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/...

Got the feet to fill Dennett's shoes? New junior position in Philosophy of Mind/Cog Sci at Tufts. philjobs.org/job/show/29606

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Ah yes, the medieval puzzle of Socrates' fingernail...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

In my mid 20s I was all embodied-and-extended, practically enactivist-leaning - I didn't solidify until I was around 30.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Yep.

Feel free to correct my arithmetic, but I make that only 361 possibilities

I am respecting the personal time of my colleagues by not texting them work questions on a Sunday. But heads up, @rohanfrench.bsky.social, I'll be asking you about the difference between arity and adicity sometime this week 😁

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

I just tried to send a colleague a Zoom link but accidently sent that Hello Kitty Roblox video instead. So professional.

Thanks to The Hunting Wives, my new response to anyone mentioning Ockham’s razor is to say “Who’s the fuck what now?” in a southern drawl

Still my finest moment: I got a reference to Meat Loaf's autobiography into Mind.

Psychologists! Extra perk of this job is that you can get involved with the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science major of which I am the director 🧠 🤖 🤔

This is my villain origin story 😂

you can also, as a listener, train yourself to see past superficial stuff like this, and you owe it both to speakers and to yourself to do so

Hey Sacramento/Davis area folks: adopt this stunning cat

I wish my children were this talented. (They are cats and orange ones at that.)

@sarahrobins.bsky.social will be heading to The University of Mississippi for a philosophy forum titled 'Philosophy Meets the Life Sciences' on September 5th! She'll be presenting some of her recent work on memory during her talk titled "Memory Traces & Engrams, Minds & Brains" 🧠

Wayne’s World, Waiting For Godot, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Beavis And Butthead are all part of my favorite genre: two stupid guys that are occasionally very smart by accident.

I can

I was once in a relationship with a man who could recite these and it was kinda hot, ngl

Sandra Oh's face in The Chair has become my academic-administrative spirit animal.

The people need to know

Some of y’all are like “ugh, first day back teaching” and I’m just here stalking the Weinermobile #sabbatical

Adding this to my list of favourite facts, which include that Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman and that the fictional Indian place names in Temple of Doom were nicked from Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown novel

I wanted to comment on this with an Insane Clown Posse meme but so many people already beat me to it

This is what philosophy professors on sabbatical do

I wouldn’t tell anyone if I were in charge of fundraising for my local soccer team’s new stadium but there would be signs

I am in this photo and I don't like it 😆

Hosted a faculty pool party. We voted unanimously to hold all future faculty meetings in my pool.

Lots of great new papers in Phil Imprint, but as a longtime fan of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, I really loved this one

Smirnoff Ice's new ads claim that it "defies logic", which seems refreshingly honest

I was 8 or 9 years old. 😳

So, if I understand this whole 4E thing, the mind is not a computer, unless you own a computer, in which case it is?

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…

It gets worse: by your forties, the virus has made you so smug about your propagation skills that you try other plants - only to discover that your ‘skills’ were decidedly pothos-specific all along

Also

Spoiler: it was an annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Article does not mention if players were weak or strong.

I’d watch the shit out of Bayeswatch, where Pamela Anderson confounds her fellow lifeguards by being able to figure out who’s probably in danger.

has Usher ever read The Fall of the House of Usher or do you think he is too scared

I read this whole thread before realizing it was about the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and not the Irish Republican Army 🥲

guys i just checked the daily nous post's metadata and you will NOT believe this

The only time I was in the same room as Maggie Boden, she was leaning over a table to talk to Jerry Fodor so I tried to get a photo at an angle which made it look like they were kissing. I'm thoroughly ashamed of my grad student behavior but still might dig out that pic. #philsky

I love @okaydaniellle.bsky.social

This photo is going on my mood board for my next home decor project

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