Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 17/11/2025Surprise: doi.org/10.2307/2183...doi.org Armstrong on the Mind on JSTOR Thomas Nagel, Armstrong on the Mind, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 394-403 130
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 17/11/2025Guess who wrote this, more than 10 years prior to Churchland's “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”. 160
Reposted by Brad WeslakeDr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 26/09/2025A stunningly beautiful initial depicting a dying man in bed with his soul being taken up by an angel. From a copy of Aristotle’s De Anima, likely copied at Oxford c. 1260. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social since 1715, MS Ee.2.31. 28010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 31/01/2025150 years ago you could get random observations of your baby published in Mind. Indisputably the most famous person to ever publish there—guess who! 140
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 03/01/2025From Eric Huntington, “Buddhist Cosmology” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. doi.org/10.1093/acre... 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 03/01/2025Unless your multiverse has endless hells lurking in the triangular gaps between worlds, I don't buy it. 140
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 30/12/2024I'm friends with one of the provosts who oversees IT and I could barely resist emailing him to ask how his night is going. 110
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 30/12/2024An NYU student really levelled up on this tonight, managing to find an unsecured email list that goes to all faculty and everyone in IT. In the five minutes it took me to auto-filter the list to trash, five professors had already unwittingly replied to 10,000+ people... no doubt it's ongoing. 120
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 29/12/2024Counterpoint—this is the ideal nap, now you are ready to go dance all night. 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 29/12/2024Many more examples (with high-resolution images) in Gillian Riley, “Eat Your Words! Seventeenth-Century Edible Letterforms” in Gastronomica, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 45-59. doi.org/10.1525/gfc.... 040
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 23/12/2024This post has a link to an associated WeChat announcement on their official channel. 020
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 23/12/2024Another is Feng Li (冯立), Good Night.jiazazhistore.comFeng Li ╱ Good NightIn 2017, when we made photobook White Night for Feng Li for the first time, he brought plenty of photographs to our studio. We were immediately shocked by his color photos. As a result, the black-and-... 110
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 23/12/2024Some of the most beautiful books I have purchased since moving to China are published by Jiazazhi. One favourite is Chen Zhe (陈哲), Bees & The Bearable (蜜蜂 & 可承受的).zheis.comBees & The Bearable — Chen Zhe 陈哲Bees & The Bearable蜜蜂 & 可承受的 Presented as a layered notebook weaving in and out of images and texts, Bees & The Bearable restores Chen Zhe’s... 110
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 23/12/2024Very sad to learn today that Yanyou—the founder of Jiazazhi, the Chinese photo book publisher and bookstore—was arrested in June and is still being held. There is a small note about it in this AP story. #chinaap.orgAs China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas | The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in 152
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 22/12/2024You think your life should get better, I think you should suffer and die, we agree that something must change. 050
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 22/12/2024Scandalous that “Confucius for Trump?“ was addressed before “Funeral strippers?” 020
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 21/12/2024For an overview, see: news.mit.edu/2024/mit-stu...news.mit.eduMIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible styleAn MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write l... 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 21/12/2024The magic spell hypothesis: just as magic spells are written distinctively to make them appear special, so legal language is made complex in order to signal a special kind of authority. See: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 130
Reposted by Brad Weslakenoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024why would you use chatgpt to simulate an endless tedious argument with various professional philosophers when we already have the daily nous comment section? 1203
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024Ah, missed that! Shouldn't have expected I could beat you to googly eye news. 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024Is this you www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...smithsonianmag.comSomeone Is Sticking Googly Eyes on Public Sculptures in Oregon—and City Officials Are Not AmusedMany residents of Bend love the illicit adornments, which they say are sparking joy and driving engagement with public art 130
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024Shibata Zeshin, Monkey Posing as a Collector, 1835. Justin Sun posing with Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019. 000
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024Two excellent new articles on the cultural wasteland produced by corporate streaming— @tavlin.bsky.social on Netflix: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess... and @lizpelly.bsky.social on Spotify: harpers.org/archive/2025... 030
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024Not in-class, but I do oral exams based on a pre-circulated set of questions. I find them far superior to papers for gauging depth of understanding. 040
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 19/12/2024It’s not possible to be too spammy promoting your own book on your own feed. 160
Reposted by Brad WeslakeAl Wilson @modalizing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024An 18-chapter volume on Levels of Explanation, co-edited with Katie Robertson. It's out in hardback on 31 Dec, but it's also open access and the PDF is already free to download: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 76420
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 18/12/2024“a labourer working to put down lasting foundations in the midst of the waves” —Proust on memory of music. 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 17/12/2024Prediction: the only good consequence of generative AI will be improved public understanding of cryptographic methods to prove authenticity. 130
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 17/12/2024Disadvantages include being in Times Square and being filled with philosophers. 030
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 14/12/2024Currently on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles: www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/viewing-room...tanyabonakdargallery.comThe sky we stand on | November 22, 2024 - February 8, 2025Viewing Room 000
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 11/12/2024Highlights— Loren Connors Caterina Barbieri Steve Roach Barker 010
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 10/12/2024Shanghai at night. Photo taken from the International Space Station, 27 March 2012. 030
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 10/12/2024Wonderful article on Zabihollah Mansouri, the prolific Iranian writer who simply made up much of what he “translated“. His Persian rendition of Lolita is twice as long as the original; his The Three Musketeers is ten times as long! See: yalereview.org/article/amir... 161
Brad Weslake @bweslake.org · 10/12/2024Wonderful that “liberty“ is in the top five for Moby-Dick, given its obsession with fate. 020
