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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

Safe travels to Professor Jonathan Lear, whose words and thoughts transported so many of us.

His radical hope remains.

Photo of Jonathan Lear in glasses

Jonathan Lear
1948 - 2025
Philosopher, psychoanalyst, teacher
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"It is not only good but wondrous that there should be mourning [...]
In response to loss, we make meaning: re-creating in memory and imagination what we have lost and reanimating forms of life that might otherwise disappear."
—Jonathan Lear
Imagining the End
Image via harvard up

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dev ! 🐞 @deliriousdev.bsky.social · 18d

To those that have seen the Apple TV series Severance - we all agree this is a Marxist critique of capitalism right? Specifically of his theory of alienation? It’s so good, also bringing up questions of the mind-body problem, consent, bodily autonomy, and much more. #severance #marxism #philsky

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · Aug 6

Donald Davidson published on James Joyce, Elisabeth Camp edited a book on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Are there other examples of analytic philosophers of language engaging with literature like this?

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Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · Jul 23

Happy to share that I’ll be giving a talk on Russellian physicalism at the XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy in Seville this October! 🙂 @sefa2025.bsky.social

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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · Jul 18

“What kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn’t be any less pleased to be refuted than to refute.”

— Socrates, in Plato’s Gorgias

#philosophy #philsky

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Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · Jul 17

What ontology of consciousness do you find most convincing and why? 🧠

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Croatian Journal of Philosophy @crojphil.bsky.social · Jul 16

The newest issue of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy, featuring articles on thought experiments, religious diversity, pornography and more, is available at:

Archive - Croatian Journal of Philosophy

Current Issue — Vol. 25 No. 73 Safety and Future Dependence Bin Zhao The Holism of Doxastic Justification Erhan Demircioğlu Thought Experiments, Fictions, and Irrelevant Details Bojan Borstner, Tadej ...

cjp.ifzg.hr

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · Jul 16

Planning ahead for summer 2026? Don’t miss the EPIC Summer School in Bertinoro (Italy)! Details and a link to apply here: epistemicinjusticein... #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #MedHum

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Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · Jul 4

I can send you some photos of your talk! :))

Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · Jul 4

So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️

Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · Jun 20

Very sad to hear that @helendecruz.net passed away today.
dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · Mar 7

Our qualitative study with natural scientists on ultimate reality has been published. We look at the influence of religious background and disciplinary field, as well as inspiration from humanities. Care for the planet an enduring concern. Read it open access here! Thank you to participants

The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion | Religious Studies | Cambridge Core

The restaurant at the beginning of the universe: Natural scientists on ultimate reality, science, and religion

www.cambridge.org

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Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · Jun 20

My sincere condolences..

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · Jun 18

Are conspiracy theories epistemically innocent? New paper published in Philosophical Topics, as part of a special issue on Beyond evidence in epistemology: www.researchgate.net... #philsky

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Pete Wung The Curious Polymath @curiouspolymath.bsky.social · Jun 18

#science #philsky

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jun 7

Wonderful piece by James Read with a shout-out to the apparently roughly 300 philosophers of physics, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, and the RCNP!

Why do philosophy of physics when you can do physics itself? | Aeon Essays

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · May 22

Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Daily Nous

Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work on moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · May 20

The Virtual Isn’t Real (contra Chalmers) #philsky #virtualreality #metaphysics #philosophy

The Virtual isn't Real

The suggestion that we might live in a giant computer simulation seems plausible in large part because the hypothetical sophistication of the hypothetical simulation can be increased to meet almost an...

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · May 15

Upcoming tomorrow at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social (Friday 16 May): Workshop on Reduction and Emergence at @caslmu.bsky.social. For more information, see: www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...

Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology

Workshop in the context of the CAS Research Focus

www.cas.lmu.de

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · May 14

The journal Religious Studies has a new special issue on “experimental philosophy of religion”

Broadly speaking, this emerging field aims to bring together cognitive science of religion (CSR) and philosophy of religion

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Warwick Philosophy @philoswarwick.bsky.social · May 13

📖 New Book: Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists, edited by Peter Cheyne. Check out Chapter 14 by Warwick's Andrew Cooper on Coleridge's unexpected contribution to the British biosciences 🚀 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists

This book written by renowned historians of philosophy, provides an interdisciplinary work on matter & life in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600–1850)

link.springer.com

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Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com · May 12

I’m so sorry Helen.. wishing you peace.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · May 12

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · May 9

BREAKING: pope studied existentialism and phenomenology

facebook post from jack caputo

I'm proud to say that I had the Pope in my "German Existentialism and Phenomenology" course in the Spring semester of his senior year (1977). So he's fully prepared for the job based on what he learned about Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · May 9

"What surprised you in this class?" (intro to philosophy)
- "Philosophers think about everything/everyone" 🥹

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