William James is right in that religious experiences are simply human experiences: “Religious happiness is happiness. Religious trance is trance.”

"This is correct, and the key point: there is no way to implement work requirements in a reliable, cost-efficient way that ensures that people who meet the requirements don't get kicked off Medicaid. "The state capacity to do this does not exist."
-J Surowiecki

Most women in my
life have more common sense on
life and love than men (do)

#MastoPrompt
#pragmatism
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#art - illustrate

Women of the World - Nariya Marcille

This week's second post introduces five characteristics of #boundedRationality and contrasts it with a received Standard Picture of #rationality.

"I suggest that we should sometimes blame the #theory." –David Thorstad, author Inquiry Under Bounds (#OUP 2024), an #openAccess book

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07/02/inquiry-under-bounds-part-2-rationality-at-the-crossroads.aspx

I wonder how true this is, my intuitive thought that young people start out as political idealists wanting revolutionary change, then move to pragmatism accepting accept that incrementalism is the most effective way to achieve change, and then move back to idealism in their final years hoping for real change. #change #idealism #pragmatism #politics

A #preprint (#tootprint?, whatever), on how the theories we build depend on the problems we use them to solve.

#pragmatism #philosophyofscience #neuroscience
#cognitivescience

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q6n58

@baruch @SteveThompson

Yes, #pragmatism is the antidote to #passion. The difference between Queen of #Jordan’s pragmatism and #US pragmatism is that

1. #Rania is showing pragmatism to save her own skin and protect Jordan.

2. #US trying to stave off #global conflict involving BOTH #MiddleEast & #Russia https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111363947885583498

#Iran is nexus https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111363947885583498
Both Cabinet secretaries #Austin and #Blinken said conflicts in #Gaza & #Ukraine are interconnected https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111352305821082802

Finally got a copy of Hasok Chang’s new “Realism for Realistic People”.

Starting off with a defense of #pragmatism and a modest goal: #philosophyofscience we can use to understand and inform actual scientific practice.

Heiner Flassbeck: Obviously, American #pragmatism in matters of economic policy is far superior to #German & #European #dogmatism https://tinyurl.com/muzkynzx

This is the time of the year when I watch last year’s #WWDC videos and see if I can use some of the “new” APIs. Backwards compatibility is not a priority for them, so this is my approach. #pragmatism

Sometimes you just need to be satisfied with what you *can* achieve

this week's @tomgauld cartoon for @newscientist

#pragmatism
#science
#politics

The hard problem of #consciousness as viewed by John #Dewey in 1922:

"There is doubtless a great mystery as to why any such thing as being conscious should exist at all."

Whereupon he promptly proceeds to posit a conditional "But /if/ consciousness exists..." allowing him to immediately get back down to the genuinely hard business of dealing with the real world consequences of how we interpret our experiences of consciousness.

#pragmatism #experimentalism
@philosophy

“no one writes (or reads) cyberpunk because they think it’s all gonna be fine.

And no one founds — or works for — an organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they’re confident that technology can only be used for good.”

via @pluralistic

https://link.medium.com/AT4B13ngFzb

This article isn’t really about recently laid-off Twitter director Esther Crawford of “sleeping bag” fame. It’s about YOU, without a seven-figure cushion to fall back on when the going gets brutal at work.

#Twitter #BirdSite #boss #bosses #employment #job #jobs #work #manager #management #HorribleBosses #corporate #Machiavelli #pragmatic #pragmatism

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/02/27/lessons-from-the-sleeping-bag-director-at-twitter-who-just-got-laid-off/

Tues and Thurs are my days when scholarship-time is dedicated to a future project dealing with Lévinas’s ethics, particularly his efforts to reduce Western rationalism into perspective and balance with other aspects of human experience. I’m hoping to combine his secular work with his Jewish work, and do a comparison with some minoritarian strands in Pragmatist ethics (WEB DuBois, Randolph Bourne, Mordecai Kaplan, and Jane Addams). #Levinas #Pragmatism #Ethics #ProfessorLife #Scholarship (1 of 2)

#introduction

Been coding since I was 9yo or so, #Delphi. Then 56k internet caught me, self-taught HTML, JS, and later PHP — for quite a while.

Studying CS brought me on the proper path to #Java, now earning bucks as Java dev. Love #Agile and #Pragmatism, fascinated by the mechanisms of teams and orgs. Learn, share & improve through ensemble sessions, #TDD, Katas etc.pp. Read a lot.

Besides? Father of two, crush on Rhodes and Hammond Organ; I miss hiking and meditations. Too altruistic.

Okay, let me do a better #introduction now that there's a bajillion more people here. I'm a former hacker, worked in #infosec, still into #programming and #electronics, currently more interested in #nature, both being in it and studying it.