Barrett Emerick
barrettemerick.bsky.social
Barrett Emerick
@barrettemerick.bsky.social
Social philosophy, feminist philosophy, philosophy of emotion, ethics

Coauthor of Not Giving Up on People: A Feminist Case for Prison Abolition
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538176498/Not-Giving-Up-on-People-A-Feminist-Case-for-Prison-Abolition
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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...
Deadline Extended to March 15: NASSP 2025 Conference Call for Abstracts – NASSP
www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Wed. Jan. 15 @ 3p EST: Abstract Writing Workshop (more info @ link)

www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/2025-abstrac...
2025 Abstract Writing Workshop – NASSP
www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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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.
December 15, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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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.
Social Philosophy Today – NASSP
www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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.
December 11, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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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.
www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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!
Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds - Volume 10 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
December 2, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Philosophers! Please follow & share our new account with your colleagues - we would ultimately like to move away from Twitter/X. #philosophy #philosophers #appliedphilosophy #philosophyjournal
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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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
November 27, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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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.
November 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Faux Feminism profiled in the CUNY Graduate Center's newsletter <3
November 26, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I created a Social Philosophy Starter Pack. Please tell me who I should add (including you)!

#philsky
November 25, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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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
November 24, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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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
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-c-thi-nguyen.html
t.co
November 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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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...
Friendship with the Ancients | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Friendship with the Ancients
www.cambridge.org
November 15, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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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!
November 12, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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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, ...
philpapers.org
November 10, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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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...
www.abc.net.au
February 23, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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
February 8, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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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
January 12, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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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...
philevents.org
December 12, 2023 at 7:35 PM
It is here! It exists!
December 9, 2023 at 11:23 PM