The Mark II Hand Ejector, a large-frame revolver developed by U.S. firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson, finished a fight in the streets of Cairo from a distance of 6 meters (20 feet) in a stunning <0.5 seconds, beating the human world record by more than 3 minutes.

A fun thing about the philosophy of language I do is that cases of Bible verses, veiled death threats, and people farting in public all belong in a talk about prayers.

I am once again begging for the inside story of this shoot from whatever intern had to source the obviously brand-new “discarded” toys

Suppose you’ve been writing a paper for over a year, have presented it repeatedly, and have it out for review. Now you’re listening to a *shockingly* similar conference paper, but have zero reason to think anyone has done wrong (no dishonesty, plagiarism, etc). Do you say something to the speaker?

I guess I think philosophy sorta is the Calvinball of academia lol

A restaurant where everyone eats for free except for one random customer who owes the whole day’s tab. Welcome to Omelas Diner.

The old month is dying, and the new one struggles to be born; now is the time of fools.

Please don’t celebrate April Fools today it’s an insult my people (dumbasses)

Some of the time the Rockies lose 100% of the time.

The Rockies haven't even played (read: "lost") yet today and I still was just like "yup"

Attention Boston-area Philosophers! With the support of the Harvard Ethics Center, @agholdier.bsky.social, Matt Willis, & I are hosting the Philosophy of Dialogue Conference this Friday & Saturday (3/27 & 28) at Harvard! Free to attend, register here: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/e6x9m...

BREAKING: First Lady defends woke material illegal in the state of Texas.

March 25th, End of the Third Age: The One Ring is destroyed. March 25th, 2026: Baseball's Opening Night. Checkmate, atheists 🙏

someone alert the JCI letter-writers

Students who say “Mills” finally vindicated!

Han Edgoose and I are organising a panel on Epistemic Injustice and Backlash at this year's MANCEPT Workshops! The call for abstracts is here, deadline May 1st: philevents.org/event/show/1...

I'm working on a paper about Ada Lovelace and, when I tell you she's *incredible*, it's because she was a brilliant mathematician who took herself roughly this seriously:

Happy Wednesday, folks 🤓

Nature is healing 🙏

Newcomb's problem, but if you make the wrong choice, this guy appears and demolishes everything

Speech act theorist! at the social science conference

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

speech act question: do fallback promises raise any interesting issues that anyone has/hasn't written about? like "If I don't have this ready for you by Friday, I'll buy you dinner?" [which seems a bit crass] many accounts of promises seem to focus more on "If *you* do X I'll do Y" cases

studying linguistics equips you with the tools necessary to succeed in the real world. the tools

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)

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..."