This semester, the Dewey Studies Reading Group will be discussing John Dewey's 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. We will meet on Fridays at 1:00pm in the Center for Dewey Studies and online. Find out more, including how to join the group, at our website: https://deweycenter.siu.edu/

Lovely article by @deevybee from 1990 (!) discussing Type 1 error inflation due to p-hacking (simulating a 40% Type 1 error rate based on realistic flexibility), bad measurement, bad theory, and proposing prespecifying tests and replications as solutions. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01688639008401022

@Nausicaa Cosmologie: du grec kosmos signifiant ordre, bon ordre, bien rangé 😅

En 2005 la ville de Boston a eu un concours du "bureau le moins bien rangé de la ville" et c'est le cosmologiste Alan Guth qui a gagné

New preprint from my PhD work in a single hypothesis: the cognitive bases of myside confirmation #bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.

(Will do a 🧵 on it soon, a tad busy right now.)
#cognition #behavior @cognition @cogsci
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1

@adredish Nice! Your 2016 VTE review is always part of my teaching modules on behavior, so I'm very glad to have this extra resource for next year.

#Hippocampus is publishing a series of #science retrospectives about the history and journeys that led us to where we are scientifically.

Mine just dropped.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23661

I'm deeply honored to have been asked to be a part of this. (They are releasing them as they get through production, so keep an eye on the journal for the rest of them. They had us read them to make connections and it's a fantastic set.)

#HistoryOfScience

New preprint from my PhD work in a single hypothesis: the cognitive bases of myside confirmation #bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.

(Will do a 🧵 on it soon, a tad busy right now.)
#cognition #behavior @cognition @cogsci
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1

Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy came out in Paperback last year. It is the text of an unfinished work by Dewey, meticulously edited by Phillip Deen.

The Poems of John Dewey is newly out in Paperback, with a new foreword by Dr. Matt Brown! The editorial introduction by Jo Ann Boydston is actually pretty thrilling (as such things go).

These two, the entire Collected Works, and many other works by and about Dewey are available from SIU Press for 30% off using the code in this post. Also worth checking out is their edition of Essays in Experimental Logic!

“There is something to be said for the assertion that the so-called democratic states of the world have achieved only "bourgeois" democracy. By "bourgeois" democracy is meant one in which power rests finally in the hands of finance capitalism, no matter what claims are made for government of, by and for all the people. In the perspective of history it is clear that the rise of democratic governments has been an accompaniment of the transfer of power from agrarian interests to industrial and commercial interests.” John Dewey, “Democracy is Radical” (1937 LW 11:296).

“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity. These more numerous and more varied points of contact denote a greater diversity of stimuli to which an individual has to respond; they consequently put a premium on variation in his action. They secure a liberation of powers which remain suppressed as long as the incitations to action are partial, as they must be in a group which in its exclusiveness shuts out many interests.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916, MW 9: 93).

“Contrast between peoples and races previously isolated is always, I think, most fruitful and influential for change when psychological and industrial changes coincide with and reinforce each other. Sometimes people undergo emotional change, what might almost be called a metaphysical change, through intercourse. The inner set of the mind, especially in religious matters, is altered. At other times, there is a lively exchange of goods, an adoption of foreign tools and devices, an imitation of alien habits of clothing, habitation and production of commodities. One of these changes is, so to speak, too internal and the other too external to bring about a profound intellectual development. But when the creation of a new mental attitude falls together with extensive material and economic changes, something significant happens.” John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, MW 12:101)

Data centers now consume 21% of all the electricity in Ireland, more than all the homes in its cities and towns combined. Cloud providers still want more.

This drive for ever-increasing computation serves no one but the bottom lines of major tech companies. It must be stopped.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/ireland-datacentres-overtake-electricity-use-of-all-homes-combined-figures-show

#tech #ai #datacenters #ireland #energy

Looking for help from any #WorldWarI #history buffs:

The "Manifesto of the Ninety-Three [German intellectuals]" was published on the 4th October 1914 in German newspapers and on the 13th October 1914 in French newspapers, but when was it first published/referenced in US and/or British newspapers/reviews [e.g. New Republic, etc.]?

Any info much appreciated, and please share for added reach! Danke, merci, cheers!

@BorisBarbour @neuralreckoning @GabrielBena Also, ignoring referendum results was already viewed by all euroskeptics (informed and uninformed alike) as a typically, if not even stereotypically, EU move.

@BorisBarbour @neuralreckoning @GabrielBena Corbyn's deepest sympathies lie with the worst off in society. That's what makes him who he is. On average, certainly among Labour voters, the worst off in the UK were also those who voted to Leave. That concretized the same moral dilemma he was in prior to the vote: how to sell something to folk who feel they've never benefited from it. Though it was perhaps naïve of him, I think he did at times believe a Brexit could be found that would work for them

@BorisBarbour @neuralreckoning @GabrielBena
Don't forget Cameron!

I do sympathize with the weight of the personal consequences, knowing many UK citizens in similar situations. I was just never particularly convinced there were persuasive enough arguments open to Corbyn or local Labour MPs to reach the particular minority demographic of Labour voters, the so-called "left behind", to vote otherwise. On top of calling it, Cameron's failure to persuade Tory voters to Remain dwarfed Corbyn's.

@BorisBarbour @neuralreckoning @GabrielBena Revisiting the timeline in retrospect, and given his known (and not unjustified) personal misgivings about many aspects of the EU prior to any question of a Brexit, Corbyn's attitude was imo more genuinely pragmatic than he tends to be given credit or remembered for:
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-changing-brexit-stance

Looking for help from any #WorldWarI #history buffs:

The "Manifesto of the Ninety-Three [German intellectuals]" was published on the 4th October 1914 in German newspapers and on the 13th October 1914 in French newspapers, but when was it first published/referenced in US and/or British newspapers/reviews [e.g. New Republic, etc.]?

Any info much appreciated, and please share for added reach! Danke, merci, cheers!

#Democracy "is but a name for the fact that human nature is developed only when its elements take part in directing things which are common, things for the sake of which man and women form groups- families, industrial companies, governments, churches, scientific associations and so on. The principle holds as much of one form of association, say in industry and commerce, as it does in government" - John #Dewey (1948)

@WorldImagining

@philosophy

#coops #cooperatives #philosophy #capitalism