Finally, we know what upset Quine‘s taste for desert landscapes so much back in 1948: overpriced frozen fruit.

It’s been a couple of days and I still feel sorry for Inter. Up against a far superior side which thoroughly deserved to win—but a sad ending to an otherwise impressive CL campaign.

Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing: What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?) Who are you arguing against? What alternatives are you rejecting and why? What follows if you’re right? These are also good questions for Q&A.

Erst Merz, nun Spahn…ein schleichender Prozess.

UBC philosophy professor’s research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case. #philsky news.ubc.ca/2025/04/us-s...

Michael Ignatieff on university self-defense:

So shocking to see much of what I admire about a country dissolve. Many warned that civilisation is a thin veneer kept together by the good will of a small number of people, holding down a seething mass of forces. I accepted this as a theoretical point but didn’t expect to see it in practice.

Couldn‘t find my AirPods this morning & shocked how frantically I was looking for them. I’m at a point where leaving the house w/o them feels nearly impossible.

Even Ivys are pausing hiring, curbing PhD admissions etc. because of government cuts. This seems over the top. Why can they not spend a larger portion of their endowments to make up for it? Genuinely curious!

When did we start calling every government appointee a ”something-or-other Czar“? Seems like the title excludes that there are so many of them.

Folks we are actually starting early modern philosophy on the podcast tomorrow! I will kick off the coverage of the 17-18th centuries by asking, along with Kant, Foucault, Jonathan Israel and others: what the heck is Enlightenment, anyway? #philsky #enlightenment #earlymodern #hopwag

Just. Wow.

Sagan was a prophet.

Just sayin'

Incredible how thoroughly Democrats got played here. Spent four years following through on a Trump executive order, pissed away any shot at building a real youth coalition for 2024 by alienating literally every teenager in America, lost the election, and now Trump gets to "save" TikTok. Clown shit.

I think they‘re looking for the next Socrates… #philsky

Why am I not surprised?

Looking forward to giving a talk at the #APAEastern25 tomorrow morning!

I will remember my first NYE in Berlin. First, I had no running water. Then, the guy at the Späti sold me water bottles that he filled himself without telling me. Not to mention the sheer insanity of fireworks in this city. Never seen anything like it.

Musk ”benefited enormously from aligning with Mr. Trump, whose victory set off a near doubling in the Tesla stock price and contributed to a 67 percent increase in the value of SpaceX since June … an extraordinary increase of more than $200 billion in net worth“ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lucky day. Merry Christmas!

Had a great time at the Rousseau Lecture & Conference on Marcus Willaschek’s work ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

I've been looking at what the distribution of 'ages' of cited papers is in philosophy journals. That is, how old are papers when they are typically cited? Two assumptions that I had about this were false, and this gif (which I'll explain below) shows that they are. (1/14)

Arrived in London, this grayscale masterpiece, & looking forward to this workshop on Jess Leech‘s recent book: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

Headed to Reggio Emilia to give a talk at the conference “Orientation and Disorientation. Kantian Themes in Analytic Philosophy”. Check out the programme if you’re interested www.desu.unimore.it/sites/dip08/...

Philosophers! Please follow & share our new account with your colleagues - we would ultimately like to move away from Twitter/X. #philosophy #philosophers #appliedphilosophy #philosophyjournal

I’m so glad Aeon found a way to use this picture for my article. It’s of Kathy Wilkes, taken by the secret police. aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Thanks Wiley I hadn't considered that publishing in PPR would help my career.

Academics (normally) pursue truth but the function of their institutions is to allocate societal privilege. Not sure how to live with this discrepancy, but this is a great piece on the latter dimension 👇 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

combined with other things kant says, it appears the Official Kantian View is that the only moral sex is gay sex in the context of a gay marriage. minority view

Should punishment be abated for offenders suffering from amnesia? Austen McDougal answers in Amnesia and Punishment doi.org/10.1086/731435 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

Discover the first comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism in Bruno Leipold's Citizen Marx. And, don't miss the first new English translation in fifty years of Karl Marx's Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Hard to believe, no? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...

👇 is “provoking alarm among ethics experts,” according to the @nytimes.com. Unsurpisingly, you don’t need to be an “ethics expert” to be alarmed. But also who counts as an “ethics expert” anyways? Not an actual ethicist, it seems. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

In the 17th-century, the Jamaican intellectual Francis Williams was rejected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on racist grounds. This brilliantly written piece in the @londonreview.bsky.social tells the story. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I've edited a virtual issue of some Kant-themed greatest hits from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. I've given brief descriptions of a dozen interesting papers from the last century or so - from G.E. Moore to Longuenesse - all free to access. academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

Does spending the day writing count as celebrating in style? #WorldPhilosophyDay