Somayeh Tohidi
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PhD candidate @LSEPhilosophy ; Predoctoral fellow @MITphilosophy ; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom
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“Being the author of Harry Potter”
What profession has lost the most prestige as a result of its members having access to twitter?
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I cut my hair today in memory of a 22-yr old girl who was killed by morality police in Iran and in solidarity with the movement among Iranian women who cut their hair to protest against the corrupt regime. Cutting hair is a symbolic act of mourning in my culture.
#Mahsa_Amini
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This is me and my older sister, 33 years ago…God…I miss her…I miss her…
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I will be joining the philosophy department at MIT as a predoctoral fellow from Sep 2023-May 2024. So excited for this opportunity.
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I like how she faces her feelings. One can see her amazing self-control and self-care through her vocabulary: “excitement” and not “anxiety”.
#100daysofpractice
Day 8. Backstage in Boston, half an hour pre-concert. Adrenaline has co-opted my brain and I am taking my time to find my center within it. Performance excitement is powerful. It can go in a positive or a negative direction.
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I cannot stop laughing. I think I’m losing my mind due to sleep deprivation. My son is now afraid of Popper.😂 I was behind my schedule for marking. So, I took him to the department in the hope of him getting entertained by the new environment and I get to do some more marking./1
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Thanks
@LMU_MCMP
for the great conference on the connection between formal epistemology and mainstream epistemology. It was a very rich experience for me and I learnt a lot.
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-Mummy! Is “believing” another word for “knowing”?
Asked my 6-yr old!
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They’re shutting down the internet as the protests level up and then they can do literally ANYTHING with the protesters. There will be a massacre. Please be our voice.
#MahsaAmini
#Mahsa_Amini
Iran’s regime has shut down the internet amidst the protests. Many people has been shot and killed. In 2019 they killed 1500 people after shutting down the internet. A bloodbath is awaiting my friends and family and people in my country.
Be our voice.
#Mahsa_Amini
#مهسا_امینی
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There was a meeting on teaching maths to young children in my son’s school. The tutor said: don’t tell them “you’ve done a really good job here. You’re very clever”, because when they fail later in solving a problem, they will think that they’re not clever! The cruel logician…/1
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I believe one of the most destructive elements of a traumatic experience is the sudden shift in perspective towards the universe. Suddenly, the universe transforms from a relatively safe place into a profoundly dangerous one./1
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A procrastinator/perfectionist’s to-do list:
1-To creat a to-do list:
1-a-To find a proper spot to write a to-do list:
1-a-i-To make time to find a proper spot to write a to-do list
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The souvenir from my trip to Iran is this beautiful henna artwork on my forearms. It’s such a pity that it does not last more than two weeks.
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The extremely pleasant feeling of getting lost in writing philosophy for hours...I wish I could do that more often. It’s such a strong pain killer. The problem is most of the time it’s too big to swallow.
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Goosebumps after goosebumps after goosebumps. I cannot follow the news in Iran. I cannot not follow the news in Iran. I simply cannot live…
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As cheesy as it probably sounds, I like philosophy because I can *live* philosophy rather than just *doing* it. And by “living philosophy”, I mean I can choose my research question and looking for answers to them as I’m finding my way through life.
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This movement is the revolution of ‘bodies’ against decades of suppression. People, especially women, have been robbed of their own bodies. They’re demanding their bodies back. They’re demanding the experience of living in a body. They’re demanding life.
#WomanLifeFreedom
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It was a 45 min tube trip. But when we got there, he got scared by Popper’s statue and I couldn’t persuade him to stay. So, we had to return home (another 45 min tube trip). I’m now exhausted and angry, but at the same time, I cannot stop laughing when I remember myself.../2
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touching Popper’s head statue and desperately trying to explain to my son that he is not scary!😂/3
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in me was shouting “but that’s wrong! Denying the antecedent is a fallacy!”/2
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This view of ‘life’ evaluates it with respect to the quality/quantity of its ‘products.’ I much prefer the view that evaluates life with respect to the quality of ‘experiences’ it provides, and I think there is no experience better than ‘learning’.
Janan Ganesh on "the myth of the second chance"
"The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise."
Yes.
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I drew this today to explain an argument in my paper and it made me happy.☺️
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Note to self: Don't flirt with your vague ideas. Date them properly. Learn their points of strength and weakness. You might fall in love with them. A mature love is always better than an immature fantasy and obsession. The former can produce a paper. The latter is just a waste.
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A thread about immigration and risk attitude
When you immigrate to another country, you usually have three options:
One- Cold turkey weaning: diving into the dominant culture and deliberately avoiding any element of your original culture./1
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Nightmare for academic immigrants on job market…true nightmare…
Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels
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-Omid! Let’s go to my school!
+Does it have Popper?
🤦♀️😂
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My 7 yr old is convinced that Google *knows* whether there is afterlife.
