I would pay to do this job! :confused_dog:

Recollections of the American pragmatist Richard Bernstein (1932-2022)

An interesting article about Richard Bernstein and his final class on Hannah Arendt:

"A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class" by Jordi Graupera
(The New Yorker, January 3, 2023)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/a-philosophy-professors-final-class

This past spring, Richard Bernstein investigated the questions he’d been asking his whole career - about right, wrong, and what we owe one another - one last time.

#Philosophy #Pragmatism #Arendt #Habermas

Thinking together. Updated at last. My attempt to say something about the idea of two or more people thinking a thought together. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/longworth/thinking_together_v32.pdf

@epso Thank you! :)

Christmas lights with Mr. Pip.

“ The taxpayer will be funding legal fees for Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock when they appear at the official inquiry into the Covid pandemic next year, i understands.”
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/matt-hancock-boris-johnsons-covid-inquiry-defence-funded-by-taxpayers-2053720

@RalphBrooker Ah, I love it! It’s on Shades of Blue. :)

@RalphBrooker Blue Mosque is one of my favourite things. :)

Adorno the Grinch: “Real giving had its joy in imagining the joy of the receiver … thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of distraction. Just this hardly anyone is now able to do. At the best they give what they would have liked themselves, only a few degrees worse.”

If you have a child who is worried that Santa Claus might not exist, you can reassure them using this proof.

Call this sentence P:

If this sentence is true, Santa Claus exists.

Suppose P is true. P says “If P is true, Santa Claus exists.” So, Santa Claus exists.

So, we've proved that if P is true, Santa Claus exists.

But that's just what P says!

So, P is true.

So, Santa Claus exists!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone who celebrates a very Merry Christmas. The wonderful Sarah Millican started #JoinIn for everyone who is alone or finds today difficult. So if today is hard for you for whatever reason, use the hashtag and find people to chat to.

Descriptive set theory and combinatorics, 19--20 December, 2022 - Torino.

Some slides and video recordings are now available:
http://torino.logicgroup.altervista.org/torino/workshop_2022_12_20/

Unsettling Questions, slightly revised. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/longworth/unsettling_questions_v26.pdf

We’ve published a new issue!

https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/issue/view/884

@RalphBrooker Haha! There’s certainly room for both species! :)

@RalphBrooker Yes, quite possibly! I usually go for Lancashire or a vintage cheddar. :)

(Accompanying them with cheese remains a standing recommendation.)

This year's mince pie recommendations:
Sainsbury's frangipane ones;
Waitrose's fig and pear, three cheese.