Alec Siantonas
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Visiting Professor of Philosophy @AshokaUniv ; PhD @UniversityLeeds ; previous @OrielOxford . Views my own, but KAIL 11.
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Why would 'there is no variation in the richness of imagined mental imagery' be the null hypothesis here?
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So you're telling me he's *AC* Plantinga?
Alvin Plantinga's middle name is Carl. Hm. Seems like it shouldn't be Carl. Need to think more about this.
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@StuartJRitchie
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ok but what *are* you arguing? it's very obscure. In part because, as you and others note, we are pushing against the limits of language here, but I think this excuse will only take you so far.
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seems to me that Ashoka might benefit from students doing fewer courses per semester
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real btw. she was asking me what's good on zomato the other day.
Kate Middleton is really in Sonipat, Adjunct Faculty at Jindal.
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18 but before starting university... reading Hume in Heidelberg
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Students: it falls to me, as your professor, in solemn accuracy to report that you do not, in fact, suck at what you do
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Chris Martin attended a cathedral school and obtained a first class degree in classics. Coldplay has been fine and good, but when are we getting some Greek anthems and a Mass setting?
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also me to the Ashokans of twitter
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oomfs on monday:
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I am teaching an AI course next semester an initial description is now up
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OK so I've had some visa issues which compounded with journal rejections and family stuff to put me in a slight funk, but that will be sorted. Turns out mountain air and convivial drinking with philosophers is actually more salutary than obsessively grinding Elden Ring level 1.
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happy valentine's day to all my logic students
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they are advertising my epistemology course next semester
ashoka sprinklers so good I couldn't identify it was actually raining for a solid 5 minutes
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I am but a humble visiting prof in India but it sounds like some of the stuff US universities are doing right now is pretty bad
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very happy to have had Prof Chakrabarti say hello. among other more elevated topics, he advised me to drink some fresh orange juice from fuelzone.
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@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
Is the idea that visual sensation is just what happens in genuine seeing? In which case this claim isn't interesting, and it's also unclear why an exception should be carved out for hallucination.
If the claim is that remembering what things look like is not qualitatively...
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@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
For instance, what precisely does the difference between the hypothesis you accept and the one you reject in this tweet come down to?
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Ashokan philosophers and adjacent: I am planning to set up a research circle where students, TFs, and faculty can come together to discuss each other's work. Let me know if you'd like to be involved.
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this is why you should study Symbolic Logic
When I lived in Paris I dated a man who was scrawny, ugly, shorter than me, broke, an alcoholic, lived in a shitty apartment, etc etc. Why did I do this? Because he was good at arguing
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excitable contemplation of the glorious future in which all my ideas are fully worked out, published, and acclaimed is a great enemy of the glorious future in which all my idea are fully worked out, published, and acclaimed
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@StuartJRitchie
@WiringTheBrain
similar to seeing in a way that other kinds of remembering are not, then this claim is highly implausible and you should simply have rowed it back as soon as anyone said that they do find it very similar.
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I've been saying I should offer a philosophy and AI course!
"If ever we discover a theory of AI, it is more likely to emerge from the discipline of philosophy than from computer science," write Professor Subhashis Banerjee.
#AshokaUniversity
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hey I still managed to turn my doctorate in thank you very much
if you've played 800 hours in one video game
you could conceivably spend 800 hours focusing on something else
what would that be like, are you not curious
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'Can you guys stop saying 'chat', there isn't a chat in real life': the youngest of my once removeds, wisely.
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hey I've been accepted for the open session of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society:
For Knowledge-Governed Full Belief
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It was good, thanks Yash
Some of you better show up at 5 in the mess lawns I am spending too much effort making all this curry
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if you want a retweet, write an appreciation post for one of my students
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hey I actually spotted a mistake in one of my slides beforehand this time
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update:
the visa people seemed happy with my submission, so I should be coming over soonish;
soonish is not now (or in the past), so I will begin the semster online;
I had fun in Austria;
I beat Malenia (and Godfrey).
