Cassie
@angrycassie.bsky.social
Thinkin’ about virtue (dialogue, education, epistemology, ethics, tech, & argumentation). PhD in Philosophy. Civil Discourse Postdoctoral Fellow.
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Cassie
@angrycassie.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Since we're doing introductions...
Hi all! I'm Cassie. I work on 'virtuous dialogues'--an approach to philosophy aimed at developing moral & intellectual virtues in order to have better dialogues. I'm the Civil Disagreement & Dialogue Fellow at Wesleyan University & ABD in philosophy at UIowa.
Hi all! I'm Cassie. I work on 'virtuous dialogues'--an approach to philosophy aimed at developing moral & intellectual virtues in order to have better dialogues. I'm the Civil Disagreement & Dialogue Fellow at Wesleyan University & ABD in philosophy at UIowa.
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Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
Absolutely thrilled to be part of a team that's received one of this year's Educating Character Initiative Institutional Impact grants!
Hit me up if your institution is interested in joining the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership (ICDP)! :)
news.wfu.edu/2025/07/11/w...
Hit me up if your institution is interested in joining the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership (ICDP)! :)
news.wfu.edu/2025/07/11/w...
Wake Forest's Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions | Wake Forest News
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $15.6 million in Institutional Impact Grants(opens in a new tab) to 24 pr...
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July 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Absolutely thrilled to be part of a team that's received one of this year's Educating Character Initiative Institutional Impact grants!
Hit me up if your institution is interested in joining the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership (ICDP)! :)
news.wfu.edu/2025/07/11/w...
Hit me up if your institution is interested in joining the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership (ICDP)! :)
news.wfu.edu/2025/07/11/w...
Hey philosophers! Submit to this year's Central Division Teaching Hub! We have 4 exciting open calls, & this year we are also accepting 'traditional' paper submissions for presentation. Submissions due Aug 15! More information & the full CFPs available here: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
July 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hey philosophers! Submit to this year's Central Division Teaching Hub! We have 4 exciting open calls, & this year we are also accepting 'traditional' paper submissions for presentation. Submissions due Aug 15! More information & the full CFPs available here: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
experimenting with x-phi
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
experimenting with x-phi
experimenting with x-phi
May 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
experimenting with x-phi
Happening soon! Going to be a great discussion! Register here to receive the Zoom link: philosophyteachers.org/talking-teac...
April 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happening soon! Going to be a great discussion! Register here to receive the Zoom link: philosophyteachers.org/talking-teac...
New crochet achievement unlocked
March 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
New crochet achievement unlocked
Some incredibly exciting life updates:
This fall I will be joining Harvard University's Ethics Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Discourse, & I have also accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor-Educator beginning fall 2026!
This fall I will be joining Harvard University's Ethics Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Discourse, & I have also accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor-Educator beginning fall 2026!
March 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Some incredibly exciting life updates:
This fall I will be joining Harvard University's Ethics Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Discourse, & I have also accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor-Educator beginning fall 2026!
This fall I will be joining Harvard University's Ethics Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Discourse, & I have also accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor-Educator beginning fall 2026!
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Your outie takes both boxes
February 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Your outie takes both boxes
"Fairness is about everyone getting the same amount of chocolate" - Favorite quotation so far from today's #TeachingHub sessions!
February 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"Fairness is about everyone getting the same amount of chocolate" - Favorite quotation so far from today's #TeachingHub sessions!
We have a fantastic #TeachingHub lineup for the virtual #CentralAPA today & tomorrow! The Public Forum is open for anyone to attend. Let me know if you're curious about the Poster Session platform (it's on Topia--a fantastic setting for virtual events!)
February 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We have a fantastic #TeachingHub lineup for the virtual #CentralAPA today & tomorrow! The Public Forum is open for anyone to attend. Let me know if you're curious about the Poster Session platform (it's on Topia--a fantastic setting for virtual events!)
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I like Heidegger’s method for reading philosophy for two reasons: veneration + questioning dialogue is strictly better than “charity”, and it insists on concrete thinking-with a real person over abstract argument over concepts.
