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clintunplugged, 1 year ago to random

Pictured: Ongoing renovations to Lunet II, the second of the waterside fortifications built outside of the medieval city centre of Utrecht.

The philosophical thought experiment of Theseus' ship aims to make clear the thought that you can renovate something (a ship in the original example, but here let's take the lunet as a stand-in) to such an extreme degree that it becomes another object entirely. But at what point does that happen exactly? How much of the building needs to change?

clintunplugged, 7 months ago to random

when Immanuel Kant changes his mind, he does so radically...

(quotation from Henry Allison's, Kant's Theory of Taste, p. 134)

clintunplugged, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to StarTrek

One thing I really like about #StarTrek is its persistent rejection (in TOS; TNG; DS9; ...) of #GeneticEngineering

Many people, including some philosophers at prestigious elitist universities like Oxford, who are toying with this idea would do well to listen to Jean-Luc Picard!

EDIT: clip is from season 5, episode 13, "The Masterpiece Society"

clintunplugged, 6 months ago to Aesthetics

it occurs to me that the most persistent prejudice among (contemporary) philosophers and people in general when it comes to philosophical #aesthetics, is NOT subjectivism (roughly: the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder). Rather, it is formalism, the eye that beauty is a matter purely of a thing's formal features (composition, structure, tone, feel) and nothing to do with its substantive features (what it signifies, what it is about, etc.)

@philosophy

clintunplugged, 6 months ago to bookstodon

Old book find! Was flicking through this one (a collection of writings bij Leibniz, German language, published 1906), when I found that nobody ever bothered to cut open the folia in the back. How cool is that! @philosophy @bookstodon

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clintunplugged, 5 months ago to art

Aesthetic Investigations is out just in time to ring in the new year! This issue: 'Models and Sitters' a special issue on the #art and #aesthetics of #posing

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/issue/view/1252

#model #portrait #nude @philosophy #AesthInv20232

clintunplugged, 1 month ago to random

happy #InternationalWorkersDay! how will you be celebrating?

DominikDammer, 3 months ago to philosophy

some discussions made me think...
is animal ethics really something where philosophy can progress?

like all the "newer" arguments, feel more or less similar to the "old" ones.

the only real way I see is to interdisciplinary combine it. Like "Zoopolis" did with political theory.

do you disagree with me?

@philosophy @philosophie #animalEthics #animalRights #animalEthic #philosophy

clintunplugged, 4 months ago to architecture

Somebody made this exceptionally silly painting, "The architect's dream", commissioned by an architect who refused to accept it because it was so silly. The artist never sold it and it remained in his possession until his death.

#architecture #painting #aesthetics

clintunplugged, 3 months ago to philosophy

fun fact: when the philosopher Ernst #Bloch died in #Tübingen 1977, he was so beloved by students that the local student union renamed the university "Ernst-Bloch Universität", a name which they insisted upon until 2017 when students complained that not all of them shared Bloch's political views.

#studentpolitics @philosophy

clintunplugged, 3 months ago to philosophy

#CornelWest, objectively the most cogent candidate running for the US presidency this year, says: "the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak".

In this snippet from The Examined Life (2008, dir. Astra Taylor), prof. West clarifies that he inherits the thought from #Adorno. But I wonder: is it a direct quote? Where does it appear in Adorno's corpus? Certainly it fits well within his philosophy, but I can't seem to find the exact passage...

@philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD3X3f5C_w

clintunplugged, 9 days ago to philosophy

serious (i.e. non-rhetorical) question: why do people consider Slavoj #Zizek a #leftist ? What is #leftwing about his belief system?

@politicaltheory @philosophy

clintunplugged, 2 months ago to philosophy

attention all stoners, feallsanachd is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba9TmIWkLpU

@philosophy

clintunplugged, 3 months ago to Ethics

a colleague who is involved with this conference told me that the Ethics Lab in Yaoundé is looking for donations. help if you can!

https://www.steunleiden.nl/project/ethicslab

#charity #ethics @philosophy

clintunplugged, 4 months ago to random

Dear #Democrats, you must now how unconvincing it is to point out #Trump's insanity in response to #Biden's senility. Trump's voters are aware that he's insane. They love it. It's a positive character trait to them

clintunplugged, 2 months ago to Aesthetics

some thoughts on #aesthetics and @philosophyofscience

I've been teaching the philosophy of science even though this is not at all my expertise, but today it struck me that the discipline is similar to aesthetics in several interesting ways.

For one thing, both are latecomers among philosophical fields of study; while both have roots going back to Plato and Aristotle, these sources are part of the disciplines' prehistory. Their real origins lie rather in the modern age.

clintunplugged, 1 month ago to philosophy

you may not agree with Jodi Dean's position. but the attempt to silence here, punish her for speaking about her viewpoints, is beyond the pale. anyone who cares about #FreedomOfSpeech or #AcademicFreedom should sign this petition

https://chng.it/TVyrdXcTNv

@philosophy @politicaltheory

clintunplugged, 1 month ago to philosophy

The "Lives of Philosophers"-tag on @DailyNous includes only deaths

@philosophy

clintunplugged, 1 month ago to philosophy

Immanuel #Kant would have turned 300 today, and people have been sharing their favourite quote of his in his honour.

Here's mine; arguing why whigmakers deserve to vote, while hairdressers do not.

Happy birthday, you sick puppy!

@philosophy @politicaltheory

and the tailor to whom I give cloth to have it turned into a garment seem to stand in very similar relation to me, each of them is nonetheless distinct, as the hairdresser is distinct from the wig maker (whom I may have even given the hair to for it), or the day laborer s distinct from the artist or artisan, who makes a work that belongs to him as long as he is not paid for it. The latter sells his property as one engaged in a trade to another (opus), while the former grants the use of his powers to another (operam).—It is, I confess, somewhat difficult to determine the requirement for laying claim to the class in which one is one’s own master.

clintunplugged, 1 month ago to palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVIlr5jUMw

Not gonna lie, #Macklemore was about the last one on my list of celebrities to weigh in with a clear-eyed message on @palestine and Israel's #GenocideGaza. But this song fucking rules.

clintunplugged, 4 months ago to random

I fear I just lost another student to the Deleuzians (you know the kind, not the Deleuze scholars, but the Deleuzians)

clintunplugged, 23 days ago to poetry

https://cpverdonschot.xyz/blog/translating-the-oppressed/
New blogpost, on #translation and @poetry

What kind of lived experience is it necessary for a translator to have? Is it possible for white authors to translate Black poetry? I argue that while, certainly, lived experience is important for poetry, this does not render translators incapable simply in virtue of their social location.