Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼

I back Ukraine & Taiwan. British 🇬🇧 philosopher teaching in Istanbul 🇹🇷 universities since 1997. Tweets about philosophy, but many other things as well.

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

1/2 Three stages of thought on my desk. The Owl of Athena (ok it's a cheap owl ornament from a local shop, I'll get a 'proper' owl of Athena when I see one): myth. Socrates: reason and metaphysics. Nietzsche: the critique of metaphysics;

[A L T U Ğ Y Ü C E L @altugyucel]

İzmir’de sahnede Romeo Juliet oynanırken oyuncunun kafasını yalayan kedi viral oldu. Kadın oyuncunun rol arkadaşını kediden uzaklaştırmak için ayaklarından çekmesi de dikkatlerden kaçmadı

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

From the Babylon Bee, no less.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"We will slaughter every Russian speaker in Ukraine until they admit that we're rescuing them."

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Trump supporters are idiots, part 6297:

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Macron: All those who told us six months ago that Ukraine was going to collapse, wouldn't make it through winter, that we had to hurry up and accept unacceptable — Ukrainians, with strength and courage, have once again proven them wrong. Now it's up to us to build lasting peace.

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

https://t.co/mFgAFoJD95 Strongly recommended

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Unsurprisingly muddled, ignorant and tactless comment from Trump appointed ambassador

[Nick Ashdown @Nick_Ashdown]

Aside from the orientalist language, these people can't even write a simple social media post without AI...

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Is William James referring to g to the British politician Arthur James Balfour here (Prime Minister from 1903–1905, associated with the Balfour Declaration of 1917) in this passage from ‘The Will to Believe’

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Philosophy talk at Boğaziçi University on Friday at 17:00.

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

On Monday Rituparna Roy gave a talk on ‘Signs and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’ to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium. Investigation of language games, AI and consciousness was followed by a lively discussion.

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

I was attacked by a Yıldız Park cat

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

https://t.co/WYhLGGbv6j

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 5th June, 17:00. Gözde Yıldırım, Ambivalence and Moral Attention in the Brontë Sisters’ Fiction'  https://t.co/sDkVlzA79q via @hespeisbosphor

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.

Thursday, 4th June, 17:00

‘Self-Avowals Are Not Secure’

Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: We should be supporting Ukrainians, and we should be hammering Putin at home. There's still more we can do to make it hurt. And when we get his pain threshold up and he begins to feel his grip on power might be threatened, he’ll come to the table.

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Thursday 4th June, 17:00. Krishnaswamy Ramakrishnan, 'Self-Avowals Are Not Secure'  https://t.co/on19vEBqRs via @hespeisbosphor

[Barry David Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @barryDstocker]

Philosophy talk, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul on Monday. 17:00. Rituparna Roy, ‘Sign and Understanding: An Augustinian Response to Wittgenstein in the Time of LLM’