Olivia Sultanescu
@lejardinbleu.bsky.social
Teaching philosophy at Haverford. Originaire d'un pays de l'Europe de l'Est.
This week I'll be presenting a paper that I have been thinking about for a very long time (with a title that might be my favourite so far): philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/philo...
Philosophy Speaker Series: The Concern for What is True – Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This week I'll be presenting a paper that I have been thinking about for a very long time (with a title that might be my favourite so far): philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/philo...
The paperback edition of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 is now out: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The paperback edition of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 is now out: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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From John Rawls' A Theory of Justice.
!["What [people] want is meaningful work in free association with others, these associations regulating their relations to one another within a framework of just basic institutions. To achieve this state of things great wealth is not necessary. In fact, beyond some point it is more likely to be a positive hindrance, a meaningless distraction at best if not a temptation to indulgence and emptiness."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:givg3amslsq46o3f25ga5esh/bafkreifvhptxvgtcd7vn6yvl2ve2xei2jmo3vbfv5za7twuw7asrdjf7jm@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
From John Rawls' A Theory of Justice.
I could spend the entire day looking at this.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I could spend the entire day looking at this.
Autumn in Pennsylvania
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Autumn in Pennsylvania
Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature.
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Olivia Sultanescu, The Concern for What is True - PhilPapers
The concept of truth always had a special significance within Donald Davidson’s view of language and thought. For instance, Davidson always maintained that a basic requirement for understanding anothe...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature.
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
My reading spot.
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My reading spot.
I'll always remember Greg as a kind and generous colleague, committed to his students and to his work. I’ll share one memory here. In September 2023, Greg and I participated in a one-day workshop organized by a colleague. (1/x)
Gregory Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died.
Gregory Lavers (1974-2025) - Daily Nous
Gregory A. Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died. Professor Lavers worked on issues at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics and the history...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'll always remember Greg as a kind and generous colleague, committed to his students and to his work. I’ll share one memory here. In September 2023, Greg and I participated in a one-day workshop organized by a colleague. (1/x)
Reposted by Olivia Sultanescu
This is very sad news. An important figure in history of analytic philosophy and in logic and phil of mathematics.
Gregory Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died.
Gregory Lavers (1974-2025) - Daily Nous
Gregory A. Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died. Professor Lavers worked on issues at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics and the history...
dailynous.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is very sad news. An important figure in history of analytic philosophy and in logic and phil of mathematics.
Tomorrow it will be 70 years since George Enescu's death. Here is a beautiful performance of the first Romanian Rhapsody, conducted by the very talented Cristian Măcelaru. youtu.be/cuU5sbXYAJ0?...
Enescu - Rumänische Rhapsodie Nr. 1 | Cristian Măcelaru | WDR Sinfonieorchester
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May 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tomorrow it will be 70 years since George Enescu's death. Here is a beautiful performance of the first Romanian Rhapsody, conducted by the very talented Cristian Măcelaru. youtu.be/cuU5sbXYAJ0?...
"Dans sa décision, le juge a également souligné des incohérences dans la logique du gouvernement, suggérant que, si le ministre estime que les étudiants de l’extérieur de la province ne restent pas au Québec ... il est insensé de les obliger à maîtriser le français."
www.ledevoir.com/societe/just...
www.ledevoir.com/societe/just...
Québec subit un revers sur la hausse des droits de scolarité des étudiants non québécois
La Cour supérieure invalide aussi l’obligation de franciser 80% de leur clientèle.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Dans sa décision, le juge a également souligné des incohérences dans la logique du gouvernement, suggérant que, si le ministre estime que les étudiants de l’extérieur de la province ne restent pas au Québec ... il est insensé de les obliger à maîtriser le français."
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Cloudy mornings in Montreal.
April 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Cloudy mornings in Montreal.
"A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim is to represent all the interrelations between things." (Wittgenstein)
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim is to represent all the interrelations between things." (Wittgenstein)
Vargas Llosa on smoking: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
A Languid Sort of Suicide
The novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa on his life with cigarettes, and without.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Vargas Llosa on smoking: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Teaching Locke on language today. "Because words are many of them learned before the ideas are known for which they stand; therefore some, not only children, but men, speak several words no otherwise than parrots do, only because they have learned them, and have been accustomed to those sounds."
March 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Teaching Locke on language today. "Because words are many of them learned before the ideas are known for which they stand; therefore some, not only children, but men, speak several words no otherwise than parrots do, only because they have learned them, and have been accustomed to those sounds."
A stunningly beautiful piece by Paul Cézanne: La Neige fondue à l'Estaque--Les toits rouges.
February 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A stunningly beautiful piece by Paul Cézanne: La Neige fondue à l'Estaque--Les toits rouges.
A review of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40, edited by Claudine Verheggen: brill.com/view/journal....
The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE
The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE
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February 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A review of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40, edited by Claudine Verheggen: brill.com/view/journal....
The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE
The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE
Today is devoted to Berkeley, who wrote: “I do not pin my faith on the sleeve of any great man. I act not out of prejudice and prepossession. I do not adhere to any opinion because it is old one, a received one, a fashionable one, or one that I have spent much time in study and cultivation of.”
January 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Today is devoted to Berkeley, who wrote: “I do not pin my faith on the sleeve of any great man. I act not out of prejudice and prepossession. I do not adhere to any opinion because it is old one, a received one, a fashionable one, or one that I have spent much time in study and cultivation of.”
I find this characterization to be true of all the philosophical questions I engaged with.
What is a question in philosophy where, the more you read and think, the deeper it seems?
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I find this characterization to be true of all the philosophical questions I engaged with.
Last photo taken in 2024. Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Last photo taken in 2024. Happy new year!
Montreal fog.
December 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Montreal fog.
“Humanities fields are underfunded in proportion both to other fields and in proportion to their contribution to the revenues that make up institutional funds.”
The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯
Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
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December 28, 2024 at 9:27 PM
“Humanities fields are underfunded in proportion both to other fields and in proportion to their contribution to the revenues that make up institutional funds.”
G. E. Moore on B. Russell: "I do not know that Russell has ever owed to me anything except mistakes; whereas I have owed to his published works ideas which were certainly not mistakes and which I think very important."
December 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
G. E. Moore on B. Russell: "I do not know that Russell has ever owed to me anything except mistakes; whereas I have owed to his published works ideas which were certainly not mistakes and which I think very important."
Checkmated on Boxing Day.
December 26, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Checkmated on Boxing Day.
Somewhere in Ontario.
December 26, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Somewhere in Ontario.