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Since Ashokans seem to be so put out by the arrival of new first years, I will take it upon myself to model collegiate spirit by saying: I've always thought
@ellegist
is all right.
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a) done drafting the logic midterm b) paperwork is reputedly underway for my return next year
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This brings me to a related gripe of mine. The great physicists of the early 20th C were nothing like today's stereotype of the STEMlord. They were rounded intellectuals, deeply learned in philosophy, history, and literature.
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it doesn't seem to include the telling anecdote of the Byzantine historian who came away from a discussion with Neumann convinced that Neumann was the more knowleadgeable about Byzantine history.
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what
The outcome of your PhD is not your dissertation, it's you.
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Before we all sod off I was thinking of doing a hangout at lunchtime on Saturday. Maybe 12:30 at Dhaba?
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It was Yeats's opinion that spirits could control the movements of his hands while writing
“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
William Butler Yeats
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Two actually, but one occludes the other as a pair among infinite stars
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on Bernard Williams vs Albert Camus: they're both handsome and they've both got Rizz. But Williams is more handsome, while Camus has more rizz.
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Pleased to announce that I have achieved a major academic milestone: deleting my first email from a scam journal! 🥳
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I am sorry that I have not been able to be more helpful lately, for illness and funeral preparation reasons (I'll be back for a bit after, but I am now in the UK for this reason). The midsem marks in particular are almost ready.
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'Kojima et al. (2022) showed that LLMs can solve novel tasks they weren’t explicitly trained on when prompted to “think step by step,” demonstrating a form of reasoning capability'
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I read this and now I can do philosophy
I read this and i became the most annoying guy in the seminar room
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hope they had a higher-order logic consultant for this one
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not sure how it will translate to enrollment but in terms of engagement at least I think I've a pretty good job at advertising my courses on here
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some reflections about academia and my place within it.
I have a robust (and, as far as I'm concerned, appreciative) sense of it as a *guild* with a traditional stucture. There are - and quite straightforwardly so - apprentices, journeymen, and masters.
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hey I'm going to the International Wittgenstein Symposium to explain why you've got to be better at logic than I am in order to do metaphysics
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This undignified display is another case in point re class and taste. The Great Books movement in the US, and equivalents in the UK, aimed to make access to the classics equal. Everyone, not just the elite, deserved to make the great writers and thinkers of the past their own.
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We have seen no good reason to doubt the natural view that most of what matters to us is, to a frightening extent, radically contingent and radically transient.
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last (-45th) minute addition to the epistemology exam
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Well, I quizzed. Largely beyond the limits of my epistemic territory, but a pleasure to see so many past present logic students there.
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In addition I only succeeded in shooing 1 of 2. The other... still inside.
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sick but think I gained an insight regarding self-deception
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In preparation for next semester's logic course, I am writing up my own guide to modal logic. The first chapter is done:
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Research Circle Update: we have a room booked (AC04 004) at 7pm next Monday for our first meeting.
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granting all the extension requests, on condition that you return *this* assignment instead
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All right: I resolve that, once I have a paper accepted for publication, I will add 'journeyman philosopher' to my bio, and also drop both of my previous instutions.
I will, however, retain Ashoka for at least my next job.
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Mum: wow it's so hot out, we're getting some proper sun today
Me:
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Though it occurs to me that I passed up my opportunity to addresa a class as 'chat'
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me: knowledge. knowledge first. knowledge is the norm of action and goal of cognition. everyone by nature desires to know.
also me: guess I'll just drift around the Delhi metro system till the Ashoka shuttle finds me
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1 microgram of cocaine is not sufficient to supply a British child.
If n micrograms of cocaine are not sufficient to supply a British child, then n+1 micrograms are not sufficient to supply a British child.
Therefore
A cocaine haul – so large that it could supply every man, woman and child in Britain twice – has been seized in Southampton
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>up all night submitting paper.
>website said 3000 words.
>enter paper into submission box.
>word limit 2750 words.
>deadline extended.
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