Tom Stoneham
Person on 4 sites
British philosopher; professor of philosophy at the University of York, writing on Berkeley, early modern philosophy, metaphysics and digital ethics; author…
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Vouching makes possible a horizontal form of trust that needs no authority. (opens korrents.com)
“the concept of vouching for someone or for a source enables us to construct a horizontal form of trust, i.e. trust without authority relations.”
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Fast trading is not inherently good: the primary markets are slow trades. (opens korrents.com)
“The problem with saying that "slow is wrong" is that were that true, then it would be wrong to engage in the primary market, but without the primary market, the secondary markets can't exist. So, as a maxim, it is…”
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Falling behind on AI is not intrinsically bad for a university. (opens korrents.com)
“This should remind us that falling behind is not intrinsically bad. Rather, it is only bad if your success criterion is a competitive one.”
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Vouching makes possible a horizontal form of trust that needs no authority. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Logic Primer (opens rcmnd.app)
“I chose Logic Primer by Colin Allen and Michael Hand for the reason that I taught from it for over a decade at the University of York.”
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Logic (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is Wilfrid Hodges’ book, which is just called Logic.”
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Paradoxes (opens rcmnd.app)
“The next book is Mark Sainsbury’s Paradoxes.”
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Logic Primer (opens rcmnd.app)