ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness"

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jsyk when i say "the concept of a plan," i'm referencing Walton, Douglas (1990) "What is Reasoning? What is Argument?" Journal of Philosophy 87(8): 407

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Updated introduction -- most of this is still true, except: - PhD in Philosophy from UIowa 🤘 - Civil Discourse Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Ethics Center - My darling Poppy passed away - A new tiny gremlin has joined the fellowship -- meet Pippin!

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

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experimenting with x-phi

experimenting with x-phi

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New crochet achievement unlocked

Some incredibly exciting life updates: This fall I will be joining Harvard University's Ethics Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Discourse, & I have also accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor-Educator beginning fall 2026!

Your outie takes both boxes

"Fairness is about everyone getting the same amount of chocolate" - Favorite quotation so far from today's #TeachingHub sessions!

We have a fantastic #TeachingHub lineup for the virtual #CentralAPA today & tomorrow! The Public Forum is open for anyone to attend. Let me know if you're curious about the Poster Session platform (it's on Topia--a fantastic setting for virtual events!)

I like Heidegger’s method for reading philosophy for two reasons: veneration + questioning dialogue is strictly better than “charity”, and it insists on concrete thinking-with a real person over abstract argument over concepts.

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Like, analytic philosophy can be really boring, but at least I know what they’re being boring about!

Poppy’s here to give you a break from the doomscrolling

Trump still obsessively going after windmills is quite quixotic

so uh, what’s tumblr like these days?

she sleeps so soundly because she is completely oblivious to US & global politics 🥲

it’s only a nepo baby if he’s the mysterious “nephew” of a clergyman, otherwise it’s just ✨sparkling entitlement ✨

this raises serious questions about the necessary & sufficient conditions of being a nepo baby - can an orphan be a nepo baby - is the nepo from the name? reputation? wealth?

finished my first crocheted scarf!

TECH BROLIGARCH

kris just told me my hair is giving 80s rick flair absolutely nuclear burn

rewatching season one of Severance and shouting “that’s hegelian dialectic, baby!” *finger guns* every other scene

The word "ungrading" is an active present participle. It doesn't mean "not grading." Ungrading acknowledges the existence of grades and invites systemic critique, an undoing or thoughtful dismantling. Not best practices, but fluid, contextual practices to push against an insidious culture of grades.

taking away tiktok and the lions in the same night is a real blow to the ol’ mental health

turns out stress-crocheting during the Lions game is a really effective way of running out of yarn by halftime

2003 study confirms the findings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric. (Which to be clear, I think is awesome.) One of the biggest surprises of the 2024 cycle to me was that experts still think “I’m smarter than you” scolding and microtargeting of boring ads can convince anyone of anything.

And just like that, the world is a significantly less interesting place with the loss of one person. Time to ramp up the surreal weirdness & make the world more Lynchian

I can’t overstate how much Lynch shaped my life. Every step of his career is tied to my most vivid memories: growing up weird, falling in love, making a career, and a life, moving across the country, then across the world. His work got me through a pandemic, and all the losses after. Thank you David

I usually am indifferent to celebrity deaths, beyond the pang of general human suffering. But David Lynch hits like David Bowie. Once in a generation talent. An artist in the most robust sense. RIP. May the afterlife be filled with an abundance of cigarettes and film scripts.

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Does physicalism imply that this little dog has little feelings, feelings smaller than my feelings because I am so much bigger? (Don’t mind me. Warming up for teaching philosophy of mind.)

Okay. I’m finally going to do it. I’m taking up crochet. Any tips for an absolute beginner??

“Hey Kris, what’s the worst thing you could imagine for the tiktok ban?” Kris: “Uh… Musk buying it instead?” 🥴

"students in the active [learning] classroom learn more, but feel like they learn less"

man, i’m so excited for the Lions game this weekend! i sure hope it’s not at the same time as the symphony that i’ve had tickets for since last april! 🫠🥲😭 DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE

Short 🧵 on ChatGPT, assignments, motivations, & education Redesigning assignments only goes so far when the problems are largely to do with motivation; there are lots of reasons why a student would use ChatGPT to complete their work.

Nice try, but that’s exactly what someone phishing would say…. 😤🫸🏻

Ancient Greek philosophers did not always agree on much, but most of them had an idea of the good life as walking around talking about philosophy with friends so

The cool thing about philosophy conferences is they give you a taste of what it would be like to live in a walkable place near friends and people with similar interests with the leisure time to get to know people & think about stuff together all day.

I went on this thing for a while where I was talking about how "Plato" wasn't his real name. It's a nickname that means "broad" because he was big dude. And that if we really wanted to understand him, we needed to translate his name to "Hoss" or "Bubba."