MFW I realize too late that Overleaf excludes footnotes from its word counter

Is this the cover for @kkdumez.bsky.social's new book? 🧐

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

Coauthor (@kmdoublev.bsky.social) and I reviewing our final draft one last time 🤘

Oh come on.

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

McGinn's blog is a trip

We are organising a conference!! Our main goal with this is to bring together the awesome emerging philosophical work in the social, political, aesthetic & ethical dimensions of language. CfP now open - deadline 2nd of April :) philevents.org/event/show/1... @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social

Lord, save us from the Kalshi bets over which corporate LLM this inevitably turns out to be.

The correct attitude that one should take toward AI is as a left technocrat. Be relentlessly empirical about the powers and pitfalls of the technology, but do not forget the contingent material circumstances that shape its deployments. Incidentally, I am a left technocrat.

So begins another 40-day period of hopeful longing as we together await deliverance from the sufferings of this world. 🙏 (✨ Just over one month to Opening Day ⚾✨)

1. BTW: If you're curious to know more about Doug Wilson, I have two stories for you. The first is from back in 2023, when I went to Idaho to investigate Christian nationalism in the region and, among other things, met w/Wilson for a long interview about his views. religionnews.com/2023/02/22/h...

i mean some of us want to be read

philosophers:

Wrote about why teen social media bans are a dangeous idea based on a moral panic and little evidence. (with Marta G Franco, who takes most of the credit for this :) )

More disciplines need more papers like this (massive bibliometric reviews bearing audaciously cheeky titles)

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Academics will mutter "kill your darlings," then delete two paragraphs they spent days writing, but didn't even like that much.

ScholarOne, I am tired of playing this game. You know, I know, we all know that I don’t know my password. Just take me directly to my ORCiD.

Play always, everywhere.

“i’m having trouble pinning down your argument” that sounds like a you problem

Do we have to make the AI Catholic?

"I really like the ideas of Jeremy Bentham." "The ones about maximising pleasure and treating everyone equally?" "Not those ones, no." "Animal welfare? Decriminalising consensual sexual acts? Expanding democratic accountability?" "Not exactly." "Which ones then?" "Oh, you know the ones..."

The Spring 2026 NASSP Social Philosophy Workshop is about to kick off and we still have a few open slots for presenters this semester! (@nassp.bsky.social) For info (and to join the listserv): www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/social-philo...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Out on the not-online conference having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

Wilhelm screaming as I find out that actual journalists reporting on Grok quote Grok as a primary source as if it is a sentient person

Shout-out to the conference hotel for solving the "which session should I go to?" problem by cranking the mics to be heard through every wall

This seems objectively better than naming your kid after a TV character who might end up committing both genocide and incest in her final season.

“textual ruins” ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

I love my weird little nerd job 🤓

When the next section starts at the top of the page:

his kill streak continues

Not sharing that grotesque Time Person of the Year cover, but as always, there’s a dril tweet

obsessed with this part of the acknowledgements of this philosophy of sport paper

Dunking on your students won't make your grading better.

Please share!

be a person willing to dig deep into methods and you will defang a lot of bullshit

"Here is my hand" - Philosophers skipping the line during Q&A

my earnest advice is, as much as humanly possible, immediately forget every place you've applied as soon as you submit the application

I should've made clear from the outset that I agree with @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social on this particular thing, just adding another thought

Very tired of having to explain to people old enough to know better that it has NOT, in fact, always been true that we allow technology to get ever more dangerous and damaging as it ‘advances’. Please stop memory-holing the entire 20th century

Missing family dinner this holiday, so I'll just have to annoy myself:

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

okay, but really, no one needs that