David Harmon
@1part-harmony.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Philosophy, University of St Andrews || Spinoza, Physics, Motion, and Conway ⚪
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disliking Descartes is a character flaw
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
disliking Descartes is a character flaw
Sometimes I regret choosing academia, but then other times I listen to my non-academic wife go "mhm, right" on a work call for 90 minutes straight and realize I made the right choice.
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Sometimes I regret choosing academia, but then other times I listen to my non-academic wife go "mhm, right" on a work call for 90 minutes straight and realize I made the right choice.
Spam e-mails are getting way too advanced and personally tailored. I just received a message boasting "a new theory of aether." I nearly short-circuited as my early modern brain had to resist clicking the attached .exe file poorly disguised as a .pdf
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Spam e-mails are getting way too advanced and personally tailored. I just received a message boasting "a new theory of aether." I nearly short-circuited as my early modern brain had to resist clicking the attached .exe file poorly disguised as a .pdf
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why does bluey always make me cry wtf
July 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
why does bluey always make me cry wtf
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies - Volume 100 Issue 1
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
I need to have a kid so that I have a socially respectable reason to watch Bluey.
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I need to have a kid so that I have a socially respectable reason to watch Bluey.
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this A. I. model trained exclusively on dvd copies of A. I. Artificial Intelligence produced a pixel perfect copy of A. I. Artificial Intelligence on dvd
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
this A. I. model trained exclusively on dvd copies of A. I. Artificial Intelligence produced a pixel perfect copy of A. I. Artificial Intelligence on dvd
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It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...
June 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...
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June 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Advance copies arrived 😃😬
May 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Advance copies arrived 😃😬
strong hint of grape in this one
May 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
strong hint of grape in this one
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'm very happy to finally be able to announce the programme for the conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections.' To register, please use the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I look forward to meeting you all in May!
I look forward to meeting you all in May!
April 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
'm very happy to finally be able to announce the programme for the conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections.' To register, please use the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I look forward to meeting you all in May!
I look forward to meeting you all in May!
Check out this excellent mode of God or Nature.
White-fronted chats in for a drink on a hot afternoon.
Arid Lands, Port Augusta.
Arid Lands, Port Augusta.
April 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Check out this excellent mode of God or Nature.
Since publishing my first paper, predatory journals have frequently sent me emails. These have always been addressed to "Dr." Harmon, even before I finished my PhD. Since passing my viva, nothing about their epistemic position has changed, but they're now getting it right. Gettier strikes again.
April 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Since publishing my first paper, predatory journals have frequently sent me emails. These have always been addressed to "Dr." Harmon, even before I finished my PhD. Since passing my viva, nothing about their epistemic position has changed, but they're now getting it right. Gettier strikes again.
Kind of insane that there's no comic book supervillain whose origin story involves madness brought on by frustration with train wifi.
April 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Kind of insane that there's no comic book supervillain whose origin story involves madness brought on by frustration with train wifi.
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Theme song for me and the rest of the diabetics.
Def Leppard releases “Pour Some Sugar On Me” as a single 37 years ago today.
It wasn’t expected to be a hit, said Phil Collen, but “strippers in Florida — God’s honest truth — started requesting it, because it was a great song to strip to, to dance to .. It took off from there. The album went #1.”
It wasn’t expected to be a hit, said Phil Collen, but “strippers in Florida — God’s honest truth — started requesting it, because it was a great song to strip to, to dance to .. It took off from there. The album went #1.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Theme song for me and the rest of the diabetics.
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Good morning Bluesky !
April 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Good morning Bluesky !
please excuse me for the next six months while my entire personality becomes this album
April 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
please excuse me for the next six months while my entire personality becomes this album
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Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇
#philsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...
#philsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...
Saloni de Souza, 'Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy
YouTube video by British Society for the History of Philosophy
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April 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇
#philsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...
#philsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...
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If R2 is short for R2D2, and Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Anakin, then Luke is short for a stormtrooper.
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If R2 is short for R2D2, and Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Anakin, then Luke is short for a stormtrooper.
"easy peasy" goes so hard
April 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"easy peasy" goes so hard
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Dr Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) gave a fantastic keynote talk on 'The Cosmic and the Creaturely' yesterday at our annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
#philsky
bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
#philsky
bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
April 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dr Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) gave a fantastic keynote talk on 'The Cosmic and the Creaturely' yesterday at our annual conference at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
#philsky
bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
#philsky
bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
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Many thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at the BSHP today! I've uploaded the script and slides to my Academia.edu, anyone interested should be able to see them here: www.academia.edu/128618008/Ex...
Extraterrestrials and Ethics in Enlightenment France - Script
Extraterrestrials and Ethics in Enlightenment France - Script
www.academia.edu
April 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Many thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at the BSHP today! I've uploaded the script and slides to my Academia.edu, anyone interested should be able to see them here: www.academia.edu/128618008/Ex...
I am happy to share that I have passed my viva 🥳 so the history of philosophy has now been completed. Well done everyone!
The entire history of philosophy is basically just the buildup to my viva next week.
April 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I am happy to share that I have passed my viva 🥳 so the history of philosophy has now been completed. Well done everyone!