Carrie Jenkins
@carriejenkins.net
Philosophy prof. Author of What Love Is and What It Could Be, Sad Love, Victoria Sees It, and some other things. Sphynx cat staff. On unceded land. she/they
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Carrie Jenkins
@carriejenkins.net
· Aug 21
I’m excited to share that my paper ‘Hermeneutic Decentering’ is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly! It discusses (what I call) ‘hermeneutic dismissiveness’ as a kind of epistemic injustice, then develops a generalized version of Iris Murdoch’s notion of unselfing. This involves decentering …
Nex̱wlélex̱wm, Bowen Island
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Nex̱wlélex̱wm, Bowen Island
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Is anyone following me good at Ancient Greek?
I am wondering if I can use (or coin if need be) a word on the model of “psychomachy” where the soul isn’t *fighting* itself but rather *healing* itself. I was thinking something like “psychoiaomy” … would this be a way to go?
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I am wondering if I can use (or coin if need be) a word on the model of “psychomachy” where the soul isn’t *fighting* itself but rather *healing* itself. I was thinking something like “psychoiaomy” … would this be a way to go?
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October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Is anyone following me good at Ancient Greek?
I am wondering if I can use (or coin if need be) a word on the model of “psychomachy” where the soul isn’t *fighting* itself but rather *healing* itself. I was thinking something like “psychoiaomy” … would this be a way to go?
🧐
I am wondering if I can use (or coin if need be) a word on the model of “psychomachy” where the soul isn’t *fighting* itself but rather *healing* itself. I was thinking something like “psychoiaomy” … would this be a way to go?
🧐
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Seeing this every day I’m starting to enjoy the aesthetic — it’s like if someone drew a blueprint for a steampunk willy, in a post-apocalyptic society where they’ve kind of forgotten what real ones were like.
Um so I’m at the University of Alberta and this is the floor plan of their Humanities Centre and … I … don’t know what else to say.
October 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Seeing this every day I’m starting to enjoy the aesthetic — it’s like if someone drew a blueprint for a steampunk willy, in a post-apocalyptic society where they’ve kind of forgotten what real ones were like.
Um so I’m at the University of Alberta and this is the floor plan of their Humanities Centre and … I … don’t know what else to say.
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Um so I’m at the University of Alberta and this is the floor plan of their Humanities Centre and … I … don’t know what else to say.
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Too Weird To Believe Too Plausible To Deny out now, available where books are sold. This summarizes @keithfrankish.com's chapter about #Consciousness. One of many videos summarizing chapters which can be found all over my socials. Spent a lot of time working on them. Enjoy! More videos forthcoming!
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Too Weird To Believe Too Plausible To Deny out now, available where books are sold. This summarizes @keithfrankish.com's chapter about #Consciousness. One of many videos summarizing chapters which can be found all over my socials. Spent a lot of time working on them. Enjoy! More videos forthcoming!
October 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“And can we really describe … what moral disagreements are like without … using the real concepts which are causing the real trouble? Political concepts, for instance.”
Once again, Iris Murdoch was doing it before it was cool: here, dissing Ideal Theory-style analytic ethics that abstracts away …
Once again, Iris Murdoch was doing it before it was cool: here, dissing Ideal Theory-style analytic ethics that abstracts away …
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“And can we really describe … what moral disagreements are like without … using the real concepts which are causing the real trouble? Political concepts, for instance.”
Once again, Iris Murdoch was doing it before it was cool: here, dissing Ideal Theory-style analytic ethics that abstracts away …
Once again, Iris Murdoch was doing it before it was cool: here, dissing Ideal Theory-style analytic ethics that abstracts away …
"Science vs. art is a stupid distinction though. This is what Aristophanes should have said: Zeus divided not us but our attention, so that we should never be able to deal with the whole situation."
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Science vs. art is a stupid distinction though. This is what Aristophanes should have said: Zeus divided not us but our attention, so that we should never be able to deal with the whole situation."
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Student at my Iris Murdoch seminar this week (re: IM's biography): "She gets around town. No judgment."
September 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Student at my Iris Murdoch seminar this week (re: IM's biography): "She gets around town. No judgment."
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you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
I was chatting with a student yesterday, ranting about a future where the primary class distinction is between people addicted to AI slop and people who can read books and reason critically. Access to such things will be an elite status symbol, as in earlier periods of mass illiteracy. But first …
September 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I was chatting with a student yesterday, ranting about a future where the primary class distinction is between people addicted to AI slop and people who can read books and reason critically. Access to such things will be an elite status symbol, as in earlier periods of mass illiteracy. But first …
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence ... The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind ..."
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in AI (probably)
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in AI (probably)
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence ... The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind ..."
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in AI (probably)
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in AI (probably)
September 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Why yes I would recommend this book! And I did!
@quillkukla.bsky.social’s latest just hit my mailbox.
@quillkukla.bsky.social’s latest just hit my mailbox.
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Why yes I would recommend this book! And I did!
@quillkukla.bsky.social’s latest just hit my mailbox.
@quillkukla.bsky.social’s latest just hit my mailbox.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Trump academic job market
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technically not dead
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technically not dead
September 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump academic job market
🤝
technically not dead
🤝
technically not dead
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, fail to recognize that AI also can't.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
Those who can't, fail to recognize that AI also can't.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, fail to recognize that AI also can't.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
Those who can't, fail to recognize that AI also can't.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but, Shaka when the walls fell
August 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but, Shaka when the walls fell
me the second the clock hits midnight and turns to sept 1st
August 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
me the second the clock hits midnight and turns to sept 1st
Superb news today: my panel submission with Katherine Cheng and Robin Roberts has been accepted for the Western Canadian Philosophical Association 2025 (wcpa2025.weebly.com).
Our panel title is:
"Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid"
More details in the thread below!
Our panel title is:
"Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid"
More details in the thread below!
wcpa2025.weebly.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Superb news today: my panel submission with Katherine Cheng and Robin Roberts has been accepted for the Western Canadian Philosophical Association 2025 (wcpa2025.weebly.com).
Our panel title is:
"Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid"
More details in the thread below!
Our panel title is:
"Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid"
More details in the thread below!