Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University | Research on Hegel, Skepticism, and Critical Theory
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Miles Hentrup
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On Malebranche's version of preformationism, each sperm contained a fully formed individual human (a homunculus), whose sperm in turn contained a fully formed individual human, whose homunculi sperm contained a fully formed individual human, and so on, ad infinitum.
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This referee view really adds nothing.
And this 1st-2nd c. bronze figure of a rat playing a trumpet was undoubtedly the cutest
Today, I got to pay my respects to Jeremy Bentham's old bones. This brought me approximately 31 utiles of pleasure.
Just happened to run into a former student at Westminster Abbey!
The officiating in this game tonight, to quote the chanteuse, "don't impressa me much."
The Droste effect, in which an image appears recursively within itself, was named after the image appearing on tins of Droste cocoa powder.
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I saw some really cool artifacts today at the British Museum, but this 3rd century Roman Crocodile-skin armor was probably the strangest.
"In Middle Egypt and Manfalout, Roman soldiers were attracted to the Crocodile cult centred on the sacred grottoes of the region."
Walter Benjamin on the strange phenomena leading up to the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
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Inherent Vice (2014)
The Smashing Machine (2025)
Savage Streets (1984)
The Grandmaster (2013)
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #films #movies #filmsky
