Cathy Legg
Pragmatist philosopher (esp Peirce)🦉, food gardener🍅🥕, traveller✈️, thrift maven👗
"Symbols grow" - let's plant some good 1s. 🌱
Located Naarm/Melbourne - never-ceded land (and why dynamite our river waterfall?? #1850scrimes)
Opinions mine, not Deakin Uni's
- Reposted by Cathy LeggI have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad
- The esteemed Prof. Bongiorno diagnoses Australian higher ed as trying to serve too many purposes at once, shortly before exiting his own employment at #ANU
- Beautiful
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- Reposted by Cathy LeggEven accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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- Oh Stella, our homegrown literary sensation, you were SO brave, and I don't think 1890s Australia was ready for you
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- Well I think that clears that issue up!
- Good grief, maybe we should all just send less email
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- LOL, it's offensive
- The true watchdogs speak back to the lapdogs. This is heartbreaking, not least because they seem such thoroughly decent folks.
- I found this a gripping watch, as James Bennet reflects deeply on his tenure at NYT during the first Trump presidency, and mistakes made as he now sees them.
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- Sad to see such an iconic Australian pastime has always been tainted by sexism. Reading 'Puberty Blues' in my teens should have tipped me off.
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- Old age: a time of gleaning. P.S. mainly women having to do this
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- Australian authors given 4 days to sign vague and strange agreement
- My podcast episode is now live! What went wrong with neopragmatism and how a more realist pragmatism could help navigate our current bewildering epistemic predicament. #philsky #peirce
- Last week at the Capitol Theatre - two 'inner-city Melbourne Italian girls made good' teamed up to make a unique event. Loved listening to Patricia show and interpret her own work.
- First time in the studio at ABC Radio, interviewed by silver-voiced David Rutledge for a Philosopher's Zone episode on "pragmatist philosophy and post-truth". In the booth opposite, pretty sure that was Waleed Aly! #philsky #pragmatism
- This is so sad
- Good! Second case in 2 months. Arrogant Westerners.
- "Internal expertise [in Universities] all too often gets shunned in favor of contracting a global consultancy.” This creates an expertise deficit, since “the less an organization does something, the less it knows how to do it.” And the answer is...AI! Huh?
- Wish I could be there! Will be teaching
- ♥️😥
- A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...
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- What I read this summer: sequel to #indigenousepistemology smash hit "Sand Talk" by my esteemed Deakin colleague Dr Yunkaporta. Here Dr Y addresses how to recognise, and deal with, bogus indigenous knowledge in a late capitalist world hungry for vicarious authenticity.
- What I read this summer: so evocatively written. Main character is a young male slave stuck in VA as his masters' fortunes have dwindled from their abuse of the land. Contains much real history - Underground Railroad, and Harriet Tubman, who I know now was an absolute badass. Highly recommended.
- New paper, arguing that genAI offers a profound reckoning for modern philosophy's 'representationalist realism', advocating instead a 'rich relational realism', as per (Gili and Maddalena 2022). I also draw on Peirce's semiotics to argue that LLMs can do symbols but not icons or indices.
- This is perfect
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- Amen - looking forward to reading the book!
- The end of the end of history
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- How and why is Wilfrid Sellars' work finding new enthusiasts among Continental philosophers? Fantastic episode on this by @patrickstokes.com, around a stream I organised with Vince Le at 2024 ASCP conference. Features me, @mathewabbott.bsky.social , @carlsachs.bsky.social and more.
- How and why is Wilfrid Sellars' work finding new enthusiasts among Continental philosophers? Fantastic episode on this by @patrickstokes.com, around a stream I organised with Vince Le at 2024 ASCP conference. Features me, @mathewabbott.bsky.social , @carlsachs.bsky.social and more.
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- Reposted by Cathy LeggNature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to soc media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced X for you? Tell us about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Worth sharing around
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- "They put this black tar-like substance on my toast"
- somewhat apocalyptic
