it's only a postdoc if it's from the postdocque region of France. otherwise, it's just sparkling precarity.

@agholdier.bsky.social - Gotta thank you openly while also trying to boost awareness of this incredible book! I read one of the chapters about JL Austin’s ‘How to Do Things with Words’ and it was so well written that I’m now 2 chapters deeper and just thoroughly enthralled 🤩 great philosophy here!

this also works for grad school

Out: Hinge epistemology In: Hygge epistemology

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

might have just found my opening paragraph for a phil language paper on chickenshit

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

incredible abstract, 10/10, no notes

Since the FBI's new challenge coin is again making the Punisher logo politically relevant, here's something I wrote in 2022 about Wittgenstein, symbols, and cultural contexts: www.prindleinstitute.org/2022/01/mean...

A great alt-ac phil. language job just opened:

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

yeah, i do peer review

Celebrating this Postdoc Appreciation Week in the traditional manner (working from home on job applications)

It's postdoc appreciation week eve, so make sure to leave out some extra pens and a travel coffee mug from an institution you didn't even know they were affiliated with.

Yup

Just read a footnote in a (great!) paper that apologized for using a "pop culture reference" (to Tywin Lannister from ASoIaF/Game of Thrones). What are more examples of philosophers referencing "low" art (vs. something like Shakespeare or a Bach concerto)?

RETVRN

Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨

😎📚

People who know tech history: what are some examples of past hypes around new technologies that didn’t come true and which seem silly now? Where people thought the world and our lives would change rapidly and radically… and then they didn’t.

Just to be clear, *Kelly* is definitely the real scholar

I love spending the first day in my new office working on job applications 🥲 #academia

Have you guys started doing your gift shopping for postdoc appreciation week yet? Only one month to go, and many places sell out of the most popular gifts fast! (Tissues for weeping, anxiety medication, books on how to apply to law school, etc.)

a tragic irony, given the theorist's intent, that his equation directly entails AI=0

#philsky #polisky who is doing the best work right now on the social and political economic impacts of AI?

According to the conventions of sandwich naming, sandwiching your criticism between compliments is not a "compliment sandwich." It's a criticism sandwich on compliment.

Missing Helen and want to give this a boost. It’s so close to the goal. Let’s get it the rest of the way: www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

While OpenAI keeps trying to create a "PhD level" chatbot, Google did it by mistake.

I already have a team of PhD-level experts in my pocket. It's called having a vibrant group chat.

Spent the last few days at a wonderful workshop at Notre Dame run by @mikesbarnes.bsky.social. Reminded me just how much better the "hanging out with your friends trying to figure things out together" model of philosophy is compared to the standard solitary/gladiatorial version

Me deciphering wtf DN did based only on y'all's subtweets:

Recent coauthored publication, we need you now more than ever. philarchive.org/rec/HOLARA-2

I haven't read this closely enough yet to have a view (beyond "ugh. ETS scores 🙄"), but it is funny that 'Pharmacy' is apparently both: - the second-best undergrad major for high LSAT scores, and - the second-worst major for developing intellectual virtues doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Me re-reading my old draft:

*Philosophers* I'm the book review editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy. We have a pile of books looking for reviewers. If interested in reviewing a book in ethics/political/action that came out in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025, please keep reading. And please share this too!

Decent chance Jonathan is joking here, but uhh... if you're at NASSP next week I'll be presenting @agholdier.bsky.social's and my work on this!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Lewis (1969) famously defended the view that common knowledge is infinitarian: common knowledge happens when everyone knows that P, everyone knows that everyone knows that P, everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone...

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

Going to attach this article to my dissertation revisions

MFW I read a paper acknowledgment thanking someone "who served as a commentator on a previous version of this paper, which resulted not only in valuable feedback, but also the occasion of our first meeting and eventual marriage."

remember: you, too, can make citations like this (i believe in you!)

Are any of my mutuals fluent in French?

Launching a DDOS attack might legitimately fall under "Service" on a CV

"How to Jump the Shark 🦈: Abstract Writing as Public Philosophy" forthcoming in the Journal of Doesn't Matter They Won't Read It Anyway