Suppose someone thought NIMBYism was more or less just property owners banding together using the power of the state to protect their wealth (a thing we on the left easily recognise as such when capitalists do it) and left opposition to YIMBY arise because we often hope to be among the owners here.

this is a heretofore unseen level of self-hatred and pretension. my dude just be normal and enjoy a miller lite like everyone else!

📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAE

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Sometimes it do be like that

Coda: in fact in making OP I even ran into the issue.

Philosopher @nippleslipple.bsky.social has one of my favourite websites in the discipline just for this (emilytilton11.wixsite.com/website/disa...).

i accidentally let my old domain expire and now a strange AI website has popped up in its place (🤪) so now I have a new website 😬 emilytilton11.wixsite.com/website

In what many are calling the most CV efficient strategy ever, I have my 2026 paper out already (relax for the rest of the year comrades!) and it's actually a bit of a joke one. Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and abstract attached. But I'll just tell the story of how it came to be....

I found an old blog post in drafts that I decided to modify somewhat and put out - my own little plea for humanism, why I self-describe and generally consider myself a humanist. Not sure if anyone else will care, but fwiw here it is. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-...

thinking about this excellent paper and the danger of the epistemic mission civilatrice, in which one engages with another viewpoint in order to convert its adherents, while firmly committed to not being converted oneself [this has been an exercise in sticking "epistemic' in front of things]

woo! this weird little paper (‘moorean skepticism’) is now forthcoming :) i argue we should see descartes as a social epistemologist and moore as a particularly pessimistic kind of skeptic. you can check it out here: philpapers.org/rec/TILMSW

bsky.app/profile/nipp... this paper also seems relevant to the discussion, especially the part about the smug "everyone thinks that" tone

Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/

woo! this weird little paper (‘moorean skepticism’) is now forthcoming :) i argue we should see descartes as a social epistemologist and moore as a particularly pessimistic kind of skeptic. you can check it out here: philpapers.org/rec/TILMSW

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

Fanone gets it: Opposition to political assassinations includes people whose views have no redeeming qualities, like Charlie Kirk. Sugarcoating his views not only is dishonest in itself, it conveys that maybe you wouldn't oppose assassination of people whose views you don't sugarcoat.

[reading a story about a guy who annoyed everyone so much he was sentenced to death by acclamation] philosophers: this is a story about a guy being cool

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One of the most pernicious delusions social media spreads in our age faux-populism is that there is an alternative to having an ‘expert class’. There is not. Yes, they can have biases. Yes, they can be wrong. Yes, they can even be corrupt. There still is no alternative. The world is complicated.

shout out to dan greco for letting me keep this in here 😂

Yay! This paper on impurist epistemology and the social turn is now forthcoming at Philosophy Compass :) You can check it out here! philpapers.org/rec/TILIEA

honestly A+ trolling of Daniel Kodsi

“please look over the proofs” i’m sure they’re fine

But in its actual content I think it's true & important: retaining the ability to see a behaviour as actually anti social and worthy of condemnation, without writing off the person engaged in the behaviour as unworthy of any support or incapable of improvement, is morally foundational. Vital.

Is Daniel Kodsi a complete fucking joke? Let’s see what happens when someone (I would say foolishly) tries to engage with him

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

I'm sick of all the conspiracy mongering about a dead guy who just happened to be a pedophile connected to multiple world leaders.

One thing I'd like to know is are there any examples of a political party coming back from the kinda gangster cult of the personality thing the GOP now has going on without either societal collapse or losing a big war?

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

i subscribe to the "no darlings left behind" model of editing

Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.

At 70k followers I will reveal the full flow chart which specifies who should be centred in every conversation. 80k followers and I reveal what centring people in conversations means.

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain

Starting to doubt this Administration’s commitment to free speech

my absolute favorite version of pretending to admit when you were wrong but not actually doing it is “i was right actually, i just didn’t listen to my own right beliefs”

"I really should've listened to myself" guy who has definitely learned something after being demonstrably wrong

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.

As his candidate is defeated in Wisconsin, Elon Musk hasn't posted in 21 minutes. This is the longest he's gone without posting in over three years.

One characteristic feature of being an academic is that in discussions with nonacademics we often have to spend a great deal of time trying to explain how in fact we are NOT agreeing with one another.

when you're asked to explain Haslanger (2000) but only skimmed it years ago:

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

Sandra Harding, a philosopher well-known for her work in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and philosophy of science, has died.

[solemnly] apples to apples, dust to dust

they’re making workplace DEI trainings illegal but this is still allowed

my wife is sending me updates from a mandatory team building meeting