Pragmatic Encroachment: Do Our Practical Interests Affect What We Know? - 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology An introduction to pragmatic encroachment, the view that the pragmatic or practical stakes of a belief can make a difference to whether that belief is justified or known.

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"Pragmatic Encroachment: Do Our Practical Interests Affect What We Know?" by Alexandra Lloyd

1000wordphilosophy.com/2026/03/19/p...

#philosophy #knowledge #epistemology #theoryofknowledge

Guest Forum: Nicholas Birns "On Generative AI, Prompt Chaining, and Resisting Epistemological Indifference" - Critical AI A few months ago, my wife and I took an online course on how to use ChatGPT4o. The course, within its terms, was well delivered. But as a literary critic who has taught writing at the college level fo...

#CriticalAI happy to share a new blog post in which @nicholasbirns.bsky.social traces his pathway from a "prompt chaining" workshop, to developing #criticalAIliteracies and ideas about how to re-energize the study of literature and writing: criticalai.org/2026/03/18/g...

mementomori.social/@Lupposofi/1...

Lämpimät onnittelut tieteen akateemikko #IlkkaNiiniluoto 'lle 80-vuotissyntymäpäivän johdosta 12.3.2026. #Puistofilosofia 'lla oli ilo saada filosofi vieraaksi kesän 2024 festivaalille. Tuolloin keskusteltiin #tieto 'sta ja #sivistys 'stä. 😍🙏❤️🥳🎂🍾🥂🎊

#filosofia #tiede #yliopisto

Tuota artikkeliasi olen linkkaillut monille.

Raapaisu NATOn kognitiivisen sodankäynnin konseptista tuoreen tutkimuskatsauksen äärellä, mementomori.social/@Lupposofi/1...

The mindfulness conspiracy The long read: It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism, but with its inward focus, mindful meditation may be the enemy of activism

Ah, a good reason to reread Ronald Purser's 2019 Guardian-article on The Mindfulness Conspiracy, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... 😇

Quantum mysticism - Wikipedia

Wikipedia also has an article about the ailment, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum..., as has the rationalwiki, rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum...

Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust Generative AI has taken the world by storm. With millions of regular users, billions of requests and corresponding results, tools employing Generative AI are ceaselessly used and abused for a wide ...

Judith Simon has a fine introduction to some epistemological, ethical, and political concerns raised by developments around Generative AI - Code Word: Quadruple Deception & Trust.

Open Access in Social Epistemology Journal, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Contextual Empiricism for Busy People: Scientific Argumentation as Epistemic Exchange - Topoi In her account of science known as critical contextual empiricism (CCE), Helen Longino has famously argued that critical discursive interaction provides the very basis for the objectivity of science. ...

New paper of mine w Çağlar Dede, on Longino's CCE and its limitations. We instead propose an account of scientific practices that is intended for scientists as 'busy people', dealing w limited resources.

Inspiration for the title courtesy of @kjephd.bsky.social!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia

The positive psychology perversion of human psychology, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(p..., or something capital-else?

A perversion of a healthy conscience and social compassion, no doubt? I guess the stoicists were not ordinary people, who get really hurt and suffer? No wonder the modern elite is so fond of stoicist thoughts. Please, go back to their metaphysics and find out how hollow the whole ideology can be!

Only the abstract visible. 🤨

Outstanding, how Lucas Scripter carves a real niche between collapsing to all sorts of "projects" and outright laziness. Rest could be the "sabbath" every living thing needs, but is too shy to ask in the midst of authoritative requirements to be more productive and competent than you really are.

Meaningful Rest Ours is an age of incessant hustle, where resting increasingly seems like a privilege out of reach for many or else a liability to be undertaken sparingly and with discretion. In this context, we mig...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess Meaningful Rest | Lucas Scripter onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#philsky #philosophy

Rest as an achievement would indeed be an oxymoron. 😅

Knowledge-First Epistemology Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Knowledge-First Epistemology

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I guess the answer depends in part on what is meant by 'happiness'? See, e.g., Dan Haybron's SEP-entry: plato.stanford.edu/entries/happ...

A new paper from the Digital Ethics Center on:
"Open-Source Foundation Models Made in the EU: Why it is a Good Idea"
Open Access @SSRN
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. SEP New: Comparative Philosophy of Religion by Mikel Burley. Con...

New reviews of philosophy books, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new episodes of philosophy podcasts...

The greatest security threat of the post-truth age The terms "national security" or "cyber-security" may be familiar – but what about "epistemic security"?

Yes indeed. I like to think in terms of, e.g., epistemic security www.bbc.com/future/artic..., of which reliable production of knowledge is an integral part. The Wikiversity's Clear Thinking curriculum could be a valuable asset here more generally, en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Clear_T...

The SEP-entry on science and pseudoscience hasn't been updated since 2021, but parts of the demarcation-problem do remain, plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseu....

For somebody not so interested in well-known names and their opinions, SEP's take on the meaning-question is always invigorating plato.stanford.edu/entries/life..., maybe IEP's too iep.utm.edu/mean-ana/, and the common Wikipedia-article is not bad either en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning...

Next this: plato.stanford.edu/entries/epis...
or this: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tse...
or this: social-epistemology.com
? 😉

No wonder some are struggling with such choices, no matter whose ones: plato.stanford.edu/entries/suic...

SEP has decent entries on Death plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/, Voluntary Euthanasia plato.stanford.edu/entries/euth..., and Suicide plato.stanford.edu/entries/suic....

That would be a *reasonable* explanation. 😉

Sounds plausible. Something "in the air" might have reminded the world leaders of their own (empire's) mortality (ála Terror Management Theory), and a sub-conscious knee-jerk reaction might be just to grab all you can regardless of consequences. Maybe Putin's invasion of Ukraine went the same way?

Maybe try to pass the torch to (some of) the listeners? Even in their terms?

Misinformation Nation Myths, media, and manipulation and the post-truth present

Propaganda isn’t new, but digital media fuels ideological silos like never before. What happens when every community has its own “truth”? @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky #SocialPsyc #PhilSci #PsychSciSky