You know you can catch your boy crying over concepts

Often the same thing with reactions to philosophy papers

I’m not myself sure about the argument, but Arthur Collins has this kind of argument against the view that attitudes essentially cause behavior. He thinks no combination of eg beliefs and desires *necessitates* my acting a certain way. I still have to decide.

I looked at the nearest possible world in which I reduced the sun to the size of a golf ball and placed it in NYC, and I'm dubious

It's sort of wild to me that Continental Philosophy has never produced anything as perspicuous as Bertrand Russell's famously clear Gray's Elegy argument in "On Denoting."

Good news guys! I’ve discerned whether it’s continental or analytic philosophy that is the good one

Tired: Boltzmann brains
Wired: Booze brains

“YouTube video by Derrida’s Grammatology”

How dare you accuse me of being spoiled

*stares incredulously*

Hi Bluesky! Suppose I was feeling brave and wanted to learn about how we/kids develop event cognitive capacities. Where should I start?

Philosophy is for entertainment purposes only. Philosophers can make mistakes, and they may not work before 11 am or after 3 pm. Don’t rely on philosophers for important advice. Read philosophy at your own risk.

Can’t do that without representing the sunset!

And too much Chalmers, clearly

My shower thoughts disagree

Why do we think people get so excited about consciousness, but not representation? I know why some *philosophers* find the former more interesting. But there are endless podcasts, quirky op eds, etc, about consciousness, and laypeople eat it up. Not so much for representation. Why?

damn

I think the part of the thrust of my question was: what makes a journal empirical, for purposes of the study? I couldn’t quite figure that out from looking at the article

This is the sort of thing I was wondering about

I should probably just read the paper, but out of curiosity: what do you use to demarcate empirical sources?

I believe it was Fodor who said LAY’S POTATO CHIP BAG is innate

Nativists rejoice

New way to transcend the Self

The edge that LoT LoT has over the Association Association I suppose

I.e. the LoT lot

Isn’t “lot” already an acceptable noun for referring to a group of people?

Big dividing line among naturalistic theories of representational content is whether my watch’s 12 now means 11

Wood ducks ftw

Sleep talked about number perception last night. Wife wrote down that I said “You can represent that there are 17 objects without representing 17 objects. Existentially, without tracking anything.”

She then asked (sleepy) me how; to which I, she reports, simply “nodded with steady determination”

Love: also systematic and productive