A philosophy paper with a table? Pal, we're not even sure kitchens have tables.

God damn it I just love philosophy so much

I haven't encountered this too much (that I can tell!) but it's also more than zero, and I have a similar reaction to Rose here. As she says... it's just very bizarre to do a philosophy degree if you don't actually want to think and work through ideas. What... what are you doing here?

One of the best tweets of all time

In case you're wondering about the current state of philosophy discourse on The Other Site

Currently in the "all my liquid intake is caffeinated" stage of writing

Why does music you listened to at 14 hit different forever?

this is me rn

sigh

The winter Olympics analysis I didn't know I needed defector.com/which-other-...

giving the dissertation a last read has me thinking of tweets like putting the "we could demon" into "we could demonstrate with our results,

Nice patterns, are at least 20 percent of them maladaptive?

when reviewer 2 wants you to cite 3 texts by the same scholar

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

Philosophers: human laws can be broken, but the sciences deal in laws of nature, which are absolute and without exception Chemists: when something is 'forbidden' that just means it takes a bit longer :)

Really cool seeing this kind of reflection on citational practices, I wish we had more of it in #philsci. I feel like people are increasingly aware of the epistemic injustices created by the ways in which our discipline builds and relies on canons. But what does changing it look like in practice?

tfw you finally figure out your argument and it’s the same argument you’ve been making for a decade

Regulatory sciences are criminally underappreciated in philosophy of science, especially considering the impact they have on our everyday lives. I'm glad the talented HyeJeong Han is working on changing that! There's much to learn about the roles of institutions in shaping research processes

Just to be clear, he was totally right not to call if fascism before, changed his mind at the perfect time, and is immediately back on top of being right. So he's had the correct opinion the entire time, and people who think otherwise are probably just annoying.

Grace and accountability aren't mutually exclusive. Changing one's mind and actions is a learning process that should not be framed as a matter of blanket acceptance or blunt rejection

I just learned that the Boston Molasses Disaster was a thing and there's a banger song about it youtu.be/UZnxuPatgH0?...

Bro just be born into the kind of generational wealth that smoothly elides the everyday setbacks of your youth, setting you up for a firm foundation of financial security going into your future bro. It's not even hard bro. Literal babies do it bro.

I find it odd that right wingers on The Other Site get mad at Rawls for saying you don't morally deserve traits your born with, like that's not the kind of thing that could count for or against you in any morally significant way. Cos this seems... obvious to me? Like why would morality track that?

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

How your email finds me

We are rapidly cycling back to a point where the most reliable sources of information online are websites made by some rando in 2003

A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.

There are several annual competitions for best opening sentences, but the best closing sentence will forever be "The girl I've been dating for a month made me realize this."

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

Evening walk in the snow

Uncritical acceptance of social-epistemological categories shouldn't fly in political philosophy of science. The undifferentiated "scientist" as technical expert might be good enough for epistemologists, but separating economic positions among scientists is necessary for political analysis

As relevant as ever, Albert Camus, who died on this day.

Went into 2025 with no new year's resolutions, didn't have a great year. So in 2026, I resolve to fix my entire life and all my failures as a person, though I suspect that won't work out either. It's a dialectic approach, I expect it will all come together in 2027

the secret to overcoming writer's block is to despair for a few hours and then eventually write for 15 minutes

So you think you're a depressed overachiever, but did you even know there's a ranking?

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

One of my favourite things I learned this year is that the local nature conservation organisation keeps a list of particularly kind duck mums that will adopt orphaned ducklings. I have a sneaking suspicion that these duck mums may just be bad at counting, but it's adorable either way.

you'll be fine if you've read the origin story "Naming and Necessity"

I love the metaphors in popular science writing. I'm now imagining all kinds of molecules as messy polygamous divorces with nuclei fighting over their shared electron children (from this article: www.sciencealert.com/physicists-h..., it's not new but still very cool)

Yes! I helped run a grassroots mutual aid fund for multiply marginalised trans people in the pandemic, many of them homeless or disabled. People in dire need, but unlikely to help an immigration case. It feels sick to force people into a position where that would even be a consideration.

Many people are clearly struggling, and the response is essentially "we will review the numbers, so hopefully we can tell at least some of them to just suck it up" instead of "how can we help them?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

It was the best of all possible worlds, it was the worst of all possible worlds

uhhh, what the hell?!

Definitely not the most profound, but a piece of writing advice I think of almost every day is "think of each paragraph as a mini-essay"

I'm SO tempted to use "Lacking Substance" as a title for my thesis (on the philosophy of chemical kinds and chemical structure)

So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Bertrand Russell: I spent months staring at a blank piece of paper.

This is why billionaires should not own the media. @teenvogue.com had become a fantastic site for fresh perspectives on social justice and well-researched political journalism. Now, it belongs to Jeff Bezos and the entire politics staff has been fired.