I would appreciate it if people could help me get more federated on my new instance. Please boost this post if any of the following tags apply to you so I can follow!
An oddly specific #AskFedi, but Mastodon is the kind of place where I feel comfortable making a request like this, so here goes.
My request is for a female ethicist/moral philosopher (not necessarily a current or former professional philosopher, but someone who has at least a PhD in ethics/moral philosophy) who is a trans-inclusive feminist to DM me to advise me on a moral quandary I'm having relating to reproduction (not an urgent one, I should say, not remotely). I'm at the point where I cannot resolve the problem myself, but I don't feel like any of my female friends or family are capable of the kind of perspective or moral clarity that I need here. It's quite a big ask, I know, but for the first time in my life I need the services of a professional.
An ex-philosopher friend remarked to me yesterday that academics judging prestige and success by citation metrics incentivizes the same thing in slow-motion as social media algorithms judging success of content creators by engagement metrics, and it has thrown me into an existential crisis.
To the Stoics, there wasn’t anything wrong with having money. Marcus Aurelius came from money. So did Cato. Seneca came from money and also made a lot of it. In fact, pretty much all the Stoics except for Cleanthes and Epictetus were incredibly rich....
Well, there it is. After almost five years, I'm done with Twitter or 'X'. Mastodon feels more community-like and free, so I'm happy I managed to migrate successfully! 🦣
Regarding me, I have a PhD in philosophy, and I'm mostly interested in exploring theories of consciousness and all of its aspects 🧠
Apart from that, I like reading, writing, photography, computers, video games, cooking vegetarian dishes, and more 💻
I sometimes forget that the far right is an anti enlightenment movement.
Perhaps it's my decades of being submerged in the ivory tower of the university or maybe it's just a love of logic and enlightenment principals. I don't know.
But I'm realizing what I find persuasive--evidence that's based on reason--not only fails to persuade the anti-enlightenment crowd, but actually incenses them. They hate reason the way vampires hate sunlight.
my department is hiring an adjunct to teach an A.I. ethics course in the fall. the course is fully online and asynchronous, 3 credits in 7 weeks starting in the second half of the fall semester (unsure of the exact start date, but probably some time in october). phd in hand is not required.
British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died #OTD in 1970. He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica. via @wikipedia
"I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born #OTD in 1844. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. via @Britannica
My book Philosophy of Cybersecurity tackles a broad domain from systems cybersecurity, user's aspects, healthcare, critical infrastructure security, to policy and politics matters, international law, and cyberwarfare.
Post a photo or cite example of something simple (an object or an experience) that brings abundance and satisfaction way beyond its face-value simplicity.
Tag it with #frugalAbundance
Boost examples that resonate with you.
Do They Own You? | Daily Stoic
To the Stoics, there wasn’t anything wrong with having money. Marcus Aurelius came from money. So did Cato. Seneca came from money and also made a lot of it. In fact, pretty much all the Stoics except for Cleanthes and Epictetus were incredibly rich....