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Thank you very much.

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All right, good.

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Welcome everyone.

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This is a hybrid session, we have a number of people in the room and I believe online The structure for this will be that Sara who I'm going to introduce shortly Is gonna talk until she doesn't

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And then thereafter, there's going to be a five-minute break.

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In that period people can raise their hands if they want and I will randomize the order of questions with some exceptions for PhD students Then we'll take it from here until three o'clock

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So with that, all right.

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This is a joint session I should have said between philosophy archaeology and Svedi Garg Yes he's had it right With that special welcome to Sara Uckelman who joins us from Durham University And was going talk about making the erudite accessible Go ahead

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Thank you very much for the invitation, particularly to Ria who invited me.

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We have known each other many years not actually originally through academic circles but medieval reenactments which sits nicely in this sort of thing that I want talk about today taking

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niche research and turning it into something that isn't just for academics sitting in their ivory towers, but can be taken out to the wider world for anybody to enjoy.

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So its quite a pleasure being able come here through this connection or invitation

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Speaking jointly to a group of philosophers and archaeologists is an interesting combination, particularly because I don't really know much about archeology beyond the sort-of general level layperson idea.

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So we're not going do anything very in depth on the philosophy or something like that

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But the remit for this lecture was, as we did our inspirational lectures.

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So I wanted to talk to you guys about something that is hopefully of interest across whatever discipline or whatever background he might be in and hopefully inspire him to think about what sort research they do in a slightly different way how can make erudite accessible?

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That's my plan.

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Talk shorter than some people might talk, because what I'd really love to have at the end is not just your standard Q&A but some good discussions about points that I've raised.

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Suggestions and thoughts you may had or things we haven't considered so a collective workshopping in different ways for specific areas of research with specialisms

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So my starting points for this talk, and these are things that I'm not really going to spend a lot of time trying to justify because i expect most everybody in the room is gonna agree with them.

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The first thing is arts & humanities as soft subjects like social sciences or archeology sometimes on humanity's it doesn't have natural place you always find

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In the UK, which is where I am based but also kind of increasingly across the world particularly in neoliberal capitalist societies these subjects are increasingly under fire and threats.

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They're being targeted for funding cuts because they don't lead to good job opportunities or anybody can

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write a novel.

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Nowadays we can just get artificial intelligence to do our literature and arts, playwriting for us so why not have university opportunities but what even is research in philosophy?

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Things like this."

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So that's point one.

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Second, is like we as academics and I'm including all of the master students in PhD students in this room really care about what do?

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We wouldn't be here if didn't have invested such a large amount our life or think sort thing interested

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is intrinsically valuable, not just instrumentally-valuable.

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Now some of the things that we do might have instrumental value particularly on like archaeology side where you can go out and provide a survey before new highway gets built to determine if there's anything in it needs preserved.

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There are definitely practical benefits for

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metaphysicians sitting in their offices trying to figure out, is this really a table?

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What does the table okay maybe less likely have practical value but we don't necessarily study our subjects because are interested and capital that it can generate or applications.

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We do these things because they're intrinsically valuable and important

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But one of the flip sides with this is that what we do as often erudite, abstruse arcane.

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There's a lot to be done especially kind if you've been doing it more specialized and rarefied things are thinking about our and increases gap between other people in terms

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You know, somebody asks you—you're sitting on a plane.

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Oh what do YOU DO?

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If I tell them I am a logician the general two responses i often get is they mishear me and think that I'm a magician which...I kind of like!

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Give me a set axioms and voila give some theorems or they think im in logistics

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and I'm involved in like getting shipping from one place to another.

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Nobody really knows what a logician is outside of logicians, maybe some philosophers...I've got a bunch of archaeologists in the room how many you know?

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What logic does yeah

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That's OK.

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I'll say a bit more about that, because the first step i need to do is can't explain it you guys what I'm doing?

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But this isn't something specific in my area of subject.

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Everybody will have sort-of jobbing idea for archaeologists.

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You go and dig things up right

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I bet there's a lot more to it than that and the types of analyses, questions material you're working with.

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The impact on our understanding history culture all these developments All this things come together We really care about what we are doing It is instrumentally and intrinsically valuable

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what we're doing is really arcane sometimes, and... We need to be able transgress that barrier.

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To get outside of this very niche small setting-small scale specialisms in order address the threat from broader cultural political decisions So another thing thats kindof background here

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push back against experts.

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I don't know to how much this happens in Sweden, but there was definitely something that we saw in England during the pandemic where a lot of people were like why should listen?

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Well maybe because they knew more about it than us.

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But you see increasingly in US expertise is not valued anymore so how can take our

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and turn this into something that can reach the people who are making decisions to put our subjects in fields under threat.

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So, problem we're facing is how do demonstrate outside of research fears what important valuable accessible should be funded

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People should be able to study it.

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People should get jobs in it, all of these interlocking things that feed into the ecosystem

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There's a lot that can be said about this, different ways academics try to engage with public engagement or impact.

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Or different routes of taking their work out into the wider world I'm not going give kind-of survey on all these.

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Most what i'll talk is specific my own experience but just want highlight couple examples things have worked

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really well for weird niches that end up reaching quite wide audiences, generally through social media.

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So we've got very... We have a variety of different ways to reach outside the academic context through Blue Sky Twitter threads Instagram YouTube TikTok all these sorts venues are

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places that people go to get information, to get entertainment for other reasons and then kind of come across these things by accident.

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So three I just wanna highlight if you aren't familiar with this check them out they're good fun the first is so what works very big sheep The Museum Of English Rural Life

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Eight years and about six days ago, posted this photo as it says the tweet that changed us forever.

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Look at this absolute unit so The Museum of English Rural Life is this tiny little niche museum in the middle of nowhere That has a very Niche subject matter not much funding And At one point

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Just over eight years ago, they tweeted this photo of the sheep that had in their archives and it went viral.

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And now have a huge audience which managed to keep when moved from Twitter to blue sky

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Lots of photos about big sheep, but also lots really interesting conversations.

