Kirun Sankaran
@bad80smusic.bsky.social
lecturer, dept of philosophy, dartmouth college. posts obviously not endorsed by my employer (or me)
Thanks for having me! Had a great time out at USC.
Cool CFCP workshop today with Kirun Sankaran @bad80smusic.bsky.social on what kinds of social structures alienate and why. Very fun to think about. Thanks for coming out to LA to share your work!
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thanks for having me! Had a great time out at USC.
Some MORE professional news: my paper "Cash Rules Everything Around Me: In Defence of Housing Markets" is out at Economics and Philosophy. I ignore Matt Yglesias' advice and argue with Marxist geographers so you don't have to!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cash rules everything around me: in defence of housing markets | Economics & Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Cash rules everything around me: in defence of housing markets
www.cambridge.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Some MORE professional news: my paper "Cash Rules Everything Around Me: In Defence of Housing Markets" is out at Economics and Philosophy. I ignore Matt Yglesias' advice and argue with Marxist geographers so you don't have to!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Some professional news: Jake Monaghan and I have a reply to Dave Estlund's recent piece on structural injustice, just out in Ethics
journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TTISS9F…
journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TTISS9F…
Go to homepage
https://journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TTISS9F…
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Some professional news: Jake Monaghan and I have a reply to Dave Estlund's recent piece on structural injustice, just out in Ethics
journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TTISS9F…
journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/TTISS9F…
Reposted by Kirun Sankaran
Don't Look Up is God's Not Dead for left-of-center politics people
December 27, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Don't Look Up is God's Not Dead for left-of-center politics people
Noted plagiarist baselessly accusing *another* academic of malfeasance...feels like a shockingly on the nose metaphor for the state of academia
It's wild. P'ton prof who I've never met has posted a dozen times today, called me "huckster", "I wish you all the worst", "snake oil salesman", made fun of my incorrect field & my correct one, said jerk will be his "lowest setting" b/c...I made an AI tool our students value & said he should try it?
Making an argument without calling people names isn’t that difficult.
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December 17, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Noted plagiarist baselessly accusing *another* academic of malfeasance...feels like a shockingly on the nose metaphor for the state of academia
Unironically I am fine with this
November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.
November 29, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Unironically I am fine with this
I'm so happy this exists
The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I'm so happy this exists
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“Sports ball” and “I don’t even own a TV” are virtue signaling for virtues that suck
November 23, 2024 at 7:41 PM
“Sports ball” and “I don’t even own a TV” are virtue signaling for virtues that suck
oh hell yeah I didn't want to write today anyway
I wrote an intro to the literature on simple mechanisms. Out now in the JEP.
It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
pubs.aeaweb.org
November 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM
oh hell yeah I didn't want to write today anyway
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It's world philosophy day, so post your favorite thing about philosophy.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
It's world philosophy day, so post your favorite thing about philosophy.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
BIG NEWS: My paper "The Body Politic Has Private Parts: Market Creation as a Policymaking Tool" is out in Economics and Philosophy (@CambridgeCore).
doi.org/10.1017/S02662…
In it, I argue that contracting can complement core functions of government...
doi.org/10.1017/S02662…
In it, I argue that contracting can complement core functions of government...
https://doi.org/10.1017/S02662…
October 23, 2024 at 1:21 AM
BIG NEWS: My paper "The Body Politic Has Private Parts: Market Creation as a Policymaking Tool" is out in Economics and Philosophy (@CambridgeCore).
doi.org/10.1017/S02662…
In it, I argue that contracting can complement core functions of government...
doi.org/10.1017/S02662…
In it, I argue that contracting can complement core functions of government...
GiveWell and the systematic evaluation of charities' effectiveness are pretty unalloyed human goods; this is a deeply silly statement
Story of Effective Altruism so far: a bunch of Oxford scholars invents an ideology were entrepreneurs are heroes and power structures are absent. Rich people like this ideology and gives it tons of funding. Then, the same rich people slowly starts to morph the ideology into techno fascism.
October 25, 2023 at 10:14 AM
GiveWell and the systematic evaluation of charities' effectiveness are pretty unalloyed human goods; this is a deeply silly statement
Strong work everyone
Carbon capture pipeline nixed after widespread opposition
Navigator CO₂ says regulatory hurdles are too much to overcome.
arstechnica.com
October 22, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Strong work everyone
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Reposted by Kirun Sankaran
Good news of the day:
TurboTax and other tax prep industry lobbyists have failed to stop the IRS from offering free tax filing
TurboTax and other tax prep industry lobbyists have failed to stop the IRS from offering free tax filing
October 17, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Good news of the day:
TurboTax and other tax prep industry lobbyists have failed to stop the IRS from offering free tax filing
TurboTax and other tax prep industry lobbyists have failed to stop the IRS from offering free tax filing
Would it be *wildly* irresponsible of me to assign this to my environmental ethics class?
Parents of eco-anxious kids: mine were absolutely enthralled watching this, despite some scepticism.
They’re eagerly waiting for the book to come out in January.
They’re eagerly waiting for the book to come out in January.
Are We the Last Generation — or the First Sustainable One? | Hannah Ritchie | TED
The word "sustainability" gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Ha...
youtu.be
October 17, 2023 at 1:32 PM
Would it be *wildly* irresponsible of me to assign this to my environmental ethics class?
I know lots and lots of people are really good at some stuff and really terrible at others but I'm still shocked at the size of the delta between Elon Musk, Rocket Guy and Elon Musk, Twitter Guy
October 9, 2023 at 9:26 PM
I know lots and lots of people are really good at some stuff and really terrible at others but I'm still shocked at the size of the delta between Elon Musk, Rocket Guy and Elon Musk, Twitter Guy
Excellent news, super well deserved
#BREAKING The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 🏅 to Claudia Goldin
October 9, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Excellent news, super well deserved
No better way to start my life on Bird App 2.0 than reminding people that Boston is a trash city full of trash people
October 5, 2023 at 12:40 PM
No better way to start my life on Bird App 2.0 than reminding people that Boston is a trash city full of trash people