Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 26/05/20261/ What if the American Dream was not primarily a moral project but an economic one? The popular story is that America welcomed immigrants because of liberal values and multicultural ideals. The alternative explanation is simpler: capitalism needed labor. 120
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/05/2026DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you! 1660183714675
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“Coherence, I don't want it anymore. Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder.” — Clarice Lispector, "The Departure of the Train" 000
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/01/2026‘Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a huge but exceedingly brittle ego which could seesaw from self-regard to self-loathing with alarming speed.’ Michael Kulikowski on a new Life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMichael Kulikowski · New Man on the Make: Cicero’s GamblesTrying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a... 519234
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 18/01/2026www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...noemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 020
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 18/01/2026When emergence fails to account for consciousness without becoming mystical, are we discovering the limits of a particular explanatory strategy, or consciousness could never be explained in third-person terms because it is not a property but the ongoing activity of being-in-the-world itself? 010
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“The most beautiful experience of thinking consists in recognizing that thinking leads into the unthought that can no longer be thought in the thinking that led there.” — Martin Heidegger 020
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 15/12/2025podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...podcasts.apple.comAristotle's Nicomachean EthicsPodcast Episode · In Our Time: Philosophy · 11/30/2023 · 52m 010
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Just released on the Philosophy Bites podcast, a new episode: Angie Hobbs on Plato on Power podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comAngie Hobbs on Plato on PowerPodcast Episode · Philosophy Bites · 11/12/2025 · 24m 1185
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 05/12/2025NEW Every year we ask Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) to select the best new philosophy books. Here's his 2025 selection—including biographies of Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, and a carefully-curated collection of Existentialist writings. fivebooks.com/best-books/b...fivebooks.comThe Best Philosophy Books of 2025The best new philosophy books of 2025, as recommended by our philosophy editor, the author and podcaster Nigel Warburton 32915
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)richardlaeton.bsky.social @richardlaeton.bsky.social · 10/12/2025#purplefinch #bird #drawing #art Their melodious songs are believed to carry messages from the spirit world. They can signify that someone close to you needs your support or guidance richard-laeton.pixels.com/featured/pur... 122212
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Study philosophy. Ethics, epistemology, justice and politics all would be transformed. It’s the best time to study philosophy. 061
Reposted by Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon)Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 05/12/2025John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor). 538737
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Twitter was a beautiful platform. It was decentralized. One could curate his own feed. They could follow people of their interest. But Musk weaponized twitter and took control of the feeds for his own projection and political and power interests. The tragedy is that Bluesky is now a counterbalance. 100