Hello #AcademicSky and #PhDSky!! The CFP for our 2026 Conference is live. The Popular Arts Conference is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts that occurs as a part of @dragoncon.org. Come join us in Atlanta September 3-7, 2026. populararts.org/2026-cfp/

Happy 166th Birthday to America's Philosopher, John Dewey! 🎉🎂

I notice that Heterodox Academy has vociferously condemned the killing of Charlie Kirk, but has said nothing about the recent firings in Texas over course content or exercise of free speech. Hmmm... Anyhow, I'm gonna bounce from social media for a while. Reach out if you want to join my Discord.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky (Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

Outgoing #HOPOS editor Lydia Patton reflects on seven years at the journal. Later in the Fall, look out for Editor in Chief Matthew J. Brown's statement of editorial vision as he takes the reins of a journal now in its 15th year of publication. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

...That stretch constitutes inference.” – John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1929, LW 1: 12-13). Monday 9/1 is the last day of early bird registration for our Experience and Nature Centennial Conference in October. Find out more at: deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event... (3/3)

...Linked in certain other ways with another natural object–the human organism–they are how things are experienced as well. Experience thus reaches down into nature; it has depth. It also has breadth and to an indefinitely elastic extent. It stretches.... (2/3)

“[Experience] is of as well as in nature. It is not experience which is experienced, but nature– stones, plants, animals, diseases, health, temperature, electricity, and so on. Things interacting in certain ways are experience; they are what is experienced.... (1/3)

Fake small-town "Autumn Festival" shirts at the outlet mall.

This Fall, the Center for Dewey Studies Reading Group will discuss Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920). Email [email protected] to join and get a 30% off the book from SIU Press at www.siupress.com. (1/3)

Should we ditch elections, cancel politicians, and hand over decision-making power to a small and randomly selected group of fellow citizens? Here I review the case for and against two proposals: Alex Guerrero’s “lottocracy” and Hélène Landemore’s “open democracy.” Link in first comment.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

I recommend this video as a diagnosis of the current trend of the retreat of democracy, but also and more so as the start of a conversation on reversing that trend. youtu.be/lvTBRPoZhqM?...

I started a post on Facebook that got really long, so I decided to dust off the old blog and post it there. It is about the hopeful way things used to feel, and how all that hope (along with most of the progress of the prior century) has evaporated. thehangedman.com/politics/the...

Greg Radick takes over as the new editor-in-chief of journal Metascience (thanks to Greg for this service)! And ICYMI, Metascience now has a Bluesky account ⬇️ @metasciencejournal.bsky.social Welcome to Bsky Metascience & congrats on the great new editor! #HPS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So delighted to welcome Prof. Heather Douglas to The HPS Podcast! In this illuminating conversation, we explore the history & legacy of the “value-free ideal.” Heather offers insights on the evolving responsibilities of scientists, and presents her bold vision for a new social contract for science.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

This is a really good critique of the hype around LLMs ("AI"). #philtech #philsci malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

And @beingandslime.bsky.social’s paper, forthcoming in the Southern Journal of Philosophy, on Deleuze’s epistemology, looks great! philarchive.org/rec/ODODEO #philsky #epistemology

Very proud of this paper, in which I try to make sense of the significance of science for Deleuze’s philosophy of difference. I remember first presenting a version of it at the 2019 meeting of @sephilo.bsky.social ⏳ #philsky #philsci

fucking fight you useless fucks www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fucking-fi...

Glad to have a paper in this volume about Matt Brown's work (@thehangedman.com). Following up on something Matt mentions in his book, my paper is about noncognitivism and some arguments from the 1950s and 1960s for and against a role for values in science. #HOPOS link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The chapter in which I discuss the persistent problem of deficit thinking in science communication has been published! Let me know if you'd like to take a look but can't access it. Thanks to Jon Tsou, Jamie Shaw and Carla Fehr for editing the book. doi.org/10.1007/978-... #philsci #philsky #scicomms

From the Zeitgeist, apparently: In Spring 2025, two articles with the title "Non-Ideal Theory as Ideology" appeared: - Jordan David Thomas Walters in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy - Philipp Kremers in Inquiry I'm excited to read these.

Workshop tomorrow on New Directions in Science Funding. DM me and I'll send you the Zoom link. #philsci

Just came across this online event on 10 July. Zoom link and more info: buff.ly/BLMar3y buff.ly/wvC8erU

The real mutual aid is taxes.

I think actual mutual aid (communities coming together to support one another in various ways) is great (tho not sufficient) but "give money to strangers on the internet" has been rebranded as mutual aid and that is simply not what it is. The word "mutual" is in the name! That's intentional! Lol

The platform of the most popular Democratic president of all time.

Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I really really do not think most Democratic politicians understand how many normie democrats think we will need Nuremberg-esque truth & reconciliation investigations and trials of leading Republican officials the next time we are in power

📚 Do you know a #philosophy of science book that's Lakatos Award worthy? Then let us know! We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 Lakatos Award! ⏰ Deadline: 15 September 2025. 👉 More information: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...

Centrism is not less biased or more politically neutral; it is a stance on a political spectrum, as biased/biasing as any other. Neutrality, silence, and inaction are not being apolitical. They are particular kinds of political stances that to some degree favor the current status quo.

The other big story behind Mamdani's nomination, for me, is how great ranked-choice voting is. When people can vote for who they want, rather than trying to play strategic-voting 4-D chess, look how different the outcomes are.

CFP REMINDER: Experience & Nature Centennial Conference call for Poster Session proposals for has been extended to June 30th. There's still time to join us at SIU for this landmark anniversary! Find out more and submit your proposal at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

A chatbot is not a therapist... www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

My article titled 'Reconsidering Schlick's critique of Husserl' is now published in Husserl Studies. rdcu.be/eq1vL #philsky #philsci #academicsky #hps

"I am willing to make one prediction, namely, that trust in panaceas and wholesale devices has received a shock from which it will not easily recover...

Our call for Poster Session proposals for the Experience & Nature Centennial Conference has been extended to June 30th. There's still time to join us at SIU for this landmark anniversary! Find out more and submit your proposal at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-event...

If you have no integrity, but your opponents do and care a lot about it, it is easy to hypocritically exploit that as a weakness.

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

“AI” is not inevitable, using it is a choice. “AI” is not inevitable, using it is a choice. “AI” is not inevitable, using it is a choice. “AI” is not inevitable, using it is a choice. “AI” is not inevitable, using it is a choice.

There’s a reason that the very day the GOP was introducing a bill that would *ban states from making laws related to AI* the AI execs themselves were in Saudi Arabia with Trump, minting billion dollar deals. AI has become an oligarchic project — and democracy an impediment.

This week, the GOP slid an amendment into the budget reconciliation process that would ban US states from enacting laws that govern AI. This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.

Remember: Karate’s not about fighting It’s about knowing who you are, And being kind and honest While you’re kicking for the stars.