Whitehead once wrote 'the safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato', but it's often forgotten that the full quote concludes 'which is kinda gay actually'

okay, relax google scholar @evanwestra.bsky.social

'i'm not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks i'm wrong. i'm not wrong.' is maybe the most honest thing an academic has ever said

Surprised to see so many people evidently agree with Jeremy’s impression. It seems to me very decisively the opposite fwiw

been a while since i've been called a troll by a bunch of people, but this completely earnest and obvious observation broke the streak!

MBC is messing around, but this does remind me of a big argument i got into with a gal i was seeing that wasn't going particularly well, so she said 'let's agree to disagree'. i replied 'i agree *that* we disagree, but i will not agree *to* disagree'

what's the thing in your subdiscipline that loads of people constantly mess up even though by your lights they really ought to know better? (for me it's clearly distinguishing contents and vehicles)

sorta darkly funny that the line here is that law enforcement has substantially more lax constraints than military operations

don't get the sense the people who are complaining about others not complaining about dems and reps in the optimal ratio are applying that analysis to their own complaints

“Some legal experts said kidnapping foreign heads of state may contravene international law. Others, however, said they wrote some SSRN papers for the Institute for Libertarian Feudalism showing that the heart of the US constitutional tradition is the President can do what he likes, if I like it.”

525 things can be true, people. 1 The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things. 1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all the facts. 1.12 For the totality of facts determines what is the case, and also whatever is not

i sorta know it intellectually, but it still manages to shock me how much the american elite loves war

democracy dies in darkness baby

y'know if obviously criminal heads of state can be abducted by foreign powers and forced to stand trial, that does raise some interesting possibilities

an iconic chompers family story is when my sister was little she was playing dress up and put on a wedding dress and put her doll under the dress and said 'look mommy! i'm a pregnant bride!'

It means that for too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

MY TAKE: that’s a stupid idea

me seeing an article about the 25 Hottest and Most Popular Celebrities: haha who are any of these people? me seeing a screenshot of a horrible post by CeleriusAvignon8888, Based Viscount of the New Bayesian Duchy of Pure Reason: oh it's this fuckin guy again

human rights organizations have been ideologically captured by Big Human Rights

"I ain't buying that fake-fake punt crap."

One thing I don’t really tweet about too much, but I am routinely bowled over by, is how generous and supportive so many busy, talented people are with respect to helping me with job market stuff. It means a lot to me

gonna start calling advertising 'copaganda' because it is propaganda to encourage copping aka buying various products

This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days

my 'the constitution remains firm and unshaken' statement is raising questions already...

If you start reading Hume’s Enquiry right now, you’ll get to the ‘commit it to the flames’ part at exactly midnight

was like 'who tf is kat rosenfield?' and then i remembered it's the lady who seems to think it's impossible to be evil and stupid at the same time

of all the reasons people disqualify each other when on dating apps, divergent political values is arguably the exact least objectionable one lol

Watched relay on the plane—liked it a lot! Scratched some of the Bourne itch in a very fun way. If you make hell or high water and relay, I learn that your name is David MacKenzie

One of the greatest of the Old Twitter comedians, Mike Fossey, has passed away much too young. Truly a legend of the genre.

Actually I just googled it and couldn’t have been more wrong

Glad to see this one posted. Top ten favorite tweet of all time for me. Rip to one of the true artists of the medium

RIP Mike F, he made endless bangers but this is my favorite

My go-to heuristic to understand non-discourse heads’ engagement with politics is it’s like asking my aunt who she thinks will win the Super Bowl

kills me every time lol

My favorite part of job market season is answering spam phone calls because it might be the head of a search committee

Reminded me of the Meats We Meat And Exceed sign I saw in Florida

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Passing bills is also a part of many flavors of illiberalism, so like, who cares lol

One of the best to ever do it

I think this is horrifying and immoral and illegal. I also feel like I’m taking crazy pills because people seem to be of the view that this is at variance from bipartisan American policy, rather than exactly what we’ve been doing for my entire adult life

McVay covers his mouth to keep onlookers from reading his lips Stafford, not to be outdone, covers his mouth to keep McVay himself from lip reading.

Marty ‘chalupa’ supreme

‘But the debt must be paid…’—academic, regarding taking a week off for the holidays

Having now watched a full season of the morning show, my review: What

‘Did you say you had a job interview?’—median philosophers cocoon poster

In addition to Mill being a big figure in Anglo philosophy generally, I have to wonder whether utilitarianism constantly shows up in intro ethics because (a) Mill's defense is short (b) Mill anticipates lots of objections and hence is a good dialectical model (c) the axiology is reductionist

As a consequence of my extremely high degree of personal moral virtue I developed an innate knowledge in utero of every bad deed committed by any person or institution throughout recorded history. If someone has to learn these things via exposure to facts they deserve nothing but contempt