Had an absolute blast volunteering for the first time with CAMRA at the GBBF and at my first beer festival, really inclusive community sound people also got to have a nerdy ramble about language limits consciousness & beer tasting taking pub philosophy quite literally 😂
Al
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- she/her. queer. lover of all things macabre. soon-to-be 3rd year BSc Philosophy, Logic & The Scientific Method at LSE. Creator of @coffeenphilo.bsky.social
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
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Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
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working on a scepticism 'beat the demon' type interactive fiction game using twine to try and make the theoretical content of the 'limits of knowledge' section of the a-level a little less intimidating and fun lemme tell you it's gonna take me weeks but it'll be so worth it
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think I'm gonna have to just hole up in my room and cry for 3 days when I finish mary a fiction I had time to read the first 2 short, short chapters today between looking after my brother and I already felt my gut wrENCH this is too close to home in many many many ways and thoughts and experiences
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so pumped, my summer philosophy fic reads have arrived! I've wanted to read wollstonecraft for a couple years ever since I read about her in 'philosophy queens' and immediately projected on a personal level- my uncle rec'd 'the black prince' to me recently also & I've never read murdoch so yay!
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when I search for documentaries on consciousness for every one that is an actual theory of mind discussion there are a good five that are just about tripping balls on psychedelics
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It's a double feature kinda day... EPISODE 23: INTRO TO SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY OUT NOW ☕💕 . obligatory tags: #philosophypodcast #philosophy #philo #study #student #studentpodcast #alevel #aqa #alevelphilosophy #epistemology #socialepistemology
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EPISODE 22: AQA A LEVEL PHILOSOPHY SUMMARY + SPECIFICATION REVIEW OUT NOW ☕💕
obligatory tags: #philosophypodcast #philosophy #philo #study #student #studentpodcast #alevel #aqa #alevelphilosophy #epistemology
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semantic externalism- aside from beint a scepticism solution it a) changed the way I looked at language + helped me verbalise my icks with how it's used, b) helped me understand hermeneutical resources quickly and c) weirdly catalyzed my discovery of 4E cognition. putnam is an absolute babe.
My weekend question: what's the most useful or significant philosophical idea you've ever encountered? Something that changed your work or the way you think about something?
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