@Helenreflects
Answer is, indeed, Paul Benacerraf's favourite number. Note that 18=4+7+7. You increase by one if you trade a 7 for two 4s. Also 20=4+4+4+4+4. You increase by one if your trade five 4s for three 7s. This gives you a complete algorithm for generating integers greater than 18.
"While Christianity is still the most common religion in Australia, religious diversity is increasing: 39% of respondents identified as Christian in the 2021 census compared to more than half in 2016 and 61% in 2011."
@MNaturalism
@TheoreticalBS
@rjonesx
It was a passing reference to the thesis of disciplinary speciation: new disciplines emerge from philosophy as methods are developed that are capable of producing expert consensus on given subject matters.
Vol 4.2 of APR is out: Curated by Ed Mares. Lead article by Hartry Field: "Properties, Propositions, and Conditionals". Commentaries by: Zach Weber; Shawn Standefer, Rohan French & Greg Restall; and Luis Estrada-Gonzalez and Elisangela Ramirez-Camara.
@nath_ormond
@RealAtheology
Will be moving 1500 books from office to home. Currently empty shelves will hold books. Games have new home in another room.
@nath_ormond
@RealAtheology
Yes. The research runs until the end of 2024. So far, I have been looking at theories of argumentation across a fairly wide range of disciplines, including: AI, computer science, education, history, law, marketing, political science, psychology, and others.
New issue of APR, curated by Lisa Ellis. Lead article by Avner de Shalit ("Political Philosophy and what People Think"). Commentaries from Bas van der Vossen, Colleen Murphy, Johnathan Wolff, and others.
@waldenpod
@MNaturalism
@TheoreticalBS
@rjonesx
Something like this: a domain ceases to be merely philosophical once we have and apply methods in that domain that are capable of producing expert consensus on a significant core of questions in that domain.
The 25th. World Congress of Philosophy will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in July 2023, hosted by the Australasian Association of Philosophy
#AAPhilosophy
#MelbConventions
#MCEC
#MonArts
Australasian Philosophical Review, Volume 3, Issue 4: Women and Republicanism in the Eighteenth Century. Curated by Jacqui Broad. Lead article (and authorial reply) by Sandrine Berges. Check it out!
APR 6.1 has landed. It is curated by Krist Vaesen and Dorothy Rogers. The lead article--"Grace de Laguna's Analytical and Speculative Philosophy"--is by Joel Katzav.
Volume 3, Issue 2 of the *Australasian Philosophical Review* has appeared. The topic is Plato's *Euthydemus*. The curator is Fiona Leigh. The lead author is M. M. McCabe.
Watching Q&A on JDI. I expect that it would be pretty straightforward to use corpus matching to identify contributors to JDI. If that is not true now, it will surely be true in the near future.
New issue of *Australasian Philosophical Review* on hate speech and hidden harms. Curated by Sarah Sorial and Sam Shpall. Lead article by Mary Kate McGowan.
@KennethLPearce
Group A: mereological nihilism; eliminative materialism; Berkeleian idealism; Humeanism about causation; concrete modal realism; presentism.
Group B: mereological universalism; moral error theory; mathematical fictionalism
Have been tempted by Group B; never by Group A.
7 issues of the *APR* at copyediting or proofing stage. Many good things in the works. Forthcoming lead authors: a bunch of philosophers of biology; Susan James; Yong Huang; Nicole Vincent; Danielle Celermajer; Tim Crane; Jenan Ismail; Dan Zahavi; Tzu-Wei Hung; and Gila Sher.
APR4.4 is out. Curated by Garrett Cullity. Lead author: John Broome. Lead Article 'Rationality versus Normativity'. Commentaries: Nomy Arpaly; Hille Paakkunainen; Benjamin Kiesewetter; Julia Markovits; Krister Bykvist; Nathan Howard; Paul Oppenheimer; and more.
Australasian Philosophical Review: Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries.
Theme: *Ontology and Intentionality *
Lead Author: *Tim Crane - *On the Explanation of Intentionality*
Details on the APR website, * <>*
@_Hayyan_Sheikh_
I would say: I want to know more about what you mean by "foundations of reality". I would also say: I want to know more about what kind of discussion you have in mind: are you thinking of examining what others have said on this topic?
