Every universe is fine-tuned for the conditions that obtain within it

Guess the author (hint if you know)

Unfortunately we've had to delay our Christmas special again (we'll get there in the end...), but postponed psychedelics discussion will take place next week. Keith Frankish
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I'm not asking about individual writers, because it's very clear they say there are benefits, but I'm wondering about the practice (institutionally) of learning the writing craft in MFAs, workshops etc. Do these help, or harm the practice of writing?

90-odd percent of exchanges on X/Twitter are great illustrations of how *not* to read charitably. (NB Not referring to any of my recent interlocutors, who are lovely.)

yes, in this paper philpapers.org/rec/FRAIAA-4 (though I was picking up on Dennett's use of the notion of illusion in his work on consciousness)

none of Dennett's arguments in 'Quining qualia' assumes physicalism

If a question can (in principle) be settled empirically, does that mean it is not a metaphysical question?

Goffy's catching me up! Come on, team illusionism!

Illusionism is compatible with physicalism, and I think it's the best way of developing a physicalist view of consciousness, but it doesn't assume the truth of physicalism

'Leave nothing for death except a burnt castle'

Jason Good🌻 I saw a t-shirt on a woolly-headed Greek nerd-boy on the train yesterday, 'Floppy Disks are like Jesus because they died to become an icon of saving.' I'm sure it was hilarious when he thought it up. 🤣

Long ago with Dad and our pointer, Ben

Frank Williams grooming Judy gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-ph…

'Scarcely found Greek dialect closer to Ancient Greek than modern' neoskosmos.com/en/2024/04/06/…

'Each of us believes that there is no panda in Doncaster that is glued to six lawnmowers.' Coming from Doncaster, I wouldn't be so sure. But I applaud the authors for mentioning Donny in a philosophy paper.
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More about this very good dog en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_(dog)

Pointers are good dogs, but Judy was a very, very good one.

#animalquizzes
One of the 17C Philosopher John Locke's correspondents maintained that the Germans and Scandinavians could not always have lived purely bipedally because they called gloves 'handshoes' (Handschuhe, Old Saxon handskoh).

Still a few days to download the Cambridge Elements in Ecological Psychology for free 🥳🥳
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Let me address some common reactions and myths regarding ecological psychology I've read these days. 1/