04.23.12
Philosophy Carnival #141
Welcome to the one hundred forty first philosophy carnival. In my internet travels I found some really cool philosophy inspired posters by Genis Carreras, which I have paired with the links to pretty up the carnival.
Zombies, because philosophers like zombies.
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Dogma
This is my favorite post of the carnival: U-Phil: Deconstructing Dynamic Dutch-Books? by Deborah G. Mayo. It is about dogmatism in Bayesian epistemology when considering Dutch Book arguments, as viewed by a frequentist. This is great stuff. Is There a Difference Between Memory and Imagination? Ok, this has little to do with dogma, but I had nowhere else to put it. Greg argues that remembering is closer to imagination since it is a reconstruction. |
Experimental Issues
What happens when people are placed under linguistic constraints and need to communicate? Experimental semiotics provides some insight with combinatoriality (recurrence of basic forms), but Gualtiero Piccinini argues that natural language is more complex. He says it requires potential infinite complexity, which may not occur with only combinatoriality. Still, ES leads him to hypothesize the “Gavagai Game” of language generation, which could provide insight into language. |
EthicsTwo different ethical views are propounded this carnival:
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 Richard Chappell, however, outlines a position where acts are evaluated on utility, not the character of the person doing them. By evaluating acts and not the person’s character, individual accidents of psychology which may make one person much more (in)sensitive to certain issues than others may be separated from their moral will. He argues that this position is highly practical. |
The Business of Philosophy
Gregory Wheeler has an interesting set of posts about sampling problems in our favorite school ranking system, the Philosophical Gourmet Report: The Sampling Problem and Educational Imbalance. Secondly the smokers have posted and been discussing some cool research done in the area of tenure-track philosophy hiring by Carolyn Dicey Jennings. So you want a philosophy job? Take a gander and these numbers! [Go BU!] |
Two takes on Rule Following
Murali at the Leage of Ordinary Gentlemen argues for a basis of law on a two tier system, the distinction between habit and rule following, and an internal point of view. Dave Maier discusses semantic rule following in Wittgenstein. This is actually a really good discussion of how we get caught in a bind of wanting both definitions and revisability when it comes to identifying fundamental measures, but I’m actually posting this because I want to point out that my duckrabbit is better (and more stylish) than his duckrabbit. My duckrabbit should be the standard duckrabbit. And what if my duckrabbit were to significantly change? Would we have to revise all other duckrabbits to account for the change? Of course not. Since it is so inconceivable that my duckrabbit should become fundamentally different, if it were to change, it would signify that we had lost our minds. So there is no problem here at all. |
But What is Philosophy
Another article by Dave Maier, What is philosophy, again?, but this one over at 3 Quarks Daily. My contribution to the carnival is that I am starting a new blog, The Road to Sippy Cups. My inaugural post is I Sneeze, Therefore I Am. I say on the about page, “Philosophy’s goal is to wean us off ideas — even if they had sustained us — because those ideas no longer provide us with what we need, and, hopefully, onto better ones.” And I will be writing, “metaphysics with an eye towards values, humans and society.” So I encourage you to go check it out. |
If you have made it this far…… you might be an internet philosopher! So go over to the philosophy carnival page and sign up to host or submit your work! |
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Maryann said,
April 23, 2012 at 1:02 pm
I don’t get why you posted fake quotes by philosophers (that part is funny) onto pictures of other philosophers (Nietzsche and Wittgenstein I think)? Otherwise enjoyed this carnival.
Tom B. said,
April 23, 2012 at 7:06 pm
It’s Russell, not Wittgenstein.
Great post though. Thanks for the link!
nogre said,
April 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Just as the attributions for the quotes are wrong, so are the associated images: it takes the joke/irritation a step further. I did it to support the carnival, to get people to focus on hosting and submitting links. A little blurb saying, “Don’t forget to submit your posts for the next carnival,” can easily be ignored, but big images are harder to miss. Since you were both amused, annoyed, and confused enough to ask me about it, I believe I was successful.
Also, the second image is of Bertrand Russell.
Wizardcorpse said,
April 25, 2012 at 6:58 am
I don’t get it why was my work not published although you keep encouraging people to submit their hard work?
some wise men you are
Wizardcorpse said,
April 25, 2012 at 7:01 am
The following article has been submitted via the Blog Carnival submission form.
Carnival: philosophers’ carnival
Next scheduled: Apr 23, 2012
nogre said,
April 25, 2012 at 11:51 am
The carnival policy is that the carnival host gets to choose which submissions to post. There were a few submissions I did not use. If you want this unholy power, just sign up for hosting the carnival, and you too can know what it is like.
nogre said,
April 25, 2012 at 11:54 am
And I don’t claim to be wise. Petty, arbitrary and foolish mostly.
Philosopher’s Carnival #141 | Certain Doubts said,
May 9, 2012 at 1:16 pm
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Walrus said,
July 29, 2012 at 6:46 pm
This is laid out quite nicely; some good reading to be had.
Also the humor (since it was brought up here in the comments), at least for me, in putting Heidegger’s name on ‘ol Bertie there is thinking about how incredibly different they were in almost every way imaginable (physically and philosophically). You’ve got Heidegger, the hulking existentialist Nazi of the black forest on one hand, and on the other the hyper-analytic meager mathlete that is Russell. The contrast amuses me at least.
nogre said,
July 31, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Glad you got the joke, Walrus. It looks like I was more successful at being funny than inspiring participation, though, since the carnival went on hiatus due to lack of host volunteers. (— It appears to be back now, but still needs more hosts.)
Sam said,
August 5, 2012 at 9:00 am
I’m not really all that computer savvy and I’m about to deploy for four months but otherwise it would be neat to play host. Though I’d probably need more help than it’s worth…
Noah Greenstein said,
August 5, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Hi Sam,
Hosting a carnival isn’t too difficult, you just have to be able to post text with links. It takes some time to go through different submissions and write a blurb about them, though. In my experience it is more time intensive than expected, but it doesn’t require technical skills outside of normal blogging.
Go to the philosophy carnival webpage [http://philosophycarnival.blogspot.com/] to see a list of past carnivals and other information.