I'm excited to share that my first paper "Guessing and its Limits" is forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research! Thread below. TLDR: I present a novel puzzle for a recent "question-sensitive" theory of guessing/belief in multi-question scenarios. philpapers.org/rec/FANGAI-2

New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD

When I was very young someone told me babies know every language before they’re born and then forget most of them, and I’m now wondering if that was an extremely corrupted version of Chomsky on UG

Got a haircut in advance of the APA, the things I sacrifice for this career

Maybe this year I’ll just shoot to believe things, it’s hard enough these days

the hardest part about studying how kids learn language is that they know but won’t tell us

*frowning at the philosophy shelf at the used book store* How are people supposed to find wisdom without analytic philosophy

Two bald eagles sharing a kill on the ice this morning. One of the coolest bird-related moments of my life (which is to say, one of the coolest moments of my life)

‘Tis the season

The word “Pickwickian” was apparently pretty popular in ~90s philosophy of mind and I would like to see a comeback

“You will be haunted by three spirits”

This holiday season, give your philosopher friends the gift of a devastating counterexample

Random thigh pain today but immediately knew what it wasn’t; reading analytic philosophy of mind really pays off sometimes

Protect your tables, metaphysicians

Two-boxers, you know what to do

“I asked ChatGPT” Oh yeah? Well I asked an analytic philosopher and they said

Who needs NDPR when we can have influencer reviews

Stephen Yablo is subscriber only content

Big day for semantic externalists, eBird have dropped their new taxonomy! That feeling in the back of your throat was the bird words you knew receiving new referents: ebird.org/news/2025-ta...

Anyone have a sense of why some people use “belief fixation” and others use “belief formation” to refer to what is apparently the same thing?

I bet Leibniz would have eaten up that sponsorship

Question for representational format people: Greenberg’s (2023) way of making the iconic/symbolic distinction, as consisting in the different rules which state the semantic contents of signs, seems pretty popular. And it’s pretty neat. (1/8)

Famously we’re all just reply guys to Plato, so it works out okay

“Problem papers” in analytic philosophy

Conversation between students in my class today (we were discussing Nagel/Anscombe on the self) “Do you think you’re [name]?” - “No, I don’t even think I exist!” “That’s rough, buddy”

One of my favorite papers from the past few years

Trying to convince students that Moore’s proof of the external world is brilliant

Philosophy blog idea: Guest posts discussing why a "real world" example from some corner of philosophy is actually false or misleading and why it matters to the respective debates.

My phenomenal self might be subject to the rule according to which everything that happens in it proceeds from a cause but my noumenal self is just built different.

Philosopherz Bop - by philosophers, for philosophers

Reminder to check in on the bibliography addicts in your life and see if they’re okay

Any linguists/philosophers of language on here thought about this? (1) I’m imagining that it’s raining, but I don’t think it is (2) ?? I imagine that it’s raining, but I don’t think it is (3) I often imagine that it’s raining, but I never think it is

Reminder that if someone on the plane (etc) asks your favorite philosopher you can just lie

FARM is happening next Friday and Saturday at UMD! We have a great roster of speakers and commentators, and I'm beyond excited for it. If you want to join us, the conference is open to all and free. Please just register following the link from the website: sites.google.com/view/farm202...

Learned today that I’m a “comfortable muddlehead.” Thanks, Jerry

What David Lewis was really worried about

gonna change how people view contemporary philosophy by putting out an anthology called The Metalinguistic Turn

Man the preface to Dummett’s Truth and Other Enigmas is chock full of tea about other philosophers at the time, people don’t write like this anymore

I’m tired of hearing about “the Left” as if that term has a meaningful referent.

Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism" It's open-access, which I'm really happy about. Brief 🧵 on what it's all about! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There’s always a class cartesian

Atomists beware

And on top of everything, it believes in impossible worlds. Shame.

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

The Apology of Granny was a really moving moment in the history of philosophy

Responding to counterexamples to my theory of the semantics of generics by saying "FFS I didn't say the semantics of *all* generics"

Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo! Thread with a TL;DR below! philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3

20th century philosophers didn’t have bad citation practices, they were just really good at subtweeting