Last week at Academia Sinica, I spoke at a panel on the path forward for Chinese Philosophy. I'm posting my (provocative) remarks about the aim of historical work on these texts. Curious to hear comments and criticisms (including the angry ones!).
https://t.co/k8Fsjp5z6R
At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.
@LedermanHarvey Accurate pronunciations are awesome, but sometimes the anglicised pronunciations of my name (Wú Quē) can be quite amusing in a good way. I never know what to expect.
@CliffordSosis I tend to agree that philosophy is useless. Philosophy involves thinking critically about what success is. It would be weird if something that is critical of the notion of success is also useful in leading to success…
@alabalawhiskey Tho it's possible that certain kinds of zetetic-epistemic conflict discussed in Friedman (2020) wouldn't arise for this kind of perfect epistemic agent, just because they have unlimited time, energy, and computing power...
@alabalawhiskey Since omniscient beings don't need to inquire, maybe it's better to consider a perfect epistemic agent who isn't omniscient, say, someone maximally rational and has unlimited time and effort. Why wouldn't it be coherent that they satisfy norms of inquiry?
Watching #Severance and thinking about psychological continuity & personal identity. Are innie and outie literally two persons? If so, does the outie exist during work hours? If so, where? If not, do we (as persons) exist during a coma?
A strong argument against the animalist theory of personal identity (i.e. we are essentially animals) is the possibility of two persons in one animal (e.g. Mark Reid's paper). The show #Severance is slowly offering a rebuttal to that argument
https://t.co/XIAD59lS2C
Finally got to watch ‘Ascension’ yesterday, a thought-provoking documentary exploring capitalism in China. Could be an interesting classroom resource on globalization, labour, and economic inequities. If North American consumerism never made you question capitalism, this will.