The deadline to submit to this year's NASSP conference has been extended to March 15! As always, abstracts or proposals in all areas of social philosophy – not just those on the conference theme - are welcome. www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/deadline-ext...

Wed. Jan. 15 @ 3p EST: Abstract Writing Workshop (more info @ link) www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/2025-abstrac...

Prediction: students who go to colleges where they sit in humanities classes of 30-300 will receive 90% fewer sustained writing, research, and reading education than students who go to schools where they sit in classes of 14, because of the way we teachers are adapting to AI cheating.

This is a reminder of the Call for Papers for the North American Society for Social Philosophy's journal, Social Philosophy Today. The full CFP is here. www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/publications/ Please share it with anyone you know who may be interested. Some key details follow.

I have come to love the way that writing feels like it comes from me and not from me at the same time. The things I write feel like they are mine like nothing else does. But they also, at the same time, feel like they are not mine - that I was the conduit by which they happened.

We are happy to report that issue 10.4 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy these three peer-reviewed articles, followed by acknowledgments of referees, editors, and assistants here at the end of our first ten years as a journal.

This paper that Tyler Hildebrand and I wrote came out online last year but has now officially been published. Glad to have it out there - and open access at that!

Philosophers! Please follow & share our new account with your colleagues - we would ultimately like to move away from Twitter/X. #philosophy #philosophers #appliedphilosophy #philosophyjournal

New piece by me and the most excellent Nico Orlandi on the recent election. www.liberalcurrents.com/identity-pol...

Identity Politics Is Dead—Except For White People

If someone is racist and sexist then they will be inclined to look for reasons not to vote for Harris, and the left did and continues to do an excellent job at providing such reasons.

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Social Epistemologists: I was trying to populate a starter pack for us manually but got lazy and thought it would be much more fun to turn this into a game! Post a link to your favourite paper you wrote on the topic below with a post-length abstract and I’ll add you to it! #PhilSky #SocEpis

Today's humanism lecture is @rimabasu.bsky.social on Sherlock Holmes and Moral Failure and Kelly Weirich on ChatGPT and Emotional Outsourcing. In short: the moral floor is to act like a human being and treat others like a human being. Cut out the humanity at either end and you're doing it wrong.

Faux Feminism profiled in the CUNY Graduate Center's newsletter <3

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Serene Khader (@serenekhader.bsky.social) believes feminism can do better. Her new book, “Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop,” is designed to help www.gc.cuny.edu/news/faux-fe...

I created a Social Philosophy Starter Pack. Please tell me who I should add (including you)! #philsky

Philosophers: have undergrads who are looking into MA programs in Phil? Please put Oklahoma State on their radar. We have a great program, supportive faculty, and funding! Reg deadline is 2/14 & students with financial need should reach out by 1/1 to be considered for an app fee waiver. #philsky

My class listened to Ezra Klein interview C. Thi Nguyen on social media, gamification, & value capture. No shock: GPA was the clearest case of potential value capture to them, even more than social media. It’s a great podcast episode. Give it a listen! t.co/GasGP5pDKp #techethics #philsky #philtech

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

My paper "Friendship with the ancients" is out in Journal of the APA. I look at the philosophical practice to "make friends" with long-dead authors, and what you get out of it: a specific kind of understanding, relational understanding, and intellectual humility www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about? You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!

Another interesting new paper! Sara Protasi: The Value of Sleeping "Should you take a pill that gives you all the health benefits of sleep and allows you to stay awake? I argue that you shouldn’t." Pdf on Phil papers #philsky philpapers.org/rec/PROTVO-2

Sara Protasi, The Value of Sleeping - PhilPapers

Should you take a pill that gives you all the health benefits of sleep and allows you to stay awake? I argue that you shouldn’t. I propose three reasons why sleeping, ...

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I spoke with David Rutledge for his program The Philosopher’s Zone (with ABC Radio National) about gut issues and disability theory. If you’re interested, check it out! #philsky

Philosophy, disability and the gut - ABC listen

Digestive disorders are a common source of distress and social anxiety - which might seem to be an odd topic for philosophy, until you start to think about why we attach such stigma, shame and silence...

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Philosophers! The deadline to submit to NASSP is Feb. 15! Note that your work does not have to be on the conference theme in order to be on the program - it just needs to be in social philosophy, broadly construed. www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/annual-confe... #philsky

Take off the table the idea that this is an empirically sound and responsible argument (it's not). Instead, let's focus on where this way of talking about universities comes from and who it serves, based on recent historical precedent. A Thread . . . 1/10

CFP: First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop

First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop

We invite submissions from scholars at all career stages to the first Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, to be held on June 20-21, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and hybrid on Zoo...

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A magnificent post about the value of complaints by @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

We Should Complain

I write about complaint to reduce its stigma. I teach classic philosophical texts that argue against it, so I realize the stigma is longstanding. Complaining is soft, Aristotle says. It’s undignifi�...

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It is here! It exists!

I am totally delighted to share that the keynote speakers for this year's NASSP conference will be Professors Jennifer Lackey and Ásta! It should be a great conference; here's the call for abstracts: www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/annual-confe... #philsky

I'm giving an online talk on "Healthism, Elite Capture, and the Pitfalls of an Expansive Notion of Health" as part of the UQAM Philosophy of Psychiatry Webinar series on Thursday, November 30 at 12:30. All welcome; register below!

Philosophy of psychiatry webinar : Quill Kukla | philosophypsychiatry

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(more can be done to connect communities of scholars here, so here's a shot in the dark/try at this) If you are a scholar, please reply with *one* link to a paper you (co)authored that is close to your heart (not necessarily most prestigious or most cited one) say something about it & RT this post.

I am very happy to share that Not Giving Up on People is available for preorder! Note the 30% off discount code: RLFANDF30 #philsky

Sometimes I'm gripped by the fact that it's such a struggle for many people to simply exist, and yet we now have the means, more than ever before, to give everyone at least a decent existence. But then some shareholders wouldn't become super-wealthy. Such an utterly avoidable tragedy.