Causal selection in context: explaining gene centrism dlvr.it/TFrRQn

A Mechanistic Explanatory Strategy for XAI dlvr.it/TFzQmg

Entropy — a term commonly thought of as a measure of disorder — is now known to change depending on the observer. Anthony Aguirre has defined a quantity he calls observational entropy that other researchers say helps to clarify ambiguity around this phenomenon.

Introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics Edward Witten arxiv.org/abs/2412.16795

[History of Mathematics] Some highlights from the history of Game Theory Yuval Peres youtube.com/watch?v=RXS_Ff…

Pragmatic Realism: Towards a Reconciliation of Enactivism and Realism dlvr.it/TH7Jvk

What is Intelligence For? A Peircean Pragmatist Response to the Knowing-How, Knowing-That Debate dlvr.it/TH7K7v

Post-Soviet visual. “Girl with a book and an orange" painting by Georgy Kurasov, Russia, 2009.

Three facets of time‑reversal symmetry dlvr.it/THF5L2

Re(l)ality: The View From Nowhere vs. The View From Everywhere dlvr.it/THHQj3

Making Sense of Vicarious Responsibility: Moral Philosophy Meets Legal Theory - Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.100…

William Rowe's classic introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is a fantastic text that serves as an accessible gateway into the wonderful world of analytic philosophy of religion: ihcs.ac.ir/file/download/…

❗️BREAKING❗️ After nearly two decades, Paul Draper's book defending Atheism and the problem of evil will finally be published at the end of the month. Draper offers a cumulative case defending "core Atheism" and engages with arguments for Theism. Link: academic.oup.com/book/60703

>be me >be the culmination of empiricism > no personal identity > no objects >no necessary connection between events >no moral facts >it’s probably fine

Plato was not “a philosopher.” He was a wrestler who masterfully used and developed a philosophy.

This one-page paper by Galen Strawson probably deserves to make the rounds again.

New paper in Synthese—a metaphysical theory of causation designe to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thomas Nagel’s summary of Wittgenstein is a model of clarity and concision. Read these three pages and you’ll understand more about his philosophy than most philosophy undergraduates do 👇🏻

This book is out with one article by Tim in it. amazon.co.uk/Systematic-Met…