great sage comic

Really excited to announce that starting in the fall I'll be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at East Tennessee State University! So hit me up if you're ever in Appalachia!

apatheia comic

it was an old american tale that a great ball, representative of time itself, dropped from the sky at the culmination of each year. (it is worth noting that while most sources refer unambiguously to a ball, we see occasional talk of a "square of time" as well)

another new paper!!! "The Ambiguous Inference: Sanches’ Refutation of the Self-Contradiction Objection to Global Skepticism" is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly! Thread below for details...

NEW PAPER ALERT! "Quid Facti Between Kant and Maimon" is forthcoming in Kant-Studien! 🧵

of course i'm an expressivist. my statements always express my beliefs

A watershed moment: my first citation!! 🎉🎉🎉 #philsky #philsci

NEW PAPER ALERT: deleuze's epistemology of inquiry is now forthcoming in the southern journal of philosophy! read on for more info on what deleuze's epistemology (of inquiry) is! (link at bottom)

I quite frankly absolutely destroy at cogitordle

husband: i found some vital data today wife: oh honey not again husband, putting papers out on the table: gorilla city is real. the ancient Aztecs knew it wife: how would gorillas even build a city husband: look at this. Gorilla averages near Tlatelolco are off the charts

anti skepticism comic

be on the lookout for my upcoming book "Gestures Towards a Prolegomenon of Future Prefatory Remarks: Some Fumblings in the Dark of a Humble Servant of God, Illuminated Only by the Grace of the Almighty, tho' Otherwise Ignorant, O! A Wretched Sinner Am I!"

Newest issue of Fichteana: Review of J.G. Fichte Research is now available online. Includes many reviews, including of two volumes I edited + a review of Owen Ware's Fichte's Moral Philosophy, plus news, CFPs, new publications. Thanks to @symphilosophie.bsky.social! sites.google.com/view/fichtea...

my bracket is perfect so far... I predicted BIG BUSINESS would win every round

"Beyond Rustic and Urbane" has just been uploaded to Apeiron's site, making it my first official publication! PLEASE change all of the "forthcoming"s in your multiple glowing citations to "2025"s and check it out here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

philosophers call absurd sentences "moorean" in a cruel and meanspirited attribution of nonsensical thinking to g.e. moore

Wow! A new paper! One of the main topics in scholarship on ancient skepticism is the "rustic vs. urbane" debate: whether skeptics were weirdo forest sages with no beliefs or normal guys with everyday beliefs. I think this debate is kind of silly and I show why in this paper!

teachers always complain about students having nothing to say after lectures but that doesn't make sense. if you've explained yourself well there should be no questions. a good lecturer should strive for a reaction of respectful silence. perhaps applause

obviously it seems like sextus empiricus was an empiricist, but we really can't discount the possibility that maybe that was just his last name

In the preface to his lectures on Machiavelli, Strauss says that Machiavelli was evil. So straight away I know he doesn't think Machiavelli was evil. I know how this works.

fun jules feiffer character designs from unproduced 50s pilot

it's a difficult concept to pin down, but I would define speculative fiction as any fiction in which a character utters the oath "blast!"

incredible fact: in the second sentence of "a plea for excuses," his defense of ordinary language philosophy, j.l. austin uses the word "ramiculate," which does not have a definition in any dictionary

John Quincy Adams, as well as his similarly famous cousin John Quincy Public,

careful there brother. you almost forgot about rudolf eucken

in timothy williamson's wacky world, belief is unjustified untrue knowledge

A desiderata of any philosophy talk is upshots

you're telling me every full moon you turn into a withal?

they call you the corresponding author because you're the author that corresponds to the paper

the left is trying to say a buddha doesn't have to have marks, that buddha-nature is without names and without marks. sorry but no. if it doesn't have the retractable penis, it's not a buddha, it's just grass and broken tiles! they're trying to undermine reality itself

ram is the third best beatles album

it is my view that the natural state of any sport is a scoreless 0-0 and that any movement past that is pure hubris. you think you're too good to just play the game? you need to play for "points" too?

in the world of breakfast, egg is king

I love coors the banquet beer

the beatles version of twist and shout is by far the best one because john lennon sounds like he's about to die and if you don't shake it up baby he's going to kill you

sitting on the fast food patio morosely looking at birds thinking "stupid birds. you don't even have cognition." but then I remember: I also don't have cognition

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nagarjuna

honestly if I was an ancient pagan I'd also give christians shit for their god being dead. it's just not a good way for a god to be

gruesky

bluesky is great cuz I open it up once a day, get caught up on the 4 posts the people I follow have made, and then shut it down

attention mmxs & mxssrs: please follow @beingandslime.bsky.social. thank you, that is all.