a fourth journal just invited me to review the same (unchanged) manuscript. please god get me out of this niche

In our last post for the week, Josh Mugg responds to the comments on his book. Thanks very much to Josh, Devin, Lesley, and Aliya for their contributions, and thanks to you for following along! Don't forget to join the discussion in the comments.

Last but certainly not least in the commentaries for this week, we have Aliya Rumana commenting on "From Human Reasoning to Belief"!

Today we keep our symposium on Josh Mugg's book rolling, with comments from Lesley Walker!

wrote about putting a donk on it, and in particular about *who* puts a bangin donk on it (it = belief fixation)

The intro post to this week's symposium on Josh Mugg's book is live! Check it out, and don't forget to participate in the comments section!

When my school was cutting my major, I posted something on X about my anxiety and disappointment. A trustee recommended I read some stoicism because he found that it helped him (with no sense of irony that the discipline he was recommending I read was just eliminated by the board he sat on).

Method Man ends a very good Wu-Tang Clan halftime show with, "Knicks in 5, what y'all talking about?" You don't know him, and you don't know his style.

evidence that a book will exist www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

open access special issue on Poslajko's UNREAL BELIEFS out now! in my contribution i explain why i think beliefs that are socially constructed are (not nonetheless but therefore) real (per Poslajko's definition of reality) studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/index.php/St...

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Give it a try here! self-model.github.io/pretendingNo...

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

type: set doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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