Marylin Delgado
@philosophypills.bsky.social
Associate Researcher. Former Associate Professor of Philosophy. Author.
Passionate about sharing insights. Ethics. Philosophy of Action. Intersection of Epistemology and Ethics. Art. And other interests and concerns.
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Passionate about sharing insights. Ethics. Philosophy of Action. Intersection of Epistemology and Ethics. Art. And other interests and concerns.
aretea.es | https://marylindelgado.com
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Immanuel Kant: I freely confess: it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.
Immanuel Kant: I freely confess: it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Bertrand Russell: I spent months staring at a blank piece of paper.
Bertrand Russell: I spent months staring at a blank piece of paper.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Historian: That page was burned in the Library of Alexandria, and no modern copies survive.
Historian: That page was burned in the Library of Alexandria, and no modern copies survive.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Immanuel Kant: I freely confess: it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.
Immanuel Kant: I freely confess: it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.
Ugh. Are the claims in this thread true about IAI? Concerned about this. I've been sharing many of their articles, those that for one reason or another I found thought-provoking, even if I didn't agree.
#philsky
#philsky
Two modest proposals:
Start calling people who are paid to have particular opinions sophists again.
Stop sharing, writing for, and participating in anything to do with the institute for arts and ideas (dunno who funds it, but what it's doing is putting a *philosophy* shine on reactionary thought)
Start calling people who are paid to have particular opinions sophists again.
Stop sharing, writing for, and participating in anything to do with the institute for arts and ideas (dunno who funds it, but what it's doing is putting a *philosophy* shine on reactionary thought)
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ugh. Are the claims in this thread true about IAI? Concerned about this. I've been sharing many of their articles, those that for one reason or another I found thought-provoking, even if I didn't agree.
#philsky
#philsky
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
".. it seemed so intuitive that offering more and more options to people would make everyone better off. How could it not?"
iai.tv/articles/too...
#philsky
iai.tv/articles/too...
#philsky
Too much choice makes us less free | Barry Schwartz
Psychologist Barry Schwartz explores why striving for the best can make us unhappy. In conversation with Alasdair Craig, he explains how the abundance of choice in modern life leads to paralysis, disa...
iai.tv
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
".. it seemed so intuitive that offering more and more options to people would make everyone better off. How could it not?"
iai.tv/articles/too...
#philsky
iai.tv/articles/too...
#philsky
It crossed the street like a sudden gust of wind. Suicidal cat almost caused me a car accident.
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It crossed the street like a sudden gust of wind. Suicidal cat almost caused me a car accident.
Pasé por ahí con el coche hace unos días y me llamó la atención la cantidad de grúas torre. Conté nueve. Aparentemente van a construir un complejo empresarial en medio de una zona residencial ya de por sí congestionada.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Pasé por ahí con el coche hace unos días y me llamó la atención la cantidad de grúas torre. Conté nueve. Aparentemente van a construir un complejo empresarial en medio de una zona residencial ya de por sí congestionada.
On a different note...
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On a different note...
That beautiful sunset will soon be missed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
That beautiful sunset will soon be missed.
Wow
Teaching an octopus to play piano
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Wow
The lived-body—and mind.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The lived-body—and mind.
Provocative treatment in "Pluribus" show of the idea of a collective, shared identity superseding personal will and choice. It portrays negative emotions as not epistemically valuable and necessary for human survival and navigating reality, but are presented as lethal, literally. #philsky #pluribus
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Without unnecessary sentimentality"
Dreadfully insidious ChatGPT
Dreadfully insidious ChatGPT
"[S]he grew increasingly reliant on #ChatGPT, talking to it in Russian for up to six hours a day. 'We had such a friendly communication,' she says. 'I'm telling it everything [but] it doesn't respond in a formal way--it was amusing'" www.bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #AI #chatbots #tech #business
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Without unnecessary sentimentality"
Dreadfully insidious ChatGPT
Dreadfully insidious ChatGPT
Let's see how good it is 'Pluribus', Apple TV's new release. It has a 9.1/10 score on IMDb.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Let's see how good it is 'Pluribus', Apple TV's new release. It has a 9.1/10 score on IMDb.
😵💫
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
😵💫
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
Uh-oh. Someone has taken this literally—and wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
Uh-oh. Someone has taken this literally—and wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
Uh-oh. Someone has taken this literally—and wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
Uh-oh. Someone has taken this literally—and wrong. 🤦🏼♀️
Once upon a time, some vehemently advocated for a conceptual distinction between facts and values and a clear-cut separation, overlooking a third category: factual beliefs that influence perception and judgement. This phenomenon appears to be strongly recurring.
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Once upon a time, some vehemently advocated for a conceptual distinction between facts and values and a clear-cut separation, overlooking a third category: factual beliefs that influence perception and judgement. This phenomenon appears to be strongly recurring.
🔍 Behind the paper: 'When Sound Feels Like a Gentle Touch'. 🧠📈 Individuals with greater affective-touch sensitivity reported stronger tingles, most notably for eating sounds. 🔗Read more here: bit.ly/4nysRsQ. #ResearchPublishing
When Sound Feels Like a Gentle Touch
Participants viewed a close-miked eating-ASMR clip in the lab, and real-time tingling ratings rose in near synchrony with bite acoustics. Despite no physical contact, several reported a tactile tingling—the paradox at ASMR’s core: sound and image that feel like touch.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Someone at the department store fascinated by my perfume and trying to find out which one I wear. My answer: "Difficult to tell, on top of mine I have three more I just tried."
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Someone at the department store fascinated by my perfume and trying to find out which one I wear. My answer: "Difficult to tell, on top of mine I have three more I just tried."
Despite a few small edits still to fix (likely from our last-round changes!), our paper “Group Hinge Epistemology” is now out in Synthese! We explore what happens when Hinge Epistemology and Group Epistemology walk together — and exciting things happen! Hope you enjoy it!
philpapers.org/rec/IGNGHE
philpapers.org/rec/IGNGHE
Gómez-Ledo Ignacio & Dani Pino, Group Hinge Epistemology - PhilPapers
A number of problems motivate research in so-called hinge epistemology. Two of these concern questions about the nature of hinges as foundations or presuppositions that underpin our practical and theo...
philpapers.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New book - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen Darwall
#philsky #moralphil
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#philsky #moralphil
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Cambridge Core - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New book - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen Darwall
#philsky #moralphil
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#philsky #moralphil
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
I was looking for some recipes and came across a post of someone wanting to prepare a lobster risotto, and was asking if they could use crab and monosodium glutamate to substitute lobster. 🫣
#philosophyofperception #senses #taste
#philosophyofperception #senses #taste
November 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I was looking for some recipes and came across a post of someone wanting to prepare a lobster risotto, and was asking if they could use crab and monosodium glutamate to substitute lobster. 🫣
#philosophyofperception #senses #taste
#philosophyofperception #senses #taste
It appears assumptions are being across all parties. I wonder what has become of 'correlation is not causation'.
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It appears assumptions are being across all parties. I wonder what has become of 'correlation is not causation'.
Doors
(The Prague Castle)
(The Prague Castle)
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Doors
(The Prague Castle)
(The Prague Castle)
Budding academic
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Budding academic
Just finished 'A Gentleman in Moscow' limited series. It was heartwarming and entertaining. Some cast choices seemed off, but Ewan McGregor's charm and brilliant performance totally made up for it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Just finished 'A Gentleman in Moscow' limited series. It was heartwarming and entertaining. Some cast choices seemed off, but Ewan McGregor's charm and brilliant performance totally made up for it.