Has anyone written about anorexic dog whistles? If not I'm worried I'm gonna have to be the one to do it... online discourse in formerly ED'd circles with the current Ariana Situation has brought up some really interesting things from an epistemic and normative perspective!

I must have really made it if the platonic form of philosophy is emailing me to complete top secret missions!

Been a while since I planned to submit something to an APA conference. Anyone have a sense of how much they let you abuse the footnote word count exclusion loophole? Asking for a friend whose straightforward paper is becoming increasingly non-straightforward...

I’ve said this before, but the issue with imposter syndrome is not that there’s chronic under confidence at large, it’s that it’s not optimally distributed

A lot of jerks will smugly ask undergraduate philosophy majors ‘what are you gonna do with that?’ and it can be hard to know how to respond. One option, though, is ‘dress up marketing for AI firms as profound philosophy ahead of their IPOs’

I'm sorry, but it's just completely false that analytic philosophy (of all places!) has a norm that we shouldn't call each other names. Maybe we should have that norm. But we are, very famously, the one field that doesn't have that norm

Genuine Q: Have we given up the fight on em dashes? I'm seeing more people saying they're just giving up on them altogether, but I legit don't know if I can manage that. Will I trigger reviewer alarms at this point if I continue to use them? Why couldn't LLMs have taken the semicolon instead ughh

As someone who came super close to ending up at a Catholic institution numerous times on the market (likely due to my undergrad from Notre Dame, lol) it is SUCH a relief to not have to worry about whether my research or teaching will offend certain Catholic tastes ever again 😇

If you're curious why I feel so confident in making this claim, check out my new piece, "The Horseshoe Model of pathological loss of control", forthcoming in Mind & Language! philpapers.org/rec/EVATHM

There’s an argument to be made that it is, in some sense, unethical to buy tickets to see Ariana Grande perform in the current state she’s in. I don’t feel like fleshing out the whole thing rn, but it may be on par with (indirectly) enabling an addict to get their fix of choice.

not nearly enough janky diagrams like this in philosophy journals. we gotta step our game up

taking a page from the DNC and putting instructions in my will to perform a faux autopsy where they conclude I died from being too beautiful and nice

lot of this also stems from the societal fantasy that we can directly compare getting an A in an identically titled class at Place X and Place Y. As someone who's taught at a range of institutions, most of us are scaling the intensity of our coursework up or down depending on the student population!

I know someone writing a hit piece on one of my papers is a good sign (means people are reading my work!), but, ngl, it does feel kinda weird that the first time for it to happen is by a senior (emerita!) person in my subfield. Do you know you're dunking on something I wrote in grad school lol

hell yeah more of this

POV ~2 seconds after you post a v normal selfie on tumblr

One thing students often think about philosophy classes is that there’s no right answer, and while thats not literally true, it’s sorta in the neighborhood of something true. What they tend to overlook, though, is that there *are* lots of wrong answers

the job market version of this is having an equal proportion of search committees interviewing you being kinda annoyed at your work for being too sciencey/not "real" philosophy enough vs. being too philosophy-y/not sciencey enough

people like this also fail to consider the joy of an overpriced airport beer

I need to know which of you sickos actually likes endnotes?? Why are we as a discipline continuing to allow this inhumane practice

This is where we’re at with my current job!! Counting the days

never been more proud to be an American, a true country of haters

I am so incredibly excited to share that next fall I will be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College. I feel so insanely lucky that I landed such a great position AND that said position is in my hometown of St. Paul, MN!!!!!

Some people don’t seem to know this but if your department is running an internal search you actually *don’t* need to advertise the job ad on your social media for your sham search to reach an even wider audience of suckers

Eternal sunshine holds up btw

Niche complaint: when you’re a small person the gate agents always think your carry on is bigger than it is because it looks bigger proportionally! Girl I know this is a regional jet but you let on several people with the same exact size suitcase before me without a pink tag I’m just small™️

When BL is posting "Abolish ICE" without any qualifiers you know things have gotten bad

Anyone have any suggestions of topics for a 30-minute teaching demo in phil mind? I’m hoping to find a topic that could be accessible without being able to assign them any reading (or possibly a fairly short reading) and that would be conducive to discussion, small group work, etc.

If only there were some role in society, a profession maybe, where someone could publicly, persistently ask leaders hard questions to make them explain themselves…

Congrats to Mr. GRLpGpAG!

on the eve of october 15th, about time for my yearly sad musing where i try to add up all the wasted time and energy by all the super talented people who could be writing cool stuff and are instead writing a bunch of cover letters yet again

Lowkey nostalgic for the days when the biggest hurdle in teaching undergrad ethics was cultural relativism

This guy jumped on my laptop and managed to entirely delete the same footnote TWICE

Thanking my lucky stars I’m in a discipline where I get cold emailed treatises from someone called “God’s Joker” rather than brain scans from Very Impressive Boys

I have officially fulfilled the promise I made to myself when I first watched this episode of LOST by not pulling a Jack Shepard and waiting until the night before the wedding to write my vows (5 days to go babyyy)

The amount of feminist praxis I’ve performed at rural bars across the Midwest…

Philosophers cannot be a part of ordinary society bar trivia :( (their metaphysics of disease is abysmal)

a st. paddy’s-drunk Welsh man at the bar yesterday informed me that it was imperative that my fiancé and I have child because he was “certain it would be the reincarnation of Karl Marx but with my ‘Disney princess eyes’”. Much to consider

Just noticed a typo in the official typeset version of my article that definitely wasn’t in the proofs I sent to them 🙄 I know Synthese pumps em out fast but sheesh

I was invited to do a write up on my recent Synthese article for NWIP! This also marks the first time I've disclosed the personal significance of this topic in print, which was cool/scary to do. Check it out: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/amanda-eva...

My lil reply piece was recently accepted! In it, I argue that May's (2023) discussion of deep brain stimulation (DBS) fails to account for the added complexities and potential ethical harms of DBS for psychiatric conditions (as opposed to neurological conditions). philpapers.org/rec/EVADBS

It’s tough being in a mixed TSA pre check relationship

Already posted this in the other app, but figured I might as well let my 12 followers on here know that my paper on medical paternalism and the problem of pathological values was recently accepted at Synthese! Check it out if you, like me, thrive on being a debbie downer: philpapers.org/rec/EVAMPA-4

Is there something up with the cocoon website or did I really check it so often I got blocked 😭