spelling it Essbach / Eßbach matters for search, apparently, and the St. Max book is sometimes not called "Gegenzüge" but "Die Bedeutung Max Stirners für die Genese des historischen Materialismus", but that's the actual dissertation, not sure how the two versions differ.
Have you read Essbach's Junghegelianer? I honestly like it even more, and the introduction on sociology of knowledge has influenced how I think and do research more generally, not just about Marx/Stirner.
Freiburg Bibliothek in KG IV, Erdgeschoss. I remember reading it in 2011 or so and diving deeply into the literature, what a magical time.
Yes, LLM-generated text is almost universally bad, but in all the use cases where it presents a problem it's also a really good indicator that the practice was already structured badly, and in what ways it was already broken (grant writing, undergrad papers with low expectations, etc.)
as a general rule, no [but in this particular case, i.e. in the context which for posting-purposes I refuse to provide, yes]
that's probably often the case, I'm just grumpy about a specific paper I'm reading and posting through it 😬 But also it's for sure true that untold damage to academic writing is wrought by reviewers' requests...
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
When you write "as already discussed in the previous sections", you're just wasting my time twice, first by repeating something you already wrote and then again by highlighting that what you just wrote is a repetition of something you wrote earlier...
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Der große Bruch im Denken des Junghegelianers Marx wurde durch Max Stirners „Der Einzige und sein Eigentum“ ausgelöst. Die bisherigen Editionspraktiken sollten diesen Bruch unkenntlich machen. Marx Abwehr gegen Stirners Einspruch: „Alle Versuche, über das Eigentum vernünftige... 1/2
Abstract-looking frames from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the forms of Bugs and Elmer are a smeared blur, as the characters are engage in a tussle.
Abstract-looking frames from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the forms of Bugs and Elmer are a smeared blur, as the characters are engage in a tussle.
Abstract-looking frames from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the forms of Bugs and Elmer are a smeared blur, as the characters are engage in a tussle. The smear is coming to an end, as Bugs is landing on the ground.
The Wacky Wabbit (1942, Bob Clampett)
went to a party for ~1.25h and now I'm back home for more grading, hell yeah
Uexküll "A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans" and Chittka "The Mind of a Bee"
Huge advancement on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Now that's what I call a chiasm.
every time someone says "this isn't left vs. right", it's actually left vs. right [but often not Democrat vs. Republican in the sense that the Democratic Party also caters primarily to the 1% where it matters]
In the months since I posted this pair of threads, the network of generative AI-driven TikTok spam accounts described therein has evolved further. Let's take a look.
I also think the talk of "barriers" and private "objects" is unhelpful and stacks the deck against the "qualia freaks" (per Frank Jackson). Private subjective experience requires no special objects or barriers, only that you have it and no one else can have yours, and that's still as true as ever.
The point about Bob Ross is also weird. You actually cannot paint a picture that was painted by Bob Ross unless you're Bob Ross. That's not a linguistic quirk at all, that's just what the world is like. If you're going to deny that, I'm not sure what you'd be willing to admit. Is water wet?
Some (outlook) email chains contain the history in the bodies of people's emails (weirdly one word per line?), making them effectively unreadable to me. Is there any known solution to this on my end?
...the status of scientific knowledge or how we should think about doing science, it's simply a corrective to the too-widespread narrative in contemporary philosophy that basically everything is Descartes' fault and if we can just stop being Cartesian dualists all the problems go away (they don't).
...ascribe to this external world only the properties that can be captured in the discourse of science (quantified or otherwise), you are constructing a second, separate world in addition to the world of experience. THAT's where the problems come from. This analysis does NOT make any claims about...
I think it's important to provide a counter-narrative to where the problems about subjective experience (other minds, external world, mind-body) come from. I haven't written it out, but it's basically science: Once you describe the world you see as existing independently of any observation and...
The 'oyster' point about generalization is common, but wrong: inferring other minds from your own is not a purely enumerative induction, it is based on explanatory considerations. See Norton's Material Theory of Induction on how the Curies made generalizations about all radium from a tiny sample.
lmao
this is so obvious to non-philosophers that it's often hard to explain to them why the debate exists at all.
what's private about my subjective experience isn't the outcome of self-reflection at all, I can be completely immersed in my environment, lost in the smells and sights, and those olfactory and visual experiences, like all phenomenal e., are inaccessible to any other subject (human or otherwise).
spicy take, but I don't think it's helpful to use the term "microtonal" to refer both to non-Western music that has a haunting, ethereal beauty and also to Western music that's just sometimes slightly out of tune to create a clown-core sound...
they're getting rid of DEI except for people who are evil, we can't be unfairly marginalizing the voices of evil, of course
Nice harm. Let me guess, epistemic?