Anita Leirfall
@anitaleirfall
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen @UiB_philosophy @UiB
Aristotle on Happiness & Human Purpose youtu.be/CxxE4fG281M?fe… #Aristotle #happiness #purpose #philosophy
If you read one novel in 2025, it must be this: ". . . a gripping, high-stakes, high concept thriller, which fuses futurism with a powerful emotional core. Emma is a Silicon Valley prodigy who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment." "For Emma asks what the human costs…
Delighted to see London philosopher @davidpapineau being rightly honoured by @BritishAcademy_ Many congratulations!
An interview about my Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy youtube.com/watch?v=UKE8iZ… @OUPPhilosophy
From philosophy to science, metaphysics to psychology, the idea of 'nothing' is central to the universe, existence & experience as a whole. Parmenides argued that non-being’s impossible because thinking about nothing is still something | Peter van Inwagen iai.tv/video/the-limi…
Welch delves deep into the data to show that vested interests seriously overplay cancer screening’s benefits, while its harms r real&too often ignored. Rather than saving lives, it’s more likely to draw healthy people into unnecessary medical interventions iai.tv/articles/cance…
“Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very centre of our personal life…Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one.”
Finally out with @Cambridge_Uni Press. From Allan V. Horowitz's review: "The most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of original works about personality disorders that has ever been published" :) Our chapter link doi.org/10.1017/978100… @PUMS_tweets
About the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to talk about the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life dailynous.com/2025/07/15/bey…
Bach | Cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich... BWV 131 | Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society youtu.be/TMWDxIkl1fc?fe… #music #Bach
Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. cup.org/4kEgivL #ISHPSSB #philosophy
Ahead of the Joint Session, The Supplementary Volume has been published and will be available to read open access, free of charge from now through to the end of the conference. You can access the full volume here: academic.oup.com/aristoteliansu…
🚨📝 New blog Emerging from Burnout: A Scientist´s Yoga Story by Stéphanie Blockhuys "Planning even short-term tasks caused intense stress and became impossible, as my brain seemed to lose the capacity to filter and digest information" voicesofacademia.com/2025/03/07/eme… #AcademicChatter
Explaining our Actions by Professor Peter Carruthers Shows how widely accepted accounts of the mental states and processes explaining action are in need of complete make-over. 📚 cup.org/4k93bBO
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I second your complaint. Philosophers obviously play different philosophy games. I’m in your game field.
i hate academia man, why can zizek just make up some shit but i must provide like 20 citations for a sentence that both of my reviewers agree with anyway
One of the great privileges of academic life is to receive honest, informed, and critical feedback on one's work from an intelligent exponent of a different view from one's own. This goes to the essence of a healthy academic culture, one which exhibits mutual intellectual…
Tish Hinojosa | Donde Voy youtu.be/PX2uCLYduTI?si… #music