Margot Witte
@margotw.bsky.social
PhD student in philosophy // interpersonal ethics // retired bread-baker
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Margot Witte
@margotw.bsky.social
· Jan 4
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, YOU COWARDS! FEWER SINGALONG SHOWINGS OF ‘WICKED’ AND MORE SINGALONG VERSIONS OF ‘A COMPLETE UNKNOWN’
Thanks to Caleb for doing my social media for me…
My first paper is out there! It’s about how social practices can unjustly prevent us from using epistemic resources that we possess
My first paper is out there! It’s about how social practices can unjustly prevent us from using epistemic resources that we possess
Ooh looking forward to reading this on how epistemic oppression can undermine our ability to use concepts, even when we have them 👀
Congrats @margotw.bsky.social!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congrats @margotw.bsky.social!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Using and losing our concepts - Synthese
Sometimes, it is simply too costly to use a concept. This paper offers an account of the epistemic harms incurred when we can’t use the concepts we possess. I use the example of unacknowledged rape, w...
link.springer.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thanks to Caleb for doing my social media for me…
My first paper is out there! It’s about how social practices can unjustly prevent us from using epistemic resources that we possess
My first paper is out there! It’s about how social practices can unjustly prevent us from using epistemic resources that we possess
To be clear I’m arguing that being a Conventional Wife Guy is too low a bar and in fact we should all be Ultra Wife Guys
Currently in a talk where @margotw.bsky.social is arguing that being a wife guy is a failure of practical joint deliberation and I have never felt more Attacked
August 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
To be clear I’m arguing that being a Conventional Wife Guy is too low a bar and in fact we should all be Ultra Wife Guys
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Currently in a talk where @margotw.bsky.social is arguing that being a wife guy is a failure of practical joint deliberation and I have never felt more Attacked
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Currently in a talk where @margotw.bsky.social is arguing that being a wife guy is a failure of practical joint deliberation and I have never felt more Attacked
Has anyone taught a Philosophy of Sports class and have a syllabus they’d be willing to share? Or anything you think would be cool to see on such a syllabus?
Dealing with writing overload by thinking about my silly little passion projects 🏈⚾️🏒🥊🚴🏋️🧗♀️
Dealing with writing overload by thinking about my silly little passion projects 🏈⚾️🏒🥊🚴🏋️🧗♀️
February 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Has anyone taught a Philosophy of Sports class and have a syllabus they’d be willing to share? Or anything you think would be cool to see on such a syllabus?
Dealing with writing overload by thinking about my silly little passion projects 🏈⚾️🏒🥊🚴🏋️🧗♀️
Dealing with writing overload by thinking about my silly little passion projects 🏈⚾️🏒🥊🚴🏋️🧗♀️
New cardigan is finally finished! (Ignore unmade bed — I was too excited to get a pic)
February 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New cardigan is finally finished! (Ignore unmade bed — I was too excited to get a pic)
Would you watch my cooking show?
January 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Would you watch my cooking show?
Baby’s first R&R!!! 🥰🥹🥰🥹
January 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Baby’s first R&R!!! 🥰🥹🥰🥹
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If we are b’tzelem elohim, does that mean God also has tummy issues?
January 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
If we are b’tzelem elohim, does that mean God also has tummy issues?
Plotting the downfall of my enemies (strategizing how I will politely remind a few people of my pronouns)
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Plotting the downfall of my enemies (strategizing how I will politely remind a few people of my pronouns)
Not to brag, but I only learned about the Musk salute like an hour ago 😌😇
January 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Not to brag, but I only learned about the Musk salute like an hour ago 😌😇
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Excited to reveal the program for the 7th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop:
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
Program – Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop
normativity.web.unc.edu
January 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Excited to reveal the program for the 7th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop:
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
normativity.web.unc.edu/program/
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Damn @margotw.bsky.social knows how to title a talk
January 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Damn @margotw.bsky.social knows how to title a talk
I’m just a guy who loves folk music, standing in front of Hollywood execs, begging them to please make one Leonard Cohen movie for every 10 Bob Dylan movies
January 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m just a guy who loves folk music, standing in front of Hollywood execs, begging them to please make one Leonard Cohen movie for every 10 Bob Dylan movies
Legally obligated to interrupt whatever is happening whenever a Xmas carol written by a Jew comes on
December 25, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Legally obligated to interrupt whatever is happening whenever a Xmas carol written by a Jew comes on
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Intermittently remembering that someone told me the other day that they'd been mistakenly pronouncing it "blue-skee" and chuckling
December 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Intermittently remembering that someone told me the other day that they'd been mistakenly pronouncing it "blue-skee" and chuckling
First time trying duplicate stitch! A little baby hat for my friends’ peanut. The stack of to-be-gifted hats continues to grow…
December 17, 2024 at 3:40 AM
First time trying duplicate stitch! A little baby hat for my friends’ peanut. The stack of to-be-gifted hats continues to grow…
HAHAHAHA who would say that?
Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!
December 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
HAHAHAHA who would say that?
Co-writing a conference abstract with a friend (first time!!) and I got so excited I gave myself a nosebleed 🥰🩸
December 11, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Co-writing a conference abstract with a friend (first time!!) and I got so excited I gave myself a nosebleed 🥰🩸
Me and who??
Y’alllllllll Target is selling a Latke Duo for Hanukkah it’s two latkes, one with sour cream and one with applesauce AND THEY’RE HOLDING HANDS
www.target.com/p/latke-sour...
www.target.com/p/latke-sour...
December 11, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Me and who??
Enemies to lover story but it’s an analytic philosopher and a continental philosopher both working on the philosophy of love.
December 10, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Enemies to lover story but it’s an analytic philosopher and a continental philosopher both working on the philosophy of love.
I for one think it’s cool that a public intellectual is willing to take on all of the bad parts of being poly (publicly hinting at it, general cringiness) without enjoying any of the benefits of actually being poly
December 7, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I for one think it’s cool that a public intellectual is willing to take on all of the bad parts of being poly (publicly hinting at it, general cringiness) without enjoying any of the benefits of actually being poly
Got our wedding pics back! A few of the two of us 🌿🌳🍀
December 3, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Got our wedding pics back! A few of the two of us 🌿🌳🍀
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let me stop you right there kid. if you're a little teapot where's your handle and spout
April 4, 2024 at 4:23 AM
let me stop you right there kid. if you're a little teapot where's your handle and spout
Just realized I’m giving a presentation at the grad student working group on Monday. Had absolutely no idea 🤡🤡
November 29, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Just realized I’m giving a presentation at the grad student working group on Monday. Had absolutely no idea 🤡🤡
Last night I jolted myself, my partner, and our two cats awake in the middle of the night because I had a nightmare I stepped on a cat’s tail
November 24, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Last night I jolted myself, my partner, and our two cats awake in the middle of the night because I had a nightmare I stepped on a cat’s tail