Agnes Callard
Philosopher, UChicago. Book: is.gd/Ze88Za Column: is.gd/WHyOeh Profile Pic: @NikitaSPetrov
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The Prognosis | Literary Review of Canada
On the many other consequences of the pandemic lockdown.
Agnes Callard
“What is best understood as a fallible and fraught quest for reliable evidence becomes instead a pompous oracle that speaks in a single mighty voice. Science has become a political myth — a myth at odds with the messy, contingent work of actual scientists”
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Leaf Sheep: The Only Animal That Can Photosynthesize
These little critters look like plants, but they’re actually animals. Leaf sheep are one of the strangest kinds of animals on the planet. They look like a farm animal, act like a plant, and live in the sea! The little sea slugs are technically...
Modernist Nostalgia: Joseph Roth’s “The Coral Merchant,” translated from German by Ruth Martin
Ruth Martin’s translated collection of short fiction by Joseph Roth, "The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories," skilfully captures much of what makes the literary writing of the great Austrian modernist so powerful and distinctive.
Agnes Callard
“These stories center around tragic figures who are caught between bygone norms & practices,which they cling to despite their obsolescence, and newfangled modes of life,which are characterized by vulgarity,falsehood,& new technologies”
Review by my sister!
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The St. John's Review (formerly The College), Winter 1984 · St. John's College Digital Archives
The St. John's College Digital Archives features items from both the Greenfield Library in Annapolis, MD and the Meem Library in Santa Fe, NM. <br />
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The college was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in 1696 as King William's School and...
Replying to Robert Wiblin on Young Rationalists
In response to Where are all the Successful Rationalists, Robert Wiblin writes:The EA community seems to have a lot of very successful people by normal social standards, pursuing earning to give, rese
Agnes Callard
"why do rationalists think being young is incompatible with being at the top of your field?"
My translation of the thesis of this excellent blog post (which the author might dispute!):
rationalists are not very successful because they are not aspirational
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#113: Are you ambitious or aspiring? (A book review of Agnes Callard's Aspiration)
📖 📚 What does it feel like to go after something that doesn't make sense?
Worried Alexa is spying on you? Edward Snowden’s head can help
Artist May Safwat’s project uses the likeness of whistleblower Edward Snowden to stop home assistants from snooping
On Integration | The Point Magazine
Not only was Cruse dubious about the plausibility of eradicating prejudice from the souls of whites, but he believed that such a project—inevitably focused on interracial settings and the individuals who inhabit them—was of little concrete use to...
Agnes Callard
"Who can fail to notice the déjà vu character of the non-conversation about race that is always needing to be had?"
Wonderful essay by @BaskinJon & @jessedmccart on a compelling yet neglected way to understand what "antiracism" might amount to.
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Planta baixa - Les UCIs, al 100% d'aquí deu dies
A "Planta baixa" hem entrat a l'UCI de l'Hospital de Barcelona per veure en primera persona com s'hi està vivint la situació actual, hem parlat del boom del "delivery" i hem seguit en directe la compareixença sorpresa de Pedro Sánchez, president del...
How to Polarize Rational People
Polarization is pervasive—but it usually happens for rational reasons. Here's a demonstration of how it can.
Agnes Callard
"we can prevent people from polarizing only by preventing them from trying to be accurate"
We look harder for flaws in evidence that wd disconfirm our beliefs bc we (reasonably) anticipate accuracy in spotting errors there.
Important work by @kevin_dorst
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Syllabus Showcase: Public Philosophy, Claire Michael and Ravit Dotan
Public philosophy is philosophy oriented towards the general public. In our class, titled “Public Philosophy” and taught at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2020, philosophy majors used public philosop…
Is The Pursuit of Glory a Virtue or a Vice?
Philosopher Agnes Callard writes Which raises several questions: Is the pursuit of status or glory always just a socially acceptable form of “people pleasing”? Is being a “people pleaser” just the negative term for being altruistic? Do you agree...
When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece | Fantastic Anachronism
James Boswell and the Nature of Genius
Agnes Callard
"By all accounts, including his own, he was an idiot.
On a tour of Europe, his tutor said to him: "of young men who have studied I have never found one who had so few ideas as you." "
@AlvaroDeMenard on Boswell
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Reopen the American Mind
In the midst of an existential crisis for higher education, is it even reasonable to expect the humanities to survive?
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Agnes Callard
"it is striking how many of Bloom’s liberal critics, even as they profess their faith in the university’s democratic function, simultaneously reinforce his vision of an ignorant and benighted populace looming outside the campus gates." 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Radio Browser: A closer look at Acceptance Parenting with Agnes Callard
In this episode, Agnes Callard, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago joins our hosts Lindelani and Nontsi in an insightful discussion on Acceptance Parenting and how it either does or does not apply in their own lives....
Should The People Rule? - Crowdcast
Register now for Night Owls's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday October 28, 2020 at 6:00 pm CDT.
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Agnes Callard
Is there a better way to prepare for the election than Night Owls?
Register Here: crowdcast.io/e/should-the-p… pic.twitter.com/WjdAIbJjTC
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Should We Celebrate Columbus Day?
Columbus day happened this Monday, and, as there is a lot of controversy going around on whether we should celebrate it, I am going to write a paper on it. So should we celebrate Columbus day? Afte…