#Epistemology

Kevin J.S. Zollman

KevinZollman

This week in Network Epistemology we talked about a philosophical problem called "testimony" and its connection with homophily. The basic question: what are the effects of different strategies for trusting

Jules Gill-Peterson

gp_jls

we are led in the vernacular to think of sex as fixed phenotype. however, the concept of sex refers to two things: phenotype *and* the processes that regulate that phenotype.

Seerut K. Chawla

seerutkchawla

You know who else believed in standpoint epistemology & didn’t judge ideas on their merit, but instead by who came up with them? The nazis.They tried to call physics by

Erika Lorraine Milam

elmilam

As the summer has turned into fall, I have been co-teaching the intro historiography seminar for history & #histSTM graduate students. My mind has kept returning to @myrnperez's introduction to

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥

Econ_Marshall

I am the CEO of Foxes. Hens deserve better. when a simple ‘and’ achieves the outer limits of the known epistemology pretty sure workers don’t get to choose I see

AKGWDS

AK_GWDS

Was bisher geschah: Im Juli 2016 lädt @Trogambouille zur Vernissage seiner virtuellen „Embedded Game Studies“ Ausstellung ein. https://gespielt.hypotheses.org/837 Wir fangen mit The Colonel‘s Bequest (Sierra 1989) an #Thread In

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

Brittney, you refer to these white people as 'liberals.' If you're speaking to liberals, you are coming at this backwards. We are not 'choosing black people to learn & earn

Mohammad Salman

writesalman

Those who support Homosexuality are asking Muslims to prove 'Scientifically' & 'Logically' why Homosexuality is wrong. Many Muslims are also sharing scientific research articles to support their stand.This #thread deals

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Remember the "urban farming" wave, whose most prominent proponent was the youtuber Curtis Stone, author of "The Urban Farmer?" Stone is now a covid-denying trumpist who believes in impending civilizational

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Cultural Appropriation may be the single worst idea to come out of wokism.It is cynical, divisive, and absolutely poisonous to our goal of creating a society where people from different

ifrit

metadiogenes

Part of the issue with FEP frameworks is its choice of ontological setting. By situating the theoretical observer within the organism, looking out, it adopts a Kantian perspective. This opens

Rabbi Josh Yuter

JYuter

1. A few points in response to this good read. First, the specific ad hominem fallacy is "Tu Quoque": https://www.thoughtco.com/tu-quoque-logical-fallacy-1692568#:~:text=Tu%20quoque%20is%20a%20type,%22a%20tu%20quoque%20argument.%2

Reza Negarestani

NegarestaniReza

Since writing intelligence and spirit's chapter on Boltzmann, I have slowly realized the disquieting significance of Boltzmann's the drawer-pulling experiment mentioned in his correspondence with Brentano. The thought experiment is

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

I'm going to talk about psychedelics now. My qualifications: I am me, I have taken mushrooms and acid on a number of occasions. I have read quite a bit by

Samuel D. James

samueld_james

One day I'm going to write a long essay about the Internet Wayback Machine. Amazing creation, and you can learn a lot from it. One of my favorite things is