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My nine years as Fantasy Baseball Commissioner has undoubtedly prepared me to be a Provost or at least a Dean more than any other academic service role I've had and yet no one in admin thinks it's a promotable task.

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Went to Göteborg to ask Margareta Hallberg about Hesse. Over a period of 10+ years (2000-) she interviewed Hesse about her life. Our conversation inevitably fell, with gloom, on the personal and academic freedom Hesse associated with her visits to US🥺 #philsci #hps link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Too many conceptual engineers and not enough conceptual imagineers.

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Wittgenstein is a great philosopher because he asked hard questions no other philosopher before him asked like "What if babies are liars?"

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Later Wittgenstein 🤝 Air Bud

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Forgot to include finally proving an external world.

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Suppose a ref makes a questionable shooting foul call. The player misses the free throw. According to a well-established principle, ʙᴀʟʟ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴇ, the player was not fouled. Thus, ʙᴀʟʟ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴇ licenses one to say: 'The player was fouled, but I don't believe it.' What, if anything, has gone wrong?

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We will always have Art to learn from, admire, get lost in… New watercolor / gouache collection on view from Erin Kendig! ghostgallery.org/collections/...

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Philosophers of science anytime someone mentions how hot or cold it's been lately: "Interesting that you brought up the temperature. Did you know that it is actually really complicated? I don't know if you've heard of this book; it's by Hasok Chang...."

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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog" commits the fallacy of equivocation.

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I don't have time to listen to this five-hour podcast to end all podcasts made before podcasts ever existed, but maybe you do. (From the 1993 Dutch documentary series "A Glorious Accident.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkP5...

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STEM fields that measure things: A century is 100 years. Vibe-based humanities disciplines: A century can be longer than 100 years.

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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not exactly the world's biggest mengzi fan but he was cooking when he said «"Is there any difference between killing him with a knife and killing him with misrule?" "There is no difference."»

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Community colleges are great.

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i have no way of talking about this that would help or even matter but what this country is doing to trans people and children is demonic

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I swear I'm not being unfriendly when I work with my office door closed, it's just that my colleagues shouldn't have to relive the early 2000s with me by listening to Squarepusher's "Go Plastic" through the decades-old Harman Kardon computer speakers I found in my office.

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As a non tenure-track faculty member whose "permanent" job is subject to renewal every 5ish years, I hope the tenured commenter here saying faculty reductions can be justified is the first to volunteer to give up their job when budget cuts are made at their university. dailynous.com/2025/01/21/p...

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confirmation theory:

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If I could go back in time and ask Quine only one question it would be, "Who do you think you are?"

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A few years ago on twitter, I created a profile called 'moorefacts' and every day I was going to tweet out a fact G.E. Moore says he knows with certainty but I only made like two or three posts before dying from boredom.

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Moore always finds a way to state relatively simple points like "I was once a baby" in really convoluted ways.

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For all the Feiglians out there, an old Feigl lecture just dropped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaX...

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My Top Fears 1. Slipping on the slick bricks in the quad again. 2. Slipping on the slick bricks in Red Square (1st time). 3. Students noticing I wore the same shirt two classes in a row. 4. The heat in my office staying off through Winter. 5. Needing to talk about the concept horse problem.

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Epistemologists have paid no attention to what it means to know ball. This is regrettable. 'Jones knows that Jokic is great at basketball' doesn't entail 'Jones knows ball.' Moreover, 'Smith knows how to Eurostep' doesn't entail 'Smith knows ball.' So, what does S know when S knows ball? 1/? 🧵

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It's Saturday, so you know what that means: Time to solve some philosophical problems by getting the boys together and reading the dictionary.

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My university's grad school sent out a message encouraging students to reflect on how they might hone or develop soft skills, one of which is writing good emails, and it then provided some tips. The message ends with additional resources about how to use AI to write professional emails. 😓

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If there's ever a good time in the acknowledgements to not take responsibility for the errors in your lectures and attribute them to the person whose ideas the lectures are based on, it's when you don't even know whether the person is alive or dead. Huge missed opportunity.

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This is the single best video game I've ever played neal.fun/stimulation-...

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Hate to say it, but the 2 years of coursework and 5ish years of research into the constitutive a priori I did years ago to earn my PhD didn't prepare me for my current job, 97% of which is making Canvas modules and the other 3% is finding my phone to login to Canvas using two-factor authentication.

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Most of my hard drive space is taken up by the thousands of copies of Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description scattered across hundreds of folders.

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My PDF management system is downloading papers already on my computer that I can't find or be bothered to search for and labeling them in a way that I think I should be able to find in the future but saving them to a bunch of random research or teaching folders only to download them again later.

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If the humanities ever produced a reality show as good as Forged in Fire but for like literary criticism or analytic metaphysics or whatever, it would no longer be in crisis.

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Socrates: The dog got that philosopher in him.

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Since everything either happens or does not happen and that is easily represented as 'P v ~P' and can also be grasped after one day of logic, I guess the point of Bayesianism is for people to be able to talk about 'prior-this' and 'updating-that' so they seem more sophisticated than everyone else.

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Academics on social media are like Paul Harvey but for stuff only other academics find fascinating: "Did you know an index is much more radical than just a list of words with numbers next to them? A long 🧵 [...] And that's how the humble index has always served elite interests. 300/300"

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No one's mentioned O.K. Bouwsma. 😓

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Was doing some philosophy and did some theft instead of honest toil and frankly? Not that bad; way easier.

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I'm a YIMBY but not for Roku City. All these recent additions have ruined the character of a city I used to really love.

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1. Lyceum: Aristotle 2. (tie) Hundred Schools of Thought 103. School of hard knocks: Me 104. Minnesota, in the fifties 105. Vienna, in the late '20s 106. Stanford, in the disunity years 107. Socrates's Thinkery as depicted in The Clouds

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Socrates: The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows, but I know that this apology is sponsored by Fanduel. Download the app and use code EXAMINEDLIFE to get 30 free minae for your first bet. Must be 18 or older, offer availabl

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Since peer review is logically impossible for those of us without peer, you can now find all my research on my subscriber-only substack.

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I'd buy a SEPTA station in the summer scented candle.

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