Aidan McGlynn

@aidanmcglynn

Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him.

788 Folgt5.915 Follower9.622 Posts

YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir aidanmcglynn.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 14

I have...questions

The Routledge Handbook of Apistemology
Jack David Eller (ed.)
New York: Routledge (forthcoming)

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 10

This mf

Richard Attenborough as John Hammond in Jurassic Park

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 8

Finally catching up on Dune part II, just in time for part III

Oscar Isaac as Leto Atreides in Dune, with the quote "Somehow Leto returned" as a caption

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 4

This was the trip on which I finally caved and bought a miniature Govan hogback

The palm of my hand holding a small replica of a Govan hogback - the long, strange sculpted scones found on the site

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 4

A statue of a Scottie dog, decorated like a Mother’s Pride Scottish Plain loaf of bread in a purple and red patterned wrapper, with the sharply angled design of the Riverside museum and the tall ship Glenlee in the background over the river.

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 4

Back in Govan Old @govanstones.bsky.social to hear @peteralanross.bsky.social discuss his book ‘Upon a White Horse’

A large interior of a church with a round stained-glass window at the far end.

A photo of my mother in her garb as a minister, with her name, qualifications, and dates as minister of Govan Old listed below: Moyna McGlynn BD, PhD, 2008-2016.

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 4

Shona Kinloch

A statue in a courtyard of a pudgy dog staring up at the sky while smiling

A statue in a courtyard of a pudgy dog sitting and staring up at the sky while smiling

A view of the back of the dog, and across the courtyard a man also looking up at the sky

The back of the statue of the man, and across the courtyard you can see the smaller statue of the dog

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 3

I think about this beautiful and devastating passage from 'Vesper Flights' a lot, and I've been reminded of it again as I finish up @peteralanross.bsky.social's 'Upon a White Horse' - on top of our damage to the natural world is the damage climate change is doing to the remnants of our own history.

"These are terrible times for the environment. Now more than ever before, we need to look long and hard at how we view and interact with the natural world. We're living through the world's sixth great extinction, one caused by us. The landscapes around us grow emptier and quieter each passing year. We need hard science to establish the rate and scale of these declines, to work out why it is occurring and what mitigation strategies can be be brought into play. But we need literature, too; we need to communicate what the losses mean. I think of the wood warbler, a small citrus-coloured bird fast disappearing from British forests. It's one thing to show the statistical facts about this species' decline. It is another thing to communicate to people what wood warblers are, and what that loss means, when your experience of a wood that is made of light and leaves and song becomes something less complex, less magical, just *less*, once the warblers have gone. Literature can teach us the qualitative texture of the world. And we need it to. We need to communicate the value of things, so that more of us might fight to save them."

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn· Jul 3

I went to my usual office to see how things look now the mesh is up, and to the eye it’s actually not as back as I worried - it looks okay. But as I’d also feared, and perhaps to the relief of some, my days of taking photos of the view are over - my phone seems to want to focus on the mesh, sadly.