rude of ovid to have the seer tiresias predict that self-knowledge would cut my life short. rude of reality to be doing its best to bear that out

tip from myself to myself: if what you want is to "write more poetry," the worst thing you could do is dedicate yourself to it directly and take writing more poetry as a goal or aim. if you want to write more poetry, instead the goal you ought to set is to "read more poetry": the rest will follow.

i struggle to understand what an externalist about belief justification even wants. like, the question of a "justified belief" only makes any sense to me at all if we construe it in an internalist way. the second we cleave justification from truth, it seems we are justified "given our evidence" etc.

"the natural kind structure of the world wants us to oppress trannies" you are a coward who cannot even own your convictions. you foist your values onto a world that cannot speak against you, thinking thereby to wash your hands of the fact that you chose this out of your abiding hatred of the good

"things have meanings"

athens' gods are obviously the most natural ones, the others so heterogenous and manufactured (frankly, ugly) that we are forced, by Reason Itself, to conform to the properly natural athenian laws. and for violating those laws you will be put to death.

to be fair, signing off on or even originating the worst philosophical arguments I've seen in my life is how lots of respected senior members of the profession got to be so respected and senior

oh my god

being a transphobe because you hold a particular view of semantics is like being a republican because you hold a particular view on ideal toothpick length

turns out you cant let awful ideas (causal theory of reference) fester anywhere

TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON

What if Colbert ended up being our Churchill? What if the South Park Guys end up like two white American Nelson Mandelas? What if AOC ends up being our own personal Margaret Thatcher? What if Zohran becomes Mugabe? What if Eric Adams stepped into his destiny as America’s Nikita Khrushchev???

got an "i cant make it to class im sick" email with a signoff saying "Much respect for your work, [name]." it was left justified formatting too. called me "professor." they're so scared im gonna be Evil but like buddy i dont care if you come to class, you can skip out because you want to play tennis

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

half the class answered the question "if you were on the jury, would you have condemned socrates to death" with YES and when i was like WHY they all answered stuff like "well, if i was on that jury, i would've been a brainwashed athenian obsessed with the city's gods." stalnaker and lewis haunt me

my teenage younger sibling, i have just i learned, has spent a year in a ttrpg game organizing their characters and running the plot all for the sake of the most elaborate pun ive ever heard in my entire life. very proud.

odd birthday card

don't remember what was happening in my life when i accidentally took this screenshot

if you say the democritus atoms and void quote without swag i should be allowed to start crying in lecture

the apology as trans philosophy

just the other day, Cracker Barrel trauma. collective grief as American icons topple one by one. "surely the Second Coming is at hand..."

*stuart murdoch voice* she's writing journal articles on her honeymoon

university donations are very very funny because you can write in your will that a huge pot of money CANNOT go to who needs it. has to go to The Most Meritorious one.

crazy that philosophers spend all this time reading and supposedly becoming better at reasoning only to be the most credulous idiots ever when a man engages in a concerted campaign of harassment against his women coworkers.

L + Ratio + I don't have that intuition + I have the opposite intuition + I have an error theory for your intuition

didn't really like hollow knight but hornet is so cute i might play silksong

neck pain so bad im struggling to pay attention to anything, do anything. very unfortunate

me on google maps looking for vegetarian buffet

the only stable basins of attraction wrt counterpossibles are "there are no counterpossibles" and "every counterfactual is lowkey a counterpossible"

asked my students to rate heraclitus between 1-10 on any metric. i'll let you know what the average Heraclitus Score is.

everybody loves a 9am-1am workday. think this will be a regular feature of my life this semester. oh well.

post cock ergo propter cock

want to write a satire philosophy paper which argues that, in spite of causal independence, the movement of the stars nonetheless metaphysically ground events on earth. it will advance the astrological grounding thesis, and innovate the notions of astrological dependence and astrological similarity

every once in a while i remember that universities don't typically pay property taxes in the US and get really angry again

having a bit of an orpheus and eurydice moment in this ikea

my most male socialization trait is my overwhelming love for carly rae jepsen's 2015 album emotion (and my hype for 10th anniversary edition).

there are many arguments like this in popular discourse, where the view is something like "i don't believe trans people should be oppressed, but we have to to win over people's votes" and practically nobody is saying "i will vote for the democrats if they Deal With Trans People." huge dumbass take.

metaphysics is wild to teach because it's on the small list of (sub)disciplines where you can expect students to email you about how intellectually bankrupt the (sub)discipline is and have them ask whether or not it's worth their time etc, but people in the other ones on the list lowkey hate you too

realist readings of russelian structured propositions are so funny to me. "1 + 1 = 2" okay so one is a worldly entity that is inside of the statement. yes it lives in there like a house. no not a representation of it, the thing itself, the worldly entity (the number 1) is inside the proposition

big day tmo

sometimes i get a little depressed about grad school, the point of it, my life in it, etc., and then i have any contact with students at all and i instantly feel better. love teaching philosophy so much best thing in the world.

a thing i find frightening about chris rufo is that it's clear that he's a nihilistic freak who is just trying to win The Fight. even here he says "that might appear to be "wokification."" not that all sorts don't do cynical political strategy, but this out in the open? a guy with this much power?

if you're doing the curly girl technique you have to periodically wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo. if you accomplish something else then good. if you accomplish nothing else then good. but you have to periodically wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo.

i do not like posts like this. a commitment to looking for nothing other than the most surface level ideological explanation of things. worrisome imo.

epipen PRESCRIBED. allergy shots PRESCRIBED.

(out of office reply) Lunch is the feast within the famine

i think we need to retire this construction.