarious term of contempt for those who cook at home rather than order out: "Grocery Bro"
Proud Grocery Bro here
Proud Grocery Bro here
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)