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Angie Hobbs @profangiehobbs.bsky.social · 4h

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 5h

Understanding whether consciousness depends on computational roles, biological realizers, or both, is crucial for assessing the prospects of consciousness in AI and less complex animals. end/

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 9h

On Goethe's philosophical influences

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Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 1d

Did social media precipitate a political crisis?

www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...

It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe reflects the prescriptive character of his grammatical education. The kind of thing that was parodied: “‘Ain’t’ ain’t in the dictionary, so I ain’t going to say ‘ain’t’, I ain’t.”

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Really well done

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I give myself permission to write shit so long as it gets sorted later, so same

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Well we had such a system, LectureCast, we have merely switched to Panopto

Even if not UCL specific, remain surprised at College’s readiness to identify with the surveillance state

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Just learned that the new lecture recording facility at UCL has been dubbed Panopto

The administration are not Foucault readers apparently

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Stronger if you just boldly pronounced The Thesis without the preamble.

Not that you were looking for literary advice sorry

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, so it appears that McDowell’s contribution is lightly annotated. But only his

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Untouched

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Partially inspired by philosophy (especially Bergson’s) inspired a lot of philosophy, but I am going out on a limb and claim that he’s no philosopher. So a procedural objection to this particular FU

fuckeveryphilosopherbot @fuckeveryphilosopherbot.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Fuck Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

#philosophy

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

New arrival

First purchased as an undergraduate, borrowed and not returned by Alex Byrne in graduate school (he denies it but I kept a list of books I lent) and now I somehow have Ted Honderich’s copy

Cover of Subject, Thought, and Context, an anthology edited by Pettit and McDowell

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 2d

Is Gertrude Stein have a moment of rediscovery?

www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In Search of Lost Stein

The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 4d

FWIW I like Imprint's style. It strikes me as both elegant and readable. Typesetting a page is super hard, though. Having tried my hand at it (I redesigned the page of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society when I was editor—it took study and months of effort), I am now loathe to caste shade

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 5d

“Decency is a paltry weapon in an evil world, but Pynchon’s refusal to discount it is the strongest consolation his books offer.” —Andrew Katzenstein

The Big Cheese | Andrew Katzenstein

Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of…

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 5d

Same

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 5d

On the Anthropic plagiarism and intellectual theft settlement.

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Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man!

So, all the books I’ve ever written or edited appear on the LibGen pirate website (among others) – I haven’t bothered to check for books to which I’ve contributed a chapter – and theref…

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 6d

On Rachel Ruysch

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Rachel Ruysch and the bounties of nature

The first woman to be admitted to The Hague’s artistic society, Rachel Ruysch was a great innovator who illuminated the wonders of the natural world.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone interested in the history of Free Jazz needs this LP in their collection. The two Free Form cuts “Intuition” & “Digression” were Recorded May 1949, released 1972. #vinyl

SPECIAL NOTE BY LENNIE TRISTANO
During our Capitol recording session in May 1949 some significant things happened. After we did the conventional part of the date, we did the two free sides, "Intuition" and
"Digression". As soon as we began playing the engineer threw up his hands and left his machine. The A & R man and the management thought I was such an idiot that they refused to pay me for the sides and to release them. Free form means playing without a fixed chord progression; without a time signature; without a specified tempo. I had been working with my men in this context for several years so that the music which resulted was not haphazard or hit and miss.
Several months after that Capitol date, Symphony Sid who was a prominent disc jockey during that period, managed to grab a copy of those two free form sides. He played them three of four times a week on his nightly show over a period of several years. Through that, Capitol records received enough requests for those two sides to warrant releasing them. And, of course, they did pay me for them.
In view of the fact that 15 years later a main part of the jazz scene turned into free form, I think this incident is very significant. These two sides were completely spontaneously improvised. A lot of people who heard them thought they were compositions. To my knowledge Miles Davis is the only noted musician who acknowledged in print the real nature of the music on those sides.
LENNIE TRISTANO

tellectualism. There is, however, something more to it than that. For a Carnegie Hall concert, the pianist had himself advertised as "Lennie Tristano and his intuitive music". And Intuition was the title he gave to his pioneering free jazz record, which is easily the most exciting item on the Tristano side of this Ip.
The mentality behind it is quite different from that of the latter-day free jazz, which was the logical next step after the bop procedures had become a stifling obstacle-course instead of an inspiring challenge. I suspect Tristano ventured into this area because at that time atonality and americal rhythms were the latest thing in music that was European, respectable and of the far-out variety.
But throughout Intuition there is a marvelous suspense, a feeling that the group is about to slip into a groove of rollicking swing that is so painfully absent from the preceding tracks.
There is nevertheless a more valid link with the jazz of the sixties. This becomes evident in Wow, where Konitz places his accents in much the same way as Tristano who uses acceleration and deceleration in an extremely personal manner during his improvisation. The result could be described as "wave-rhythm",
,and wave-rhythm - of course - became commonplace in the sixties. These seven Tristano sides are an important footnote to jazz history, because of their influence and because of the playing of two brilliant musicians. Because of the theoretical implications and the integrity of the music, with its boy-scoutlike whistling-in-the-morning-feeling.

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 8d

"One was Realism in Mathematics by Penelope Maddy. In the margins, McCarthy summarizes the author’s points and comments on them, frequently disagreeing. “Gibberish,” he noted at one point."

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$Image of Cormac McCarthy\s copy of Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown Books with a grocery list$

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 9d

The Searle Chair

John Searle died a couple weeks ago. Since people are sharing stories, I'll share one of my own.
As a philosopher of science studying developmental psychology, my dissertation committee initially consisted of Elisabeth Lloyd, Martin Jones, and Alison Gopnik. The topic led me 1/11

The Dennes Room as it looks now, with John Searle's photo in the corner that used to house the Searle Chair.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 9d

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.

Collection of the Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik, Lebanon. (OLM 01367, folios 16r–15v): https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/507976

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

Why I gave the world wide web away for free

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 10d

Currently listening: Turkish Mambo by Lennie Tristano

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Turkish Mambo, by Lennie Tristano

The technique of overdubbing is second nature to recording artists and sound engineers. You record layers of musical performances one over another until you are satisfied that all the ingredients need...

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