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Mr. Robot, or the cost of being right
No full textTelevision has entered a golden age, or so we are told. Premium cable and streaming platforms have gifted us with countless programs described in breathless detail as “unflinching,” “provocative,” or “darkly relevant.” These shows gesture toward systemic critique the way a debutante gestures toward the punch bowl, with practiced elegance and no intention of actually drinking. They deploy anti-capitalist aesthetics as set dressing with corrupt executives, soulless corporations, and montages of urban decay scored to melancholy indie rock. One watches and feels appropriately concerned, so we subscribe to another streaming service. The circuit completes itself, and no one is harmed
Hybrid Deference, Hybrid Chance
No full textIf you learn about one kind of chance and nothing else, then you should defer to those chances. But what if you learn about more than one kind of chance? In such “hybrid” cases, familiar chance-credence principles, like the Principal Principle, go silent when they should intuitively speak. This paper proposes a new principle, the Parent Principle, which speaks in these cases and also yields the right verdicts in single-kind cases. I discuss the implications of the Parent Principle proposal for the priority of fundamental dynamical chance and the autonomy of special science chances, as well as for the view that chance can be entirely characterized by its predictive, credence-guiding role
Waking from our symbolic dream
No full textThere is a familiar but rarely articulated sensation that accompanies much of contemporary thought. A feeling that our concepts, identities, and explanations are almost right, yet somehow off by a small but persistent margin. We recognize ourselves in the stories we tell about who we are and what the world is like, but not without friction. Something catches and resists. Our language fits well enough to function, but not well enough to settle. This sensation is often dismissed as confusion, personal uncertainty, or intellectual failure; however, it appears with too much regularity, across too many domains of life, to be reduced to individual error. It surfaces in philosophical debate, political discourse, scientific explanation, and private reflection alike. We sense that we understand, and simultaneously that we do not quite understand what we think we understand
TOWARD A DESIGN PHILOSOPHY THAT STUDIES THE DESIGN OF ARTIFACTS AND THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY ARE EMBEDDED: THE CASE OF DIGITAL TWINS
No full textIn this chapter, we engage in an ecological phenomenology of the redesign of the World in the digital age in order to show why the consideration of the redesign of the World in the digital age is relevant for contemporary design philosophies and philosophies of technology (section “A New Critical Perspective for Design Philosophies”), and how design philosophers can research both the design of concrete artifacts and the World in which they are embedded in an integrated manner (section “An Ecological Phenomenology of the Redesign of the World in the Digital Age”). Based on our findings, we propose to study design at the physical level of artifacts, the processual level of invention and evolution, and the metaphysical level of the redesign of the World in an integrated manner. In order to set the stage, however, we first ask why contemporary design philosophies—and we take Value Sensitive Design as a case in point—are not able to move beyond the artifact level of design and are not able to study the World in which these designs are embedded (section “The Inability of Contemporary Design Thinking (Value Sensitive Design) to Reflect on the Redesign of the World”)
The Most Dangerous Man in England: Newman and the Laity (Review)
No full textFew contemporary Newman scholars combine historical precision, pastoral sympathy,
and theological intelligence as deftly as Paul Shrimpton. In this substantial volume, he
continues the remarkable trajectory begun with A Catholic Eton and My Campaign in
Ireland, offering what is arguably the most comprehensive treatment yet of Newman’s
understanding – and embodiment – of the lay vocation. The book achieves an impressive
synthesis: biography as ecclesiology, history as theology
真民主：大道运行与人类共同美好生活的文明本质
No full text摘要：民主作为全人类共同价值，其本质被西式民主范式长期误读，选举程序、个体
自由被片面等同于民主本身，导致民主实践陷入极化、碎片化的现实困境，背离了人
类文明发展的初衷。本文以原创文明衡鉴论（文明平衡论）为理论基底，融合中华优
秀传统文化的大道观、马克思主义人民史观与当代全球治理实践，重构民主的本质内
涵，提出真民主是大道运行的文明形态，是人心趋向共同美好生活的必然体现，是推
动人类文明动态平衡发展的核心范式的核心观点。本文从民主本质的溯源与祛魅、大
道运行的民主内核、人心本质与共同美好生活的价值契合、真民主的文明平衡法则及
实践路径五个维度展开论证，厘清真民主与西式形式民主的本质差异，为破解全球民
主困境、推动人类政治文明进步提供原创性的理论框架与实践指引
People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits
No full textPursuing a life of moral excellence is often seen as allowing a person not only to live by good and just
principles but also to live an authentic life that brings them closest to their true self. This view is taken
to reflect the priority that people should place on moral pursuits or “moral primacy.” The results of four
preregistered studies (N = 2,911) suggest that people do not always hold this view and highlight a
tension within it: how can morality both constrain human behavior and afford the freedom to be one’s
truest self? We find that people resolve this conflict with ‘value pluralism,’ preferring a balance of life
pursuits across several value domains, where aesthetic pursuits are viewed as affording freedom from
convention. We then adapt a personal change paradigm from prior work and develop a novel paradigm
to examine whether people’s intuitions about the true self also reveal that a broader set of values—not
just moral ones—inform judgments of the true self. We find no differences in true self judgments
following the loss of an aesthetic versus moral quality. However, when directly comparing life paths,
the pursuit of aesthetic excellence is sometimes viewed as offering greater access to one’s true self
compared with moral excellence, in part because aesthetic pursuits are seen as less rule bound. These
findings offer insights into the myriad paths a person can take in life while pursuing autonomy,
authenticity, and closeness to their true self