nobody knows anything

Great article on Nussbaum - found it again in preparation for a lecture on literature and moral philosophy newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…

How do you decide what books to buy vs. library loan when doing new research?

Haha! Fairly accurate actually..

Philosophy isn’t just argument. Some of the best philosophy involves close observation and description, and some a vision of what might be or shouldn’t be.

this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangzi explained theconversation.com/finding-your-e… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

“it’s been a tough week” • sad • not agentic • vague • no opportunity to reflect further “the fates have been testing whether i am virtuous” • badass • heroic • mysterious • a chance to decide which virtues you care about

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron

this is the funniest possible way to dunk on your opponents in a philosophy debate

It's also a Journal of Philosophy that's Applied

The latest Telegraph headline stack is like found poetry. Truly you couldn't have dreamed up a better juxtaposition if you tried. Doom, gloom, and hollow Brexit cheerleading. The perfect trifecta. Magnificent.

Exactly this!

theconversation.com/what-makes-a-g…

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The first of these Loeb giveaways, then: the nine-volume set of Early Greek Philosophy. A bedtime book if ever there were one. Or nine! To enter the draw, just share this tweet and cross your fingers for Monday 10 May!

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