A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

The Origin of the Research University 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?

A three way fight between medievalist conservatives, bureaucratic enlightenment modernisers, and Romantic idealists results in a compromise no one quite wanted but also is drives a huge portion of innovation and technical advance in the modern world. Fascinating!

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A ergonomic shape of a lion that is meant to fit in your palm (Looks like a penis)

18th-century Chinese silver figurine depicting

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A lion

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

There seems to be difference between pricing according to the average need for a good in a society, which is fine (within reasonable limits), and pricing tailored to an individual's need for the good, which strikes me as exploitative. Not sure what explains the difference, though

The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning Never mind. We said “money” yesterday.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos start each day with a gratitude list—@petridishes.bsky.social imagines it goes something like this:

It's from the theaetetus

Hey, I just realized that this turns all of this analytic-continental back-and-forth into yet another footnote to Plato, which is a bit funny

I stumbled across some passages in the Theaetetus yesterday, where Theodorus basically just reiterates the complaints made by the original blog, but this time about the Heracliteans. But then, if people complained like that for 2000 years, what does it really matter?
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It's genuinely fascinating how this is more or less the same stuff that this anti-continental Blog was saying. And that it's Theodorus, and not Socrates, who is saying it

A very long quote, in which Theodorus complains about the Bad writing style of Heracliteans

Nice to see that philosophers complained about each other's style at least as far back as Socrates and Heraclit - and with much the same arguments, too

for whatever it's worth: there are style differences between analytics and continentals but also differences in what subjects have been taken seriously in both traditions of philosophy and if you ask me a lot of people are using the first to defend views they won't admit about the second

I see there's an analytic vs continental thing blowing up on Substack and: no. No we are not doing this. It is not 1998 anymore. Searle's dead, Derrida's dead, we're not doing this anymore. Go get a sandwich and look at a pigeon.

I guess I'm a bit less angry about this than I am about uncharitable criticisms of analytic philosophy, because I do agree that the Continental style is often a vice, while I do usually not agree that analytical philosophy is shallow or "not really philosophy". But on some level, who cares?

My reaction to this is basically the same that I have to all these very opinionated "Analytical philosophy is bad" books and posts. Just as these will never stop me from reading a single analytic paper I'm interested in, this will not stop me from reading (and enjoying) Spivak or Foucault

Oh, and I suppose philosopher-kings might be slightly more odd to everybody outside of philosophy, but we can for sure find 7 philosophers willing to give it a try

Another good one might be "esse est percipi", to be is to be perceived.

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to.

If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

Fellow nerds of #PhilSky rejoice!

(the monarch has just died) lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one (my catholic wife glares at me) ande thatte they return to the faith catholick (i see the constable passing by my window) *sweating* which is alfo in Truth reformede, 11:18 AM · Nov 22, 2022

Omg, the Astronauts of Artemis II asking to name one of the moon craters Carroll broke me

I never really cared about space, but everything around Artemis II just inspires all the best emotions. I guess I was really starved of feeling genuinely good about humanity for once

The answer, of course, is that there is no proper basis for the decision. But I kind of admire the logical games involved in saying instead "well, if you're just looking for studies, nothing we have fits that description"

I love how philosophy coded this is: Vienna justfied some shitty traffic-planning by citing "studies", but when pressed to publish the studies the answer is that there is nothing to be published that has "the desired form of a study". So I guess one just has to guess the concept to use beforehand?

Hab ein Schreiben der Stadt Wien (MA18) bekommen, Ergebnis wie erwartet. Relevantes Zitat:
"Im Sinne der Bestimmungen des IFG können die begehrten Informationen leider nicht mitgeteilt werden, weil sie in der begehrten Form “Untersuchungen” nicht vorliegen."
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Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found Archeologists believe remains found in Maastricht, Netherlands, may be of real-life soldier who inspired novel character More than three-and-a-half centuries after a musket ball to the throat put an end to decades of exemplary swashbuckling, the French soldier who inspired Alexandre Dumas and went on to be immortalised on the stage and screen – not to mention as a plucky cartoon dog – may rise again. Workers repairing a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht have discovered a skeleton that could belong to the 17th-century Gascon nobleman Charles de Batz-Castelmore – better known as d’Artagnan – whose exploits led Dumas to make him the hero of the Three Musketeers. Continue reading...

Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found

I'm so close to buying the complete works of Plato, even though i) I have no time to read them, ii) they would be a huge distraction from my actual projects, iii) I already have too many books I don't read, and iv) I really need to read some other things right now. And yet they call to me

thank you for changing my life meme with the silmarillion