disliking Descartes is a character flaw

Sometimes I regret choosing academia, but then other times I listen to my non-academic wife go "mhm, right" on a work call for 90 minutes straight and realize I made the right choice.

Spam e-mails are getting way too advanced and personally tailored. I just received a message boasting "a new theory of aether." I nearly short-circuited as my early modern brain had to resist clicking the attached .exe file poorly disguised as a .pdf

why does bluey always make me cry wtf

Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S003...

I need to have a kid so that I have a socially respectable reason to watch Bluey.

this A. I. model trained exclusively on dvd copies of A. I. Artificial Intelligence produced a pixel perfect copy of A. I. Artificial Intelligence on dvd

It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...

Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia #birds #nature

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

strong hint of grape in this one

'm very happy to finally be able to announce the programme for the conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections.' To register, please use the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I look forward to meeting you all in May!

Check out this excellent mode of God or Nature.

Since publishing my first paper, predatory journals have frequently sent me emails. These have always been addressed to "Dr." Harmon, even before I finished my PhD. Since passing my viva, nothing about their epistemic position has changed, but they're now getting it right. Gettier strikes again.

Kind of insane that there's no comic book supervillain whose origin story involves madness brought on by frustration with train wifi.

Available open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Theme song for me and the rest of the diabetics.

Good morning Bluesky !

please excuse me for the next six months while my entire personality becomes this album

Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇 #philsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...

If R2 is short for R2D2, and Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Anakin, then Luke is short for a stormtrooper.

"easy peasy" goes so hard

Dr Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) gave a fantastic keynote talk on 'The Cosmic and the Creaturely' yesterday at our annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social #philsky bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

Many thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at the BSHP today! I've uploaded the script and slides to my Academia.edu, anyone interested should be able to see them here: www.academia.edu/128618008/Ex...

I am happy to share that I have passed my viva 🥳 so the history of philosophy has now been completed. Well done everyone!

My paper for this year's Oxford Spinoza conference has been accepted! I felt a little bit cheeky submitting a paper since I was one of the organisers last year, but it looks like this will be an amazing lineup based on the provisional programme.

BSHP starts soon! Looking forward to being part of a fabulous symposium on Mary Midgley (very strongly represented at the conference with 6 talks on her, including a keynote 😱)! Full programme here: bshp.org.uk/site/assets/...

Only a week left to submit to the 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! More details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... @standrewsphil.bsky.social #philsky

Catch me this Friday in Cambridge at the BSHP Annual Conference on 'Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy' with my wacky paper on aliens in the Enlightenment 🙃

Today at the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Katherine Snow (Princeton) - ‘Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis’ @ceppa.bsky.social #philosophymatters

i have a hot take: i love receiving an email. when outlook dings, i actually get excited.

The entire history of philosophy is basically just the buildup to my viva next week.

Reading about the Dutch Republic. Religious tolerance helped to attract lots of people persecuted in their countries of origin, eg Jews and Quakers. The result was staggering cultural heights. You can't have Spinoza and his influence on Enlightenment without mass migration to major Dutch cities.

How wide is Mount Everest?

Really happy to be able to present my paper on aliens in the Enlightenment, and on a panel with my good friend @1part-harmony.bsky.social too!

We’re one month away from the Arché Graduate Conference submission deadline! Happy to share that Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) will be joining us as a keynote speaker! More TBA. Looking forward to submissions! #philsky #philosophy

omg ♥️♥️♥️ THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON 😍😍😍🥳🎉

It's not a guarantee, but if you don't like High School Musical 2, then there's a solid chance you and I just won't get along

Sometimes Duolingo is like "😱 you dropped out of the top 5 in the emerald league." And it's like duo you're literally an owl. Get real.

An update on the Spinoza and Simone Weil conference: the other organisers and I have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to March 10th, to give anyone who wanted to submit an additional week to prepare their abstracts. See the new CFP below:

I just saw a post alleging that among the “tells” a post is written by ChatGPT is use of an em dash—not to be confused with its younger sibling the en dash, or lil’ baby hyphen—and frankly fuck that. The noble em dash is maybe the most versatile punctuation—I use it constantly.

my dog is afraid of beeps

Just 12 days left to submit your papers for the Spinoza and Simone Weil conference, please share far and wide!

me reading a contemporary philosophical position: this is just Locke's view with a paint job me reading historical philosophers: if you look at the change in wording between the fourth and fifth editions of the Essay, he says "by only" instead of "only by", so it's essentially an entirely new view

I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky

Here's a new paper of mine, forthcoming in Analysis. It's on two ways of making precise the distinction between truth in vs. truth at a possible world. Check it out if that sort of thing floats your boat! philpapers.org/rec/MASTDA-8

Just finished the draft script for the first podcast episode on Descartes! So excited to be writing about him after almost 15 years of podcasting, it sometimes seemed I would never get this far.

wait is it pronounced tomato or tomato