The Little League World series category "International" is gerrymandered--and includes two gerrymandered categories "Far East, Latin America"--so organizing the two brackets into US & International isn't reasonable. Besides, everyone knows the proper sports organizing principle is Kant's four races.

Weird vans with business names I don't know, palm trees next to a classic brownstone, spaceships on the lawn, Elvis blasted at all hours of night. The Roku City I knew and loved doesn't exist anymore.

If I hadn't gotten approved as a commenter on 2007 Deadspin back when you still had to get approved to join the comments section, I would probably be an ICE agent now.

Warning: If you read Churchman and related work by Ackoff, you may end up convinced that the one true science of ethics is management science done from a systems thinking perspective even if you don't really know what any of those words mean.

I'm not sure that Russ Ackoff made it past the table of contents of Feigl and Sellars's anthology.

In tenure letters the last few years I've been forcibly struck by how much service the women I'm reviewing are doing compared to the men. (Actual evidence backs this anecdote up - see below.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To hang in your kitchen, or by the front door. From the Logical Empiricist collection at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

I was just reading about the way my institution acted dishonorably during McCarthyism (mentioned in Reisch's book on the Cold War and philosophy of science). magazine.washington.edu/feature/anti...

Working on a paper about Feigl and found this very interesting paper about value-neutrality and the history of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and am now really interested in what is in J.J. Gibson's FBI file. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This must be a big relief for Oxford moral philosophy.

No mention in this 1904 News and Notes piece about how G.S. [sic] Stout's move to St. Andrews from Oxford is expected to affect the general rankings and mental philosophy specialty rankings in 1905's Philosophical Gourmet Report.

The real philosophy journal scandal goes back to 1921 when The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods shortened its name to The Journal of Philosophy so it was "more convenient for citation," which of course made it easier for Mind to drop psychology from its subtitle in 1974.

Herbert Feigl on W.V. Quine, who he thought was too easily impressed by a mere logical point leading to a "distorted picture of scientific method."

Hereby promising to make all my speech acts after this one constatives to avoid being thought of as a performative male.

Also worth noting that @msuarez.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the same volume on *Inference and Negative Analogy* – and broken bones, of course 🦴. #philsci link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Kant Car

Back when I was trying to be a Kant guy and at all the talks scholars threw around first Critique passages they memorized in German and English that I hadn't, I always wished Saturday morning teen shows would come up so I could rap the City Guys theme from memory so they knew I knew stuff too.

Can you imagine how powerful J.L. Austin would have been if he had access to an LLM?

Rawls on the time Ryle fell asleep during the Q&A of his own after-dinner talk. (From Bruce Kuklick's "John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization".)

This may sound like a joke, but I promise I'm serious: It's not a Hatch chile unless it's grown in the Hatch Valley of New Mexico, but a New Mexican chile doesn't have to be grown in New Mexico. For example, Anaheims are New Mexico chile. (Also, the best New Mexican chile is grown in Roswell.)

I don't think the journal editors rejecting my papers have ever stopped to think about how hard I worked on them and how long they took me to write and also that I really need them to be published for my job.

Good start, but what the people really want is for their timbits to be dusted with creatine powder.

"Imagine a piece of...technology that, when its wearer reaches a certain level of dehydration, stimulates in them the satisfying sensation of cool clear water running down their throat and filling their stomach. That would not actually be beneficial or helpful at all!" defector.com/butlerian-ji...

Looks like this volume on Mary Hesse edited by Pietro Gori is now published! If you were at #HOPOS in Vienna and went to the various talks and symposium on Hesse, you'll recognize some chapters. I wrote one on Hesse's early work (1952-1961) on scientific language. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Looks like this volume on Mary Hesse edited by Pietro Gori is now published! If you were at #HOPOS in Vienna and went to the various talks and symposium on Hesse, you'll recognize some chapters. I wrote one on Hesse's early work (1952-1961) on scientific language. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If it does burst, I wonder how our administrations in universities are going to justify their all-in-no-questions-asked attitude to incorporating AI into every aspect of university life, whether needed or not, whether harmful or helpful

There's no sure way by which one can distinguish dreaming from being awake without first proving God's existence.

I would say a decent amount, but only if you give the LLM a reward--like writing something it actually wants to write--when it does a good job.

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Very neat that Margaret Boden studied with Margaret Masterman. Some potentially interesting history of philosophy to be done on the Cambridge Language Research Unit, which Mary Hesse also had some interest in (see Hesse's 1959 paper "On Defining Analogy.") www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A few months ago @nglaskowski.bsky.social posted about philosopher Mary Evelyn Clarke. It seems not much is known about her. So, I did some digging—this PDF is what I’ve found so far (sadly, not much). If you know more, or spot any errors, I’d love to hear from you! www.louisdoulas.info/MEC.pdf

I conceive of my research in history of analytic philosophy as essentially the practice of remembering some guys [gender-inclusive].

Fun article in the NYT today describing a statistical model for ranking baseball players across eras. The Extinct connection? The model (called the "Full House" model) is inspired by Stephen Jay Gould's work on the disappearance of .400 hitting. Pretty coooool www.extinctblog.org/palaeonews/2...

If I had whatever 'PhD level intelligence' means colloquially, I definitely wouldn't have gotten a PhD.

Went to my local analytic metaphysics shop and got some cool new chair merch.

I didn't "have an intuition" about anything until I took a philosophy class.

Showing this to my Fall Proseminar as a guide to doing research. 1. Find something that grabs your attention. 2. Show there's a literature gap. Find something? Distinguish your angle. 3. Define terms/delineate topic. 4. Consider edge cases/possible objections. 5. Make your argument not boring.

I sat in on class about social cognition and learned that going through doors affects event cognition--we'll be in a room and cognize things in it as one event and going through a door resets things, which is why we forget why we went into a room--and someone should look at little treat cognition.

I lack little treat permanence. I'll go a few hours without a little treat and think "I could go for a little treat, it's been a while."

These universities are going to have to reckon with what they are doing to trans women in the future and I just have to hope that people recognize the institutional violence that’s being done.

Philpeople is an echo chamber.

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

I did actually tell my students today that they could call me coach if they wanted.

Glad to have a paper in this volume about Matt Brown's work (@thehangedman.com). Following up on something Matt mentions in his book, my paper is about noncognitivism and some arguments from the 1950s and 1960s for and against a role for values in science. #HOPOS link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Ordinary language philosophy remains undefeated.

Challenge accepted. All my lab’s papers now being exclusively submitted to Journal of Philosophy until one gets published there. The race is on.

It's also lower than Science, so if I ever get published in Journal of Philosophy I'll finally prove to my brother, @thefrancolab.bsky.social, that history of philosophy is harder than brain science.

Lewis White Beck exercising executive privilege to talk about aliens in his 1971 address to the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association. www.jstor.org/stable/31297...

No better feeling than to have one's emotional needs satisfied by clarity of concepts.

I've been binging Quine (+ nice secondary literature) and I think I'm a bit closer to seeing how his naturalism, i.e., little stories about how children go from positively reinforced babbling to observation sentences like 'Milk' to mass nouns, counts as settling for psychology and not make-believe.