Happy Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone Day, to all who celebrate.

I wrote about a murder in the state where "'woke' goes to die," the people who want to be held innocent of making such things inevitable while insisting we persuade them to stop; about rules of engagement w/supremacists and what it means to find "common ground." armoxon.substack.com/p/the-finger...

Check out my interview with Peg Brand Weiser about Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives (2023), which she edited for OUP. We discuss pandemics, fighting fascism, modern death, heroism, and solidarity. youtu.be/V0FI7AgiZCE

Those unworn baby shoes will have to step aside:

When you see a peer-reviewed scientific journal article, it often says “pay $35 to read this.” Did you know that $0 of that goes to the authors of the article? Just email us and we’ll be happy to send you a copy for free. We’re usually thrilled that anyone cares. 🧪🦑🦈

Conservative political correctness is injecting ideology into campus hirings and firings across the country. It’s going to eviscerate public higher ed in multiple states. https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/conservative-political-correctness

We often describe our emotional attitudes towards fictional characters in terms that seem literal, and at least carry no flags of intonation etc to suggest they are nonliteral. E.g., “I felt sorry for Ken at first, but then later was disgusted at him for being such a douche.” 1/2 #philsky

This was _exactly_ my experience of that movie.

New interview! I talk to Aderemi Artis about the aesthetics of playing fast-twitch video games. We also talk about the aesthetic value of boredom in open-world video games. Check it out!!!

It needs to be repeated until it sinks in: when they say "critical race theory" what they mean is "we're not gonna teach accurate history"

As someone who loves Trek; and loves musicals; and loves musical episodes in general… that was pretty meh. There were maybe three clever lyrics, tops? (The little Klingon number was great though — should have been way more of that sort of thing!)

ordinary language philosophy:

My search for “best biscuits in Oxford” yielded two _very_ distinct geo-culinary sets of hits.

So apparently Charles Barkley is repeatedly going to bars doing this routine

Philosopher Harry Frankfurt has died.

Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition by Shaun Gallagher. New CUP Element. Free to download for the next two weeks! https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/embodied-and-enactive-approaches-to-cognition/FFAB4E136E12255CD3139A87ECB2DCAD

Was just on a pub trivia team of aestheticians that beat a team of STEM PhDs and the way we celebrated my goodness you'd think it was Lake Placid 1980 all over again.