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Whoever is running their social media... ...really is very good at picking out bits that are going to be interesting in a way which allows you insight not just into the museum and its collections But actually research behind all it

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And it also helps people to kind of understand, like why do museums matter?

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Because they record this sort stuff.

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Why does history matter because this is how we understand the materials that are in these archives.

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Sociology anthropology all of these things That's what provides foundation for fun tweets about big sheep

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So another example is very niche interests.

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If you don't follow surprise deal historian on blue sky, he's great value for money and as the cover photo says it is any excuse to talk about eels .

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You would be amazed at how much there

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about the history of eels, about depictions of eels.

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About eel recipes?

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About economic records relating to eels?

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About modern biological studies with eels?

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There's a lot about it!

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If you didn't already know this person and followed him how many would ever have thought that he'd be interested in EELS

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He'd become really, really interested in eels after reading his posts.

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So that's another way to get people involved and again to show what academics do it is not just writing boring papers or sometimes interesting ones

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and audience participation.

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So this was something that happened, I think it was during some of the COVID lockdowns is when these first began but its The Dracula Daily Readathon This from Reddit But also running on Tumblr It's just a bunch people who got together And read Dracula

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except they did it according to the diary entries that, uh...that book is comprised of.

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And I didn't participate in this first time but i saw kindofthe social infrastructure that grew up aroundit and you've got people who have never read Dracula before

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they know about the vampire.

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They basically know this story, but there's really weird digressions on paprika recipes in book that you don't really know about and some people who had never read the didn't realize exactly what happens it when regular diary entries or letters then suddenly starts being a lot more time between

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And so you might go like a couple of weeks before the next entry emailed to, and then all of sudden start worry about Jonathan.

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Is he okay?

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His host in this castle is maybe not somebody that we should trust."

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Huge amounts people who probably would never have otherwise read piece 19th century English literature got super invested because it was collective activity

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So those are three things that can illustrate how you take something rather abstract, rather niche and turn it into something people will actually be interested in.

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But what do

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is not so engaging as Big Sheep, it's amusing as Eels or has already well known as Dracula.

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Even if people haven't read the book they've at least heard of It If you don't already have a subject matter that

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for doing this kind of thing.

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For instance, maybe you don't have something that can post photos very easily we all know how image driven social media is and so big sheep excellent eels excellent vampires yeah

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What about other subjects?

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So my own area of research within philosophy is logic.

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And we already had a bit hand raised, like already other academics don't necessarily know what logic is

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But I don't just do logic.

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I do formal logics, so the stuff with symbols that looks a lot like math.

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I do modal and dynamic form of logic often in multi-agent setting .I Do Modal & Dynamic Formal Logic In The Middle Ages which is in Latin

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So by the time that I have narrowed my sphere down to it's like, but there was this really interesting 14th century text.

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That talking about one particular logical operator

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I have already lost not only the non-philosophers, but all of my philosophy colleagues who aren't also logicians.

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Logician weirdly enough find medieval stuff super cool and are always like Sarah's coming to talk this is great!

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Trying convince philosophers that it was valuable?

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Weirdly enough, trying to convince the medievalists that this is important really super hard despite fact around about turn of 13th century when universities in Paris and Oxford were being founded.

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Then over next couple centuries more university across Europe logic was one subject every single undergraduate student had study

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Which means that anybody who was educated, Who is in a position of political power theological Power ecclesiastical power anything like That would have studied this.

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So I always find medievalists A little bit perplexing because it's Like how can you understand the Context?

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Of The subject that You were studying if don't know Anything about education people are Generating material given

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So I'm already in a context where trying to explain my passion and love, people within my academic sphere is bit of stretch.

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I spent lot time during PhD addressing the question but who cares?

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And at one point realized that perfectly acceptable answer

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I find this interesting.

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I am learning things."

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I don't really care if that's where it stops, It is nice If i can get other people to care but one thing about being academics and you know finding the practice of academia a valuable practice Is that its okay if we do things because We find them like I individually Find these intrinsically valuable And Interesting Because I think That

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feature of a functioning, well-running society that people have the opportunity to indulge themselves in things they find interesting and valuable.

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For some this might be sports or music for other it's reading medieval Latin manuscripts on logic so

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You know, part of that was I don't have to justify myself too.

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But on the other hand i should still be able to justify why other people might be interested in this So This is kind Of The context of where a lot of what Is What i'm going To talk about is sitting and i Have A very niche research interest Within my own department within My Own Broader Research Field And

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It's not one that has pretty pictures or is already well known, it can easily be turned into engaging tweets about interesting animals.

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How can I take formal logic, whether it is right up here at the top.

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Just logic in general as my discipline or very niche specialism that have ended and turn this into something accessible to other people?

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So yeah doesn't get much more abstract all dry boring than that At least some peoples perspective not mine

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So to go, where did my real kind of quest for making what I do more accessible to a broader audience?

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It goes back March 2020.

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My university along with almost all the other universities in UK were on strike most of march

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And on Friday was gonna be our last day of strike, and we were going to back work Monday.

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The rumors started going along the picket line that Monday... We had one more week left in term but students would go home.

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We could still come into offices which is good because it's where all materials are

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This was very short notice.

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Those of us who were religiously observing our strike and we're not checking our email didn't find this out until 9 o'clock Monday morning, And at least in my case, My first lecture was Tuesday afternoon so that meant I had about a day-and-a half to figure out what To do So this is A screenshot from my First online video teaching which i Was In my office it's like

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This is what I have.

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A laptop, which sat on a pile of books in the chair and balanced it with my crappy little webcam And then i had whiteboard

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is glary, I spent a lot of time arranging the whiteboard just perfectly so that it wasn't reflecting and unreadable.

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And then i had my white board markers as like...I have one hour lecture for introductory class an two-hour seminar from advanced classes to generate enough recorded content we can finish this class

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Now, halfway through recording this video I bumped the whiteboard and it like fell on my head.