!["With regard to (2): *A reading and interpretation of a specific treatise.* We want to learn the thinking proper to thinkers by thinking-*along-with* \[_mitdenken_] a particular thinker, and by thoughtfully following him \[_nachdenken_] on his path; that is, not by studying a 'logic' in the traditional way, and not by constructing an empty 'theory' from an equally empty thinking with empty forms, thereby taking up a position that from the beginning is external to the enactment of genuine thought.
"With our aim, on the contrary, to think-along-with a thinking that has already been carried out, it is also already decided that we will not blindly repeat and reconstruct the philosophical thinking in the treatise under discussion. We are rather to take it immediately and continually as an occasion for what characterizes philosophical thinking, that is, as an occasion for *questioning*. The inner condition, however, for a *questioning* dialogue with an essential thinker is veneration, which must be maintained even when a confrontation \[_Auseinandersetzung_] with that thinker is required, and even when it becomes necessary to overcome his fundamental position. In truth, there is no other form of a genuine encounter with the thinking \[6] of a thinker than that of a struggle which puts this very thinking in question." (4--5)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aaxaex5srhtqf7c6rndwjvoo/bafkreidopwxxrqnkwdkgimnownry2p5yhdqwpzvl64fdutpyndj7hxjhdu@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I like Heidegger’s method for reading philosophy for two reasons: veneration + questioning dialogue is strictly better than “charity”, and it insists on concrete thinking-with a real person over abstract argument over concepts.
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Like, analytic philosophy can be really boring, but at least I know what they’re being boring about!
January 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Like, analytic philosophy can be really boring, but at least I know what they’re being boring about!
Poppy’s here to give you a break from the doomscrolling
January 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Poppy’s here to give you a break from the doomscrolling
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Trump still obsessively going after windmills is quite quixotic
January 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Trump still obsessively going after windmills is quite quixotic
so uh, what’s tumblr like these days?
January 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
so uh, what’s tumblr like these days?
she sleeps so soundly because she is completely oblivious to US & global politics 🥲
January 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
she sleeps so soundly because she is completely oblivious to US & global politics 🥲
it’s only a nepo baby if he’s the mysterious “nephew” of a clergyman, otherwise it’s just ✨sparkling entitlement ✨
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
it’s only a nepo baby if he’s the mysterious “nephew” of a clergyman, otherwise it’s just ✨sparkling entitlement ✨
this raises serious questions about the necessary & sufficient conditions of being a nepo baby
- can an orphan be a nepo baby
- is the nepo from the name? reputation? wealth?
- can an orphan be a nepo baby
- is the nepo from the name? reputation? wealth?
nobody talks about how harry potter was a nepo baby
January 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
this raises serious questions about the necessary & sufficient conditions of being a nepo baby
- can an orphan be a nepo baby
- is the nepo from the name? reputation? wealth?
- can an orphan be a nepo baby
- is the nepo from the name? reputation? wealth?
finished my first crocheted scarf!
January 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
finished my first crocheted scarf!
TECH BROLIGARCH
January 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
TECH BROLIGARCH
kris just told me my hair is giving 80s rick flair
absolutely nuclear burn
absolutely nuclear burn
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
kris just told me my hair is giving 80s rick flair
absolutely nuclear burn
absolutely nuclear burn
rewatching season one of Severance and shouting “that’s hegelian dialectic, baby!” *finger guns* every other scene
January 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
rewatching season one of Severance and shouting “that’s hegelian dialectic, baby!” *finger guns* every other scene
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The word "ungrading" is an active present participle. It doesn't mean "not grading." Ungrading acknowledges the existence of grades and invites systemic critique, an undoing or thoughtful dismantling. Not best practices, but fluid, contextual practices to push against an insidious culture of grades.
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The word "ungrading" is an active present participle. It doesn't mean "not grading." Ungrading acknowledges the existence of grades and invites systemic critique, an undoing or thoughtful dismantling. Not best practices, but fluid, contextual practices to push against an insidious culture of grades.