Thank you.
I watched 'Jaws' again recently. Such a superlative film.
I'd not processed the fact that it really is 50 years old..

The title is from a William James letter - "such flexible intensity of life in a form so inaccessible to our sympathy."
Classic James. But perhaps not so inaccessible. 2/

The article (I thought SMH usually has an immediate paywall, but maybe not always):
www.smh.com.au/environment/...

I will do a thread here soon with a few highlights, or at least ideas that stayed with me, from the Virginia conference.
Here is one passage, which contributed the title of Fesmire's talk:

A good event at UV:

From @cherylmisak.bsky.social's paper for the Dewey event, in a letter from Dewey to Ratner:
"I’m glad an American didn’t write Ayer's Language Truth and
Logic—if one had, the English would have thought it a peculiarly crass Philistine American production."

I'll be talking about Dewey's treatment of "idealism." (Mainly objective idealism.)
Will be a commentary by Ram Neta.

... On the philosophical side: to what extent is subjective experience (or consciousness) "a thing" – a single phenomenon, despite its many varieties – across very different animals? 2/
www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-berkele...

As a professor dealing with this right now, I am squarely in the 3rd category below. The destruction of the college essay as a format for thinking, learning, & assessing is awful to see. 2/