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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 17h

If you, like me, struggle with the idea of a strong claim, consider that this can also be something like "Utpaladeva's contribution to the philosophy of love is unmissable bc he's the first to claim that love does not need to be among two different individuals. I will show it w these passages…".
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 17h

Instead, extract your notes and make them into a separate paper on the text you edited or translated. Try to have a strong claim as the centre of the WS.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 17h

Concerning your writing-sample: It needs to be as good as possible, especially for UofT_Philosophy (since the research proposal is not an issue there). For EU and Japanese students (and others around the world): An annotated critical edition or translation does not count as a writing sample.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21h

This might be relevant while planning conferences.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

www.bostonglobe.com

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21h

#PhilosophyJobs

tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 21h

University of Helsinki is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Ethics

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21h

Sure, let's just use gen-AI in health and research!

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 21h

University of Helsinki is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Ethics

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

www.bostonglobe.com

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting to think about in connection with (pseudo?) sentences like "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously", whose meaning can hardly he exported…
#PhilosophyOfLanguage #philosophy

Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 1d

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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What does it mean to understand language?

Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...

arxiv.org

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

#GlobalPhilosophy

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is now published.

#philsky

journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy

journal.lib.uoguelph.ca

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy is now published.

#philsky

journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy

journal.lib.uoguelph.ca

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

with signature locks in St John…

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Linguistics Day with Saussure's reflections on #apoha!

HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 2d

Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...

#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

At the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy #PhilosophyJobs

tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 1d

McGill University is hiring:
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy

tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 1d

McGill University is hiring:
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy

Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 1d

"We train ChatGPT to recognise and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate conversations, and guide people toward real-world support.”

Anyone who has read the transcripts (heartbreaking!) knows this simply wasn't the case. ChatGPT kept up with its messages of 'empowerment.'

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Or that repeating old arguments w/o even knowing it is a waste of everyone's time and that history of philosophy is at the very least a powerful training, without which no one can excel in philosophy.
(Honest Q, in case it was not obvious).
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

I don't disagree, but do you think that logic is important or that it is MORE important than, say, epistemology or history of philosophy? I can imagine powerful arguments about the fact that unless you have investigated the ways you know, you can't know for sure.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Same problem when someone speaks of "Vedic philosophy" without any differentiation and goes on claiming things about the ātman that are just what (most) Advaita Vedānta authors think. As philosophers, we should seek complexity not easy ways out.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

I am surprised by Taylor's translation of paśu as `wild animals', since I would understand the couple paśu-mṛga as domesticated vs. wild mammals (usually quadrupeds and herbivores)

Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 1d

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
1/n🧵👇

What does it mean to understand language?

Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...

arxiv.org

HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 2d

Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...

#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay

"Dans la langue, il n'y a que des différences sans termes positifs [=In a language, there are only differences and no positive terms.]" (Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linnguistique générale, p. 166)

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d

can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop

Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

For me, numbers tell me nothing (I have no way to know whether it's true and it costs you nothing to say it, since I do not have access to the letters you wrote for each other candidate in the last 20ys!).
Thoughts?
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

From a guidebook about #RecommendationLetters for law school: " "I recommend Jane with enthusiasm" tells us nothing. But, "in my twenty years here, I would place Jane in the top 3%" shines like a neon sign.”"

This is so much AGAINST my own experience with letters!
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 2d

"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"

Cian Dorr giving us some grues and bleens in "To be F is to be G" (2016)

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

the changes in the light are really fascinating.

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

This is the kind of review that would cost me an enormous amount of time just correcting stupid mistakes, & I would end up feeling angry at myself for accepting it. I would still want to help a jr colleague or a recent post Doc, but it seems to me that a sr colleague should have higher standards
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