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And at this point there is no way that can do in any sort of professional way we...I don't have equipment or skills nor knowledge nor time.

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This just how's going to be?

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For a lot who are teaching you probably similar stories where yep!

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We're doing

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Now, that was my last week of teaching.

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And then we had exams and there were summer in everything but as the next academic year came along it became increasingly clear That despite the university's push to do as much in-person teaching is possible

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Some of it was going to have to be done online, and some the on-line teaching is gonna be done asynchronously.

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And my introductory logic class selected for that so it's going synchronous small group seminars but lectures needed prerecorded at this point I've got a couple months think about what am i doing how do you want more importantly

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Yes, I'm being forced into doing this but also i have some amount of agency.

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I didn't particularly like the idea Of pre-recording lectures using my university's lecture capture system that are then sitting on the University servers And can be used in future at any point when am again on strike Like oh we don' care if Sarah is not working We'll just throw out her

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lectures that she recorded during the pandemic.

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I also had at this point, enough of my non-academic friends be like you're really keen on logic but we don't know what it is?

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You should do something sometime to try and tell us about what it is so maybe this was an opportunity for me to kill two birds with one stone create a record content instead

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try to reduce the gatekeeping that is involved in, you know... Who gets access on formal logic?

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Well it's going be people who go university and choose a philosophy degree within this particular subject.

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The span of sphere I can reach my institution really pretty small generally about 60-70 students year out around 20 thousand why not make more accessible

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to everyone.

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So as I said, about six months to kind of think how do this?

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Keeping in mind that have no knowledge or skills video editing producing curating and also didn't particularly want learn these skill if was something wanted would learned many years before other things can with my time

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Now simultaneously to this, actually a little bit after so I had finished my teaching.

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At the same time My kid was about eight and half at that time we discovered Bob Ross now if you're not familiar with him he was an American painter oil painting in the 80s 90's who did these

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paint along with me teaching TV shows.

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So in half an hour, he would show up it with his easel and his paints And He Would walk you through how to do an oil painting of some particular nature scene

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They are remarkable.

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They're also immensely soothing, so they were the right thing to watch in early stages of lockdown pandemic but it's a good amount for fractured attention span or kid and about five episodes my kids said I bet we could do that

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And of course, we didn't have any oil paints or the right equipment.

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So let's take painting

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the paints that we do have.

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So, we've got acrylic paint and let us use entirely wrong tools but follow along to one of these and see what you can come up with so hers on left mine is right for somebody who has zero artistic ability doesn't know how

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We ended up doing quite a lot, but I will spare you the full gallery because one of things that was thinking in back my mind is like he's really effective teacher.

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The fact after watching couple these we could sit down and do this

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And this is a media, you know pre-recorded TV shows that are being distributed to an audience.

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There's no interaction there's not engagement This very much like what doing asynchronous teaching will be in the fall So other things I can learn But of course oil painting and formal logic Not the same

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So one of Bob Ross's kind of mantras, one the principles that he paints by is at end if you're happy with your painting.

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You have succeeded nothing else matters do you like it?

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Did you have fun Do think its pretty and That doesn't quite work With formal logic And proofs You might be Happy with Your Proof But that isn't sufficient to make It a proof

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The answer to these is yes it's going be a good Logic class And if 1 of 2 is no Students are going see this and not like it Also There something valuable in both cases from just learning somebody who convinced that way To make progress Just give it go

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my introductory logic content and package it into something that will actually get students to learn, engage in some way reproduce the kind of situation I would like them have a classroom

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The first 150 videos cover the 20 hours worth of lecture content for my introductory class And I did all that in that 1st year because they needed that material To learn from...and then i was like People like this!

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And as you know it is DrLogic who's awkwardly doing The Logic its not Professor Uckelman

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not really care about logic, but they might be like oh well that looks interesting.

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That looks a real person doing the thing it's not AI generated or any of these things maybe want to find out more because I make them interested and then the logic interests them afterwards so

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I put all of these videos freely up on YouTube and my students watched them during that pandemic year.

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Have i succeeded taking really abstract formal logic and turn into something that is accessible to people outside the academic sphere?

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And so I've got almost 2,500 subscribers which is very small but it's also like enormously huge that there are almost two and a half thousand people who are subscribed to channel.

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quite complex philosophical questions or wondering about could this have been done in another way.

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Stranger recognition is one of the weirder things has happened during kind if year when I was recording a couple videos every days, walking home from school with my kid someone came up to me are you Dr logic?

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But I have gone to conferences in like Brazil, Argentina or Latvia And people come up to me saying they've watched my video They're super useful and helpful Now those are other philosophers but it means that It has spread beyond just my own student sphere

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This means that a vast majority students taking this classes come having already watched all or most, and so they know who DrLogic is!

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have a familiarity with me, which is great because I don't need to build that rapport or it's easier.

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The broader question of how many people outside the academic setting am I reaching with these videos?

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It would be very hard, you'd need somebody who knows to study Google Analytics and everything

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But I've certainly gotten my subject area beyond my classroom and beyond particular discipline.

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And at least, this point...I'm happy with that!

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I can continue to try build further and see how else what else could i do?

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As soon as wrapped up the last bit of content already got plans for next thing it's not gonna be a protracted kind class is just going

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Once I started thinking in this way, I started seeing all of these things where I'm like...I could say something about logic hanging on that hook.

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So doing this kind taught me to think my research and specialism in a different ways, what is the 3-5 minute chunk so somebody who doesn't know anything but gets them sense for it?

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in all of this, what's the key to my success?

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And if there is one thing that people tell me after they've watched videos or taken my class it's wow Sarah you really love logic.

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It is the single coolest thing that you can do, watch my videos to find out why!

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But...I try and make sure that love & passion comes through in every single video that i record Sometimes we are doing the dullest of definitions

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And it doesn't make sense but just bear with me because like three videos from now we're going to get to prove the coolest lemma that's my favorite Lemma ever!

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And I feel like this is very much in kind of the surprise deal historian mode, where it's you may not care that about eels.

