why we should

This is an organiser or to-do linkpost page for reading and reacting to the following books, papers, and ideas regarded morality-in-broad-terms in relation to evolution. It's a gap I am trying to fill. As reactions I won't dig too scholarly into to the intertextual background, and just say where I differ and why. When I get bored or repetitive I…

I read Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson quite often because of that word ‘bias’ in the title. I like to keep up-to-date like a potato. I find choices very interesting as a topic to discuss, because of bias, regardless of being overcome or indulged. Power corrupts by indulging our biases: 'use your anger Luke'. So overcoming in the title is…

The importance of an exhibition as a event is all very well, but as Gilbert & George are often want to say, it is the postcards or the posters or even the catalogue that people take back to their homes, they argued that these takeaways have an important democratic character. I would add because they go out into the world.

Original posted in May 2023 on substack.com. The Go-Between (1971 film) Lexigraphically, in traditional English habit, when one worries about the meaning of words one takes a descriptive rather than prescriptive attitude, that one ought not should words. Thus large and important English dictionaries hoard examples of the use of a word or term. It’s a point of pride for…

Platform Arts occupies an old re-purposed court house in Geelong|djilong kulcha precinct. Worlding exhibition in July 2024 curated by Amber Smith, occupied the main exhibition space downstairs, and upstairs mezzanine and theatrette. I am here because of the word 'worlding', a project of my own. Part 1 is here. You can enter by the cafe and go up either side…

Or “beliefs that proposition 'p' ” versus the world Over at new work in philosophy substack I get exposed to current work from academic philosophers as the blog is used to re-publish, and thus highlight on a different platform, articles from more scholarly journals. So recently I read Preston Werner’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Toward a Perceptual Solution to Epistemological Objections…