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Dostoyevsky As Analytic Philosopher

TLDR: A lot of philosophy aims, by looking at how we represent the world, to say things about the world. Analytic philosophy is a species of philosophy in part defined historically by its being a reaction to Hegel. …

Philosophy

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Dostoyevsky As Analytic Philosopher
Dostoyevsky As Analytic Philosopher

Jun 5

Why the war? A quantitative answer

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine passes its hundredth day the question as to why it started in the first place hasn’t really been settled. Putin gave two potential and not particularly consistent reasons in his speeches in February: he wanted to ‘denazify’ eastern Ukraine, the official line oft-repeated in…

Ukraine War

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Why the war? A quantitative answer
Why the war? A quantitative answer

May 28

What data can teach us about Russian propaganda

Recent years have seen an increase in interest in propaganda and political rhetoric. In my field, philosophy of language, a change has occurred from the consideration of often technical and abstruse facts about how language works to how language is used to manipulate and subjugate. …

Propaganda

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What data can teach us about Russian propaganda
What data can teach us about Russian propaganda

May 24

River: a tool for quantitative media analysis

Last week I posted some things to quantitatively store, search, and present media, and in particular the output of the state news agencies of Russia and Ukraine. As I indicated in that post, I was a bit dissatisfied with how it turned out — it wasn’t as accessible (to journalist…

Russia Ukraine War

3 min read

River: a tool for quantitative media analysis
River: a tool for quantitative media analysis

May 16

An OS tool for storing, searching, and displaying news wires

(Update, a few days later: don’t use this. I claim three benefits for it but i) the first is moot as Telegram — unbeknownst to me at the time of writing! — lets you export in a computer-readable format ii) the lemmatizer, as I note in the text, is imperfect…

Osint

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An OS tool for storing, searching, and displaying news wires
An OS tool for storing, searching, and displaying news wires

May 1

David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention

I saw that there was a new book by DFW, to use the excessively chummy but concise abbreviation I’ll hereafter gravitate towards, last week. Having formerly been a big fan, I bought it without really looking much, only to learn it was in fact an excerpt from his posthumously published…

Literature

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David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention
David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do With Paying Attention

Apr 30

Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats

One of the advantages of medium for the casual or not-so-casual blogger is cleanness and simplicity. This is reflected in part in the stats page, which lets you see your daily views across all articles, monthly views across all articles, as well as more granular stats for each article, all…

Medium

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Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats
Getting more fine-grained medium.com readership stats

Apr 23

Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

The book mentioned above is by Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy in Paris. In addition to a large body of scholarly work mainly on early modern philosophy he’s been branching out into ‘pop’ or ‘public philosophy’, and this, in addition to blogs and podcasts and other such…

Philosophy

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Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
Review of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Apr 17

“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy

“Concepts and practices moved from east to west. An example is the word “fake,” as in “fake news”. …

Fake News

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“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy
“Fake News”: A (short) Genealogy

Apr 10

Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas

A couple of years before he was captured and tortured, Ukrainian writer Stanislav Aseyev went from his home region of eastern Ukraine to the capital Kyiv. …

Ukraine

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Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas
Stanislav Aseyev’s view of occupied Donbas
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Matthew McKeever

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