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I'm back in Oxford to teach on the Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Mental Health module for the MSt in Practical Ethics. as always, it looks like an exciting schedule! here's the timetable for tomorrow:

Friday 9th:
9-9.20 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
9.20-10.30 Autism and Neurodivergence
Dr Elliot Porter, UOI
10.30-10.50 COFFEE BREAK
10.50-12.00 The ethics of motivational interviewing
Dr Lisa Forsberg, UOI
12.00-13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00-14.10 Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry
Dr Lucienne Spencer, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
14.10-14.30 COFFEE BREAK
14.30-15.40 Suicide and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Dr Hane Maung, University of Lancaster
15.40-16.00 SUMMARY OF DAY

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just read it. it's a wonderful article! congratulations! (and thank you for referencing my paper!)

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Descartes, Meditation 2

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I loved it when philosophers like Ducasse, Peirce, James, Broad, and McTaggart were into parapsychology there's a great essay by C. J. Ducasse where he argues (against Hume) for the direct perceptibility of causation and then uses the example of telekinesis as empirical confirmation of his theory

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

came here to say that I agree with all of the above

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... if you want to learn more about this musical form, here's my paper on the philosophy of canonic counterpoint, which will be part of a special issue of Philosophical Psychology on "Philosophy Through Art, Games, and Fiction" dedicated to Helen De Cruz (6/6) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

Canonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque musical composition

In an essay entitled “Schopenhauer’s Flute and Descartes’s Lute” (2024), Helen De Cruz asks: “what can musical practice tell us about philosophy?” The present paper offers an answer to this questio...

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... in "C. P. E. Bach and the Living Traditions of Learned Counterpoint", David Yearsley suggests that a "complete" augmentation canon over such a long and unpredictable theme as the Royal Theme would be impossible. hence, I set myself the challenge of proving him wrong and this is the outcome (5/6)

musescore.com

Augmentation Canon on a Theme by Frederick the Great

Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Violin, Cello (Mixed Trio)

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... as Denis Collins notes, the latter sort of "complete" augmentation canon was a form that Bach never explored. Bach's augmentation canons are all of the "incomplete" sort. for "complete" augmentation canons, we need to turn to English Renaissance composers, e.g., John Bull, William Byrd (4/6) ...

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... by contrast, in my canon, the "dux" is repeated across both halves of the "comes". both the "dux" and the "comes" state the entire soggetto, with the "dux" stating it twice and the "comes" stating it once. hence, the soggetto has to combine with both halves of its augmented form ... (3/6)

score of my canon in augmentation and contrary motion. The dux states the entire soggetto twice over the Royal Theme. The augmented comes states the entire soggetto in inversion over the Royal Theme. In the first half of the canon, the entire soggetto in the dux has to combine with the first half of its augmented form in the comes. In the second half of the canon, the entire soggetto in the dux has to combine with the second half of its augmented form in the comes.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... in Bach's canon, the augmented "comes" delivers half as many notes as the "dux". the "dux" comprises a single statement of the soggetto", but the "comes" only comprises the first half of the soggetto. hence, the soggetto only has to combine with the first half of its augmented form ... (2/6)

score of Bach's canon in augmentation and contrary motion from the Musical Offering. The top voice is annotated "the comes is inverted and half the speed of the dux, and so only has time to state the first half the soggetto". The middle voice is annotated "embellished version of the Royal Theme". The bottom voice is annotated "the dux states the soggetto in full".

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I composed a little perpetual canon in augmentation and contrary motion on Frederick the Great's "Musical Offering" theme. Bach also wrote a canon in augmentation and contrary motion on that theme, but there's a crucial difference between his canon and mine ... (1/5) musescore.com/user/6707006...

musescore.com

Augmentation Canon on a Theme by Frederick the Great

Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Violin, Cello (Mixed Trio)

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah that's fair. unless it's trying to say something from an estranged rather than an engaged perspective, like "this physiological system is associated with two sets of experiences of the stars rather than just the usual one", but that really wouldn't be in keeping with the sentiment of the poem

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it isn't how you'd usually describe it, no, but I wouldn't expect a poem to stick to our usual descriptions of things. I think it's understandable as a figurative way of conveying how a scene is experientially duplicated because it is presenting to two experiencers.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but then I wouldn't call it a "two-headed calf" but "two calves conjoined below the neck", which would utterly ruin the poem

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

depending on the extent of the bicephaly (e.g., independent brainstems?), it could be supposed that there are two experiential subjects here with their own first-person viewpoints. if each head sees the number of stars that are present, then combined they would see twice the number of stars.

