Kenneth Black
@kennethblack.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ MIT philosophy, doing philosophy of mind, language, cog sci, and some other stuff. I also like birds and peppers. (he/him) kennethblackphi.com
Out today! elifesciences.org/articles/111... @elife.bsky.social
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Well as usual I think that Grice knew something that many others didn’t.
if everyone had recognized that most words are polysemous we'd just have got *more* analytic philosophy. it can't be stopped
Young Wittgenstein, being shown out of the fly bottle for the first time
Kenneth Black@kennethblack.bsky.social · 6d agoHappened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line
this guy seems like a super genius language understander. let's set up a whole research program where we try to discern the meaning of his cryptic remarks about how language works
Kenneth Black@kennethblack.bsky.social · 6d agoHappened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line
Inside you, there are n analytic philosophers (for some n>0)
Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · last wk.
To stay motivated, every morning I go to the mirror and say
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2w agoAlso, I dunno man. You went to grad school. You’re a nerd, sorry
Whitehead when Quine was a grad student: “Willard, there is a difference between a draft and undetached draft parts”
How do people live with lying? I accidentally misidentified a fish to a random guy at a park and it’s been troubling me all day
My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5
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food label: all natural ingredients! philosophical naturalist, brow furrowing: what’s the alternative, twinkie dualism?
listen, i'm not here to tell you about quine. you already know about quine. either he lives in your heart or he doesn't
I think if you’ve read a living person’s entire academic book, you should get the right to use their first name regardless of whether you’ve met
Philosophers, we need your help We are running a study on philosophers’ intuitions about thought experiments moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/ Only takes a few minutes!
Continental breakfast is nice and all, but have you ever tried a hearty *analytic* breakfast?
6 year old son convinced me sun is a living thing.
As a grad student, allow me to share ONE WEIRD TRICK to having a philosophical research program: just be able to be annoyed by something and let it become your whole life
Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a white dude, allow me to share the ONE WEIRD TRICK to avoiding having rancid politics: just be able to be annoyed by something without it becoming your whole life
Loud rooms with lots of people trying to talk are such a prisoner’s dilemma
A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.
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If you were invited to do a Philosophy Talk at a High School, to speak about a subject that should blow the kids' minds and make them want to study Philosophy: 1. What would you talk about? And, most importantly 2. Are you really confident in your ability to be *understood and liked* by teenagers?
This is true but Kenneth is being misleading: every day at MIT philosophy is corner quote day
Kenneth Black@kennethblack.bsky.social · 2mo agoEveryone in the referee pool should know how to use corner quotes. Day one at MIT philosophy is corner quote day
Drove on one French King Highway today, big news for philosophy of language
