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Liam Bright
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Ok I'm going to try a similar thing but with my understanding of Charles Mills' overall schtick, which I think he has been developing since the 90s (his early career
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There's an account on here that often accuses me of dishonestly, of dissembling or obfuscating my real views behind jokes or irony. This frustrates me. I think there are not
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I have to say talking about trans issues (especially in philosophy, closest to home) is incredibly stressful. Trans people are having to put up with a level of vitriol just
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Ok here's my actual attempt to impress @jasonintrator - here's my Take on characterising the general position he's been developping these past few years, in one convenient twitter thread shaped
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I've seen or heard a few people saying that analytic philosophy is or has been taken over by the woke and now it's just another woke humanities field etc -
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Here's a pet sociological theory about culture warring, followed by a quasi-black-nationalist call to rid ourselves of it. There is, at present, some sort of internal fight among many white
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During 2+2 = 4 discourse it was apparent the stereotyped sides (not corresponding to the actual distribution of opinion) were people who believe mathematical truth universal and indubitable vs people
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Ok I've been thinking more about why it the culture war periodically generates heated disputes about, like, correspondence theory of truth or non-standard models of arithmetic - intensely abstract things
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My guess at the standard Western canon in philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Epicurus, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Spinoza, Kant
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One thing people say a lot which is just uncomplicatedly false is that philosophy of science makes no impact on actual science. With tolerable frequency ideas or concepts from philosophy
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Interesting to me because of how *wildly* different from my experience of friendship it is. The pictured line was most revealing, as I had no idea what it was referring
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I think the role of mathematics in various culture war arguments is regrettable. It often seems to me that team SJ are treated as peddling the most absurd and laughable
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