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Philosophers have underperformed? Sorry we don’t have an easy discipline like science where you can answer questions by just going out and looking.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can't get over how he was 17 when he sang this ... sorry but this is not the face of a 17yo

Richie Valens looking much older than 17

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't help but think that Prometheus from Hades 2 looks a bit like Galen Strawson

Prometheus from Hades 2: a man with intense eyes and unruly hair

the philosopher Galen Strawson: a man with intense eyes and unruly hair

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've always thought of snakes as the Yogi of the animal kingdom. they spend most of their time sitting still, and during that time they probably aren't worrying about the future or the mean thing someone said to them last week, etc. also, they fast regularly and have no material possessions

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the dance of death from The Seventh Seal

silhouettes of six people dancing with the grim reaper from The Seventh Seal

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my wife's grandma (who turned 100 this year) now can't be bothered to remember the names of family members, so she makes small talk with very general questions, e.g., "how are the girls?" could mean my mother-in-law and her sister, my wife and her sister, or our twin girls. she isn't bothered which!

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish I was a little bit taller

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lately I've been classifying philosophical works into the categories of angry philosophy and chill philosophy

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SCIENTISTS: publish an entirely reasonable paper on the embryological origins of different segments of the brain which won't come as a surprise to most biologists since the 90s who know about neural tube development SCIENCE PRESS OFFICE:

film poster for The Man With Two Brains starring Steve Martin

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C @spiffyscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I won’t lie, it’s a bit overwhelming to see the work hyperbolized by many press outlets, including the university. We did not discover a new organ, or that you have two consciousnesses, etc! I’m excited for the general positive recognition, (especially the coverage from the Chronicle by Jack Lee)

sfchronicle.com

The brain is a single organ. But it may not start that way, study suggests

A Stanford-led study challenges the idea that the brain develops from one common pool of early cells — and could help researchers model diseases such as ALS.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Twin 2 especially has strong yūrei energy

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the scary thing about being woken up early by our twins is that in the dark they both look remarkably like Sadako from The Ring

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thanks this makes sense. yeah the culty exploitation stuff is definitely a game-changer here, as previously I had been wondering "isn't this just slutshaming or whorephobia?" ... tbh I'm kind of surprised I hadn't heard of all this earlier, but obviously I'm not as extremely online as I thought!

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yikes ... so we're talking coercive stuff by powerful manipulative leaders, rather than a just bunch of nerds being horny?

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

so ... the objectionable bit is the pro-AI rationalist community stuff?

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

who is this aella person everyone is suddenly posting about?

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

same!! have you played Immortals Fenyx Rising? it's another Greek mythology themed game with a similar sort of humour.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm now reminded of Tim Thornton's maxims for eating pizza from Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry (2007, p. 68)

Two kinds of consideration support this claim. One is simply appearance. To an unprejudiced eye, it should be apparent that judgements about conflicting values are made in the absence of a general theory. This point is best made by looking to a non-medical and comparatively trivial example because it is easier to consdier matters where the stakes are low. Consider, for example, how one might make choices in a pizzeria. One may have in mind same general maxims such as:
- a spicy pizza is best accompanied by a fruity red wine like Zinfandel;
- there is no point in eating a mozzarella garlic bread and also pizza at the same meal;
- any pizza with egg on it should be treated with suspicion;
- all unbaked cheesecakes are an abomination;
- one should never spend more than £50 for two at a pizzeria.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

yeah it needs to include their top posts, bluesky controversies, and vital stats such as their shitpost-to-earnest ratios, thirstposting-to-chaste scores, etc.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I only eat socially constructed pizza

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

we need a #PhilSky wiki so that people joining the starter packs can read up on the lore before posting

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

cottage cheese with chopped pineapple is delicious

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

makes it harder to carve the pizza at the joints (the pineapple slices overlap the cuts)

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