Mastodawn

The next session (the last of this academic year!) of our seminar is tomorrow!

Christopher Joseph Gonzalez will talk about normative agency in nonhumans !

All info on how to join (online) can be found here : https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026

We are looking forward to discussing this fascinating topic with you!

#agency #norms #normativity #animalagency #nonhumanagency #philbio #seminar

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.Next session10 June, 4.15 to 5.15 PM UK timeSession led by Christopher Joseph Gonzalez AnTitle: Normative Agency Beyond HumansAbstract: There is considerable controversy and disunity about the extent to which normative agency and the capacity to entertain norms can be attributed to other species beyond humans. This talk argues that existing accounts attributing normati

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Jayme Jun 2

As the divide between the "haves" and the "have-nots" widens, it is important to speak out and make it painfully obvious that we are being ripped off and criminally exploited.

Normalize resistance, make it publicly acceptable to speak truth to power, and do not be reduced to a factotum.

#resist #democracy #awareness #norms #peace #love #hope #joy #support #community

Kent Pitman May 29

My neighbor tells me
my love for you defies sense.
Yet I'm still happy.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #norms #CulturalNorms #UnconditionalLove #freedom #philosophy #tolerance #PersonalChoice

Lupposofi May 28

Etiikka.fi-sivuilla Ilkka Niiniluoto kirjoittaa Oikeudenjälkeisestä ajasta, https://etiikka.fi/oikeudenjalkeinen-aika/,
Sami Pihlström Normatiivisesta järjestyksestä, https://etiikka.fi/normatiivinen-jarjestys/,
Jukka Kekkonen Suomen oikeusvaltion murenemisesta, https://etiikka.fi/miten-suomen-oikeusvaltio-murenee/,
Virpi Mäkinen kysyy, Oikeuttaako äärimmäinen hätä normien rikkomisen, https://etiikka.fi/oikeuttaako-aarimmainen-hata-normien-rikkomisen/,
ja Sara Heinämaa pohtii valmius- ja käännytyslakeja Hannah Arendtin ajatusten pohjalta, https://etiikka.fi/muistiinpanoja-ihmisen-oikeuksista-valmiuslaki-ja-kaannytyslaki-kaksi-kyseenalaistusta/

#etiikka #ethics #journal #filosofia #philosophy #rights #order #state #valtio #normit #norms #regulation #society #yhteiskunta #suomi #normativity #normative #laki #law

Oikeudenjälkeinen aika - Etiikka.fi

Vuoden 2016 kansainvälinen uudissana oli post-truth, jonka lähtökohtina olivat Brittien Brexit-äänestys ja Donald Trumpin valinta Yhdysvaltojen presidentiksi. Näin ”totuudenjälkeinen aika” tuli merkitsemään tilannetta, jossa valheiden ja valeuutisten levittäminen yleistyi politiikassa ja mediassa. The Washington Post arvioikin, että Trump esitti ensimmäisen nelivuotisen presidenttikautensa aikana 30573 valetta tai epätotuutta. Valehtelu ei tietenkään ole uusi ilmiö ihmiskunnan historiassa…Lue lisää →

Etiikka.fi

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 18

“It turns out that the kinds of #career #pressures familiar to #employees everywhere … can be enough to incentivize lower- and #midlevel #officials to violate #professional #obligations, fundamental #norms and even basic #morality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Actually, Democracy Dies in H....

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

The New York Times

WIST Quotations Apr 24

A quotation from Horace

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none’s so wild,
But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,
If they consult true Vertue’s Rules with care,
And lend to good advice a patient ear.

[Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,
nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,
si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/78567/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #advice #anger #brutality #character #coarseness #culture #degradation #drunkenness #envy #faults #gluttony #lust #moralcharacter #norms #reform #rehabilitation #selfcontrol #selfimprovement #sloth #society #temperament #vice #virtue #wisdom #wrath

Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 "To Maecenas," l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)] | WIST Quotations

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none's so wild, But may be tame, and may be wisely mild, If they consult true Vertue's Rules with care, And lend to good advice a patient ear. [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, si modo culturae patientem…

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David W. Jones Apr 24

The question from the article:

"How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from everyday habits to workplace norms?"

We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-norms-imitation-deceptively-simple-human.html

#science #sociology #norms #social #convention

We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from everyday habits to workplace norms? Researchers from the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have found that people do not primarily learn by copying others or by calculating the most likely choice. Instead, they follow a two-stage process—sampling behaviors at first, then committing once enough evidence accumulates.

Phys.org

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 22

I keep thinking about this piece, which is the closest thing I’ve seen to a complete reckoning of the #damage #Trump is inflicting on the #US and the rest of us. I think it’s probably right in identifying the wholesale obliteration of the #norms of #American #democracy as one of the most significant

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dqmsn4cznmbcubnsrzloxkuo/post/3mjzw6bkb422w