dr J.T. Burman 🎓

What is meaning such that meaning could be lost in translation? And how can one protect against that loss when translating historical documents? Here, with reference to #HistPsych, we use the misunderstanding of Piaget's social theory. And at the context provided by Vygotsky....

@ick_real If you want to continue benefiting from not having to commute another way, then it's in your interest to carry your own weight. But if you instead want to extract the maximum value before finding someone else to leech from, then you've learned a valuable lesson about who you are.

If a coworker has a car and lives near my house, and drives me to work every day, am I obligated to chip in for gas?

@Mr_Husky1 Wealth from before the marriage doesn't count as part of the 50% he would be entitled to if you got divorced. So he has no claim to it. If that's a dealbreaker, then he isn't who you thought and you shouldn't get married. (Tough situation: I'm sorry you're going through it.)

I’m about to get married, and my fiancé knows I have an inheritance that was left to me by my grandparents. It’s in my name only, and I’ve been saving it for years. Now he’s saying that before we get married, I should put the entire inheritance into a joint account so we can “start fresh together,” or he doesn’t think we should go through with the wedding. I’m 36 already and this is something my family worked hard to leave me. I’m torn between wanting to build a life together and feeling like I’m being pressured to give up something important to me. What do you think I should do? By isitmeaitah

This is an amazing resource! Essentially every book review in philosophy going back to 1872, fully searchable. Wow. philreviews.org

Chuck Norris hasn't died. He's making sure the Grim Reaper gets home safely.

@jessesmithsoc David Bakan said much the same thing of psychology in the 1960s: that psychologists had made a false idol of methods ("methodolatry")

Peter Berger complained sociology had taken a turn toward methodological fetishism—the application of ever more sophisticated statistical techniques to ever more trivial topics. I think he was correct, and that the observation extends beyond sociology. One optimistic, somewhat counterintuitive AI speculation is that as statistical wizardry is offloaded to the machines, that skill set will lose its scarcity and marketability. As a result, people who want to make real contributions to social science will need to learn to think more theoretically—dare I say, philosophically?—and ask more interesting questions about how the social world works. Academic training will thus start selecting for and developing that skill set. The machines and the humanists can triumph together!

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. apnews.com/article/juerge…

@sciencegirl Quit booze, then see

@Neilmak68 @sciencegirl Verification (Wittgenstein), confirmation (Carnap), and falsification (Popper) are all crucially important for understanding science. So are norms (Merton). And paradigms, disciplinary matrices, exemplars (Kuhn). Also underdetermination (Quine), research programs (Lakatos), autho

@Neilmak68 @sciencegirl I think it would help if we taught more philosophy of science, and epistemology, at lower levels than uni. Then it wouldn't be dangerous to point out that the continuing justification for scientific racism, and eugenics, has no support from modern genetics whatsoever.

@celestepoasts They're learning. You've misunderstood the purpose of the assignment as "to produce a result." But shift your focus: the actual goal is to help you to reconfigure yourself so that you can do things you couldn't otherwise do. Or that others couldn't do. How is that helped here?

@NL_Times I should add: the easiest way to develop these skills and habits is to go to a good school and study under good teachers. But the whole sector has been under pressure for years. If we want well-informed citizens who can participate fully in democracy, it needs help & protection.

@NL_Times This is a great idea. But it's not the degree that matters. It's how you develop the rigour of your thinking, your perspective-taking, and the minimum standards you will accept for argument and evidence. These are under threat in Higher Ed, too, especially—but not only—from AI.

New courses planned for citizens without university degrees to get into politics dlvr.it/TRTSdz

@Matt_Pinner Of course. And their license plates too, because of "stranger danger."

Does anyone who grew up before social media still remember their parents’ landline number??!

@otokyo__ Yes. It's not about you. One goes, and one stays home with the kids. (If you're a single parent, you send your regrets.)

Is it rude to bring kids to a “no kid” wedding if you couldn’t find a babysitter?

@AuthorGFAllen Many times. I've finished all of several authors' complete works. Then I've gone looking for pen names and pseudonyms: Richard Bachman for Stephen King, John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson for Michael Crichton. Unfortunately, not everything is equally good.

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@nickimoraa Public education is like public health: parents are involved, but there's also good advice that should be followed because it comes from experts who know more as a result of dedicating their lives to it. And there are laws. Opt out if you want to. But then face the consequences.

Schools need to be reminded that PARENTS have the ultimate authority over their children, if I don’t want my child there that day, THAT IS AN EXCUSED ABSENCE! Because I excused it, I don’t need permission from a doctor, a superintendent, or nobody for that matter. I’ll take them out of that school as quickly as I put them into it. If I want my child to be home, or I feel they need a break, or I want to take them on a trip. You can send their work home for the week. I think what children are learning at home, and outside of the classroom is equally as important as the fundamentals. I’m not going to surrender my children’s youth & their most influential years entirely to a school system! If they can’t accommodate that then so be it, I can teach my children how to read, and write & how to do math myself! The only benefit of a classroom is the interaction with other children & teachers, but as soon as that becomes contrary or in opposition to what I am teaching my children, or desire for them, It’s time for homeschooling! Don’t send me letters about attendance, or anything else for that matter! The school will never determine or dictate my children’s schedule. Because THEY are on MINE!

@ross_vallance @of_buchsbaum @sciencegirl The key phrase, before you get to grad school (and really until after your Comps), is "for the purposes of the exam...."

@BurmanPhD @of_buchsbaum @sciencegirl And you must have realised teacher regurarate what they are told. No right or wrong. Listen. Repeat. Pass exams

@PhD_Genie Doing a PhD is a terrible curse to inflict on yourself. Unfortunately, if there's something inside you that needs to explore the unknown, so is not doing a PhD. You can't just get on a boat anymore and go. You have to go to a lab, or to a library. And suffer. For years. (Enjoy!)

When someone asks if you recommend doing a PhD

@Kekius_Sage What? Of course. But it has also redefined the problem. What it means "to understand human consciousness" is different today than it was in the past. So you can study that too, and gain useful insights. Same cross-culturally: different peoples understand themselves differently.

Has science helped us to understand human consciousness? Can it ever?

@odedanilo At the risk of annoying everyone in the comments, this isn't a flex. It's an admission: if you go high enough, you will fail if you don't study. Because everything at a high level is complicated. Novel research almost always takes you in unexpected directions. (Stay in school!)

That subject u never failed in school even if u didn’t study?