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

@noamchompers.bsky.social just told @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's grad seminar that he's "familiar with the internet" and I, for one, am glad to see a philosopher saying something noncontroversial

Don't forget to submit your philosophy and psychology papers to SSPP 2026 in Atlanta! It's going to be a banger. southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/

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 🧨

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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