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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · Jan 3

New year, new reading challenge: 125 in 2025 📚

Will post finished texts with cover image in this thread 🧵

Book #1: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures) by Donna J. Haraway

#booksky #philsky #academicsky #bookchallenge

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 2d

Book 141: ‘2084 and the AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future’ by John C. Lennox

#booksky #bookchallenge #AI #techsky #philsky #psychsky #consciousness

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 6d

Book 140: ‘Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines’ by Joy Buolamwini

#booksky #bookchallenge #AI #techsky

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William James Society @wjsociety.bsky.social · 7d

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread,' as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage…

courage.no

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 7d

I absolutely agree — I love Patel’s concept of “answerability” and think it’s woefully missing from research, ay the world, today.

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 7d

Book 139: ‘Decolonizing Education Research: From Ownership to Answerability’ by Leigh Patel // @routledgebooks.bsky.social

#booksky #bookchallenge #edusky #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 8d

⏳The AAHE survey on the state of arts on college campuses closes this Friday! If you work in Higher Education arts administration, please share your insights with us (or send to a colleague!) 🗳️

tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #highered #artsky #edusky

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! Rigorous demonstration of Heidegger’s method of destruction, interesting argument on its persistence in his later work, & thoughtful consideration of how we think about the tradition / our Oakeshottian inheritance today.

Have you read anything else by Kirkland? Might try another of his soon...

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much for your generous words, Tom — I’m so glad my sharing is useful / helpful!

Cheers to all the readers, writers, artists and philosophers; we need the humanities more than ever in these challenging times 📚🖼️ 🧠

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 8d

Book 138: ‘Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition’ by Sean D. Kirkland

H/t to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social for having Sean on as a guest a while back — led to me putting several of his books on my reading list.

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 9d

Book 137: ‘Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology’ by Richard Wolin / @yalepress.bsky.social

#philsky #academicsky #booksky #bookchallenge

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 9d

Book 136: ‘Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction’ by Michael Inwood (Oxford Very Short Introductions / @oxfordunipress.bsky.social )

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 10d

Book 135: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt

h/t to @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 12d

Book 134: ‘Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences’ by Howard Gardner

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky // cc @projectzerohgse.bsky.social @harvardeducation.bsky.social

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 13d

Colloquium 2 of 2: Rachel Wahl (University of Virginia) on “Keeping Our Enemies Closer: Political Dialogue in Polarized Democracies”

📍 @teacherscollege.bsky.social

#academicsky #edusky #philsky #democracy

Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 13d

On Thursdays, we philosophize…

Colloquium 1 of 2: Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on “Health and Well-Being: Some Complications”

📍Philosophy Hall, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #philsky #academicsky #edusky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 13d

Really enjoy the podcast — @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social’s insights and the group’s thoughtful questions are a terrific companion to Arendt’s rich texts. Grateful you make it available to the public.

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 13d

Confession: Philosophy is my coping mechanism, especially during crazy times like these.

🎧 @onbeing.bsky.social @philosophybites.bsky.social @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social

#philsky #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 14d

Book 133: ‘A Synthesizing Mind’ by Howard Gardner

#booksky #bookchallenge #academicsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

Indeed!! #HKnights

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Probably March for Art Basel unless I can find an excuse to come sooner 🇭🇰

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

Book 132: ‘To Have or To Be?’ by Erich Fromm

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky #psychsky

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

So awesome! Sadly no Singapore for me this time, but glad you’ll be there to support Kat 🇸🇬

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

Wish you were here!

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

No apologies necessary — we need more laughter in this world right now. Good memories for the win 🥇

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Rebecca Taylor FRSA @rebeccataylor.bsky.social · 16d

Literally just laughed out loud in the middle of the panel reading this 🤣

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