David Montminy

Épistémologue et éthicien des sciences | Candidat au Ph.D. et chargé de cours @umontreal | Promoting arts and science one tweet at a time.

[Page about Timothy Williamson, philosopher. @TWilliamson55]

This book is out with one article by Tim in it. https://t.co/9yGm16TB4E

[Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine @philosophybites]

Thomas Nagel’s summary of Wittgenstein is a model of clarity and concision. Read these three pages and you’ll understand more about his philosophy than most philosophy undergraduates do 👇🏻

[David Papineau @davidpapineau]

New paper in Synthese—a metaphysical theory of causation designe to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space https://t.co/5sTaYWuawU

[JPA @2Philosophical_]

This one-page paper by Galen Strawson probably deserves to make the rounds again.

[Matt Olma @matt_olma]

Plato was not “a philosopher.” He was a wrestler who masterfully used and developed a philosophy.

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

>be me
>be the culmination of empiricism
> no personal identity
> no objects
>no necessary connection between events
>no moral facts
>it’s probably fine

[Ghost of the Australian Realists @analyticatheism]

❗️BREAKING❗️

After nearly two decades, Paul Draper's book defending Atheism and the problem of evil will finally be published at the end of the month. Draper offers a cumulative case defending "core Atheism" and engages with arguments for Theism.

Link:
https://t.co/TmtqNBkrLb

[Ghost of the Australian Realists @analyticatheism]

William Rowe's classic introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is a fantastic text that serves as an accessible gateway into the wonderful world of analytic philosophy of religion:
https://t.co/9qHoI2Wj0F

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

Making Sense of Vicarious Responsibility: Moral Philosophy Meets Legal Theory - Erkenntnis https://t.co/5dQQpqKJ7N

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

Re(l)ality: The View From Nowhere vs. The View From Everywhere https://t.co/Q2Z2MFuh0d

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

Three facets of time‑reversal symmetry https://t.co/3eDFbQ3yTD

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Post-Soviet visual. “Girl with a book and an orange" painting by Georgy Kurasov, Russia, 2009.

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

Pragmatic Realism: Towards a Reconciliation of Enactivism and Realism https://t.co/M0lgoDMf0S

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

What is Intelligence For? A Peircean Pragmatist Response to the Knowing-How, Knowing-That Debate https://t.co/WvQ5LLl3I5

[Bahram Shakerin @BahramShakerin]

[History of Mathematics]

Some highlights from the history of Game Theory

Yuval Peres
https://t.co/klAMh0qkoN

[Bahram Shakerin @BahramShakerin]

Introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics

Edward Witten

https://t.co/9w5PKkz7nQ

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Entropy — a term commonly thought of as a measure of disorder — is now known to change depending on the observer. Anthony Aguirre has defined a quantity he calls observational entropy that other researchers say helps to clarify ambiguity around this phenomenon. https://t.co/65yqxATyar

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

A Mechanistic Explanatory Strategy for XAI https://t.co/IdX9DK7N6x

[PhilSci-Archive @PhilSciArchive]

Causal selection in context: explaining gene centrism https://t.co/9N3ZcvO3i0