ATFyfe @ATFyfe

Philosopher (Visiting Assistant Professor) University of Maryland | JHUCTY | Boğaziçi Üniversitesi atfyfe.com İstanbul, Türkçe Joined June 2011

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John Tasioulas @JTasioulas

4 months ago

Reading philosophy can be a hard slog, but the entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are almost always a pleasure to read. What a real achievement this enterprise has been - brining philosphy within the reach of all. If only there were a Nobel Prize for Philosophy..

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

5 months ago

My three-sentence summary of Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations", with apologies to Don Knuth: "Premature definition is the root of much conceptual evil. Good definitions arise out of a back-and-forth interplay between rough definitions and powerful insight-giving arguments.…

Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

3 years ago

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

6 months ago

The right thing to do isn't always the most heroic thing to do.

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

6 months ago

The fact that you can open your oven door on a cold wintery night to warm your apartment but not leave your fridge door open to cool your apartment on a hot summer day is the second law of thermodynamics at work in your life.

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Synekura Audio @synekura_audio

6 months ago

Excerpt from Derek Jarman's 1993 film 'Wittgenstein'

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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314

7 months ago

This is so cool. You can use 10 NAND gates to simulate a wire crossing, which means that any logic circuit in 3D space can also be implemented in just 2 dimensions.

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

7 months ago

Interesting tidbit today from William James' correspondence: C.S. Peirce's salary as an assistant astronomer at the Harvard Observatory in 1869 was $2,500/yr (or $58,395/yr in 2025 dollars).

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MarmaraFelsefeBölümü @Marmara_Felsefe

7 months ago

Marmara Felsefe, "Philosophy Talks-XXIX" daveti: Dr. Andrew Thomas Fyfe'in "The Neglected Philosophy of Science of William James (And His Celebrated But Misunderstood Defense of Faith)" konulu seminerine bekliyoruz. 26 Şubat 2025 Çarşamba, 12.00. İşletme Fakültesi, GZISLCZ02.

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

8 months ago

Me: "Let’s go." Friend (in America): "Just let me smoke, then we can go." Smokes a cigarette, puts it out, then says, “Okay, let’s go.” Friend (in Türkiye): "Just let me smoke, then we can go." Smokes a cigarette, puts it out, immediately lights another one. Me: *confused*

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

9 months ago

The Obama-Syria Policy Dilemma (@DrewPavlou @Noahpinion): a) Obama caused a decade of suffering by preventing Assad from winning outright; b) By blocking Assad's victory, Obama created space for regional resistance to stabilize & replace him in a lasting way. I suspect (a).

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Rob Sica @robsica

11 months ago

"James’ thesis in 'The Will to Believe' isn’t practical but epistemic... James is defending the idea of belief on passional grounds precisely because that’s how we make advances in science and access evidence we would otherwise never achieve" philpapers.org/rec/FYFCGT

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brit @booritney

a year ago

people logging back online asking "what'd i miss?" absolutely nothing, you are always experiencing your life in full

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

a year ago

The beauty of my current home: (1) Moda ferry station (2) Kadıköy ferry station (3) view from my classroom teaching logic this summer (4) the one-eyed cat who greets me every morning as I walk onto campus.

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Norm Macdonald @normmacdonald

7 years ago

Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

7 years ago

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ATFyfe @ATFyfe

a year ago

Took a break after a bit of heartbreak and some Turkish adventures, but I'm back on Twitter! Might be a mistake, but I'm ready to share more quasi-interesting musings and semi-intelligent replies. So... what'd I miss?