an internet person has made a searchable version of Borges‘ library of Babel and it’s way more horrifying than the actual story libraryofbabel.info

this is the project that dan was far and away most excited to talk about over the last several years of his life

The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors. link.springer.com/journal/1124...

one semester's daily quizzes

johanna's essay mostly resonates with my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows

my wife may be going into labor right when she goes on call as a midwife, generating a real russell's paradox type situation

Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature. philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF

same as the old dorp

Fourteen excellent new papers up at Imprint, including this paper by Anthony Reeves on the moral importance of due process, as well as papers by @neilwwilliams.bsky.social, @devinsanchezcurry.com, @frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.

favorite thing I've written

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing

Sept. 19-20: Retirement conference in honor of Gary Hatfield at UPenn. Speakers include Aleksandra Igdalova, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ben Baker, Peter Schwartz, Louise Daoust, and Uljana Feest. For those interested in attending, RSVP here: upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #philsky

either my whole brain constructs strawmen equipotentially or my strawmen are the exclusive products of the strawman module in my temporoparietal junction

this new preprint features what will (to my knowledge) be the first discussion of the mental life of ex utah jazz lunk greg ostertag in a polish journal devoted to the intersection of philosophy and semiotics

get deep in some weeds with @kposlajko.bsky.social and I: philpapers.org/rec/CURBAR

my daughters have never known an uncle without a podcast

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Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵

"Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity. philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2

fifty-three of my dad's students, friends, relatives, and ardent admirers helped put this festschrift together: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dckc

Excited about today's new #HoPWaG episode, in which I interview Gary Hatfield about the argument of Descartes' Meditations! We discuss his reasons for writing it, the cogito, the proofs for God, and the Cartesian circle. www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me... #philsky #descartes #meditations

strus should've gone in for a knowledge norm of showing up to work instead

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

precisely $300 worth of wisdom in this book, which, given the going rate, is a lot of wisdom

I’m giving a talk next Friday a new and improved version of the talk I gave this past November at Ruhr-Universität Bochum thanks to @psteinkrueger.bsky.social

Looking for a gift that will get the family talking and laughing? Check out *Everyday Ethics* by Brian Huss--short vignettes for reading aloud including: Is it ok to: -save seats in a crowded movie theatre? -ignore your drama prone friend? and of course... -lie to children about Santa Claus?

in the spirit of migrating good posts over here, i just spent too long finding this screenshot

When Ryle visited Husserl in 1927, he was "unwilling to admit to Frau Husserl that her husband was as great as Plato, but admitted that he might be as great as Kant" (McGuinness & Vrijen 2007, fn. 2). www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Journal of Controversial Ideas pseudonyms ranked from best to worst: Maggie Heartsilver Shuichi Tezuka Marlowe Kerring Fira Bensto Brecht Vaerwaeter Ivar Hardman

Hey, I’m no longer just a philosopher of color perception—my first pain-related work is officially out! I was holding out for the SharedIt link (since it’s behind a paywall), but my patience ran out… so here it is (if you’d like access but hit the paywall, let me know): doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Recently investigated what it means for a belief to represent identity with @xphilosopher.bsky.social. It's seemingly unrelated to whether the belief is subjective! See where beliefs landed on identity (symbolic) and subjectivity: plotly.com/~m.meyer/6/ Here's the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

ryle thought biographical details could be essential to interpreting philosophers' writing (since particular lives' "aporiai are the driving force of philosophical, as distinct from scientific thinking"). he also took pains to shield all non-donnish aspects of his own life from the public eye.

Krzysztof’s book is super sharp, and opens up a bunch of new space for conversation. Read it—I bet you’ll find that a critical commentary suggests itself. (This is an inductive inference from my own track record of interaction with Krzysztof’s work!)

Very excited about this: there is a CfP for a special issue of "Semiotic Studies" devoted to anti-realism in phil mind, which is more or less a symposium on my recent book "Unreal beliefs" and many bright people signed on it, so join if you're interested: philevents.org/event/show/1...

cannot stress enough that this is the vision being pushed by higher ed consultants

"Moore waves his hands to prove an external world; Carnap uses formal languages to logically construct it. Yet, both belong to a tradition now-called analytic philosophy." A blog about my longer paper on Susan Stebbing's central role in shaping analytic philosophy. ergoblog.org/paul-l-franc...

just read this, it rules—precisely the kind of imaginative-while-empirically-grounded cogsci of consciousness that many cognitive scientists spent decades assuming (and sometimes claiming) couldn’t be done

kids book of the year fyi #booksky

new book for teaching argumentation by the best philosophy teacher i know

Now available! Everyday Ethics by Brian Huss. Proud partner!! broadviewpress.com/product/ever...

I’ve just posted two preprints that continue this project on the historicity of the ontology of mind. (1/3)

"teachers will teach, and try to teach well, regardless of how you treat them (yes, Gillian Welch, everything is free now)." www.nny360.com/opinion/lett...