Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.

Teaching Dennett this week in intro. In his gloss of the “making mistakes” thinking tool, he writes: my students “get ‘writer's block’ and waste hours forlornly wandering back and forth on the starting line. "Blurt it out!" I urge them. Then they have something on the page to work with.”

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Question for teaching philosophers: what texts do you teach that get your undergraduate students most excited?

I often find it hard to explain at parties what I do; I really like Robin McKenna’s elaboration here of what epistemologists do. Moral epistemology seems to open a whole other bag of worms at parties, though.