Four Aspects of Harmony [today's blog post, link in thread] What is it to harmonize with the world? Inspired by @vonkriegstein.bsky.social, I suggest: 1. Mental correspondence (e.g., knowing, achievements in tune with the world) 2. Positive attitudes (e.g., joy, approval, appreciation) [1/2]

New paper with Teresa Bruno: "Ill-Being as Dissonance". A sort of companion piece to my 2020 paper "Well-Being as Harmony". Teresa and I chart the territory of what an account of ill-being might look like. philpapers.org/rec/BRUIAD-3

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

The epistemology of fascism is not cult-like, rigid dogmatism. It's "lol-nothing-matters, they're all a bunch of liars" cynicism. That is the mindset that will pliantly accept whatever authoritarian excesses Trump engages in, and both Trump and Elon are 100% aware of that.

@dbourget.bsky.social @davidchalmers.bsky.social Would it be possible to add that function to PhilJobs?

#philsky #philjobs When searching the Philjobs.org database, is there a way to filter out jobs in specific countries? Would be useful if, hypothetically, I didn't want to work in country X but there are lots of jobs posted in country X cluttering up my search results...

Mia san raus! 🍾🍾🍾

Just under a week left to submit a paper to Business Ethics in the 6ix. Send me your papers! businessethicsinthe6.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Look at this Toronto. Look at it! (I know I know it's the province of Ontario that mostly needs the memo)

There's no way I'm going to the US right now. Especially not for an academic conference.

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Now I'm imagining a world in which all of Musk's horrible actions over the past years are part of a longterm plan to make conservatives buy EVs.

Pay attention to what JD Vance and Musk are saying to Europe. They are upset that Europe is not giving them full "free speech" rights in digital information. Translation: MAGA won in a swamp of disinformation, much of it on SM platforms like X. They want RW govts in Europe, using the same model.

To me the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that the downside risk of ignoring warnings can be very bad even if the messenger is very annoying and unreliable

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Heute in Berlin

Nie wieder!

It only counts as a ‘quick question’ if it’s quick to answer, not if it’s quick to ask. Especially in emails.

If you're working on well-being/welfare submit an abstract by April 10, and hang out in Germany with me. I've been to this workshop twice and it's been great. This year, I'm on the organizing committee, so let me know if you have any questions. philevents.org/event/show/1...

"best before" is such a braggy way of saying "legally-guaranteed to be not poisonous until"

Als deutscher Politiker noch auf Twitter zu sein, ist wie bei Pegida zu sprechen. Man erreicht nichts ausser der Bühne mehr Relevanz zu verleihen. Deutschland hat Glück gehabt, dass Twitter hier nie richtig gross geworden ist. Jetzt sollte man dort wirklich abhauen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Writing a paper critical of a philosopher I generally agree with

you can tell whether you're an optimist or a pessimist about social media by whether you think it's too early or too late to give the Nobel in literature to @dril.bsky.social

Oh guck mal. Es gab ja doch jemanden, der sich schon 2021 gedacht hat, dass man mit Lindner besser nicht koaliert...

SGE jetzt schon zweiter!

Just stumbled over this delightful little exchange with @noamchompers.bsky.social (preparing to shut down my Twitter by looking through my timeline to see whether there are loose ends)

#PawPatrol is libertarian propaganda for, inter alia, police abolition. The whole premise of the show is that the town of adventure bay neither has nor needs government funded/controlled services.

But I love sneakers!

Are we sure this isn't just a baby raccoon? #Toronto

This seems more than fair.

Höchste Zeit, dass Deutschland sich an Minderheitsregierungen gewöhnt. Es gibt hier keine Tradition dazu, aber die kann man ja entwickeln. Und das muss man auch, denn klare Mehrheiten für sinnvolle Koalitionen wird es in absehbarer Zeit kaum noch geben.

I'd rather not.

Gegen Leverkusen kriegt Ekitiké nicht einmal ein Foul gepfiffen, das bei Wrestlemania wohl geahndet worden wäre. Heute kriegt Theate Gelb-Rot, weil er gefoult wurde. Man könnte meinen, irgendwas könnte da vielleicht nicht stimmen. #NurDieSGE #Adler #Adler4Life #EintrachtFrankfurt

Opinion - Time to ante up on sports betting ads: A Senate bill to create a national framework for regulating advertising for online betting platforms is languishing in the House. It needs to be passed urgently

Please do not use bluesky to only post screenshots and links to the most grotesque, rage-inducing tweets out there. We know! That is why we left!

Die Blitzmerker Partei FDP 🏆😂

In Monty Python's philosophy football, Marx's analysis of the material conditions is spot on: Socrates is indeed offside and the goal should have been disallowed. With VAR (i.e. in a more advanced state of capitalism) Marx would have been vindicated. There is a lesson in this somewhere.

Well, shit.

Me too. Except when I'm with my kids. So, yeah, definitely a hypocrite on that one.

Yes please!

Hot take: most of the US election post-mortems are starting from the wrong premise. What needs explaining isn't that the Dems lost, but that they performed so much better than all other incumbent governments in the COVID era.

Some good news

My university has an all day time management workshop. I feel like this is a fishing attempt or something.

Virtual talk I gave at Oxford. I discuss some reasons why people may think business and ethics are incompatible, why they are wrong, and why it's important to say so. Anyway, if that sounds interesting, check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnP6...

So, the Ford government is really gonna send my family $800 next year. This is gonna cost $3 BILLION. They're still gonna run a deficit, and schools across the province are literally crumbling. WTF?

voting, like any other action, does express and communicate values. But actions also do things in a normal, mechanical sense - push and pull, exert costs. We could in general stand to be more concerned about what our actions do than what they say

Academics in their forties