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One hundred years ago, physicians possessed practically no effective therapeutic methods with which to help their patients. This was especially true for the neurologist, who dealt almost entirely with what were then incurable diseases. (1/5)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 40
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 40
February 14, 2026 at 6:28 PM
One hundred years ago, physicians possessed practically no effective therapeutic methods with which to help their patients. This was especially true for the neurologist, who dealt almost entirely with what were then incurable diseases. (1/5)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 40
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 40
So a second characterization of pragmatism might go like this: there is no epistemological difference between truth about what ought to be and truth about what is, nor any metaphysical difference between facts and values, nor any... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 163
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 163
February 14, 2026 at 12:38 PM
So a second characterization of pragmatism might go like this: there is no epistemological difference between truth about what ought to be and truth about what is, nor any metaphysical difference between facts and values, nor any... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 163
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 163
Biological naturalism, or more precisely, the biological form of ethical naturalism, is the theory that in spite of the fact that moral laws and the laws of states are arbitrary, there are some eternal unchanging laws of nature... (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 114
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 114
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Biological naturalism, or more precisely, the biological form of ethical naturalism, is the theory that in spite of the fact that moral laws and the laws of states are arbitrary, there are some eternal unchanging laws of nature... (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 114
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 114
nobody does any really "written" writing without timidly hoping that what he writes may have "philosophical implications."
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 108
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 108
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
nobody does any really "written" writing without timidly hoping that what he writes may have "philosophical implications."
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 108
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 108
Feminism is, in part, a project for the reconstruction of public life and public meanings; feminism is therefore a search for new stories, and so for a language which names a new vision of possibilities and limits. (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 109
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 109
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Feminism is, in part, a project for the reconstruction of public life and public meanings; feminism is therefore a search for new stories, and so for a language which names a new vision of possibilities and limits. (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 109
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 109
A análise deveria pois levar o sujeito a reconstituir seu modo de existência a partir desse gozo, mesmo com o preço de ele não saber mais quem é e quais os 'limites', quais 'determinações' definiriam claramente sua presença no... (1/2)
— Vladimir Safatle, Maneiras de transformar mundos, p. 68
— Vladimir Safatle, Maneiras de transformar mundos, p. 68
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 PM
A análise deveria pois levar o sujeito a reconstituir seu modo de existência a partir desse gozo, mesmo com o preço de ele não saber mais quem é e quais os 'limites', quais 'determinações' definiriam claramente sua presença no... (1/2)
— Vladimir Safatle, Maneiras de transformar mundos, p. 68
— Vladimir Safatle, Maneiras de transformar mundos, p. 68
Analysis is not a matter of discovering in a particular case the differential feature of the theory, and in doing so believe that one is explaining why your daughter is silent—for the point at issue is to get her... (1/3)
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 11
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 11
February 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Analysis is not a matter of discovering in a particular case the differential feature of the theory, and in doing so believe that one is explaining why your daughter is silent—for the point at issue is to get her... (1/3)
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 11
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 11
Like race, sex is an 'imaginary' formation of the kind that produces reality, including bodies then perceived as prior to all construction. (1/5)
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 183
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 183
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Like race, sex is an 'imaginary' formation of the kind that produces reality, including bodies then perceived as prior to all construction. (1/5)
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 183
— Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 183
In everything that refers to the imaginary, that is to the corporeal, it is not only probable but manifest – and this is what emerged first – that not only does it make a hole, but analysis thinks along these lines about everything that refers to the body.
— Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real
— Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real
February 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
In everything that refers to the imaginary, that is to the corporeal, it is not only probable but manifest – and this is what emerged first – that not only does it make a hole, but analysis thinks along these lines about everything that refers to the body.
— Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real
— Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real
The strain of civilization was beginning to be felt. This strain, this uneasiness, is a consequence of the breakdown of the closed society. It is still felt even in our day, especially in times of social change. (1/4)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 245
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 245
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The strain of civilization was beginning to be felt. This strain, this uneasiness, is a consequence of the breakdown of the closed society. It is still felt even in our day, especially in times of social change. (1/4)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 245
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 245
To appreciate the patchy unpredictability associated with our current condition, we need to reopen our imaginations. The point of this book is to help that process along—with mushrooms. (1/3)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 250
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 250
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 AM
To appreciate the patchy unpredictability associated with our current condition, we need to reopen our imaginations. The point of this book is to help that process along—with mushrooms. (1/3)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 250
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 250
The scientists will probably think that these exchanges of properties among rivers, forces, neurotransmitters, marshals, and engineers are not metamorphoses but simple metaphors. (1/5)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 76
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 76
February 12, 2026 at 1:53 AM
The scientists will probably think that these exchanges of properties among rivers, forces, neurotransmitters, marshals, and engineers are not metamorphoses but simple metaphors. (1/5)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 76
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 76
It is conceivable, of course, that significant physicochemical disturbances will be found in some “mental patients” and in some “conditions” now labeled “mental illnesses.” But this does not mean that all so-called mental diseases... (1/2)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 141
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 141
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It is conceivable, of course, that significant physicochemical disturbances will be found in some “mental patients” and in some “conditions” now labeled “mental illnesses.” But this does not mean that all so-called mental diseases... (1/2)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 141
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 141
Soon, physicians and psychiatrists were joined by philosophers and journalists, lawyers and laymen, in labeling as “mental illness” any and every kind of human experience or behavior in which they could detect, or to which they could... (1/3)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 77
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 77
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Soon, physicians and psychiatrists were joined by philosophers and journalists, lawyers and laymen, in labeling as “mental illness” any and every kind of human experience or behavior in which they could detect, or to which they could... (1/3)
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 77
— Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 77
The ultimate aim of a xenofeminist politics of technology should be to transform political systems and disciplinary structures themselves, so that autonomy does not always have to be craftily, covertly, and repeatedly seized [...]. (1/3)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 124
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 124
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 AM
The ultimate aim of a xenofeminist politics of technology should be to transform political systems and disciplinary structures themselves, so that autonomy does not always have to be craftily, covertly, and repeatedly seized [...]. (1/3)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 124
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 124
The difference between mental representations and linguistic representations has not changed the motive of an inquiry into representation; whereas once we had theories about privileged "ideas" or Vorstellungen (simple ideas of... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 128
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 128
February 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The difference between mental representations and linguistic representations has not changed the motive of an inquiry into representation; whereas once we had theories about privileged "ideas" or Vorstellungen (simple ideas of... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 128
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 128
But still the objection must be met: doesn't the social world present us with mere trends and tendencies and not the genuine law-like regularity of the natural world? (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 20
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 20
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
But still the objection must be met: doesn't the social world present us with mere trends and tendencies and not the genuine law-like regularity of the natural world? (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 20
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 20
Contaminated diversity is everywhere. If such stories are so widespread and so well known, the question becomes: Why don’t we use these stories in how we know the world? (1/6)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633
February 10, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Contaminated diversity is everywhere. If such stories are so widespread and so well known, the question becomes: Why don’t we use these stories in how we know the world? (1/6)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 633
Unless we adopt a scientific approach to the nature of knowledge, then our grasp of that nature will be no more than a projection of our ideological concerns … Epistemology will be merely implicit propaganda. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 80
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 80
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Unless we adopt a scientific approach to the nature of knowledge, then our grasp of that nature will be no more than a projection of our ideological concerns … Epistemology will be merely implicit propaganda. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 80
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 80
Science can describe general types of landscape, for example, or of man, but it can never exhaust one single individual landscape, or one single individual man. (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 603
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 603
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Science can describe general types of landscape, for example, or of man, but it can never exhaust one single individual landscape, or one single individual man. (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 603
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 603
gender abolitionism is ‘shorthand for the ambition to construct a society where traits currently assembled under the rubric of gender no longer furnish a grid for the asymmetric operation of power’.44 The struggle must continue until currently... (1/3)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 23
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 23
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
gender abolitionism is ‘shorthand for the ambition to construct a society where traits currently assembled under the rubric of gender no longer furnish a grid for the asymmetric operation of power’.44 The struggle must continue until currently... (1/3)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 23
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 23
What constitutes the very existence of science is its status as an ongoing activity. It is ultimately a pattern of thought and behaviour, a style of going about things which has its characteristic norms and values. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 159
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 159
February 9, 2026 at 6:59 AM
What constitutes the very existence of science is its status as an ongoing activity. It is ultimately a pattern of thought and behaviour, a style of going about things which has its characteristic norms and values. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 159
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 159
One may say that all this is obvious: most of us know that it is a difficult task to formulate our problems clearly, and that we often fail in this task. (1/4)
— Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 162
— Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 162
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
One may say that all this is obvious: most of us know that it is a difficult task to formulate our problems clearly, and that we often fail in this task. (1/4)
— Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 162
— Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 162
“[there is a] fear that if there is nothing quasi-scientific for philosophy as an academic discipline to do, if there is no properly professional Fach which distinguishes the philosophy professor from the historian or the... (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxvii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxvii-b
February 8, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“[there is a] fear that if there is nothing quasi-scientific for philosophy as an academic discipline to do, if there is no properly professional Fach which distinguishes the philosophy professor from the historian or the... (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxvii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxvii-b
TO LISTEN TO AND TELL A RUSH OF STORIES IS A method. And why not make the strong claim and call it a science, an addition to knowledge? (1/5)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 663
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 663
February 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
TO LISTEN TO AND TELL A RUSH OF STORIES IS A method. And why not make the strong claim and call it a science, an addition to knowledge? (1/5)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 663
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 663