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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3h

Umberto Eco: The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist

His writings reveal how the symbols and rhetoric of the Middle Ages can be twisted to serve modern fascist ideologies.

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The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist - Medievalists.net

Discover how medievalist Umberto Eco used his fiction, scholarship, and political insight to expose the signs of modern fascism—and why his warnings remain urgent today.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 23h

Indeed. Inquiry can be a natural human inclination, but philosophical inquiry involves particular levels of intellectual exploration, analysis, and critical examination of fundamental questions in pursuit of well-reasoned answers. This presents distinct pursuits.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 23h

I concur.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 1d

A collection of concepts.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 1d

What is philosophy to you?

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 1d

Why Philosophy? has published a brief interview of me on the nature and practice of philosophy

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Eric Schwitzgebel

In living life thoughtfully, we are always already practicing philosophy.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 1d

How David Hume split literature from philosophy

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How David Hume split literature from philosophy | Aeon Essays

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3d

The pillar-biter

(On the far right of the choir screen of the St. Bavo church in Haarlem, Netherlands)

A wooden sculpture of a man in religious attire clinging to and biting a pillar, part of the choir screen in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3d

Please be advised.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

The tomb was designated the “Tomb of Cerberus” after the incredible mural of Hercules fighting the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3d

Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

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Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 3d

The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender

Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender

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Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.

#philsky #podcast

Early modern image of women in 17th c France

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 4d

Making room for Fall and Winter clothes, if we even get any. Today, 30° C in October.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 4d

"Explores learning, teaching, indoctrination, knowledge, equality, intelligence, virtue, and rights

Presents an analysis of concepts and theories that relate to what should and should not be done, educationally speaking"

#philsky #philosophyofeducation

Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting news! Our textbook, Philosophy of Education, has been published with Palgrave!!

This is a contemporary, up-to-date, not old, male & stale introduction to our field.

Please spread the word & order the book for your library!
#philsky #academicsky

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Philosophy of Education

This textbook provides an introductory account of the philosophy of education, focussing on the questions raised by educational policy and practice.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 4d

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 4d

The search for simplicity is a mistake

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Occam's razor is leading cosmology astray | Jim Al-Khalili

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 5d

Own or Other Integrity in Expected Moral Judgments? Moral Pluralism and Political Partisanship

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 5d

Do people expect to be judged by their own moral standards or someone else's? New #SPPS research reports that we actually expect out-group members to judge us by their values, not ours.

📖 Read more: ow.ly/1tnF50X5yNP

Close-up of three people using hand gestures while engaged in a serious conversation indoors.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 6d

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 6d

Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation, and Perception

Free online from 29th September 2025 - 13th October 2025

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Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and Perception

Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century Philosophy - Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and Perception

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 7d

Publication alert: 📚📖🤓

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 8d

*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 9d

"Physical reality at its more fundamental levels does not consist of thing-like entities at all."

#philsky #philosophyofscience

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Reality is not made up of objects | Dennis Dieks

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11d

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

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#Archaeology

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again.

The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 13d

There is no good and evil, only better and worse

What Peter Singer gets wrong about morality

#philsky #moralphil

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There is no good and evil, only better and worse | Alastair Norcross

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 14d

So happy to have seen my favourite painting once again

#Florence #Uffizi #Botticelli

The unique, delicate painting of Botticelli's La Primavera. It shows Venus, Cupid, the Three Graces, and Mercury in an orange grove and other trees. The scene depicts the wind god Zephyr pursuing the nymph Chloris, who transforms into Flora, the goddess of spring, as she scatters flowers.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 14d

What does it mean to see someone as an object?

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15d

latest by the dream team of @pasliwa.bsky.social and Tom McClelland #philsky

Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances

In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 14d

"If we want philosophy to be genuinely global, just, and conducive to the pursuit of truth, we need to be more aware of the invisible labor that many NNES philosophers invest to be heard, and more willing to challenge the structures that may keep them quiet."

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The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous

Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today---"academic English"---and the challenges faced by native and non-native sp...

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 16d

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