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0denseFriends, we have come to the point in the semester where I'm getting sincere emotional support from reading virtue epistemology. No lie, it's Grice and Lynch time!! My courses have us reading on the Cambridge Analytica debacle and postmodernist skepticism and systems of misogyny (from authors that are still transphobic) and censorship, and sometimes I've just got to go back to the cooperative principle and the intrinsic values of truth. Whereas we owe attention to another for the sake of the other. Whereas we owe not only sincerity but integrity. That communication, contrary to what the internet is doing to us, should be an act of care, a sharing of relevant and appropriate content. And that depriving truth from one another is a concern with actual meaning, because we have a right to reality. Fuck it up, Adorno and Murdoch and Bakhtin.
(I know Grice has been around for a while, but are people also reading Michael Lynch? because True to Life: Why Truth Matters is an excellent short volume. It's what it says on the tin, and a complete delight. I am in somewhat desperate need of encouragement from time to time, and I can't be alone in this. Not to get emotional, but truth is less like money than it is like love: it is objective in its existence, subjective in its appreciation, and able to exist in more than one form. (181))
((related, yall know those 'philosophy and [popular tv show]' anthologies? usually they're mostly just for a laugh, but Blackwell did one on The Daily Show and it's got some really good papers on truthiness))
(((my brain, VO: To Be a Virtue Epistemologist Is to Be Naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we can see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait, for all time.)))
In additional news, today I got to give the Fricker Talk to a classmate, politic in the office, and find the episode of [redacted] I participated in. It's honestly wild to realise that my voice has gone out on uhhhhh international satellite broadcast. Catch me dragging care ethics into a stereo near you!!
(I know Grice has been around for a while, but are people also reading Michael Lynch? because True to Life: Why Truth Matters is an excellent short volume. It's what it says on the tin, and a complete delight. I am in somewhat desperate need of encouragement from time to time, and I can't be alone in this. Not to get emotional, but truth is less like money than it is like love: it is objective in its existence, subjective in its appreciation, and able to exist in more than one form. (181))
((related, yall know those 'philosophy and [popular tv show]' anthologies? usually they're mostly just for a laugh, but Blackwell did one on The Daily Show and it's got some really good papers on truthiness))
In additional news, today I got to give the Fricker Talk to a classmate, politic in the office, and find the episode of [redacted] I participated in. It's honestly wild to realise that my voice has gone out on uhhhhh international satellite broadcast. Catch me dragging care ethics into a stereo near you!!
