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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 8d

There is a moral purity in the dilettante who chases neither perfection nor the thrill of competition. But I think career choices are not quite like picking a hobby.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28.

More please!

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 10d

Die AfD setzte sich heute in NRW ihre Verlustreihe fort. In alle drei Städten wo sie in eine Stichwahl für das Oberbürgermeisteramt gekommen ist, hat sie kräftig verloren. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, und in Hagen 72-28.

Weiter so!

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Aber ich sehe ihre Irritation jetzt eher darin, dass Sie 'Minderheit' in 'Minderheitssprache' nicht als statistische, sondern soziale Kategorie verstehen, die bestimmte Machtverhältnisse voraussetzt.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Da Sie nur diese Stelle zitiert hatten, schien es als ob sie schon in der Auflistung zweier Beispiele eine umfassendere Analogie sehen.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Danke für die Erläuterung. Mich hatte interessiert inwiefern die Aussage "es gibt verschiedene Fs, so wie a oder b" impliziert dass a und b sich über die F-heit hinaus ähneln. Ich bin eher gewohnt, dass man damit nur Fa und Fb äußert, aber das ist vielleicht eine déformation professionelle.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Since this may be of interest to you, here is the letter by Brentano to Hugo Bergmann, 1 June 1909, cited and translated in Rollinger2010:

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Ist diese Dynamik schon Teil des Begriffs 'Minderheitensprache'? D.h. würden Sie FR in DE nicht als Minderheitensprache bezeichnen? Oder geht es darum, dass die Nennung im selben Satz eine Ähnlichkeit suggerieren könnte (vielleicht auch außerhalb des Zitats).

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 11d

Viele unähnliche Dinge können unter denselben Begriff fallen - deshalb heißt das ja noch nicht, dass man sie vergleicht. Für andere Nicht-Linguisten, könnten Sie kurz sagen was genau Sie schräg finden? Darf eine Minderheitensprache in keinem anderen Kontext eine Mehrheitssprache sein?

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 18d

Bolzano was remembered as a mathematician, but forgotten as a philosopher. As far as I know, it was Brentano who introduced Bolzano's work as a negative example, with the unintended consequence that his students (Husserl, Twardowski, Meinong) got very excited and rediscovered Bolzano as a logician.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Aug 5

For the OZSW-Summer School with Hackathon in Utrecht:
www.ozsw.nl/activity/dat...

Data-driven Methods in Philosophy – ozsw

www.ozsw.nl

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Aug 5

For the GAP Satellite Workshop in Utrecht:
maxnoichl.eu/blog/2025/ga...

Max Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy

GAP-Satellite workshop

maxnoichl.eu

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Aug 5

@mnoichl.bsky.social and I are organizing two workshops where you can learn about and try out digital methods for philosophy:

12th-13th September in Düsseldorf, Keynotes @cherfeld.bsky.social & Adrian Wüthrich

16-18th October in Utrecht, Keynotes Gregor Betz & Charles Pence. Register until 31.8.

Max Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy

GAP-Satellite workshop

maxnoichl.eu

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · May 20

Why worry about which novels already exist if they can be generated as you read?

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · May 15

Phenomenology also on the up...

Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · May 15

The rise and rise of metaphysics...

Love that this includes very recent data!

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · May 9

"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here:
philpapers.org/rec/BSRPFX

*Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidence

G. E. Bös, Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence - PhilPapers

Already before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ...

philpapers.org

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Mar 29

turns out, edhiphy.org has been nominated for a Digital Humanities Award! There are also lots of other interesting projects to discover, I enjoyed for example Thomas Weibel's 3D visualization of the Antikythera mechanism.

Voting is very easy and open until 4th April:
dhawards.org/dhawards2024...

DH Awards 2024 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards

dhawards.org

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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · Jan 14

We are very excited to start the new series De Gruyter History of #Philosophy and #Science with this #OpenAccess volume - and find the hauting relevance of the topic these days not necessarily a pleasant surprise. www.degruyter.com/do...

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Harriet Fagerberg @harrif.bsky.social · Jan 5

The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...

CfA Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable — Philosophy & Medicine

www.philosophyandmedicine.org

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Jan 6

Lisa Kampen at Radboud university is preparing a philosophy PhD on Calkins.
In the edhiphy database we found that Calkins was the most discussed female philosopher pre-WW1.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Dec 16

Interesting! I did not think of Husserl's objection to mathematization in the _Crisis_ in terms of Putnam on the fact-value distinction. But I think that in Husserl's case, non-mathematizable properties need not be evaluative. There just may be no 'mathematically exact' concepts for e.g. colour.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Dec 16

I've been thinking about this for a while now. I think this point of Husserl's is often dismissed because of objections to his wider metaphysics. Of those 'repeating' his point, does anyone stand out to you as particularly worth engaging with?

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you for showcasing! I've noted the mentioned gaps and will make sure to address them in an update.

I'm currently doing a larger rewrite to extend the journal coverage and improve the disambiguation. It's a good time to iron out problems or implement new features, so I appreciate any comments!

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · Dec 13

Philosophers tend to receive most discussion late in life, typically a couple of decades after producing their most influential work. Data and analysis in blog post in comments.

Articles mentioning JME McTaggart, by year 1890-1980 in Edhiphy. Note peak in the late 1930s. McTaggart's most influential publication was in 1908.

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