Alex Madva
@madva.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy @ Cal Poly Pomona | Director of CA Center for Ethics & Policy | Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium | Co-Author of Somebody Should Do Something
Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social! Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
A précis of my book is now out in Philosophical Psychology as part of an upcoming book symposium. PP is the first journal in which I ever published an article. It’s a pleasure to come full circle. I’m looking forward to engaging with the thoughtful commentaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What the self does for psychiatry: testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Dr...
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Not every day that you get to give a talk with an opener, the opener plays 17th century Irish folk music, and previous speakers in the series were Thoreau and Emerson. Bet those chumps didn't even have good slides. @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Michael Brownstein ; Somebody should do something
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Friend asked me if I was coming down from the LeBron high and I started spamming him with more memes and now I'm just frustrated: How has no one made a Sixerified GIF of LeBron saying "not one, not two... not six, not seven" yet??
Bummer he didn't work better than he did but I have no regrets about the James Harden Sixers experience. He was worth what we gave up for him (+ getting off Simmons contract), he did some good things here, he didn't get extended longer than he should have and he netted a half-decent trade return.
@franciszomes.bsky.social · last wk.Ways James Harden helped the Sixers: -Maxey’s step back -Embiid’s MVP -Doc’s departure -Traded for best pick in JB deal -Prevented Cleveland from being a top LeBron destination #ThankYouUno
The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances
PDF | Human cognition and behavior are guided by a myriad of norms which enable us to successfully navigate our social environment and our interactions... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Four philosophers on social change and why our personal choices still matter in the face of intractable, global, wickedly complex problems @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Episode 72: Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly on Social Change — The UnMute Podcast
Myisha Cherry chats with philosophers Michael Brownstein (John Jay College/CUNY), Alex Madva (Cal Poly Pomona), and Daniel Kelly (Purdue) about structural change, either/or thinking, why individual ch...
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Individual actions were associated with greater collective engagement and stronger policy support within the same year. The findings challenged the crowding-out effect, suggesting that increases in individual action do not undermine broader forms of climate engagement. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence
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Most-searched players this morning at @basketball-reference.com: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and a bunch of Philadelphia 76ers. @sixersnba.bsky.social
LeBron would have led the Sixers in dunks last season. He had 97, nobody on the team broke 70. Guy started his career the week Viva La Bam premiered and he's still doing this
The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation
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Sixers fans have been telling Steve Gansey he’ll never pay for a drink in Philly again. “Free Tastykakes for life. Free cheesesteaks.” "Everyone was like, 'Thanks Steve for everything,' like I did something," Gansey said. "I gave people hope, I guess.” www.inquirer.com/sixers/lebro...
There’s some renewed interest in The Process, so here’s my timeline refresher. The Sixers are currently in what I call late-stage Process. It doesn’t end until Embiid is gone. Welcome LeBron. It’s been a journey.
Spent the last 2 days bingeing all 8 episodes of the latest season of The UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, and every one is a banger! Honored to be interviewed on one of the OG philosophy podcasts, "where philosophy and real-world issues collide" www.unmutepodcast.com/all-episodes...
What are the Kalshi odds for this parlay? 1: SEC breaks from NCAA 2: UEFA breaks from FIFA 3: MLBPA gets locked out but then forms a new league owned by players, staff, and fans 4: Yada yada yada 5: We seize all remaining means of production
We had a wonderful discussion with @tdsenviro.bsky.social about how to overcome either/or thinking about the fight against climate change! As you can tell from the interview, I've learned a lot from this podcast, so: honor to be on it! Also 1st interview I've done with a post-credits b-roll joke!
Individual Action vs. Systemic Change: Finding Agency
Individual action vs systemic change: Are individual actions pointless against climate change? Bridge the gap between either/or to both/and thinking.
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Michael Brownstein@michaelbrownstein.bsky.social · 3w agoNew podcast appearance! (Recorded in December, but still.) @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Comments saying "he gets it," which makes sense insofar as he's a Philly sports fan. We boo because we care. But he went to Harriton, so I'm not sure he gets anything, except beat down by the LM's Aces...
Alex Coffey@byalexcoffey.bsky.social · 3w agoMeet Reed Weiner, the 17-year-old who was booed at the HR Derby last night. He's from Lower Merion and just graduated from Harriton High School. He loved the boos. “I think it’s an honor, to be honest," he said. "When I go to Phillies games, I’ll boo everyone.” www.inquirer.com/phillies/kid...
I ask this with all sincerity, and with no bearing on having become a conscious white boy music fan in the early 90s, but is Eddie Vedder chugging beer at the Round of 16 hydration break the We Are the World healing moment this country needs now? Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers?
it's a My Dipshit For Your Dipshit trade, but Jaylen Brown was 29-7-5 on sky high usage for a 56-win team. Paul George was doing Euphoria drugs in a Rob Covington costume for $1.4 million a game. Sixers get 6 years younger and ease the Spiderman Train load on Maxey when Joel's out. I like it!
✊❓Curious what "identity politics" is all about, but afraid to ask? Look no further than Nils Holtug's Identity Politics: Left and Right (@academic.oup.com) My book review is out today in Ethics! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵 riffing on my opening paragraph... #identitypolitics
Who made the call to swap out bologna sandwiches for PB&J at the March on Washington? I found out from Tom Discenna for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social as we shared stories of social change newbooksnetwork.com/somebody-sho... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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