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I’ve been seeing these scenes since I was a child and I just don’t get used to it. I feel rage in my chest, in my head, in my fingertips...
The closest video of the
#Israeli
police suppressing the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Aqleh as the coffin was leaving the French hospital towards the cemetery
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The Iranian regime has started harassing students of well-known universities by taking hold of the universities’ securities. The purpose of these security units is no longer protecting the students. They are literally means of Iranian regime intelligent services…/1
#MahsaAmini
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If I ever run an introductory course to philosophy, I will be very happy if by the end of the course, students take home these two lessons: 1-Philosophy is *not* about debating; 2-Philosophy is *not* difficult.
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Bought this picture today and can’t stop staring at it. It’s so warm, so safe…
It’s called “Monkey Cuddle” and it’s by Zhang Qiang.
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Everyone is talking about grad school admissions and I have many stories to tell on this topic but I guess the most annoying one is the one that I was admitted to a well-known grad school in the US in 2016, but couldn’t go because of the Muslim-ban.
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I’m based in London. I’m going to Edinburgh today to make up for a visa interview appointment that I messed up in Manchester last week (by missing a document), and get a visa for Greece such that I can go to Germany and give a 45 min talk!
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I just realized that I treat a mathematical proof as a magic eye picture (autostereogram). I keep staring at it until I see it.
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I loved my time at LSE as I found people there who are exceptionally supportive to students during their PhD journeys. So, it really hurts to see how badly it failed in handling multiple cases of sexual misconduct. Bravo to all contributors to this article for their bravery.
“Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor”
I made a contribution to this, in the hope something will change.
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Last days in this flat the door of which is an AI by nature, turning reflections into paintings. :))
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“What upsets me is that I barely know what to say half the time, like, outside of this, outside of work, they don’t have to go around and pretend or be anything other than themselves, You know? And I feel like I’m walking around, trying on 100 different versions of myself.”
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I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to a workshop called Athena in Action at Rutgers Uni but I’m unable to secure a visa appointment at the US Embassy. It may sound cheesy but career-wise, presenting my paper and meeting the attendees at this workshop is a dream for me./1
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Popper with decoration is much less scary! :))
I cannot stop laughing. I think I’m losing my mind due to sleep deprivation. My son is now afraid of Popper.😂 I was behind my schedule for marking. So, I took him to the department in the hope of him getting entertained by the new environment and I get to do some more marking./1
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It’s footballers like Fatemeh who set our expectation bar high!❤️
#WomanLifeFreedom
#Mahsa_Amini
#MahabadMassacre
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I think of LSE library as a kind and skillful midwife who shelters me during the night that I’m giving birth to an idea and soothes my pains and tense feelings until the baby is born. This morning I gave birth to a cute baby idea while I was under her care.
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The only way to enjoy this world is by trying to learn how to enjoy ‘learning’ and the best help one can offer others is to share this knowledge.
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I asked myself why? I guess that’s because *burning feeling* is very much in harmony with the procedure that I have in mind for “killing pigment cells” and there is no such harmony with “restoring pigment cells” in my mind./4
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Just because I’m no ‘photographer’ in any definition of the word, but the reflections in this photo turned out to be interesting!
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Maybe the most difficult thing about being in the philosophy field is that you can never witness or overhear a discussion/debate and tell yourself, ‘It’s not my field! It’s none of my business.
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I love listening to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre while writing up a paper. It somehow resonates very well with my mode of thinking especially when I’m wrestling with an objection. I just checked and apparently it is considered as one of the most terrifying classical pieces. :)
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I really like this picture…Omid is running in the background. ☺️
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-Is Santa real?
+He is real in an imaginary world.
-Maybe he is real for kids and unreal for adults.
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Science is so busy producing “impressive” results that it doesn’t pay attention to its own methodology. Philosophy scrutinizes that and highlights possible pitfalls.
(I know it’s probably too optimistic a view, but that’s how I see philosophy in the sunny days.)
What, do you think, is the proper relationship between philosophy and science?
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I’m so fucking angry. Over the past year, this is the 3rd conference that I’ve been invited to present my works and I probably miss because there is no visa appointment. All the slots are booked for several months. I simply hate that I have to do this over and over./1
I’m going to present my recent work on statistical data and social stereotypes at MCMP in March and I’m pretty excited about it:
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The best type of philosopher is an analytic philosopher who works as passionately as a continental philosopher
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I need really long research sessions in order to make progress in my research. Multiple short sessions do not make up for one long sessions. It’s like my train of thought needs a long time to get enough momentum to move forward reasonably. Am I weird?
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+What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever said?
-Help!
“The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse” by Charlie Mackesy
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English is his second language. So, it seems that he analyzes the meaning of English words before using them. Any way, as a formal epistemologist I wish I could tell him to get rid of the word “believing”. It isn’t worth the trouble🙃
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Writing personal statement is the most torturous part of any application. 😭
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The luckiest? Someone who becomes more and more thirsty for learning new things as they age and the rate of thirst increase is at least as great as the rate of losing sharpness to learn those new things.
