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James Woodbridge
@jawoodbridge.bsky.social
Associate Prof of @UNLVPhilosophy.bsky.social at @UNLV.edu. @FSAP-UNLV.bsky.social member. @NeonReverb.bsky.social #MusicFest co-founder. #DTLV resident. Companion to Baxter (14yo Boston).
[RIP Rufus 1/15/09 - 10/24/24 ❤️🌈🐕🐾]
https://jwood.faculty.unlv.edu
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The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, co-authored w/ @armrgrb.bsky.social
Coming soon from OUP!
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#Delationism #Truth 😁
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#WORLDPHILOSOPHYDAY is Thursday 11/20! Rejoice with your favorite thinkers! Learn more about this @unesco.org celebration at www.unesco.org/en/days/phil.... 🤔🤷‍♂️🤔🧐🤦‍♂️🤔😮😱🤔🤓🤷‍♂️🤔…
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Very relevant for NSHE and @unlv.edu where institutional leaders have made key decisions premised on fear that it is not possible to fight Trump threats against university funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Our seventh @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium talk is Friday 11/21 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Brad Armour-Garb from the University at Albany—SUNY will argue “In Defense of the Actuality of Legal Gluts”. www.unlv.edu/event/defens...
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Doing a thing on Friday.
Our fifth @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is Friday 11/7 at 3pm in BEH 107. #UNLV Philosophy’s own Jesse Fitts and @jawoodbridge.bsky.social will discuss “A Grim Situation for New Theories of Propositions”. www.unlv.edu/event/grim-s...
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Join some #faculty and an #alumna of @unlv.edu #Philosophy at this educational panel discussion, co-hosted by @fsap-unlv.bsky.social and #SJP-UNLV, on Thur 10/30, 1pm-3pm, in #StudentUnion Ballroom A.
#FreeFood from #TheHalalShack!
Open to students, faculty, and staff.
*Active RebelCard required*
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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IMPORTANT CAMPUS SPEECH NEWS: Earlier this week, a federal Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit by students who wanted to stop anti-Israel protests. The court held that the plaintiffs' claims would trample free speech rights.

www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I’ll be one of the @unlv.edu faculty panelists for this event on Thurs 10/30. #FreePalestine🇵🇸
Thur 10/30, 1pm-3pm! “Anti-Zionist Perspectives on Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine” is an educational panel discussion that UNLV-FSAP is participating in with SJP-UNLV.
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Our fourth @UNLV #Philosophy #Colloquium talk of the semester is Friday 10/24 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Roy Cook from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will discuss “Inconsistency, Intuitionism, and Excluded Middles”. www.unlv.edu/event/incons...
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Our first #Philosophy #Colloquium Series talk of the semester is on WEDNESDAY 9/10 at 3pm in BEH 103. Avram Hiller from Portland State University will discuss “Hot Hands and Other Statistically-Hidden Causal Factors”.

www.unlv.edu/event/hot-ha...
“Hot Hands and Other Statistically-Hidden Causal Factors”
Avram Hiller, Dept. of Philosophy, Portland State University—Random processes inevitably produce streaks. Many social scientists have argued that ordinary people have a fallacious tendency to impart m...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Y’all connected all the dots yet?… 😆☕️🤖👽🌎 #terminator #skynet #amelie #AmelieEarth #AlienEarth #Wendy
August 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Faculty News: Prof. @jawoodbridge.bsky.social’s new book with @armrgrb.bsky.social, The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, has just been published digitally by Oxford University Press. The print version will be available on September 3rd. 😁
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The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide
Abstract. This book presents a detailed, up-to-date, and historically informed survey and critical explication of the deflationary approach to the topic of
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July 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We stand with Francesca Albanese.
#StandWithAlbanese
July 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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NEW: The U.S. has imposed sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her calls for the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli and U.S. officials for war crimes.
July 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Albanese says the move is an effort to “distract” from the genocide in Gaza.
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Carl Sagan on Astrology
May 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What a #complete #loser. 🙄
Imagine having the most powerful job in the world and still being desperate for attention by any means necessary.
May 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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#KingHannah making awesome #music in #LasVegas this past Thur 5/1 at #SwanDive! Brought to town by @NeonReverb.bsky.social and #DirtyRockRollDanceParty. Thanks to everybody who came out for it, and to #Joobilee and #DeaconHill for opening (and #GoGoDoDo for DJing)! 😁
May 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Thanks for the #Superguide notice, @lasvegasweekly.bsky.social! Don’t miss this awesome show: #KINGHANNAH at #SwanDiveLV on Thurs 5/1! Full write-up at lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2025/apr/...
May 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM