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I’ve started using chess annotations when reading papers:
- ?!: surprising idea that’s probably wrong
- !?: surprising idea that’s probably right
- !!: insight/revelation
- ??: fallacious argument
- ?!: surprising idea that’s probably wrong
- !?: surprising idea that’s probably right
- !!: insight/revelation
- ??: fallacious argument
May 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I’ve started using chess annotations when reading papers:
- ?!: surprising idea that’s probably wrong
- !?: surprising idea that’s probably right
- !!: insight/revelation
- ??: fallacious argument
- ?!: surprising idea that’s probably wrong
- !?: surprising idea that’s probably right
- !!: insight/revelation
- ??: fallacious argument
Draft of my handout on Baumgarten's Ontological Argument
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Draft of my handout on Baumgarten's Ontological Argument
Josiah Royce thought that there were four broad meta-philosophical positions:
- Realism
- Mysticism
- Verificationism
- Pragmatism
(my names, not his)
I don’t know if this is right, but it’s been rattling around my head for the better part of a year now
- Realism
- Mysticism
- Verificationism
- Pragmatism
(my names, not his)
I don’t know if this is right, but it’s been rattling around my head for the better part of a year now
January 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Josiah Royce thought that there were four broad meta-philosophical positions:
- Realism
- Mysticism
- Verificationism
- Pragmatism
(my names, not his)
I don’t know if this is right, but it’s been rattling around my head for the better part of a year now
- Realism
- Mysticism
- Verificationism
- Pragmatism
(my names, not his)
I don’t know if this is right, but it’s been rattling around my head for the better part of a year now
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A pianist wrote in asking to be removed from the list, an ed admin just replied "no we ride til dawn"
December 30, 2024 at 1:59 AM
A pianist wrote in asking to be removed from the list, an ed admin just replied "no we ride til dawn"
NYU chain has now progressed to include:
- “Free Palestine” messages
- Calls to unionize
- Puppy photos
- “Free Palestine” messages
- Calls to unionize
- Puppy photos
December 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM
NYU chain has now progressed to include:
- “Free Palestine” messages
- Calls to unionize
- Puppy photos
- “Free Palestine” messages
- Calls to unionize
- Puppy photos
NYU reply-all crisis ongoing. 100+ emails in under 2 hours.
December 30, 2024 at 1:35 AM
NYU reply-all crisis ongoing. 100+ emails in under 2 hours.
I just had the mapo tofu at Mi Xun Teahouse and my life will never be the same again.
December 25, 2024 at 4:59 AM
I just had the mapo tofu at Mi Xun Teahouse and my life will never be the same again.
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Continental philosophers are bouba. Analytic philosophers are kiki.
December 17, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Continental philosophers are bouba. Analytic philosophers are kiki.
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I *love* reposting things to endorse them while denying that reposting counts as endorsement, ensuring complete plausible deniability at all times. No one can stop me.
December 15, 2024 at 9:22 AM
I *love* reposting things to endorse them while denying that reposting counts as endorsement, ensuring complete plausible deniability at all times. No one can stop me.
When we talk about great really short articles, we hear about Gettier's "I justified true belief knowledge?", Evans' "can there be vague objects?", Anscombe's "A note on mr Bennett."
Not enough credit goes to Salmon's "The fact that x = y". If you haven't read it, do it. It's very short.
Not enough credit goes to Salmon's "The fact that x = y". If you haven't read it, do it. It's very short.
December 15, 2024 at 8:59 AM
When we talk about great really short articles, we hear about Gettier's "I justified true belief knowledge?", Evans' "can there be vague objects?", Anscombe's "A note on mr Bennett."
Not enough credit goes to Salmon's "The fact that x = y". If you haven't read it, do it. It's very short.
Not enough credit goes to Salmon's "The fact that x = y". If you haven't read it, do it. It's very short.
Finished teaching modern philosophy (Descartes-Hume-Hegel). Asked my students if they thought it was unfairly hard to have to read Hegel in an intro class. One said next time I should cut out Descartes and spend more time on Hume/Hegel, who are “way more interesting”. Not what I expected to hear.
December 11, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Finished teaching modern philosophy (Descartes-Hume-Hegel). Asked my students if they thought it was unfairly hard to have to read Hegel in an intro class. One said next time I should cut out Descartes and spend more time on Hume/Hegel, who are “way more interesting”. Not what I expected to hear.
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When I’m feeling nervous about a talk, I just imagine the audience as bare particulars.
December 2, 2024 at 9:54 PM
When I’m feeling nervous about a talk, I just imagine the audience as bare particulars.
Overheard an undergrad: “I’m from New Jersey. Can you imagine having to defend yourself every time you tell someone where you’re from?!”
December 2, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Overheard an undergrad: “I’m from New Jersey. Can you imagine having to defend yourself every time you tell someone where you’re from?!”
The undergraduate students at NYU Shanghai are so good that I have to constantly reevaluate my conception of how good it is even possible for an undergraduate to be
November 28, 2024 at 3:50 AM
The undergraduate students at NYU Shanghai are so good that I have to constantly reevaluate my conception of how good it is even possible for an undergraduate to be
Take your paper manuscript, upload it to ChatGPT, and feed it this prompt:
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Take your paper manuscript, upload it to ChatGPT, and feed it this prompt:
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Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
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An extremely attractive two-year postdoc at NYU Shanghai, open to philosophers, that will not appear in the usual venues for philosophers. Each year, one semester teaching in the core curriculum, one semester doing research. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
An extremely attractive two-year postdoc at NYU Shanghai, open to philosophers, that will not appear in the usual venues for philosophers. Each year, one semester teaching in the core curriculum, one semester doing research. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
1. Convincing everyone that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is fundamentally about truth.
2. History is an art form, not a science, and the goal of historical scholarship is not to discover facts, but to produce the aesthetic experience of *historical appreciation*
2. History is an art form, not a science, and the goal of historical scholarship is not to discover facts, but to produce the aesthetic experience of *historical appreciation*
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. Convincing everyone that everything is luck, all the way down.
2. LLM’s can reason and understand in the external sense.
1. Convincing everyone that everything is luck, all the way down.
2. LLM’s can reason and understand in the external sense.
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. State court partisanship and statutory interpretation
2. Generality in law as an organizing principle of con law
1. State court partisanship and statutory interpretation
2. Generality in law as an organizing principle of con law
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
1. Convincing everyone that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is fundamentally about truth.
2. History is an art form, not a science, and the goal of historical scholarship is not to discover facts, but to produce the aesthetic experience of *historical appreciation*
2. History is an art form, not a science, and the goal of historical scholarship is not to discover facts, but to produce the aesthetic experience of *historical appreciation*