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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · 22d

I notice that Heterodox Academy has vociferously condemned the killing of Charlie Kirk, but has said nothing about the recent firings in Texas over course content or exercise of free speech. Hmmm...

Anyhow, I'm gonna bounce from social media for a while. Reach out if you want to join my Discord.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22d

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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Andreas Vrahimis @avrahimis.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky

(Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

The working of truths: Stebbing’s debate with Schiller - Synthese

Synthese - According to the standard account, early analytic philosophy clashed with Pragmatism when Moore and Russell attacked the James-Schiller theory of truth from 1908 onwards. While recent...

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 26d

Outgoing #HOPOS editor Lydia Patton reflects on seven years at the journal.

Later in the Fall, look out for Editor in Chief Matthew J. Brown's statement of editorial vision as he takes the reins of a journal now in its 15th year of publication.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Serendipity and the Unexpected in the History of Philosophy of Science: Reflections on My Editorship of HOPOS (2017–2024) | HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science: Vol 15, No 1

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · Aug 29

...That stretch constitutes inference.” – John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1929, LW 1: 12-13).

Monday 9/1 is the last day of early bird registration for our Experience and Nature Centennial Conference in October. Find out more at:
deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...
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Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · Aug 29

...Linked in certain other ways with another natural object–the human organism–they are how things are experienced as well. Experience thus reaches down into nature; it has depth. It also has breadth and to an indefinitely elastic extent. It stretches.... (2/3)

Upcoming Conference | Center for Dewey Studies | SIU

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · Aug 29

“[Experience] is of as well as in nature. It is not experience which is experienced, but nature– stones, plants, animals, diseases, health, temperature, electricity, and so on. Things interacting in certain ways are experience; they are what is experienced.... (1/3)

John Dewey chopping wood with a quote from his book, Experience and Nature, which reads “[No] philosopher can get away from experience even if he wants to.” Citation: Experience and Nature, 1929, Late works 1, page 36

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 23

Fake small-town "Autumn Festival" shirts at the outlet mall.

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 20

Unfortunately several graduate students were injured just after this photo, when the book fell over.

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Center for Dewey Studies @deweycenter.siu.edu · Aug 20

This Fall, the Center for Dewey Studies Reading Group will discuss Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920). Email [email protected] to join and get a 30% off the book from SIU Press at www.siupress.com. (1/3)

The cover of John Dewey's Reconstruction in Philosophy overlaid on an image of the Center for Dewey Studies conference room.

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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · Aug 19

Should we ditch elections, cancel politicians, and hand over decision-making power to a small and randomly selected group of fellow citizens?

Here I review the case for and against two proposals: Alex Guerrero’s “lottocracy” and Hélène Landemore’s “open democracy.”

Link in first comment.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 12

I recommend this video as a diagnosis of the current trend of the retreat of democracy, but also and more so as the start of a conversation on reversing that trend.
youtu.be/lvTBRPoZhqM?...

Is democracy dying? | Dave Troy | TEDxBerlin

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 12

Maybe this will help? It was recommended to me on FB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_q...

Optimism: A Duty? | Erik Angner | TEDxKI

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 12

I started a post on Facebook that got really long, so I decided to dust off the old blog and post it there. It is about the hopeful way things used to feel, and how all that hope (along with most of the progress of the prior century) has evaporated. thehangedman.com/politics/the...

The Loss of Hope

It feels like in the last 10 years all the hope and most of the progress of the prior century have evaporated.

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 10

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 10

I swear it was my 10th photo!

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 10

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 7

Greg Radick takes over as the new editor-in-chief of journal Metascience (thanks to Greg for this service)!
And ICYMI, Metascience now has a Bluesky account ⬇️
@metasciencejournal.bsky.social Welcome to Bsky Metascience & congrats on the great new editor!
#HPS
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Aug 7

So delighted to welcome Prof. Heather Douglas to The HPS Podcast!

In this illuminating conversation, we explore the history & legacy of the “value-free ideal.” Heather offers insights on the evolving responsibilities of scientists, and presents her bold vision for a new social contract for science.

S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 6

Here's a paper where I put the same sort of approach to use: www.matthewjbrown.net/professional...

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 6

Here's a paper of Finkelstein that I think compactly expresses his perspective on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Action Physics - International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Special relativity unite space and time intospace-time. Quantum theory extends relativity fromspace-time to state of being. A further extension ofrelativity to observer and law seems necessary and is ...

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Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com · Aug 5

This seems similar to David Finkelstein's later (Bohr-inspired) approach, which focused on quantum effects being about relations between initial preparation and final measurement and minimized the role of "quantum state." He thought the standard approach ignored preparation's significance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 4

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

www.nytimes.com

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