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Green grass and blue sky, seen from the other side
I'm working on a chapter and a paper, and find my gaze directed longingly to a completely different topic I feel I could whip out an excellent paper on in no time.
Me looking across to the other side:
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Everything seems to be broken. Very annoying
Ah yes, I did think it might be ambiguous. Both in all likelihood, but I was thinking that the suit and hair were the only thing that make the guy on the right resemble Trump at all. Features completely off.
That doesn't even look like him, leaving aside all other issues
Mostly reading moral responsibility stuff at the moment. But just read this excellent paper by Harriet Fagerberg. She argues dysfunction is not enough for disease and that only becomes disease when it has a domino effect, causing dysfunction through the system.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I want Sindarov to win, but no idea how likely that is.
He's won now!
A tricky paper on tricky situations. How does situationism affect reasons responsiveness?
www.jstor.org/stable/45204...
Heartwood forest, today
Photo of beech wood with bluebells in flower
It's bluebell season
No, we are all surprised and impressed. He's doing really well.
Reading up on animal trials in the middle ages and up to 18th century. Fascinating stuff. I'm particularly intrigued by banning and exiling of pests. (Rats or wood worms). Have any philosophers worked on this?
Thanks!
In any case, would like to be added to this one.
I was on twitter and am a philosopher. Still miss it sometimes but cut ties after the inauguration last year.
I tend to not get too involved with the free will side of things, but was reading first chapter of Derk Pereboom's book on responsibility and the moral emotions. He may not be the person to read about agent causation, as he's a free will skeptic.
Thanks.
Ah, ok. That's different. I was coming from the free will debate where that doesn't look to be enough?
Because doing separate from causing just makes for a more involved picture where I can't see how to get the different events/causes/doings back together again.
I'm afraid that doesn't sound very plausible either.
I just cannot make sense of agent causation.
Request to review?
I think I need to read the whole thing rather than jump into a discussion thread....
Can you give an example? Are you thinking brain states/processes?
I don't know. It's a while since I've read it. I just remember being very intrigued by the idea of a contemporaneous sustaining cause. It wasn't a way I'd previously always thought of causes as antecedent.
Kant would disagree.
Never!
Sorry, no.