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But there's dude on the internet who is fascinated by them and THAT IS fascinating!

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So... You might NOT be able to convince everybody your particular niche area is something they should go off and study.

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If anything that I've talked about has kind of inspired you to be like oh well maybe could this with some my research and it's not gonna an entire class or a paper you read recently

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It is this 400 page long book and so I started reading it And that was over 300 tweets by the time I was done with it!

369
01:01:20,602 --> 01:01:23,063
And I just kind of went through it, and shared my thoughts.

370
01:01:23,183 --> 01:01:39,006
Shared a quote relayed objections or confusions are things that was thinking up this particular author really likes giraffes so he uses giraffe in his examples So i kept running Giraffe Count throughout the thread and...

371
01:01:39,026 --> 01:01:48,428
...I was surprised at how many people philosophers and non-philosophers engaged with that That was a you know Really

372
01:01:50,319 --> 01:01:57,421
widely read, shared and responded to thread where I'm reviewing a book on medieval philosophy.

373
01:01:59,522 --> 01:02:09,185
But then there's video formats like YouTube or TikTok...I keep thinking I should do it but also think that I am just too old for TikTok?

374
01:02:09,766 --> 01:02:12,006
I don't quite get how it works!

375
01:02:18,675 --> 01:02:23,057
One of these things will be the right thing, and it'll depend on what your subject is.

376
01:02:23,277 --> 01:02:24,677
How many photos you're able to do?

377
01:02:24,897 --> 01:02:43,905
What are capabilities or interests but also your age You know what kind media you gonna comfortable working with Within that medium figure out what's optimal size length format Are we going Instagram post where got a flashy picture then little bit description Or 3-5 minute YouTube videos whatever

378
01:02:48,022 --> 01:02:55,164
builds yourself a persona, because it allows you to do things that you might not otherwise do.

379
01:02:55,705 --> 01:03:09,549
And It doesn't have to be very complex ones so yeah Dr logic puts on her lipstick and the origin story for The Name is after I got my PhD A friend then asked me ah So what's your superpower?

380
01:03:09,569 --> 01:03:14,031
Because like Doesn't everybody get a super power along with their degree i'm Like Yeah

381
01:03:15,099 --> 01:03:16,980
I can prove theorems from nothing.

382
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:17,961
That's my superpower."

383
01:03:17,981 --> 01:03:42,457
And so she was like, your superhero name is DrLogic So that's literally where they came from Keep it low-tech You do not need the bells and whistles It doesn't have to be flashy or polished In fact Not doing that makes things better Because... ...that keeps you human Makes you real And make easier for you reach out To other people For them feel

384
01:03:44,549 --> 01:03:46,330
You think they are real.

385
01:03:47,030 --> 01:04:05,535
So remember that you're talking to a real audience and give them homework assignments, tell him he'll grade then maybe get gold star if do good job ask questions remind of things it's difficult at first kind talk the computer as just people but

386
01:04:09,782 --> 01:04:12,384
You do it a bit, and then becomes very easy.

387
01:04:12,424 --> 01:04:16,987
And you just start chatting to your computer as recording yourself and forget how weird that really is.

388
01:04:19,409 --> 01:04:27,055
Pick something that you care about because I think the red thread goes through any sort of successful

389
01:04:31,385 --> 01:04:39,330
dissemination of relatively erudite, weird niche research to a wider audience.

390
01:04:39,950 --> 01:04:59,583
It's gonna be because the person doing it genuinely thinks this stuff is interesting and Aristotle says that all humans by their nature desire to know not anything in particular we just like knowing stuff

391
01:05:00,995 --> 01:05:10,166
And if you can present your stuff as like this is interesting, then maybe they'll be like oh that's stuff I want to know.

392
01:05:12,088 --> 01:05:13,750
So...I hope

393
01:05:16,921 --> 01:05:26,330
Given an example that shows it is possible to make the erudite accessible, whether teaching people how do oil painting.

394
01:05:27,371 --> 01:05:31,314
This a castle in St Andrews actually acrylic not oils

395
01:05:32,425 --> 01:05:41,694
That is, I did this on the basis of what Bob Ross taught me over TV episodes recorded decades ago.

396
01:05:41,714 --> 01:05:53,546
And then there's my channel if you scan QR code that will get to it because its easier than sharing a link and in remaining time we have actually quite a bit

397
01:05:56,718 --> 01:06:06,406
I would really love to kind of hear from people about, well questions that you have anything but examples where-that you are familiar with.

398
01:06:06,466 --> 01:06:21,898
Where people have managed take something niche and specialized And get it out there more widely Thoughts about what You might Have as a researcher As an academic Of your own What media

399
01:06:23,711 --> 01:06:27,953
If you were to be challenged, what would it look like?

400
01:06:28,293 --> 01:06:34,756
What are the potential barriers that might face because among other things.

401
01:06:34,997 --> 01:06:35,897
It's been a lot of fun!

402
01:06:36,317 --> 01:06:44,101
I get around and call myself YouTube celebrity but when we flew into Stockholm yesterday he said why Sweden

403
01:06:48,695 --> 01:06:49,996
Oh, what's it on?

404
01:06:50,677 --> 01:06:52,218
Making the Erudite Accessible.

405
01:06:52,278 --> 01:07:04,468
And I realized as said this that is a fairly inaccessable title and so like going to talk about my YouTube series on formal logic he kind of went huh!

406
01:07:05,169 --> 01:07:10,413
So yeah thank you very much and look forward our discussion .

407
01:07:17,775 --> 01:07:24,181
All right, we take a five-minute break and will resume at 23 past.

408
01:07:24,801 --> 01:07:34,550
And in the meantime those in the room feel free to raise hands and I'll make notes of who has raised their hand

409
01:07:37,532 --> 01:07:40,234
And now I logged on online, but I'm lagged.

410
01:07:40,474 --> 01:07:55,203
Those of you who are online can write a comment or question in the chat and we will read it when the turn comes to all right?

