Samuel P.

@semimetic.bsky.social

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Philosopher of language and technology

Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on Ernst Kapp.
Picture from Ernst Kapp’s book Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik. American axe with a bendy handle versus German axe with a straight handle. Human arm depicted for scale and context — the chapter is on the Golden ratio
Picture of M57 — The Ring Nebula
RGB image of the Andromeda galaxy.
A friendly pug looking up at me.
An excerpt from the bibliography of Laura Dassow Walls’s biography Thoreau. A Life.
Pictures of fifteen owls to tag yourself for Superb Owl Sunday. They are as follows: 1 barn owl, tyto alba 2 brown boobook, nynox scutulata 3 Chaco owl, stryx chacoensis 4 spotted eagle-owl, bubo africanus 5 Eastern screech owl, megascops asio 6 buffy fish owl, ketupa ketupu 7 spectacled owl, pulsatrix perspicillata 8 Eurasian eagle owl, bubo bubo [back of head] 9 ural owl, stryx uralensis 10 spotted wood owl, strix seloputo 11 Oriental Bay Owl, phodilus badius 12 Northern hawk owl, surnia ulula 13 snowy owl, bubo scandiacus 14 juvenile ural owl 15 burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia
A picture of an owl — caption reads Superb Owl Sunday.
Excerpt from the book Why Plato Matters Now by Angie Hobbs. Featuring this quote from Gorgias, in which Socrates says: So you see how our discussion concerns that which should be of the greatest importance to any person even if he has only a modicum of sense — that is to say, how one should live.
Girl holding owl
Adam Scott meeting Pope Leo
Cover of the Oxford World Classics edition of John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding.
The Citizens Lab on Munich Marienplatz
Detail of a painting by Albrecht Dürer, the Paumgartner Altarpiece ca. 1498/1504. Depiction of the dragon slain by Lukas Paumgartner as St. George.
The Isar river in Munich. People are bathing and sitting on the small pebble stone islands in the river. A construction crane in the background, blue skies and clouds, summer weather.
Three tubs of Mississippi mustard
First page of chapter Four of Martha Nussbaum’s book “not for profit. Why democracy needs the humanities”. On Socratic Pedagogy. I was reading this on a train in Munich.
Photo of an owl looking at the spectator in midair— it’s wings are completely vertical
Mislabeled cup of yoghurt. The cup says it’s cherry, the lid says it’s blueberry — which will it be?!
Cover of the book what art is by arthur danto. With the Brillo Boxes by Andy Warhol.
Cover of This New Yet Unapproachable America by Stanley Cavell.
A picture of Wittgenstein and his friend Eccles holding a kite in Glossop, Derbyshire.
New tricentennial Kant stamps that the German mail just issued.
An image of a cicada that looks like the Lorax, in front of some Truffula trees, in the style of a doctor Seuss drawing. The caption reads “I am cicada. I scream for the trees.”
A keyword from a research paper. It says epistemic bubble.
Cartoon of Nietzsche, with prominent mustache, lying in bed. Next to him, an alarm clock on a dresser. The caption says “buenas nietzsches”.
A large block of frozen spinach, standing upright in a pot.
Lake Starnberg. A white and blue sailboat. The train that took me here went into the opposite direction — I was supposed to be headed towards Hauptbahnhof. Oh well.
Venice ponte dell’accademia at night
Construction of the new glass roof at Munich’s central train station.
Meme. Elderly lobster catcher lady on a boat throwing a lobster back into the water. The lady represents “Late Wittgenstein”. The lobster she is violently yeeting away represents Wittgenstein’s early work, the Tractatus. Clearly this post is a giant waste of everybody’s time, but I appreciate your checking it out.
Hackerman meme. Rami malek looking into the camera with a smug facial expression and his arms crossed.
A fake cover of a Plato dialogue that reads: Do you love this shit? Are you high right now? Do you ever get nervous? Third Edition. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. Revised by John M. Cooper. We love a good Drake reference.
Plaque in a pop-up café called Bergson with information on the namesake French philosopher Henri Bergson. The text reads: Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) gehörte zu den innovativsten Philosophen seiner Zeit. In Frankreich ist er bis heute sehr bekannt, vor allem durch seine Hauptwerke „Le Rire" (Das Lachen) und „L'Évolution créatrice" (Die schöpferische Entwicklung). Für diese erhielt er 1927 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Bergson zählt zu den Schöpfern der „Lebensphilosophie" Er schrieb über das „Komische" und über den Zeit-begriff, im Sinne der Dauer. Außerdem dachte er viel über die schöpferische Kraft nach, die seiner Meinung nach allen Leben innewohnt. Sie hat er mit „Elan vital" umschrieben. Dieser zielgerichtete Drang nach dem Neuen ist eine der Inspirationen, die wir von unserem Namenspatron mitnehmen.
„Schweizer Brocken“. Fountain in Munich that looks like a giant stone staircase that has been flipped upside down.
Store front. The store is called “philo” underscore “sophie”.
Text snippet reading: Nussbaum offers her theory as non-metaphysical in two senses: it is not 'externalist' in the sense that it is not a theory that is arrived at in detachment from the actual self-understandings and evaluations of human beings in society', and it is not a 'theory peculiar to a single metaphysical or religious tradition'. Nussbaum describes her own theory as 'internalist', in the sense of drawing on 'searching participatory dialogue in and for human history and experience, and 'essentialist', in the sense of offering a normative yet revisable conception of human life's 'defining features'.
Meme template: Tina Joemat-Pettersson licking a yea cup during a hearing. A different woman in the background is speaking into a microphone. The caption for her reads “Plato, talking about the dangers of poetry.” Tina Joemat-Petterson represents Aristotle. The tea cup represents poetry.
Nelson from the Simpsons pointing and saying “Ha Ha!”.
A meme of Spongebob Squarepants pointing to a name tag on his shirt saying “professional philosopher.” His facial expression is stern. The caption reads: Me after referring to a philosophical problem as linguistic confusion.
View of the German Museum in Munich and the Isar river on a sunny summer day.