APR5.4: Curator: Hui-Chieh Loy. Lead article: Kwong-Loi Shun: "Anger, Compassion, and the Distinction Between First and Third Person". Commentaries: Chan Sin Yee; David B. Wong; Michael Slote; R. Jay Wallace; Daniel Telech; Brandon Yip; Dobin Choi; Lee Wilson; and Liu Pengbo
APR5.3: Curated by Sam Baron. Lead article by Craig Callender: "The Normative Standard for Future Discounting". Commentaries by: Preston Greene; Till Grune-Yanoff; Katie Steele; Andrew Latham+Kristie Miller+James Norton; Ian Robertson; and Tim Smartt.
@JBTweets83
@SteveMcRae_
Here is some information about dying and rising gods. Apparently, there are many cultures that have believed in dying (and not rising) gods. It is much harder to find cases of creator gods who die and do not rise again:
@BissetteHunter
Yes. I advised the PhDs of John Maher OMI and Mark Edwards OMI on divine eternity. I advised the Honours Thesis, MA and PhD of Mark Saward on, respectively, petitionary prayer, fine-tuning, and theistic idealism. There are others I could add to this list.
New call for proposals for open peer commentaries at the Australasian Philosophical Review. The issue is focussed on the philosophy of Grace De Laguna.
@seanddotmedotuk
@Helenreflects
@gordoning
Mostly seen as a time for cultivating: (a) over-indulgence and over-consumption; (b) artificial pursuit of junk material possessions; (c) resentful covetousness of the junk material possessions of others; (d) dangerously corrupt selfishness; and (e) desire for money and power.
The team consisted of Philosophy students Bridgette Baini, Britney Pham, Sarah Stancombe, Noah Martin and Alexa Yao, coached by Monash Philosophy teaching staff James Kent and Alex Cain.
@BissetteHunter
Among those, I should mention Nick Trakakis. When I supervised his PhD, on Rowe's argument from evil, he was a theist. And, when Kirk Lougheed was at Monash, I supervised his PhD on the epistemology of religious disagreement.
APR 6.2 is out. Curated by Matheson Russell. Lead article by Glen Pettigrove. Commentaries: Bridget Clarke; Kristján Kristjánsson; Andrew Pinsent; Nancy E Snow; Rebecca Stangl; Simon Burgess; Garrett Cullity; Jörg Löschke; and Joe Ulatowski & David Lumsden.
@SteveMcRae_
JDI = Journal of Dangerous Ideas.
Q&A is an OZ TV show. Tonight, Peter Singer (the editor of JDI) took part in a Q&A panel discussing whether it is good that JDI allows authors to publish anonymously.
APR 6.3 is out. Curated by Andrew Benjamin. Lead article by Dimitris Vardoulakis. Commentaries by: Charlotta Weigelt; Ian Alexander Moore; Adriel M. Trott; Richard Lee; Marilyn Stendera; Roland Végső; Lachlan Liesfield; Bernardo Ainbinder; and Martin Black.
@EronFas
I did not come to my view by thinking about QM. Someone who came to a somewhat similar view via thinking about Everettian interpretation of QM is Alistair Wilson. See his book: The Nature of Contingency.
@vigilantehorde
If we suppose that independent expert consensus is the key marker of truth, then there is some truth in science, but significantly less in philosophy. The best bet, if you really hanker for truth, is probably mathematics.
APR4.3 is out. Curator: Jo Faulkner. Lead Author: Genevieve Lloyd. (Lead Article: 'Reconsidering Spinoza's "Rationalism"'). Invited Commentaries: Moira Gatens; Sandra Field; Knox Peden. Open Commentaries: Michael Rosenthal; Anne Newstead; Walter Veit; Steph Marston.
@Helenreflects
Yes. I ask students to prepare: read textbook, watch 60 minutes of videos I have prepared, and think about set questions. In 2 hour class, I use Zoom's breakout room function for small group (3-4) discussion + report back (x4). I have 40 students. I think it is working well.