Fichte invented the dissertation!

"Fichte not only insisted on offering the [PhD] degree, but added two novel requirements: candidates needed to write their own dissertations — and they needed to be works of original research."

The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

”If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen... Münchhausen was ... probably the single person most responsible for introducing a new criterion for academic advancement: the publication record."

Large Language Moloch

But something is happening here
And ya don't know what it is
Do ya, Myth of Jones?

"My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed."

Wittgenstein, quoted in 'The Duty of Genius'

Analytic philosophy ass dis

the sovereign ensures that it will be a beautiful day in the neighborhood

'AntiXt' may look like a smartphone app or a new pharmaceutical product, but it is in fact a 17th century abbreviation for 'Antichrist'.

wow

"The Queen of Sheba's Visit to Solomon" by Jan Davidsz. Remeeus (1602–1648)

Closeup of the absolutely terrifying dog that looks like it's head was taken from the costume discards from Planet of the Apes

This is what it looks like when you're a lesser Dutch master from the 1630s and you've never actually seen a real dog in your life.

ruining your life trying to teach students who submit work generated by AI does feel like ruining your life trying to police bank robbers with automatic weapons

Lisan al Gaib getting off a call and grading 6 exams in 30 minutes

Husserliana would be a beautiful name for a baby girl...

The closing paragraph of Ryle's review of Being and Time is sufficiently inscrutable in its implicatures that I can't even tell whether it's meant as an insult:

"Sein und Zeit, it is worth mentioning, is most beautifully printed and the pages have generous margins."

"You understand what I mean to convey..." 😈
—Husserl, Analyses Concerning Active and Passive Synthesis

Photo of partial book page with text reading: “Certainly, logical positivism is not a very nourishing diet for more than the small minority which has been conditioned to it. When the time of its exhaustion arrives, it will probably appear, in retrospect, to have been for our age the counterpart of surrealism: for as surrealism seemed to provide a method of producing works of art without imagination so logical positivism seems to provide a method of philosophizing without insight and wis-dom. The attraction which it thus offers to the immature mind may have unfortunate results for some of those who pursue their undergraduate studies under its influence. Yet I believe that in the longer view, logical positivism will have proved of service by explorations of thought which we shall, in future, be unable to ignore; and even if some of its avenues turn out to be blind alleys, it is, after all, worth while exploring a blind alley, if only to discover that it *is* blind.” […]

T.S. Eliot on logical positivism

Picture: Two fish seen from the side. One is bigger than the other. Text: Your brain thinks these two fish are different sizes. However, this is true, because they are different sizes. This is due to an effect called "seeing", where you look at the fish and "observe" their difference in size. Science! Fun and Learn!

(Kant, MM 6:437)

If I made myself a worm, would you step on me?

Miriana Conte - Kant (‘Singing’) | Malta 🇲🇹 | National Final Performance| #Eurovision2025 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

+ 🎵"Serving kant" 🎵
- Lack of substantive engagement with critical philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK...

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

Academia is like jazz. It's all about the papers you don't publish.

Science of Logic - Winter 1814 Version

don't think of this as the american experiment failing, think of it as confirmation of the american null hypothesis

I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm