What’s the relation between identity and essentialism? Why is compassion so rare? What links the TERF-wars with UK’s Labour party alleged Antisemitism? I can’t stop lucubrating on such questions. Thus, I need to write my thoughts down. As usual, I…
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Essentialism and Compassion
Tagged with: Compassion, Essentialism, Feminism, TERF, Trans People, Trans Rights
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology
Changing my mind: the big list
How do we change our minds? I find this question fascinating and important. To start: only fools never change their mind. Secondarily, it is surprisingly hard to remember on what I actually did change my mind, and equally difficult to…
Tagged with: cognitive dissonance, coherence, epistemology, objectivity, Persuasion
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Premises, Psychology
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Premises, Psychology
Corbyn, #Brexit and the “clever” long game that doesn’t exist.
The Brexit clock is ticking. As David Allen Green correctly states, Brexit will automatically happen, unless “something exceptional” will prevent it. It is still possible to #StopBrexit, many routes are still open and public opinion is probably shifting, but exceptional…
Inequality and progress, privilege and barnacles
I’ve recently been to Cape Town, for work. It is impossible for someone like me to visit South Africa without asking “What am I doing with my privileges?” (see previous post). The scale of abject poverty would be overwhelming in…
Tagged with: Darwin, Inequality, Privilege, Rebecca Stott
Posted in Evolution, Philosophy, Politics, Science
Posted in Evolution, Philosophy, Politics, Science
Naïve philosophaster: on method and privilege
In which I start counting my privileges and reflect on how I am trying to use them. … That’s correct, I did write “use [my privileges]”. This expression is questionable and relies on important implicit assumptions. In fact, one purpose…
Predictive Processing: the long road ahead.
In the previous posts in this series I’ve proposed an extreme synthesis of the Predictive Processing (PP) idea, as proposed by Andy Clark in “Surfing Uncertainty” – I concluded with a post that summarised why I think PP is the…
Tagged with: Andy Clark, Behaviour, Cognition, Free Energy Principle, Karl Friston, Predictive Brain, Predictive Coding, Surfing Uncertainty
Posted in Neuroscience, Philosophy
Posted in Neuroscience, Philosophy
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