411
01:12:47,253 --> 01:12:48,396
All right, let's start.

412
01:12:48,416 --> 01:12:49,919
I shall walk with this one.

413
01:12:49,939 --> 01:12:51,041
Sofia first go ahead

414
01:13:02,127 --> 01:13:04,008
Yeah, so I want to ask you about this.

415
01:13:06,129 --> 01:13:09,831
You talked about doing the logic of K-pop or something and...

416
01:13:10,752 --> 01:13:22,618
This is a popular thing there's these entire series of Blackwell books like The Philosophy Of This And That And The Other Thing connects philosophy with pop culture but i was thinking

417
01:13:23,699 --> 01:13:30,805
Is there a risk of making the connections too tenuous and strange just because you want to connect it something popular?

418
01:13:31,526 --> 01:13:38,492
Because I was thinking, so I have published a piece for instance on our website for sci-fi or fantasy writers.

419
01:13:39,173 --> 01:13:47,300
On basically deontology superheroes And i think that's an normal connection because these are stories where characters

420
01:13:47,660 --> 01:13:56,267
explicitly talk about what's morally right and wrong, discuss their own moral principles since it is very easy to connect that with the moral philosophy.

421
01:13:57,888 --> 01:14:02,172
Some of these discussions are better than others but you can learn something from them too

422
01:14:03,252 --> 01:14:19,784
But then I was asked if i wanted to give a zoom lecture for an American university on like Taylor Swift and the philosophy of psychiatry because she has a song apparently where she sings that, She's A Mad Woman or something.

423
01:14:20,405 --> 01:14:23,147
And I'm like...I don't even know taylor swift

424
01:14:23,647 --> 01:14:25,548
And they were like, look at the lyrics.

425
01:14:25,588 --> 01:14:28,570
I looked at the lyrics and it's a lot of repetition.

426
01:14:28,970 --> 01:14:30,871
Like oh you say I'm mad?

427
01:14:30,971 --> 01:14:31,411
I'm mad!

428
01:14:31,431 --> 01:14:40,476
Since there is this word Mad in it... Of course i could make some sort connection to my work but that would just be silly.

429
01:14:42,498 --> 01:14:44,058
Do have any thoughts on that?

430
01:14:47,511 --> 01:14:51,173
learning logic through K-pop kind of idea that I have in mind.

431
01:14:51,834 --> 01:15:03,841
That is actually intended to be silly because, so the first one there's a group who has this song with the word paradox and it's like

432
01:15:08,767 --> 01:15:10,848
but that's not what a paradox is.

433
01:15:11,408 --> 01:15:12,309
And so it was like, you know?

434
01:15:12,329 --> 01:15:14,590
That would be one and another...

435
01:15:15,150 --> 01:15:37,302
There were actually very interesting— It wasn't from the song —it was form of these extra kind-of videos that groups film for parasocial reasons where they're doing some wordplay on members' names Where then… One character in his name Is actually the same as I think either AND or OR

436
01:15:38,142 --> 01:15:42,084
And it ended up in this very interesting use versus mention confusion.

437
01:15:43,505 --> 01:15:53,490
Basically, the ideas that I have are things when watching these videos or listening to songs with my kid and something comes up an elbow her like you're so embarrassing mom!

438
01:15:53,550 --> 01:15:58,412
So might end being something where whole point is embarrass child through explaining work

439
01:16:08,157 --> 01:16:15,463
But that is a very different... That's kind of going into it, not trying to make it serious.

440
01:16:15,624 --> 01:16:20,588
And I think the case that you are like the science fiction and superheroes one, that totally makes sense.

441
01:16:20,708 --> 01:16:23,010
Lots of interesting philosophical things to say about it.

442
01:16:24,031 --> 01:16:29,235
Also would probably have the same feelings on Taylor Swift thing The only connection

443
01:16:31,745 --> 01:16:34,185
the word and there isn't anything deeper.

444
01:16:34,886 --> 01:16:46,268
And, There are probably other ways that you could talk about The Philosophy of Psychiatry in The Philosophy Of Madness That didn't need to have that popular song as a hook but...

445
01:16:47,188 --> 01:16:48,808
But yeah I think that's eh..

446
01:16:50,088 --> 01:16:59,170
There is something-there is space for the whole Here Are These Pop Culture Hooks Take Something and be like

447
01:17:00,167 --> 01:17:02,468
hey, did you know philosophical connection?

448
01:17:02,488 --> 01:17:03,688
I'm going to tell about it.

449
01:17:04,188 --> 01:17:04,928
Oh mom!

450
01:17:05,288 --> 01:17:05,568
Yeah.

451
01:17:10,009 --> 01:17:12,530
Andy, go ahead.

452
01:17:12,810 --> 01:17:13,090
Thanks.

453
01:17:14,611 --> 01:17:28,234
So what-I am not really expecting me have a good answer here or for anyone's having an answer but kind of interested in how this fits into the broader context that introduced there

454
01:17:29,014 --> 01:17:32,777
So I think making philosophy accessible is great.

455
01:17:33,117 --> 01:17:50,030
It should be accessible to everyone because it's really awesome and people shouldn't have to like, Be in a position to go to university And things like this To learn about philosophy and things Like that But the context In which you introduced This was thinking About The various pressures That higher education Institutions are under

456
01:17:51,070 --> 01:18:07,702
um especially funding pressures and stuff like this so i'm wondering okay, yes make philosophy accessible is great tips on how to do distance delivery but How would we leverage this into money for universities?

457
01:18:08,082 --> 01:18:10,924
And student numbers are not even just student number.

458
01:18:10,944 --> 01:18:13,326
So I mean Student Numbers might be such an issue

459
01:18:14,867 --> 01:18:17,769
Because people do find philosophy interesting.

460
01:18:17,789 --> 01:18:24,953
They want to take philosophy courses, but policymakers... Why should they give those who study philosophy the opportunity?

461
01:18:25,454 --> 01:18:30,337
How can we leverage making philosophy accessible into money?

