𝔄𝔫𝔡, 𝔩𝔬, 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔟𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯, 𝔳𝔬𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔩𝔦𝔯𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰, “𝔓𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔓𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔍𝔬𝔟𝔰…”

something something public philosophy

Paul Stillman@stillman.bsky.social · 7d ago

Oh god there's a comment section

these interdisciplinary conversations are so important to promote 🙏

Paul Stillman@stillman.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hey noam, question from an academic outside philosophy: what the fuck is this?

what they don’t tell you about the job market is that whoever comes in last place has to write the Alex Rails article next year

So much has been written about the yin/yang of Superman/Batman, but I actually think that Supes & Spidey make a more interesting contrast: “Despite everything, a genuinely decent dork tries to do what’s right” fits them both, but one’s a cosmically unlucky kid and the other is basically God.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · last wk.

Marvel has spent 60 years trying to re-bottle the Spider-Man magic, and now they've got Disney money on the project. How does this one objectively insane concept just *work,* superhero fatigue be damned? Can't be explained by convention. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko simply stumbled backwards into god.

"Context Collapse" is what happens when separate conversational or social contexts mix. Academics have been studying it for nearly two decades; I summarized that literature (and proposed a new unifying model) for Philosophy Compass... (link: final preprint) <🧵> (1/7) philpapers.org/rec/HOLCCW-4

Altman's starting to sound desperate.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Matt Weiner@mattweiner19.bsky.social · last wk.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

where do I put this on my CV?

One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻

Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · last mo.

Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.

100% agree! @kfrostarnold.bsky.social’s work is excellent 🤘

Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social · 2w ago

More people should know about Karen Frost-Arnold's really interesting appendix in her book about internet research ethics for philosophers! (tldr don't randomly cite people you find on the internet!) academic.oup.com/book/44880/c...

"Emotional Outsourcing" with @agholdier.bsky.social is out in The Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print on philpapers for anyone interested. academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...

Emotional outsourcing

Abstract. Prompting a chatbot to write an apology or a love letter on your behalf is a form of emotional outsourcing—an act in which a person gives over a

academic.oup.com

By now it’s a certainty that any company or piece of tech named after something in Tolkien is going to be some awful large-scale technological offense against either nature or human dignity. Surely a fitting legacy for a man who hated technology and its offenses against nature and human dignity.

Ecstatic to announce, with @agholdier.bsky.social, that our paper "Emotional Outsourcing" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print is up on PhilPapers now.⬇️ philpapers.org/rec/WEIEOP-2

No good can come of befriending a philosopher.

@agholdier.bsky.social and I take something akin to this approach here, treating the company as responsible for the message their (text-generating) product promotes, though we try to commit to as little as possible re: LLM speech to make our argument. philpapers.org/rec/HOLARA-2

Begging anyone at all to take a Religious Studies course or speak to a Religious Studies scholar or maybe even just touch grass before publishing this stuff

Calling him “one of the world’s greatest living thinkers” is actually pretty funny when you look at the state of The World.

dr. caitlin m. green@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

he’s going to sit onstage and think LIVE what a treat

It's a weird time to ask for sympathy for people in middle America, I get it. But also, the median coasty bluesky user (and a not-small chunk of my coasty/European friends) believe stereotypes about Americans equivalent to me putting on a mime costume and chugging red wine while eating a baguette

I’ve been at Notre Dame for nearly a year, but the lampposts still seem oddly…Dark

The Mark II Hand Ejector, a large-frame revolver developed by U.S. firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson, finished a fight in the streets of Cairo from a distance of 6 meters (20 feet) in a stunning <0.5 seconds, beating the human world record by more than 3 minutes.

CNN@cnn.com · 4mo ago

Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished a 21-kilometer (13 mile) run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. https://cnn.it/4mLRxQ8

A fun thing about the philosophy of language I do is that cases of Bible verses, veiled death threats, and people farting in public all belong in a talk about prayers.

I am once again begging for the inside story of this shoot from whatever intern had to source the obviously brand-new “discarded” toys

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

i suppose that's my cue to repost this new york times photo of jonathan haidt standing in the middle of an abandoned playground that i think about all the time

Suppose you’ve been writing a paper for over a year, have presented it repeatedly, and have it out for review. Now you’re listening to a *shockingly* similar conference paper, but have zero reason to think anyone has done wrong (no dishonesty, plagiarism, etc). Do you say something to the speaker?

I guess I think philosophy sorta is the Calvinball of academia lol

A restaurant where everyone eats for free except for one random customer who owes the whole day’s tab. Welcome to Omelas Diner.

The old month is dying, and the new one struggles to be born; now is the time of fools.