Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them
Social media requires thick skin
Learning from Finland’s success in combatting homelessness. “It is the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy […] which provides people experiencing homelessness with immediate, independent, permanent housing…”
Climate change forcing farmers to replace cows with goats, chickens with ducks FirstPost
Montana youth score a major climate victory in court. “Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the 16 youth who sued the state in a landmark climate change lawsuit have a constitutional right to ‘a clean and healthful environment.’”
Your iPhone Storage Is Full Again. Do This to Reclaim Space
WSJ via MSN – “Call it iPhone Storage Creep. As cameras get better, the photos and videos they capture get bigger. Software updates are increasing in size, too. The latest iOS 18.2 upgrade requires 7 gigabytes for newer phones that support Apple Intelligence—nearly double the earlier iOS 18.1 update. More bulky features are due in future releases.
Most iPhones start with 128 GB, which is fine if you haven’t amassed too much digital stuff over the years. You could upgrade to a new phone with more storage, adding $100 to $500 to the cost. Or you could follow this recipe: Find and delete storage hogs on your phone, then minimize the impact of the files you want to keep. Once iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16 owners opt into Apple Intelligence, those 7 GB are here to stay—even if you disable the AI features. There are plenty of other areas on your phone to declutter, however. Here’s
What’s a Fact Anyway
The New Yorker, Fergus McIntosh [unpaywalled]: “What is truly extraordinary about any fact-checking department is that it exists at all. At the time of writing, nearly 30 people work in Checking at The New Yorker, “It is labor, at scale, that produces accuracy.”…“Fake news” is not a new concept, but many Americans now register displeasure with inaccurate or unverified information on social media, and a majority now think that somebody, perhaps even the federal government, should do something about it. There seems to be widespread recognition that bad facts are bad news—globally, fears of an “information war” are rising—and, despite endemic skepticism and distraction, there is an enduring thirst for reliable information. The question is, where can it be found, and how can its purveyors make themselves heard amid the noise?…
The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold Ross, to install a fact-checking department, and since then checkers have left their marks all over the magazine…Not many pieces require such heroics: the reality is that fact checkers are busy people, who traffic only occasionally in the dark arts of deep research. Most facts can be checked fairly easily today, especially with the benefit of the Internet, but, since there are so many, a checker has to prioritize. (Merriam-Webster defines a fact as “a piece of information presented as having objective reality”; a long piece might contain thousands.) When a particular fact turns out to be sticky, persistence and attention, rather than any kind of special knowledge, are generally what’s needed. Checkers are not infallible, and their successes are mostly due to hard work and creativity. What is truly extraordinary about any fact-checking department is that it exists at all. At the time of writing, nearly thirty people work in Checking at The New Yorker, almost all of them full time. It is labor, at scale, that produces accuracy…”
- Medieval Political Philosophy by Cary Nederman and Alessandro Mulieri.
- Paradox of Tragedy by Jonathan Gilmore.
Revised:
- Category Mistakes by Ofra Magidor.
- Medieval Skepticism by Charles Bolyard.
- Herbert Marcuse by Arnold Farr.
- Relativism by Maria Baghramian and J. Adam Carter.
IEP
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1000-Word Philosophy
- Philosophy of Pain by Tiina Carita Rosenqvist.
BJPS Short Reads
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Book Reviews*
- Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory by John Bengson, Terency Cuneo, and Ruiss Shafer-Landau is reviewed by Daniel Stoljar at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant by Audrey Borowski and The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe are together reviewed by Steven Nadler at The Times Literary Supplement.
- Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard is reviewed by John Maier at The Times.
- Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century by Julia Jorati is reviewed by Peter K. J. Park at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima (Iohannis Buridani Quaestiones in Aristotelis De Anima), edited by Gyula Klima, Peter G. Sobol, Peter Hartman, and Jack Zupko is reviewed by Jordan Lavender at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobiaby Kate Manne is reviewed by Judith Warner at The New Zealand Herald.
- The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us about Living a Good Life by Mark Rowlands is reviewed by Becca Rothfeld at The Washington Post.
- The Invention of Good and Evil: A History of Morality by Hanno Sauer, translated by Jo Heinrich is reviewed by Charles Foster at The Times Literary Supplement.
- Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency by Maja Spener is reviewed by Kateryna S. Franco at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- The Range of Reasons: In Ethics and Epistemology by Daniel Whiting is reviewed by Bowen Chan at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Philosophy Podcasts – Recent Episodes(via Jason Chen)
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