462
01:18:32,498 --> 01:18:42,904
I don't have good answers for that otherwise The UK higher education funding system would look much different from how it currently does

463
01:18:45,465 --> 01:18:54,972
A lot of people take my class because I am a known figure in my university.

464
01:18:55,152 --> 01:18:59,715
Partly through people who've taken classes before and shared the videos, so it's partly from that.

465
01:19:00,235 --> 01:19:01,116
Partly because...

466
01:19:01,937 --> 01:19:13,305
...I also answer questions In The University Student Facebook group And they see me as this font-of all knowledge Because i can find things on SharePoint But

467
01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:25,044
I literally have people who take my class because of my status in the institution, Who might otherwise never considered doing formal logic.

468
01:19:25,804 --> 01:19:38,967
And so...I get them into classroom and teach something that i find interesting They may not quite get it but they probably get why what im doing is valuable

469
01:19:40,098 --> 01:19:47,262
And these are the people, because I teach in a quite prestigious UK institution.

470
01:19:47,422 --> 01:20:04,951
I teach a lot of philosophy politics and economics students These Are The People Who Are Going To Go On to Get Degrees In or to get jobs in politics infant takes in consultancies who are going be ones can do that kind leveraging?

471
01:20:05,671 --> 01:20:08,533
So it's... That is very long

472
01:20:09,682 --> 01:20:12,703
you know, running way to it.

473
01:20:12,903 --> 01:20:23,285
But I think that the more diversity of students into our classrooms...

474
01:20:23,766 --> 01:20:35,969
The more we've got these people who can then take this message back out and be like actually I really benefited from having an opportunity to have a logic class wouldn't it great if other people did?

475
01:20:38,502 --> 01:20:41,464
I mean, that's kind of what we hope will always happen with all education.

476
01:20:41,504 --> 01:20:45,927
That people come in and something changes... ...and they'll be like,"I want other to have these opportunities."

477
01:20:46,547 --> 01:20:56,013
We know it doesn't really happens like this but… …something can happen through those kinds channels.

478
01:20:57,154 --> 01:20:57,314
Yeah!

479
01:20:57,594 --> 01:20:59,555
I wish i had a better answer.

480
01:20:59,575 --> 01:21:01,677
It was better than nothing though.

481
01:21:08,716 --> 01:21:10,778
More comments or questions?

482
01:21:11,378 --> 01:21:19,906
There are some comments online, but it's not clear to me that they're... there may be no question for Sara.

483
01:21:19,926 --> 01:21:25,811
Maybe you can make them explicit if you want something addressed in the auditorium.

484
01:21:30,335 --> 01:21:33,338
Other comments and questions from the room or online?

485
01:21:33,982 --> 01:21:37,724
I would be very interested to hear from the archaeologists.

486
01:21:37,964 --> 01:21:49,131
You guys did kind of sort yourselves out, but there are some philosophers over here and some archeologist's over her so i'd love to know what you think that you could do three or five minutes on why this is cool in some format?

487
01:22:03,518 --> 01:22:07,081
What do you tell your grandma when she asks what you're studying?

488
01:22:11,545 --> 01:22:13,587
Or, Do You All Do Boring Things?"

489
01:22:16,810 --> 01:22:16,990
Yeah.

490
01:22:18,772 --> 01:22:22,055
Oh wait we need to get the sorry about that yes...

491
01:22:22,375 --> 01:22:23,536
The pressure of speaking into

492
01:22:28,860 --> 01:22:29,941
Yeah, I was thinking about it.

493
01:22:29,961 --> 01:22:34,064
I did a class on lithics last year with...

494
01:22:34,084 --> 01:22:35,445
So that's stones right?

495
01:22:35,605 --> 01:22:57,620
Yes stone tools sorry With one of the foremost experts in Australia and then its broken down into how Australia looks at this It is very different from Europe But i had no idea what they were talking most time And This Is Very Nationology couldn't learn anywhere else so but it's extremely useful for

496
01:22:58,228 --> 01:23:03,592
anyone working in Australia and any indigenous people who may not have this knowledge anymore.

497
01:23:03,652 --> 01:23:09,777
So I would like to do a little YouTube video say, This is what they're talking about.

498
01:23:09,817 --> 01:23:18,624
This how you can look at these stone tools and identify... Yeah so doing sort of translating What other people are doing.

499
01:23:19,505 --> 01:23:21,367
Science communication right?

500
01:23:22,847 --> 01:23:24,607
That would be super interesting.

501
01:23:24,627 --> 01:23:25,888
I like stones."

502
01:23:26,528 --> 01:23:40,292
See, that's another way if you think about very niche what-you're doing might have all of these complicated words and everything but can zoom out to a big picture?

503
01:23:40,792 --> 01:23:43,793
We've got any excuse talk eels

504
01:23:45,503 --> 01:23:46,663
I like stones.

505
01:23:46,683 --> 01:23:51,165
You know, if i came across a YouTube channel that said something like that...

506
01:23:51,565 --> 01:23:52,685
...I'd be like oh yeah!

507
01:23:53,025 --> 01:23:53,866
I like them too!

508
01:23:54,366 --> 01:23:55,666
Does he also talk about rocks?

509
01:23:56,347 --> 01:23:57,187
What's the difference?!

510
01:23:59,027 --> 01:23:59,768
That would cool.

511
01:24:00,008 --> 01:24:05,129
That is sort of thing other people might say Oh yea do you know this guy?

512
01:24:05,169 --> 01:24:08,430
He likes rock or stone whatever it is Is there any different?

513
01:24:08,571 --> 01:24:09,811
Idk go watch his chanel

514
01:24:17,969 --> 01:24:18,210
Oh, we...

515
01:24:25,125 --> 01:24:25,745
Thanks.

516
01:24:25,785 --> 01:24:32,587
So yeah, that was very interesting and I was just wondering so you mentioned one other example?

