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

philosophy is the ethos that we should judge all positions in their strongest, most defensible forms, except relativism, which we should judge based on the views of undergrads

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...

my self-indulgent remembrance of dan dennett: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dcd

“The risibly misguided question “What does one do with a degree in physics?” is now as resonant in the public mind as the equally misguided question “What does one do with a B.A. in philosophy?” has been for some time.” My dad’s piece in the Chronicle: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

"On IQ and other sciencey descriptions of minds" is now forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint. (1/5) philpapers.org/rec/CUROIA-2

this appeared, open access, while i was off of social media. it's about studying animals and making friends. doi.org/10.1111/phpe...