Patrik Engisch
@pateng.bsky.social
Academic philosopher. Working on creativity, fiction, food, nature, empathy, and other fun topics. Also into cats, sheep, gardens, cheese, wine, and pasta.
📍Fribourg🇨🇭 | Maribor 🇸🇮
http://www.patrikengisch.com
📍Fribourg🇨🇭 | Maribor 🇸🇮
http://www.patrikengisch.com
Today is philosophy day. Philosophy is hard (as Gareth Evans once put it). But that doesn't mean that, thereby, today is a hard day. How strange.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Today is philosophy day. Philosophy is hard (as Gareth Evans once put it). But that doesn't mean that, thereby, today is a hard day. How strange.
Since we’re not supposed to use “Two birds, one stone” anymore, I suggest we replace it with “One raclette, two neighbors”
September 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Since we’re not supposed to use “Two birds, one stone” anymore, I suggest we replace it with “One raclette, two neighbors”
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yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
You see this, post a concert pic that you took
September 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
You see this, post a concert pic that you took
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking Concert (1998)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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There is probably not enough Tom Waits on your TL, so just take one minute to listen to this wonderful voice reading a beautiful poem
(as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...
(as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...
Tom Waits - Seeds On Hard Ground (Except From The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
There is probably not enough Tom Waits on your TL, so just take one minute to listen to this wonderful voice reading a beautiful poem
(as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...
(as Nietzsche once said,without Tom Waits life would be mistake - or something like that...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGA...
Not surprising that your public debt is out of control if you’re a country that can’t distinguish between an espresso and an Olympic swimming pool
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Not surprising that your public debt is out of control if you’re a country that can’t distinguish between an espresso and an Olympic swimming pool
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I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."
Sad day – thank you for 1,000 episodes! 💔😭 #philsky
‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years
The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."
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Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.
August 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.
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In a world where many children are starving in Gaza and factory farming still exists on a large scale some people are worried about AI welfare…Has too much interaction with bots dulled their critical faculties?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
In a world where many children are starving in Gaza and factory farming still exists on a large scale some people are worried about AI welfare…Has too much interaction with bots dulled their critical faculties?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
August 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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🧪 President Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced that Apple would devote $100 billion to additional investment in the US . The announcement came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praise🤮
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
🧪 President Trump and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced that Apple would devote $100 billion to additional investment in the US . The announcement came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praise🤮
Great to know that all these em-dashes tell us Nietzsche was in fact AI. I was always suspicious that anyone human (whether sub, normal or super) would ever pretend philosophizing with a hammer
August 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Great to know that all these em-dashes tell us Nietzsche was in fact AI. I was always suspicious that anyone human (whether sub, normal or super) would ever pretend philosophizing with a hammer
This is how the traditional right-wing party of the economic elite, the one responsible for the creation of the modern state, is now branding itself in Switzerland. It was hard to out cringe the horny philosophers this week but they succeeded with ease…
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is how the traditional right-wing party of the economic elite, the one responsible for the creation of the modern state, is now branding itself in Switzerland. It was hard to out cringe the horny philosophers this week but they succeeded with ease…
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?
2002:
2002:
July 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
What perfect albums came out when you were 16?
2002:
2002:
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In this advance article, Chris Earley defends the collaborative cognitive achievements that artworks make possible. #philsky doi.org/10.1093/aest...
![[W]hen an artist confronts us with a prompt that makes a decisive contribution to an audience’s ability to achieve insight in their shared project of enquiry, they are also due a share of credit for co-producing this cognitive achievement.
- Christopher Earley, Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreicvpvmklwdiongicufr7yvgt35d4hs6kgrgdk6ullj3pmhkupl6om@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In this advance article, Chris Earley defends the collaborative cognitive achievements that artworks make possible. #philsky doi.org/10.1093/aest...
Best reason to dislike AI yet.
this is an actual sheep that existed. AI will never come close to creating a fleece like this
June 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Best reason to dislike AI yet.
Are all these people still going on about the distinction between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy, using or mentioning it?
June 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Are all these people still going on about the distinction between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy, using or mentioning it?
Using food to show where I grew up
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Using food to show where I grew up
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I was planning to launch my substack on "Human, life, AI, and future" in a few months, with something very different. But life doesn’t always care about our timelines. Events erupt. Emotions build. And suddenly, waiting feels like avoidance. My first post: atoosatopia.substack.com/p/valid-and-...
June 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I was planning to launch my substack on "Human, life, AI, and future" in a few months, with something very different. But life doesn’t always care about our timelines. Events erupt. Emotions build. And suddenly, waiting feels like avoidance. My first post: atoosatopia.substack.com/p/valid-and-...
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The conference "The first 10 years of Inbegriff, the Geneva seminar for Austro-German Philosophy" will take place June 11-13, 2025.
An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...
An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...
The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938 - Département de Philosophie - UNIGE
Principal Investigator: Guillaume Fréchette SNSF Consolidator Grant 2024–2028 Video brief
www.unige.ch
June 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The conference "The first 10 years of Inbegriff, the Geneva seminar for Austro-German Philosophy" will take place June 11-13, 2025.
An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...
An event hosted by the grant project The Origins of Contemporary European Thought 1837-1938, PI Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva): www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...
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Switzerland is world champion of direct democracy, but there’s very little „people” behind it. ≈80% of all initiatives are launched by political parties or business lobbies, *not* grassroots citizens.
And initiatives backed by org interests are far more likely to succeed www.nzz.ch/schweiz/in-v...
And initiatives backed by org interests are far more likely to succeed www.nzz.ch/schweiz/in-v...
June 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Switzerland is world champion of direct democracy, but there’s very little „people” behind it. ≈80% of all initiatives are launched by political parties or business lobbies, *not* grassroots citizens.
And initiatives backed by org interests are far more likely to succeed www.nzz.ch/schweiz/in-v...
And initiatives backed by org interests are far more likely to succeed www.nzz.ch/schweiz/in-v...