If you’re curious, there will be quite a bit of value-form theory, e.g. Rubin, Sohn-Rethel. We'll largely be focussing on Capital (not just volume one).

Just in case you needed any more reasons to support this crowdfunder, once things are up and running, I’ll be teaching a course on Marxist philosophy here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Headline text: Vance Says Robert Brandom Should Be More Careful When Talking About Inferentialism

This is unacceptable

Ha! It turns out that there were already people here working on it. It’s like the old saying ‘wherever you go, there you’ll find someone working on niche construction theory’.

Thinking of becoming one of those niche-construction people. I’ll go around pointing at things and saying, ‘You know what that is? It’s a niche’. It sounds fun.

Here’s some close ups of the print you could get either by entering the £10 prize draw or by donating £60+ to our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Please consider doing so, we’re trying to bring the first radical bookshop in decades to Newcastle! If you can’t donate, pls share!!

The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze YouTube video by The People's Forum NYC

There’s a moment in this exchange where Harvey says ‘the prime form of the commodity now is the spectacle where the turnover time of the experience is close to zero’ and its stuck with me for a week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJNh...

True analytic philosophy has never been tried

I wonder how much of this comes down to the freedom of the Scottish/Irish four-year undergraduate.

I really loved this. Other people hated it. I have no idea whether it should be the norm.

The module at Trinity involved studying particular texts for months. I think we did The Republic, The Genealogy of Morals, Hegel’s Lectures on World History, Pragmatism, Berkeley’s Dialogues, and (I think) David Lewis’s On the Plurality of Worlds.

Learning to read philosophy is a skill and someone is losing out if they only learn to read within one tradition or time-period. My undergrad had a two-year module dedicated to this. At Durham, we have a module called ‘Reading Philosophy’. I don’t get the impression that this is the norm though.

That absolutely sounds like it should have rollercoasters and that they would have found a way to make the rollercoasters homophobic.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re formally modelling complex social phenomena (analytic) or poetically articulating the nature of alienation (continental), both are sound Marxist traditions.

Remember when Artemis II splashed down? That was great.

Which is big news for me as someone who doesn’t drink.

Given the number of different ways I could get so drunk that I wouldn’t know that I was drunk, I think it’s statistically safe to assume that I’m drunk.

Parallel by design? Meaning and grammar in single-stream and dual-stream neural network architectures A major current approach in theoretical linguistics proposes that there is only a partial, defeasible correspondence between syntax and semantics: meaning and grammar are autonomous, parallel compo...

New paper with Olivier Michalon. We ask whether transformers that separate syntax and semantics into parallel streams classify sentences better than single-stream models. They do not. We think this matters for how the autonomy of meaning and grammar should be explained. 1/6
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Both proposed that the parts of their religious traditions that conflicted with Aristotelianism and scientific knowledge should be interpreted non-literally. It’s set me wondering about the religious origins of the Quine-Duhem thesis and the whole literal-metaphorical division.

Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’) grandfather was chief imam here. When the Almohad’s took over, his father lost his position as a judge while the ten year old Maimonides had to flee the city as protections for Jews were rescinded. Both sought to reconcile their religion with the teachings of Aristotle.

Columns and two-tiered arches in the mosque part of the building. They stretch into the distance. The stone is alternating orange and cream.

With the columns still in the background there is an opening in the building where the roof is many times higher and forms an ornate vaulted dome.the stone is white and everything is carved. At the top, there is a stained-glass window visible. The mosque contains a cathedral inside as a shopping mall might contain a Burger King.

I'm at the Mosque / I'm at the Cathedral / I'm at the combination Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Vegan 'Flaky' Fish & Chips #ad YouTube video by The Easy Vegan

If you want tofu to taste like fish, you can do this:

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

Politely requesting fish eaters to not wipe out all life in the ocean:

Some white cats curled up on the paddles of the Molina de la Albolafia by the river in Córdoba. It’s raining and overcast. There are wild green plants surrounding the water wheel.

Cats hiding from the rain

The Little Book of Calm

Thinking of getting into stoic philosophy

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

This new book of essays on Real Patterns looks really great: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Sometimes I want to tell myself that the anonymous accounts on here aggressively attacking left-liberals are part of a CIA plot to discredit Marxism but I know this isn’t true :(

We need more work on wank-theory: deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_o...

Looking at the full moon tonight aware that somewhere in my line of vision is a spaceship with 4 people in it. Just a cool thing to know.

When I first saw the menu chart NASA released, I thought, yep, 5 hot sauces for 10 days, that’s roughly what I’d bring.