It's 2025, and I'm still waiting for someone to drop a diss track entitled "False Friends" structured around a series of false cognates in different languages.

Never before seen levels of "Kant's dumb mistakes are actually expressions of his genius"

Just got page proofs and had to read a bit of my prose.

Woke up to a paper rejection with a pretty negative referee report, and you know what, the referee really nailed it this time

Plato attacks poetry because it disorders the soul through lying, impersonation, and deception. Seen from that perspective, the problem with LLMs is not that they *can't* produce poetry – it's that they produce *nothing but*?

Why is ChatGPT so addicted to gaslighting me about Kant? Even in the face of being called out repeatedly, it returns to the same hallucinated passage and offers it to me as real. Does it think it's funny to lie to Kantians? Is there some magic in that fake passage that attracts its attention?

When you ask whether Hegel's philosophy is truly "presuppositionless", remember that "presupposition" itself only acquire a determinate meaning for Hegel through the self-development of the logic. So, Hegel's logic gets to define for itself what it would mean for it to be presuppositionless.

Honored to have my paper, "The PSR as a Practical Principle in Kantian Ethics" appear in this special issue of the BPA for Kant's 300th birthday with some *very* distinguished scholars. scindeks.ceon.rs/issue.aspx?i...

Lol what is Gopnik talking about? The Vitruvian Man is an image of precisely the opposite of individualism?

I'm not directly involved in these searches for the most part, but I'm happy to answer questions about them or put people in touch with others who are more directly involved. philjobs.org/job/show/29386 philjobs.org/job/show/29382

"Intelligibility, Idealism, and Alienation in Post-Kantian Metaethics", now forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics How to develop a post-Kantian metaethics via the idea that metaethical idealism best explains the essential intelligibility of the normative domain philpapers.org/rec/SCHIIA-13

Truly depressing to see what's happening at Chicago right now.

Yet another entry for the ever-growing file of ways in which tenure never meant what some people claimed it did

Rough day, over at the other place, for the “analytic philosophy isn’t just arguing about shrimp welfare while kids starve” crowd.

"Today I visited our Kant, who is a very careful observer of his evacuations and ruminates on this material uncommonly often ... I assured him that I struggle over my smallest oral and written evacuations just as much as he does with his evacuations a posteriori." - Hamann to Herder (1783)

Really happy to see that this tribute to the work of Béatrice Longuenesse is finally out in the world.

so nice to return to a set of referee comments one set aside without really reading and find that they are actually almost uniformly extremely helpful and constructive

Great, looks like I need to explain to the state tenure review board *yet again* that crying during a lecture is actually a sign of empathy and emotional strength

I *love* the kids room at the Austin public library, but this time I made the mistake of checking out the philosophy section. And it is bleak. Any one know how to organize donations for this sort of thing?

This meme hits different after a thousand hours of Yo Gabba Gabba

Call for papers for a special issue of Topoi on "Capacities-First Philosophy" with me and others: link.springer.com/collections/...

MacIntyre's critique of Hume and Smith here fails to convince for one simple reason: Neither asks sympathy to do the work he claims. Still there is a real problem for them here. But to respond to it, we need to reinterpret Smithian sympathy in light of Kantian reason, not turn our back on both.

Rereading After Virtue and I had forgotten that it opens like this...

How do naive realists about perception explain the fact that dilating your eyes *makes your vision worse*?

In case you were wondering, dilating your eyes does not make it any easier to understand Hegel.

Analytic philosopher reading Girard: “I’m getting some real Dark Korsgaard vibes here.”

New for the Kantian Yearbook: Given a Kantian conception of reason, reason requires an implicit understanding of what understanding or intelligibility is. For the Kantian, the core of the capacity of reason is precisely a capacity to understand intelligibility itself: philpapers.org/rec/SCHKRT-8

If it wasn't for my Fulbright in Berlin, I might have never become a philosophy professor. Try to imagine the loss to Kant scholarship that would have involved, if you can, and you'll have some sense of how serious this is.

I reviewed @karlschafer.bsky.social and Nick Stang's great edited collection on Kant on epistemology and metaphysics for Kantian Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You know you're using the very best English words, when you check the OED and get this:

I think it is actually quite a striking feature of contemporary analytic philosophy that a non-trivial amount of time is spent arguing about the appropriate immediate emotional reaction to micro-fictions.

Update: Thanks to Brian for taking a step back from his previous inflammatory language. There's still work to do, but we're making progress.

Looks like "Lying Brian Leiter" is at it again, ignore his editorial commentary here, certified fake news!

My daughter is slowly integrating every corner of our house into a boundary-less immersive tea party experience.

Counterpoint: it’s not a good bill, but its real impact (especially on UT) is likely to be pretty minimal.

me: look I know you haven't eaten in a whole two hours. but I was hoping I could get a second of sleep, perhaps make my own meal, catch up on world events baby: listen old man Imma stop you right there. now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. whats it gonna be

Contemporary analytic philosophy would instantaneously achieve a new level of self-consciousness if it simply acknowledged that many of its central disputes are first and foremost battles between philosophical metaphors.

Forthcoming by Cambridge @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social @gabegottlieb.bsky.social @symphilosophie.bsky.social @anitaleirfall.bsky.social @w-ezekielgoggin.bsky.social @roupavicky.bsky.social @andrewbowie.bsky.social @efimpi.bsky.social @karlschafer.bsky.social

o4’s research abilities are truly extraordinary. when I ask it a question about Kant, it consistently comes up with passages I’ve never seen referenced anywhere before

my reaction to Iris Murdoch's philosophy is surely colored by the fact that I can hardly imagine anything as existentially terrifying as being the sustained object of a "just and loving attention"

Thanks to @johnjocallanan.bsky.social for this extremely generous and incisive review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant...

I'd forgotten about the article in which French neurologist traces Kant's critical turn to "dementia symptomatic of a frontal tumor"

Congrats Andy!

When I quickly delete a post, only to replace it with a minutely different wording of the same idea, that’s scholarship in action.

In honor of Béatrice Longuenesse @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social @gabegottlieb.bsky.social @symphilosophie.bsky.social @anitaleirfall.bsky.social @w-ezekielgoggin.bsky.social @roupavicky.bsky.social @andrewbowie.bsky.social @efimpi.bsky.social @karlschafer.bsky.social

It’s come to my attention that “posting through it” may not always be the best response to feeling dehydrated

I’m kinda a big deal.

wtf

An underrated obstacle to making friends in your forties is the more or less complete loss of any ability to answer: where do I know those friggin people from