I am thrilled that my paper on machine learning in science and the myth of theory-free inference has been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. The paper remains available for download as a preprint through the archives. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...

a fun and normal academic thing to do is to maintain an ever-growing list of universities i will never give a talk at or otherwise be involved with for the rest of my life

dice is the plural, death is the singular

this is a good example of how people get good at saying things that sound reasonable when the core underlying belief is "i support the ritual public sexual humiliation of children"

which historical philosophers do you think would've written their own wikipedia pages?

you couldn't call them "circles" of hell today. you'd have to call them "modules"

my job does not pay enough to involve ritual humiliation (mandatory trainings)

You should not have to prove you're an adult, and indeed should not be required to be an adult at all, to send private messages. This is the most obscenely tyrannical part of this whole thing. Underage people have a right to speak, a right to privacy, and a right to private correspondence.

not really willing to admit consciousness into my metaphysics which is already loaded down with millions of every conceivable pokemon

Recent arrivals. Yellow Dusk by @rosenovick.com and Maintenance Art by Grant Maierhofer are new releases from @sublunary.bsky.social, with the latter arriving in the mail just as I was jabbering online with the author about Samuel Delany's lozenges. Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim is terrific.

the standard greeting among statisticians is "good norming"

hegel, the phenomenology of spirit (1807), sense-certainty:

Rawlsian heterosexual who dates both genders because their own gender is hidden behind the veil of ignorance.

an embarrassing thing about the book is as a philosopher i am supposed to believe in the principle of charity but this continues a long tradition me dunking on william carlos williams unfairly

i have a new book of poetry out, yellow dusk; there are a few places you can purchase it but this is the best one to do so

a bit delayed but i just got a physical copy of this in the mail and you could too,

deeply embarrassing moment for philosophers as new proof shows that the concept 'horse' and white horse paradoxes don't generalize; horses are just like that

I've finally managed to take the time to dive into Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami's field recording project known as 'Wovenland'. There are currently 3 Wovenland releases from 2018, 2020, and 2024. Anyone into #fieldrecordings should dedicate some attention to this outstanding collaboration. [1/9]

the adaptationist programme

the nelson goodman cinematic universes

I quite like Sandy Boucher's metaphilosophical work (including his latest paper linked below), but I side with Rose on this one: structuralism and functionalism are better understood as explanatory strategies in biological science rather than as van Fraassian philosophical stances. #philsci #HPBio

hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

@davidcolaco.bsky.social we need to revive wald3n

so much depends upon the standard model glazed with hadrons inside the large collider

brook "The Lighter" ziporyn

very touched by all the memorial posts for helen de cruz ♥

pt. 2/2 You all brought them happiness and an emotional outlet throughout their sickness with your kind words and the platform you provided them. Her husband and children

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

immanuel kant, the critique of judgment:

new paper arguing i'm wrong :^

the renormalization group veda

the new york times is so evil. i sort of expect fascist american politicians to be evil — it's just what they are — but if there's anybody who knows better and could have done better it's the new york times. you'd think they would have learned something from 2003, or from 1982, but no.

i survived my teens by the skin of my teeth, and that was WITH a quasi-functional youth transition system. i can say from lived fucking experience that every. single. time. an adult "helpfully" downplayed what i was going through the load became exponentially more unbearable

guys not having access to gender affirming care only kills a very large percentage of trans kids, the rest it just tortures and traumatizes. it's not a death sentence!

it is cruel to force doctors to take the hippocratic oath when they are legally obligated to break it

scotus rules 6-3 that it's ok to profile based on skin tone, since this is non-identical to race

in oceans 17 they steal the world's biggest gred emeruby

Deep in my heart I just do believe that non black non ravens confirm the hypothesis that all ravens are black.

I also think green emeralds confirm that all emeralds are grue.

every time i feel bad about the norms of academic philosophy i have to remind myself that hey at least intellectual honesty is one of them

confucius:

who wants to be a Millsian here?

My book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance came out two years ago; I haven't posted a summary here 'til now. It's for philosophers of science and biologists interested in questions about the nature and role of #probability in evolutionary processes, esp. #naturalselection. 🐋🌱 #philsci #evobio 1/9

game show where contestants compete to guess the correct solutions to philosophical problems. huw price is right

Sophistry is lowkey fire

i bet kant rly hated the fibonacci sequence

plato, the republic:

Yeah I've got a social network that gives its users an undistorted understanding of reality. It's called we all sit on the ground and stare directly at the sun.

the one constant across bluesky's history, from when i joined in (march?) 2023 to now, is people being very aggrieved by bluesky's explicit design choice to give posters lots of tools to control their own experience