sean 🇵🇸

pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

[Philippine Collegian @phkule]

Sean Marcus Ingalla, the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy's graduating class representative, delivered his speech Saturday during the CSSP recognition rites at the UP Theater with the theme "Katotohanan at Katarungan tungo sa Kapayapaan."

[sean 🇵🇸 @rebolusean]

officially a UP Diliman summa cum laude graduate !!! and delivered a speech on behalf of our college’s graduating class yesterday ! ^-^

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

"What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your Wittgenstein birthday cake."

[Alex Strasser @AStrasser116]

I feel like more philosophers should do this

[Josh Watson @JoshuaLWatson]

kind of funny

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

G.A. Cohen — the funniest philosopher ever to live — gives his best impression of his supervisor at Oxford, Gilbert Ryle.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

American philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine dies of Alzheimer’s in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 92.

His last words were reportedly “It’s funny, I am dying of an illness, but I do not even remember what my illness is called. Althusser? Alzheimer? I cannot remember.”

[CR @luscofusch]

Donald Davidson
Santa Cruz, 24 July 1990
“Gertrude Stein said of someone, ‘He is a village explainer. This is fine if you are a village; if not, not.’ I have always wanted to be a village explainer, but for the most part I do not think I have succeeded: my writing has been found dense and difficult. It is a troubling sign that people cannot decide where to file me. I have been called a realist and an anti-realist, an internalist and an externalist, a subjectivist and an objectivist, a materialist, a monist and an epiphenomenalist. My theory of action has been tagged a causal theory, and I have been accused of making the mental causally impotent. I confess I am responsible for wrongly labelling my view of truth both a correspondence theory and a coherence theory (it is neither), and Richard Rorty says I am pragmatist. But I am not completely discouraged: if you are a village, I will keep on trying to explain myself.”

[CR @luscofusch]

Is that professor Paul Feyerabend?

(excerpt from an interview with Michael Huemer)

[jessicat @jessi_cata]

Imagine if people used "epiphenomenalism" outside consciousness studies. "No, the bat didn't cause the ball to move. The bat is an epiphenomenon on its atoms. As such, the bat has no causal power on anything, including the ball or its atoms."

[sean 🇵🇸 @rebolusean]

RT @phkule: WATCH: Over 3,000 students, faculty, and staff merge at AS steps, heeding the call to condemn widespread and rampant corruption…

[miri 🍂 @aamimiri]

I do not "have a study method", I do not do "study plans". I sit down and read, and if I don't remember what I read, I KILL MYSELF

[Data Dictionary @DictionaryData]

NEW: How often does the Supreme Court reverse itself? That was the question over the past week amid debates on VP Sara Duterte's impeachment.

So we look at the data, particularly on the court's signed decisions.

https://t.co/lkJCcsf0k8

[alex @bigsuitfilms]

THIS PHOTO I JUST GOT OF MY HOMOPHOBIC CAT IM CRYINF

[sean 🇵🇸 @rebolusean]

@luchoiel tama ka AJ Searle

[Alfonso Manalastas 🇵🇸 @not_alfonso]

Gagged me