Examined Life or Imposter Syndrome?

 A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial Cranky Uncle. FLICC: Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry picking, and Conspiracy theories. With handy diagrams. 

Sydney’s favourite question’: Where the city’s powerbrokers went to school

In 2019, she connected with someone on the social media platform through the "find nearby" option during a university networking event with the intention of building her professional connections.

"Previously, I thought like it was pretty innocent, nothing to worry about," Layla said.

After she connected with the man, she felt she was starting to build her network.

"He just messaged me saying that he thought that I had really cool ideas and wanted to get to know me further," she said.

Layla first thought her encounter with the man on LinkedIn was "innocent"

Women are calling out unwanted advances on LinkedIn

Can't Get You Out of My Head (TV series): Adam Curtis not related to Jacqui

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Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain The Atlantic. No, not consciousness. “Representational drift.”

Fermi’s Other Paradox Caitlin Johnstone

1. Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, by Thom Brooks.
2. Margaret Fuller, by Daniel Howe.

Revised:

1. Galileo Galilei, by Peter Machamer and David Marshall Miller.
2. Peter John Olivi, by Robert Pasnau and Juhana Toivanen.
3. Civil Disobedience, by Candice Delmas and Kimberley Brownlee.
4. Marsilius of Inghen, by Maarten Hoenen.
5. Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury), by Michael B. Gill.
6. Scientific Method, by Brian Hepburn and Hanne Andersen.
7. Physicalism, by Daniel Stoljar.
8. Moral Anti-Realism, by Richard Joyce.

IEP    

1. Giordano Bruno, by Paul Richard Blum

NDPR     

1. Ian Thomson (New Mexico) reviews The Disintegration of Community: On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, with Translations of Selected Essays, by Carlos Sánchez and Francisco Gallegos.

1000-Word Philosophy      ∅

Project Vox    ∅

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media  

1. Gordon Marino reviews Sick Souls, Healthy Minds, by John Kaag at Commonweal. 

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Examined Life or Imposter Syndrome?

1. “Looking back, when did you feel like you had made your mark in the field?” “I have not reached that point yet.” — Amartya Sen (Harvard) is interviewed about his life, education, and work
2. What’s so bad about the literary dominance of white men? — figuring out the answer isn’t as easy as you might think, says Rachel Fraser (Oxford)
3. “A lot of times, the value of a thing in our lives is not just what it presents, on its face, as its function” — Zoom makes communication efficient, and efficiency has its costs, writes C. Thi Nguyen (Utah)
4. “With this series of adversarial collaborations, neuroscientists will get closer to understanding consciousness and how it fits into the physical world while improving scientific practices along the way” — empirically testing the predictions of different theories of consciousness (via Brian Earp)
5. How to read philosophy with “less eyestrain, consistent annotations, fewer distractions, great mobility, being able to work outside, with much of the haptics of working on paper” — Gregor Bös, a philosophy PhD candidate (KCL), helpfully explains his “e-ink solution for focused reading and writing”
6. “It’s enough for [scientific papers] to draw attention to an idea that is worth pursuing further—and an idea need not be true, well-justified given all our evidence, nor even believed by the scientist in order to pass that test” — Haixin Dang (Leeds) & Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on the value of contradictory science
7. “I want to be somebody who, until the last moment of my life, is absorbing what’s going on around me, learning from it, growing, and shifting” — a video profile of longtime philosopher and relatively new boxer Quill Kukla (Georgetown)