517
01:24:32,907 --> 01:24:49,912
Peter Adamson with history of philosophy without any gaps And have you looked at kind of other Philosophy YouTube channels or people doing this popular style of philosophy That would recommend as good examples

518
01:24:50,464 --> 01:24:54,970
So, I don't consume information in this media myself.

519
01:24:55,310 --> 01:25:07,966
so i dont really go out and watch them but i know that there are some out there uh...so..I think it's philosophy tube is one a lot of people that I know rate very highly and recommend

520
01:25:10,297 --> 01:25:13,843
Yeah, I'm sure that there are other ones out.

521
01:25:13,883 --> 01:25:20,655
There's probably a lot but one of the things about these sorts media is

522
01:25:22,339 --> 01:25:25,421
there's never any harm in having somebody else out.

523
01:25:25,481 --> 01:25:37,628
There are loads of channels where you can go and get introductory logic content, but that is great because the algorithm will serve up to someone or catch their interest

524
01:25:44,323 --> 01:25:47,345
is understandable or accessible to somebody.

525
01:25:47,845 --> 01:25:58,792
So it's great that there are some really good ones out, but we should also be like that impetus do more rather than ah yes go watch this one instead.

526
01:25:58,812 --> 01:26:02,714
All right James?

527
01:26:04,575 --> 01:26:13,781
Thank you just a sort of comment on your thing about keeping these things low tech I mean obviously now have two cameras and microphone

528
01:26:15,103 --> 01:26:23,829
I mean, there have been plenty of studies done on video production that kind show the video quality really doesn't matter so much.

529
01:26:23,849 --> 01:26:42,581
So your idea like not editing and it's just a webcam is fine but audio quality really matters And It kinda turns people off very quickly if the audio isn' tvery good Yeah So A Just comment maybe that needs clarifying On that i will say That did get those comments Maybe first two or three videos

530
01:26:42,940 --> 01:26:46,151
So I went to my institution and it was like, if you want me to do online teaching.

531
01:26:46,231 --> 01:26:48,659
You've got get a podcast quality microphone

532
01:26:48,992 --> 01:26:49,993
They said, yes they did.

533
01:26:50,073 --> 01:26:52,995
I've used that and no one has ever commented on the sound quality again."

534
01:26:53,035 --> 01:26:54,997
So it's a very good point!

535
01:26:55,117 --> 01:26:56,458
Yeah so that was going to be the question then?

536
01:26:56,818 --> 01:27:00,341
Have you found out how do solve that but yeah there is your answer.

537
01:27:00,501 --> 01:27:04,865
At that time my institution was shelling-out money for online teaching...

538
01:27:05,345 --> 01:27:14,633
...I suspect some institutions may still have budgets or your university might even have media team

539
01:27:15,273 --> 01:27:18,614
who might have facilities that you may be able to book or borrow.

540
01:27:18,634 --> 01:27:27,497
Hopefully I'm not promising things, but... Outlab has a sound studio we can use!

541
01:27:28,818 --> 01:27:29,438
So there ya go.

542
01:27:29,478 --> 01:27:29,718
Awesome.

543
01:27:30,718 --> 01:27:35,660
Alright Sophia?

544
01:27:37,449 --> 01:27:37,949
Yeah, thanks.

545
01:27:38,970 --> 01:27:44,815
I was thinking do you think there is such a thing as being too dependent on personal enthusiasm?

546
01:27:45,175 --> 01:27:51,521
So this example isn't really from social media or anything pop culture connected but they are so enthusiastic about their

547
01:28:00,628 --> 01:28:06,893
niche, weird philosophy theory about a certain philosophy topic that when I hear them talk.

548
01:28:07,053 --> 01:28:19,201
I'm kind of like yeah this is interesting but then as soon they are not personally present and radiating the enthusiasm if i read something on them Im'like no!

549
01:28:19,522 --> 01:28:25,766
This actually hella boring and irrelevant to everything else that goes in these topics

550
01:28:27,587 --> 01:28:34,069
And also, they're not doing all that well career-wise maybe because several people have the same reaction than I do.

551
01:28:35,389 --> 01:28:40,611
That got me thinking how far can sheer enthusiasm take you?

552
01:28:40,631 --> 01:28:45,852
Maybe there is this kind of limit if your topic is too intrinsically boring .

553
01:28:46,972 --> 01:28:47,333
Yeah!

554
01:28:47,653 --> 01:28:49,993
Oh...that's a very fair comment.

555
01:28:50,013 --> 01:28:55,535
There are people who might find watching my videos an interesting way to pass time

556
01:28:56,295 --> 01:29:02,317
but they go off and then try to actually read a Logic paper, or even my logic textbook.

557
01:29:02,357 --> 01:29:05,058
And are like oh my god this is dull!

558
01:29:08,900 --> 01:29:19,043
Yeah I mean of course not...Logic is fascinating But i could totally imagine that Logic would be the sort-of thing where people will go up there and say I can't make heads or tails

559
01:29:23,003 --> 01:29:29,165
I mean, there are going to be subjects that will be inaccessible for some people.

560
01:29:29,825 --> 01:29:39,408
And the best we can do in any kind of context is try and make what were doing as accessible to the widest number of people...

561
01:29:39,428 --> 01:29:42,969
There's no amount of enthusiasm

562
01:29:49,065 --> 01:29:54,967
that you could have to get me who wants read more about whatever subject your doing.

563
01:29:55,387 --> 01:30:16,193
Not anybody here in this room, I can tell ya that but yeah there are definitely limits it's a good way kind of like getting people in but might not necessarily them the next step There does need some sort transition and again thats kinda hard part at least if we open gate

564
01:30:18,330 --> 01:30:21,071
Then the next step is to think about, how do we actually get people through it?

565
01:30:30,614 --> 01:30:30,934
James.

566
01:30:32,834 --> 01:30:40,717
This just sort of a broader question because you began by talking like anti-intellectualism on the rise in UK and having come from there I feel that

567
01:30:42,346 --> 01:30:46,808
Do you think there should be like a concerted effort to sort of address that directly in any these things?

