Eliot Michaelson
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If anyone else interested in philosophy of language is still lurking in this cesspool, here you go:
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Cheryl, why in the world did you divorce Larry David and marry this guy?
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Keep wondering when Biden is going to come out and say ‘I would have won’. The suspense is killing me.
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If you want to know where all the cool kids will be at the end of September, it definitely won’t be here: But if you want to come and talk about the philosophy of language, this is the place.
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What’s the proper function of language? Let’s find out:
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It doesn't have (just) one, and this matters for how we ought to pursue a theory of meaning and communication.
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Wondering how to actually go about doing that ‘non-ideal philosophy of language’ thing you keep hearing about? I have some thoughts:
academic.oup.com
Jessica Keiser’s Non-Ideal Foundations of Language is a serious, sustained attempt to engage in systematic philosophy of language while leaving aside some
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Come hang out in Amherst in September with a bunch of cool philosophers of language, and also me:
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With some friends, I wrote a short thing on how algorithms (like the feed algorithm here) can manipulate us, even though they aren’t agents:
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
YouTube, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, and chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard—all of them are manipulating you. More specifically, their algorithms are manipulating you.…
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RT @razhael: Last year, more than a dozen Hungarian civil society figures were targeted by undercover operatives who secretly tape recorded….
reuters.com
Private spy firm Black Cube was behind a hidden video campaign that used LinkedIn to target Hungarian activists and journalists leading to last year's election in the central European country, the...
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Ever wondered how to solve the Madagascar problem? Well, wonder no more:
journals.publishing.umich.edu
Evans (1973)’s Madagascar case and other cases like it have long been taken to represent a serious challenge for the Causal Theory of Names. The present essay answers this challenge on behalf of the...
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RT @MikeOtsuka: Now that @ucu's Congress is back in person (it went online during Covid), union policy is set by about 300 of its 120,000 m….
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RT @RichardJMurphy: The news that there had been a (bad) pay offer in the NHS pay dispute still gave rise to the almost inevitable cry of '….
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Liz Truss apparently added about £30 billion to the UK’s debt in her time in office. Which, if you take away the time spent mourning the queen, was about 30 days. So about £1 billion per day. Hilarious as she was, I’m not sure it was worth it.
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Props to The Guardian for some pretty epic shade throwing here.
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Never realized until today what an incredible long game the creators of Charles in Charge were playing. I mean, respect.
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I really cannot tell which of these Tories is more the accelerationist candidate.
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I all seriousness though, I am wholly in favor of the collectible card game version of this.
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Having seen how worked up philosophers get about journal rankings, I can’t but help thinking that we should just throw in the towel and start ranking individual philosophers. Living ones only. Just imagine how fun APAs will be after that!.
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