The countdown is at 40 days until publication of When Things Get Personal, and it is starting to feel real, as my calendar is filling up with scheduled podcast interviews. In commemoration of 40 days, a few words about chapter 4.
Mark Schroeder
@philosophymark.bsky.social
Writer, philosopher, teacher, dad, lapsed runner, wannabe guitar player. Interested in where the deepest questions in philosophy bump up against the most mundane experiences in ordinary life. www.markschroeder.net
This was a really fun conversation to have! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Signal, noise and interpersonal conflict - ABC listen
If someone's behaving badly, it can be hard to know how much of their behaviour stems from a deep character flaw, and how much of it is incidental - the stuff we might charitably filter out as unrefle...
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So... I started a Substack? I'll be posting regularly this fall about how and why philosophy matters, how and why to use philosophy to shed light on interpersonal conflict, and from time to time some tangential musings. philosophymark.substack.com
Mark Schroeder | Substack
I'm a philosopher and author interested in how philosophy can help us to understand and navigate conflict in interpersonal relationships. I teach at USC and am the author of When Things Get Personal. ...
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50 days to until publication of When Things Get Personal! Chapter 5 begins with bad coming out stories, and explores why people who love us - including parents - sometimes fail to accept us for who we are. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
When Things Get Personal
How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally
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I nearly missed it, but today is 70 days to publication of When Things Get Personal. Chapter seven explores issues about to whom and how we give credit - what we admire or are proud of people for. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
When Things Get Personal
How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally
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I just had the coolest conversation with Yael Schonbrun substack.com/@yaelschonbrun, whose fantastic book Why Don't You Understand Me? The Surprising Science behind Connecting in a World of Missed Signals, publishes on the very same day as When Things Get Personal and hits many of the same beats.
Yael Schonbrun | Substack
Clinical psychologist, faculty at Brown University, author of Work, Parent, Thrive & nap enthusiast. I write about the artful science of growing a happier, healthier relational life. Bylines at Washin...
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In chapter five of my new book (currently at the printer), I speculate about what happens "in the Hollywood version" of when Odysseus sails past the sirens. In retrospect this now feels irresponsibly premature.
Chapter 8 of When Things Get Personal explores the kinds of "nits and spats" that can persist even in healthy loving relationships - things like where the toothbrushes go, how often the trash gets taken out, or (in my house) where my keys go. (80 days until publication)
Have we hit peak book club scam yet? I’m now getting scam emails for different books less than half an hour apart.
My (compressed) take on one of the things that can prevent us from feeling grateful to one another: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
How to be grateful to someone – even when you really don’t want to
Struggling to feel grateful? Try thinking differently about what caused the person’s actions.
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If "so many" can take on the value of one, then consequentialism, since if there is only one choice you are always maximizing and can't go wrong.
Mark Schroeder@philosophymark.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe local Domino’s Pizza has a sign reading “So many choices, you can’t go wrong.” What sorts of moral theories are compatible with this claim?
The local Domino’s Pizza has a sign reading “So many choices, you can’t go wrong.” What sorts of moral theories are compatible with this claim?
Everybody is posting about Colbert arriving at the Obama opening in a tan suit, but no one is mentioning what he went home in.
The good news is that my kids don’t think Mom is old. The bad news…
hey this guy has a lot of books in his office. maybe his book will be worth checking out, too.
It is, unfathomably, 5 years since Katherine Hawley died today
About Katherine – Remembering Katherine Hawley
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This semester, I taught an undergraduate course on Probability and Rational Choice for the first time. My lecture notes are here: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/par...
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Overheard (at my dinner table): Dad, what's a "dissertation prospectus"? Is that like a tesseract?
Pleased to report that the board of Princeton University Press has given final approval to publishing _Interpretive Objects: Meaning in Language, Life, and Law_, with a planned release date in fall 2027, based on my 2023 Hempel Lectures. @princetonupress.bsky.social
What a wonder to find that awe is still possible in 2026.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6mo agoMore context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
When Things Get Personal is available for pre-order! I couldn't be more excited that this work is finally making its way to the public. If you've ever clashed with someone - whether it was a blow-up fight, a minor spat, hurt feelings, or just a missed connection - this book has something for you.
When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict
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Is it ok to start watching baseball if I haven't seen the other 150 seasons? Or is it better to start from the beginning?
Replacing jobs is so 20th century. Once no one has an income anymore they'll need to replace *consumers* with AI.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6mo agoJeff Bezos has begun the process of raising $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
[Welp] just returned my copyedits to the press. I have so much emotionally invested in this project that it gives me more nerves than anything that I have done in many years. So eager to see my baby go out into the world on its own. @princetonupress.bsky.social
If Venezuela wins, we have to return Maduro and give them Trump. Those are the rules as outlined by the World Baseball Classic.
I have to work hard to not just say "just" every other sentence.
Mark Schroeder@philosophymark.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat's your worst writing tic? I'm on page two of my copyedits for When Things Get Personal, and my copyeditor is already complaining about my overuse of 'in fact'.