568
01:30:46,889 --> 01:30:50,811
Or do you more it's, if we're present and show that this thing are interesting.

569
01:30:50,831 --> 01:30:59,676
And actually know what were talking about in various areas then all sorts push back against them I thinking kind the...

570
01:31:00,676 --> 01:31:10,962
The stuff i'm doing for public audience More broadly no because That could potentially really put people off

571
01:31:11,830 --> 01:31:33,382
It's something that I have started doing more and explicitly in my actual teaching, where people find studying logic with me really interesting because on the one hand it is very much like mathematics.

572
01:31:34,062 --> 01:31:36,804
You've got all of these definitions everything follows from

573
01:31:37,314 --> 01:31:39,436
it's very objective, black and white.

574
01:31:39,476 --> 01:31:41,057
You either have a proof or you don't.

575
01:31:41,077 --> 01:31:56,270
It is true of false in all this but that once got your definitions getting the definition making choices about what kind language are going to use?

576
01:31:56,411 --> 01:31:58,092
What salient features trying identify

577
01:31:59,573 --> 01:32:06,755
What are the bits of an argument that you're trying to emphasize or ignore?

578
01:32:06,835 --> 01:32:08,556
All these decisions, there isn't necessarily a clear right and wrong.

579
01:32:08,616 --> 01:32:11,676
I tell my students if they decide in this way will have consequences

580
01:32:28,706 --> 01:32:38,112
These are not just consequences about what does your formal proof look like, but they're our consequence is whose voice we listening to in a discussion.

581
01:32:40,689 --> 01:32:47,694
what are the salient features that we're highlighting, and who gets included as a result of this?

582
01:32:47,794 --> 01:32:53,038
And one thing at end up talking about is the relationship between logic or being logical

583
01:33:04,748 --> 01:33:11,704
and gendered stereotypes, the ways in which for instance The Manosphere misogyny will use

584
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:26,584
You're not being reasonable, you are too emotional as a systematic way of shutting down conversations and excluding an entire gender from the conversation.

585
01:33:28,005 --> 01:33:35,208
We talk about this very explicitly in my class because what I tell them is that when they see people using reason rationality logical

586
01:33:42,431 --> 01:33:58,446
in this sort of way, to shut down conversations and exclude people that I want them feel empowered step into say you can't do like my logic teacher told me tell you cannot weaponize her special subject cut out.

587
01:33:58,506 --> 01:34:01,849
It's important we have these explicit conversation with students

588
01:34:06,945 --> 01:34:16,033
that the decisions they make have these impacts and this isn't just a game.

589
01:34:16,794 --> 01:34:26,082
This is not abstract formal logic you are going to do your derivations, proofs arguments then go away live rest of life No!

590
01:34:26,482 --> 01:34:30,846
The entire process what goes on in doing Formal Logic

591
01:34:32,648 --> 01:34:40,275
exactly the process that goes on in our daily lives when we are making decisions about who to listen and why.

592
01:34:56,183 --> 01:34:57,484
Yeah, thank you for an awesome talk.

593
01:34:57,584 --> 01:35:22,646
It made me really interested in formal logic actually but I was wondering about like some fields where there might be something which may be very relevant to people Like political and moral philosophy But the anti-intellectual challenge then is maybe that People are inclined to think Oh yes of course Moral facts do not exist Of course we have free will And so on it might be difficult To draw people when they have

594
01:35:23,607 --> 01:35:30,074
When they think that the subject is very straightforward, I don't think people have this kind of use on formal logic.

595
01:35:30,135 --> 01:35:32,177
Of course it's not a valid deduction!

596
01:35:32,257 --> 01:35:37,743
How do you think THAT challenge can be handled?

597
01:35:37,803 --> 01:35:42,068
It IS true if people come to Formal Logic with any preconceptions

598
01:35:42,502 --> 01:35:50,010
it's along the lines of this is dull and boring, rather than these arguments are valid or invalid.

599
01:35:50,430 --> 01:36:00,101
So when you've got a subject matter where people do come with presuppositions... To some extent

600
01:36:01,989 --> 01:36:12,432
To some extent, the people who already have presuppositions are not necessarily that you need to reach because they're all ready kind of thinking about and articulating in asking these questions.

601
01:36:12,552 --> 01:36:23,336
And then come into a position so maybe like never really thought about it before or may be I've been kinda thinkin' abut but don't know how an answer because there's no vocabulary for free will versus determinism

602
01:36:30,538 --> 01:36:41,520
or rules-based ethical theories versus virtue, utilitarianism verses whatever.

603
01:36:41,780 --> 01:36:52,722
There are going to be lots of people out there like that and maybe on the archeology geology side you're starting with what's a rock?

604
01:36:59,999 --> 01:37:05,201
Because when you think about it, I mean that's a bad example because I took geology 105.

605
01:37:05,341 --> 01:37:10,543
A rock is naturally occurring inorganic substance with fixed chemical content and definite crystalline structure.

606
01:37:10,563 --> 01:37:13,764
Our TA made us memorize this!

607
01:37:14,264 --> 01:37:24,708
It worked but before even taking the class it never occurred to me that rocks would be something we could define And i was a philosopher

608
01:37:25,382 --> 01:37:26,863
And I should be thinking about these things.

609
01:37:26,883 --> 01:37:36,510
I mean, honestly we need to get like one philosopher and one archeologist and the archaeologists can be talking about things and their philosophy could me like wow!

610
01:37:37,450 --> 01:37:39,392
Never would have... How do you define that?

611
01:37:39,812 --> 01:37:41,413
What kind of concept is behind that?"

612
01:37:42,074 --> 01:37:46,817
There's some really cool conversations that you guys could have

613
01:38:06,763 --> 01:38:07,965
Well, all right.

614
01:38:08,146 --> 01:38:16,280
If there aren't more comments or questions we'll wrap it up there and thanks Sarah very much!

615
01:38:16,300 --> 01:38:19,065
Thank you lots of fun