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Walking is the most effective therapy for me these days… I walk fast…very fast…as if I hope by walking faster and faster, I will grow wings on my back at some point and can fly back home…
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I keep daring myself to be a truth philosopher. What kind of philosopher am I?
Are you a truth philosopher or a dare philosopher?
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Believe it or not, Bayesianism can defeat racism and sexism! I will prove that!
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Found this in the margin of an old handout of mine. I was trying to present a formal epistemology paper to an ethics audience. :)
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I’ve never been to Ireland but I really like it. Apart from the reasons which are obvious TODAY🤦♀️, I like it for these three reasons: my supervisor, Sally Rooney, The Cranberries
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It's as if the psyche treats the experience as a counterexample to a universal claim rather than just a data point that can inform inductive reasoning. It then begins to blame and torment you for believing such a childish universal claim, exacerbating the situation further. /2
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There are two verses from two separate poems of Rumi that I absolutely love:
1- You're what you seek.
2- Seek restlessness to find rest.
The second one is consistent on its own but leads to a contradiction when considered together with the first one.
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She has an invasive autoimmune disease and she is fighting in the prison. I have a noninvasive autoimmune disease and I’m lying on my bed in the comfort of my home. We’re not the same. She’s a warrior. I’m a coward...
#Leila_Hosseinzadeh
#WomanLifeFreedom
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There is a new medical acronym in the Gaza Strip: WCNSF - Wounded Child with No Surviving Family. This is not a natural catastrophe; it is a man-made one, happening right in front of our eyes.
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I can’t see them any time soon. So, I wear them. The gloves are my mother. The necklace is my father. The perfume is my sister and the backpack is my brother.
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I was diagnosed with Vitiligo two years ago (a condition in which the skin loses its pigment cells). At first, I tried to find solutions to stop its progress, but they didn’t help and now that it’s overtaken more than 50 percent of my skin, the doctor has prescribed/1
#vitiligo
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I really should take off my analytical philosopher hat when indulging in Rumi.
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You might think we’re collaborating nicely to pick an apple, but in fact, we’re wrestling over this tool.🤦♀️
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Came across this on the government's website while I was doing the right-to-work check. Rather disappointing... :))
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I love LSE library! I’m not sure why but somehow its environment makes me safe and improves my focus considerably. It’s like a small cozy world detached from all the insurmountable difficulties of the brutal real world!
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Almost cried watching this scene...relatable on so many levels
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Why do I love
@LSEPhilosophy
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"[...]while it speaks in favour of a [moral] principle if it comes with a plausible justification and is intuitively compelling, this does not suffice /1
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Narges Mohammadi was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
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Two- Gradual weaning: gradually distancing yourself from your original culture and trying to understand/embrace some elements of the dominant culture.
Three- No weaning: Clinging to the original culture and deliberately avoiding any element of the dominant culture./2
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Putting it metaphorically: Life is not path-dependent. Life is the paths themselves. Sometimes a set of cyclic and convoluted paths is much more beautiful than a straight path.
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@lastpositivist
Human societies would flourish if individuals who believe there’s an option of *almost* proving something mathematically were banned from both paid work and raising children. 🤦🏻♀️
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Only 56 days until I leave this place with all its bitter and sweet memories. It was my cave, my prison, my cocoon. I’ll miss it.
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One can make the argument that over time this can lead to a moral crisis in the society, because it’s like people are being trained to suppress their moral intuitions on a daily basis. Every time they watch a video on YouTube, they also practice to suppress their moral intuitions
The charity adverts on youtube that show a real life parent crying over their sick children make me angry! I would donate anything I have to help that person if I could! Why do you make me trample my moral intuition every time I want to watch a video by clicking on “skip ad”?
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-Mum! What’s infinity plus 2?
+Infinity!
-How about infinity plus one million?
+Infinity!
-How about infinity plus infinity?
+Still infinity!
-Why is infinity so selfish?!
:))
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(or disutility of having an unconfident future self) is equal to the utility of any material gain from immigration, can you make that decision just by knowing your view on cultural pluralism and your risk attitude?/7
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My observation is that people who choose the first option will earn a decent level of confidence in their social interaction in the new society after a couple of years./3
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The only way out of this vicious cycle is an anchor belief which is optimistic and yet explicitly negates the universal claim that the universe is a safe place. By 'anchor belief,' I mean something accessible to the individual without the need for reasoning,.../4
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The charity adverts on youtube that show a real life parent crying over their sick children make me angry! I would donate anything I have to help that person if I could! Why do you make me trample my moral intuition every time I want to watch a video by clicking on “skip ad”?
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Really enjoyed
@KevinZollman
’s talk at Choice Group today. Elegant and practical. Kind of work that made me fascinated in philosophy years ago and still makes me hopeful of the future of philosophy.
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