Tim Crane

Paris Street - 1906
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I remember that 'kindle therein any flame', glad they still use it

you can somehow tell the bit about not smoking was added when someone did conceptual analysis on ‘flame’ and ‘fire’ and concluded that a lit cigarette or pipe doesn’t count

Download advice on feeding newborns to teens

Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are lever...

'it’s interesting to compare how hard it was to differentiate a web browser with how hard it is today to differentiate a chatbot'
Fab piece from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social asking hard Qs of OpenAI when its tech is similar to other labs and has no network effects www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

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Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence The nature and limits of artificial intelligence (AI) are among the key questions of our time. AI has implications for industry, politics, culture, education, and warfare, among many other things.…

⚡ Next Monday!
Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Conference

Speakers:
Tim Crane (CEU) @timcrane.bsky.social
Thomas Haigh (UW-Milwaukee)
Matthew L. Jones (Princeton)
Raphaël Millière (Oxford)
Amira Moeding (Cambridge)
Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh)

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£25 for a cookie? What the baffling luxury bakery boom tells us about Britain Amid a cost of living crisis, pricey patisserie is all the rage – and not just in London. Our reporter goes on a crawl to find out if a tart can really be worth £45

£25 for a cookie? What the baffling luxury bakery boom tells us about Britain

Carl Moll’s landscapes during WW1 can be read as expressing a deep-rooted yearning for harmony and positivity at a time that was marked by political and social conflict and turmoil, an antidote to the violence that was sweeping Europe at the time.

Eddie's House A young boy writes to the world's greatest architect

Frank Lloyd Wright designs a dog house. What a lovely story. news.lettersofnote.com/p/eddies-hou...

Drawing of drapery, 1500 #highrenaissance #davinci

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Transformers by Raphaël Millière: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3acfbfb

Gustav Klimt's "Schloss Kammer on the Attersee IV" captures the serene beauty of an Austrian lakeside villa, rendered in his distinctive decorative style. The painting highlights Klimt's fascination with symmetry and reflection, as the vibrant facade and surrounding nature are mirrored elegantly on the tranquil water's surface.

Schloss Kammer on the Attersee IV
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JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional ...

Come to Europe, friends!
The European Research Council (ERC) has just confirmed increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe. Drop me an email if you want to know more.

erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

I mean 'pretentious' in a good way :)

Yes -- the most pretentious paper is called 'The Unity of Unconsciousness', it's a kind of indirect attempt to defend a Freudian account of the unconscious (and Daniel Dennett too). The joint papers are less pretentious because that's the way my co-author is.

Our view is that conscious representation is the ultimate representational reality (this is our difference from Dennett) and as such, is not the result of modelling. How we describe our conscious episodes, however, is a model

...the structure of the unconscious. Something here is real, but trying to say what it is involves description or modelling, of course. It's also relevant that conscious representation comes into play at various points -- in our conscious 'modelling' of one another, and as one upshot of dispositions

Thanks Simon, for the comment and the very nice compliment! This needs an answer, but yes you are right, the concept of the 'Worldview' is also an attempt to model psychological dispositions; and the concept of a psychological disposition is also an attempt to model....

This is fantastic, for many reasons. One of them being that it’s entirely intelligible to someone like me who’s not read any philosophy for thirty years.

Lack of Attitude Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of belief, proposing that belief ascriptions serve as useful models of unconscious dispositions rather than ref

Kati Farkas and I have a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude', in a superb new volume edited by @eschwitz.bsky.social and @msgjonhere.bsky.social The paper is open access and available to download here: academic.oup.com/book/62410/c...

1 Three Theories of Belief: D A King and Aaron Zimmerman
2 Beliefs as Self-Verifying Fictions: Angela Mendelovici @braininavat4eva.bsky.social
3 Lack of Attitude: @timcrane.bsky.social and Katalin Farkas
4 In Defense of Ontic Austerity for Belief: Ema Sullivan-Bissett @emas-b.bsky.social
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The Nature of Belief Abstract. This book explores the fundamental and complex nature of belief, addressing various philosophical questions surrounding its essence. It examines

New and free online: @msgjonhere.bsky.social
& my edited collection of essays on belief with Oxford University Press:
academic.oup.com/book/62410

Table of Contents in thread

Poster of event with photos of Lisa and Tim

Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky

You guys are so retro

This is the music to the De Beers commercial, orchestrated by Mike Ratledge. Jenkins wrote the time, such as it is

Want to work for @britishacademy.bsky.social? We are hiring several roles at the moment including 3 policy roles at different levels, a Deputy Head of Research Funding and several more. We are a lovely place to work. Take a look
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/about/jobs/

this is really great