Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
"World renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82."
Are our moral #values shaped by divine love or are they a result of biological requirements of human life?
THIS WEDNESDAY April 17 at #UniversityOfTexas#Austin, #philosophers Ben Bayer and Adam Lloyd Johnson #debate the origins and interpretation of #morality, focusing on differences between secular, scientific interpretations, and theological views.
How do you name your devices? I name my devices after #philosophers. I've had Schopenhauer, Kant, Diogones, Socrates, etc. But for this newly installed laptop using #GNOME#Silverblue, I decided for something a bit different.
My new system is called Fanton, after Frantz Fanton, who studied the psychology of #colonization - that is both the colonized and the colonizers. His statement that colonization dehumanizes both still rings true today.
Under the auspices of @BBAW German #philosophers produce a new edition of #Kant's collected works (Akademieausgabe). As printed books. I have no further comments at this point.
The Beauty of Interconnectedness: How Nothing & No One Stands Alone
#Interconnectedness is a concept that has been pondered by #philosophers for centuries. It is the idea that everything in the universe is connected in some way and that nothing exists in isolation. No #country, no #religion, no #military might, there is nothing that can keep us apart from each other and the world around us. This profound understanding has the power to transform our perceptions
I'm looking for a term for something. In rhetoric, there's a term "reductio ad absurdum", literally "reduction to the absurd", whereby one illustrates that one's rhetorical opponent is making a silly argument, by taking it to its logical extremes.
So what's it called, the thing that #philosophy does, of using more extreme cases to more clearly illuminate principles? For instance, describing moral quandaries in terms of life or death. (Continued)
For instance, the trolley problem could entirely be discussed in terms of sharing cake, but it wouldn't be very compelling would it? So it's about killing people. That's not a reductio ad absurdum. Doing that is not meant to invalidate the question at all, or to dismiss it, but to strengthen it and insist upon its importance.
Is there a term for doing that, for introducing a life and death scenario to illuminate the difficulty of some philosophical issue? #philosophers?
I am wondering, fellow #philosophers, how I can reconcile #Berkleyan ideas - that nothing is real, because reality is in our minds - with the idea that there is potential consciesness in other animals and even plants.
So if intelligence and consciousness might be very widespread, how can it be just in our heads?
Aristotle’s ‘golden mean’ is his theory that excellence lies in the middle way between two extreme states: excess and deficiency. This article considers the theory — and shares Aristotle’s tips for living in accordance with it.
Philosophers are trained to be critical and to read very critically. That's an important skill. But it has the foreseeable and negative side effect of making many of us tend to think everything we read is crap.
So #philosophers - what's a paper or book in #philosophy that you've read in the last 6 months that you thought was very good?
Since Bostrom's "we are most likely living in a #simulation because with good enough tech there are far more simulations than reality" argument and hullabaloo some years ago, have there been any further significant arguments in that direction?
Wikipedia only has some attempts at refutation of that argument. Or has simply nobody pursued this line of thinking in some significant way?
@mastodonmigration
The lack of medicine / medical sciences as an academic specialty highlights why sometimes I find Mastodon so lonely as a platform for academia!