Mary Beth Willard
@mbwillard.bsky.social
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Philosopher, writer, teacher. Spy?
But if you can master this, padawan, the highways and byways of the country will pose no challenge to you
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Any theory of American politics that doesn't start with the instinct to throw the bums out badly misses the mark
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5 months ago
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From recent events, why would they need to make the trains run on time rather than simply lying and saying they did?
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10 months ago
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How would wearing a mask prevent an assault?
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10 months ago
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For my non-Utah friends, this is kind of a big deal. The Desert News is an LDS-oriented paper. Hope springs eternal.
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10 months ago
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It's the entire game.
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over 1 year ago
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Isabel Zaw-Tun
over 1 year ago
The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”
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At my institution, the faculty senate executive committee has seven women (of nine members), five who are also simultaneously department chairs.
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over 1 year ago
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I must be missing something because the UCLA prof with the AI textbook is... not using it to replace TAs or de-skill the class or using it so she doesn't have to teach.
over 1 year ago
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Dan Reid
over 1 year ago
Yes! This story needs to be told. Dumping of history majors is incredibly short sighted. When administrators do this, they're revealing their ignorance of the discipline and its value across careers.
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over 1 year ago
Is there anyone that I know what would be interested in proposing a pannel with me for the 2025 ASA in Baltimore on the aesthetics of concerts and music fests? I think the paper that I'm working on about fests is going to be too long to send in as a paper...lol
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"the coup started and was over by morning coffee" is not something that I'd expect would have a democratic resolution
over 1 year ago
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Sergio Tenenbaum
over 1 year ago
Fascinating piece by
@cherylmisak.bsky.social
. I had no idea about the efforts of these brave philosophers.
aeon.co/essays/how-a...
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How a Cold War underground university smuggled in Western ideas | Aeon Essays
During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-cold-war-underground-university-smuggled-in-western-ideas
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
over 1 year ago
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
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Successfully got the kids to refer to my purse as the Bag of Holding
over 1 year ago
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Yräm, a braided floor mat
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over 1 year ago
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The Neverending Story just broke my kids -- fiction in a fiction...
over 1 year ago
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Yesterday the kids made dinner and we watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving which was oddly on theme
over 1 year ago
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Bence Nanay
over 1 year ago
My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ersatz Doctor
over 1 year ago
When a philosopher turns out to be a sleazeball that’s a concept creep.
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Education drives equity. Universities maintain our strategic supply of nerds and make sure future nerds can train. The "demographic cliff" is a slow decline to roughly 1997 levels, a lie predicated on the assumption that Hispanic kids won't go to college. 1/
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Rural students’ options shrink as colleges slash majors
As enrollments fall, rural-serving universities are shedding degree programs ranging from music to chemistry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/11/26/rural-colleges-cut-majors-degree-programs/
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Appreciating the proper use of the subjunctive in Jeremiah was a bullfrog
over 1 year ago
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People who are wondering how the war on higher ed is going should pay attention to Utah over the next few months. I stand a decent chance of losing my job because someone read a land acknowledgement at a different university, and that made the legislature mad. The press calls it a budget cut. 1/
over 1 year ago
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We do not have a faculty lounge, unless you count the conference room with the non-working computer
over 1 year ago
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Also two weeks ago in aesthetics class one of us used Cormac McCarthy as an example of an author who wrote about horrible things and didn't do anything horrible
over 1 year ago
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After splitting open a pomegranate I have a kitchen that looks like a crime scene and a new appreciation for Persephone noping out after six seeds
over 1 year ago
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So corrupt they were the worst tyrants ever!
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over 1 year ago
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Looks like this might not be a completely dead space?
over 1 year ago
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Aesthetics for Birds
about 2 years ago
Philosopher and baking enthusiast Christopher Bartel talks about his love-hate relationship with the Great British Bake-Off (er, the Great British Baking Show?).
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The Hidden Privilege of "The Great British Bake Off" - Aesthetics for Birds
A show about home baking should actually be about home baking. This one isn't.
https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2024/02/29/the-hidden-privilege-of-the-great-british-bake-off/
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jamelle
about 2 years ago
i alluded to this last night but it is genuinely wild to see these antifederalist dudes basically ask supporters of the constitution, "what if there is a trump?" here's patrick henry at the virginia ratifying convention.
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I imagine it rather like Pleasantville, but with chartreuse
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about 2 years ago
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Philosophy Talk
over 2 years ago
This week: A vintage episode ahead of Beauvoir's 115th anniversary as John & Ken explore her life and thought with Shannon Mussett from Utah Valley University, editor of "Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco &
www.kalw.org/show/philoso...
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Simone de Beauvoir
The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.
https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2024-01-05/simone-de-beauvoir
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Geek Grammy
over 2 years ago
Google killing Reader led to the downfall of the internet. That's when it all started to go to shit.
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Aesthetics for Birds
over 2 years ago
‘Tis the season for year-end recommendations! So some of our staff are bringing you one thing that we experienced this year that’s worth telling others about. *Although not necessarily from this year!
aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/12/30/a...
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Aesthetics for Birds Staff Give One Rec from 2023 - Aesthetics for Birds
From the 1990s silver screen to the depths of the internet, here are our staff picks of 2023.
https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/12/30/aesthetics-for-birds-staff-give-one-rec-from-2023/
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