"𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔."
─ 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯
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The Woman Who Saw Birds as Individuals
Len Howard opened her cottage—and our eyes—to the birds
By Eva Meijer
https://nautil.us/the-woman-who-saw-birds-as-individuals-1207714/
Birds at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=birds&submit_search=Search
‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations
https://aeon.co/videos/am-i-not-at-least-something-a-surreal-dive-into-descartess-meditations
Meditations on First Philosophy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23306
Elon Musk called empathy a “weakness” of Western civilization. But philosophers argue the opposite: empathy is a hard-won form of knowledge — and essential for understanding others and making informed decisions https://theconversation.com/empathy-can-take-a-toll-but-2-philosophers-explain-why-we-should-see-it-as-a-strength-254554 #philosophy #USPolitics
The Father of Existentialism: Who Was Søren Kierkegaard?
Søren Kierkegaard is among the most distinguished philosophers in history.
by Maysara Kamal
https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-soren-kierkegaard/
Kierkegaard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46682
This start of The Myth of Sisyphus is some of the best writing these little eyes have ever seen, and yes I do imagine Sisyphus happy 😁
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Register for the Summer School on Panpsychism, to be help at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb from 1-3 July!
More info: https://panpsychism.ifzg.hr/
Why philosophy of physics?
Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful
By James Read
Philosophy of physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7005
The wisdom of surrender
Samuel Beckett turned an obscure 17th-century Christian heresy into an artistic vision and an unusual personal philosophy
by Andy Wimbush
Epistemology, the study of knowledge and knowing, has quite a lengthy Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Agnoiology, the study of ignorance and the unknowable, was coined by the same person who introduced the word "epistemology": James Frederick Ferrier. Agnoiology has a considerably shorter Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnoiology
What kind of society would we be if the lengths of these entries were reversed?
The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
By Sandrine Parageau
Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44
Philosophy must be useful
For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense. Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative
By Cheryl Misak
Philosophy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/57
Religion, explained:
(evolution as religion)
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It’s not the afterlife, it’s the next life, the next generation
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it’s not your soul, it’s your genes you need to be protecting, and not the way the warriors think, the way you would protect your soul is the way you protect your genes, by getting right with the world.
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This is what the prophets have been trying to tell you, when you abuse, you harm your GENES and so we are punished in the next life, meaning the next generation.
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“Soul,” in this sense, is a better definition for genes than the popular version. This is life as religion here, in theory, how things may have been understood in the deeper past, before we became the warriors and lost the sense of things.
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(Preach, you silly white fool. It’s Tuesday, FFS. 🙄😜)
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Why Did René Descartes Say “I Think, Therefore I Am”?
“I think, therefore I am” is not only Renê Descartes’ most quoted declaration, but one that caused a paradigm shift and profoundly influenced modern philosophy.
https://www.thecollector.com/rene-descartes-i-think-therefore-i-am-cogito-ergo-sum/
Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44
How Locke and His Heirs Redefined Beauty (Aesthetic Sense)
In the 18th century, British empiricists, under the influence of Locke, turned to subjectivism and coined the term aesthetic sense.
by Mirjana Jojić
https://www.thecollector.com/notion-aesthetic-sense-british-empiricism/
John Locke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2447
Bruno the brave
For anyone who dares to voice dangerous ideas and risk imprisonment or exile, Giordano Bruno remains a hero
by Stephanie Merritt
About Giordano Bruno at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7069
Next May 13-15, 2026, Prof. Aminah Hasan-Birdwell and I will be hosting a workshop on Slavery and Abolition in 18th-Century Philosophy at Emory U. in Atlanta, Georgia. https://forms.gle/wTC7DqNgHQE3dpT58 We expect to have about 15-20 participants, and we are seeking funding for travel support for participants who need it. There will be a remote option for those who need it as well (the US being what it is). Please share this with colleagues who may be interested! #Philosophy
From scattered traces
How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought
By Luka Boršić
Croatian literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=croatian+literature
Nietzsche vs. Schopenhauer’s Views on Life, Suffering, and the Will
Is suffering something that hinders us, or helps us along? Schopenhauer looks for a way out, while Nietzsche insists we make good use of it.
by Viktoriya Sus
https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779
"When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it."
Opening lines
How Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Redefined Morality & Revolutionized Philosophy
by Viktoriya Sus
https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-thus-spoke-zarathustra-work-philosophy/
Zarathustra at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Zarathustra+
Picked up this history of Australian #philosophy on the chance it covered philosophical logic, and indeed @consequently , Graham Priest, relevance logic, and the Automated Reasoning Group make cameos. As a book the writing is delightfully funny and acerbic, but so biased towards the author's right wing politics and personal friends that it's hard to take seriously as history. He goes so far as to praise a 'gaps in the fossil records' anti-evolution book, and discusses David Stove at length while somehow not mentioning his remarkably explicit endorsements of racism and misogyny. University of Sydney also appears to receive excessive emphasis, although admittedly its 1970s split into right and left wing philosophy departments is bizarre and interesting. @bookstodon #bookstodon
#Philosophy/ #physics / #math poll:
Is it fair to describe quantity as having agency? I.e., is quantity as such a causal force?
Sorry to force a binary choice, happy to read comments.
There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse
by Prashanti Aswani, Adam D’Arpino, Abigail Tulenko
Books by Abelard and Heloïse at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5441
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38039
The great, forgotten Wolff
Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolff’s mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher
by Michael Walschots
