Akshan deAlwis
@adealwis.bsky.social
occasional philosopher @ washu
I think about this article (and it's context) more than is healthy www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/t...
The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I think about this article (and it's context) more than is healthy www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/t...
Reposted by Akshan deAlwis
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that mentalizing is fast, easy, and early developing, while other research indicates that it is slow, hard, and late developing. The Factive Mentalizing View (Philips & Norby 2019; Philips et al.
philosophyofbrains.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
the feeling when you find a 200 view preprint on arxiv that suddenly gives your paper a sheen of empirical adequacy
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
the feeling when you find a 200 view preprint on arxiv that suddenly gives your paper a sheen of empirical adequacy
ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown (ambiguous use of ye here)
April 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown (ambiguous use of ye here)
Reposted by Akshan deAlwis
This is actually why I don’t really get it when people are negatively polarized by people being annoying. Literally everyone is annoying. It’s the one truly universal political value
Initially I hated centrists as I felt (still do!) that the UK Cult of Sensibles has enshrined a lot of truly bad ideas as requirements of being taken seriously in politics, to general ill effect. But as I spent more time Discoursing I realised the online left are also incredibly annoying and inane.
April 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is actually why I don’t really get it when people are negatively polarized by people being annoying. Literally everyone is annoying. It’s the one truly universal political value
all you need to know to understand LOT
March 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
all you need to know to understand LOT
the three flavors of social/political analytic philosophy: 1) it's ok to let babies drown, 2) no premises that rawls wouldn't like, please, 3) LARPing as revolutionary marxists
March 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
the three flavors of social/political analytic philosophy: 1) it's ok to let babies drown, 2) no premises that rawls wouldn't like, please, 3) LARPing as revolutionary marxists
how the holidays have felt like
December 30, 2024 at 7:48 AM
how the holidays have felt like
my favorite comment after the most uninteresting news story ever written: 'we need more positive stories like this'
November 16, 2024 at 5:45 PM
my favorite comment after the most uninteresting news story ever written: 'we need more positive stories like this'