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Haslam's "Concept Creep" has a section on "trauma" that might be of interest.
January 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Haslam's "Concept Creep" has a section on "trauma" that might be of interest.
Not really obvious, but I definitely pronounced "viscount" and "Givenchy" idiosyncratically until about a year ago.
January 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not really obvious, but I definitely pronounced "viscount" and "Givenchy" idiosyncratically until about a year ago.
For most purposes, you can just think of it as a state description (a logically consistent distribution of truth-values over sentences with referents assigned) that obeys some intuitions about modality. Nothing too spooky there.
January 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
For most purposes, you can just think of it as a state description (a logically consistent distribution of truth-values over sentences with referents assigned) that obeys some intuitions about modality. Nothing too spooky there.
I've emailed the student group to see if there's anything US philosophers can do, but LMK if you have any ideas.
January 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I've emailed the student group to see if there's anything US philosophers can do, but LMK if you have any ideas.
Couldn't get a pdf with the original pagination, and the page numbers aren't on the Project Muse page for the article.
January 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Couldn't get a pdf with the original pagination, and the page numbers aren't on the Project Muse page for the article.
Super vague, but I'm thinking of things like Weber on disenchantment, Debord on spectacle, or Zuboff on surveillance capitalism. All things that we might want to explain in terms of stuff familiar from pre-modernity, but those explanations break down at some point.
January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Super vague, but I'm thinking of things like Weber on disenchantment, Debord on spectacle, or Zuboff on surveillance capitalism. All things that we might want to explain in terms of stuff familiar from pre-modernity, but those explanations break down at some point.
Really helpful! One addition: philosophers sometimes think writing is the only way to get out in the world. But the world of public philosophy is very big. You can teach in prisons/K-12 schools, help run a meetup, do counseling, convene a citizens' assembly, join a think tank... It takes all kinds.
January 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Really helpful! One addition: philosophers sometimes think writing is the only way to get out in the world. But the world of public philosophy is very big. You can teach in prisons/K-12 schools, help run a meetup, do counseling, convene a citizens' assembly, join a think tank... It takes all kinds.
Today, that means focusing on pulling out of the WHO and the Paris agreement, militarizing the border, ending refugee resettlement, & disciplining the federal workforce - not Musk's weird ambiguous gestures, Trump's disgusting personal appearance, or Vance's smarmy, self-satisfied attitude.
January 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today, that means focusing on pulling out of the WHO and the Paris agreement, militarizing the border, ending refugee resettlement, & disciplining the federal workforce - not Musk's weird ambiguous gestures, Trump's disgusting personal appearance, or Vance's smarmy, self-satisfied attitude.
*Even if* immaterial, indirect, or symbolic harms are real and consequential, people will already pay more than enough attention to them. It's about the margins.
January 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
*Even if* immaterial, indirect, or symbolic harms are real and consequential, people will already pay more than enough attention to them. It's about the margins.
Material: caused by lasting changes in the physical/economic world or power over the economy/state - wealth transfer, pollution... Direct: not mediated by broader cultural shifts or processes of normalization. Non-symbolic: not just expressing bad attitudes or signaling affiliation with bad groups.
January 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Material: caused by lasting changes in the physical/economic world or power over the economy/state - wealth transfer, pollution... Direct: not mediated by broader cultural shifts or processes of normalization. Non-symbolic: not just expressing bad attitudes or signaling affiliation with bad groups.
My suggestion: try to focus on what harms people materially, directly, and non-symbolically.
January 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My suggestion: try to focus on what harms people materially, directly, and non-symbolically.