Corey Dethier
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Corey Dethier
@cdethier.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, epistemology, and random flights of fancy. Currently a postdoc at UMN. He/him/whatever. coreydethier.com
*That* assertion is pretty clearly wrong. I make *exactly* the same qualification in the paragraph immediately preceding the one they cite.

I then explicitly say that the qualifications are the same in the footnote attached to said sentence!
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What's more notable is their assertion that I qualify my claim that models provide evidence in a way that I don't qualify the claim that experiments do (the image is from page 46 of their paper).
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Anyone who is going to be at the Eastern: Jamee, Mathias, and I will be talking climate change, astronomy, robustness, and the work of the late George E. Smith on Thursday morning.
January 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ok, this is real Simpsons rabbit hole stuff, but despite what we all remember, the joke in the pictured segment *is on the adults*.

The kids are just straight-up describing Power Rangers, a show that had existed for 3 years before the episode aired.
December 10, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Really enjoying @bweatherson.bsky.social's new book, but like a lot of philosophy these days it relies heavily on some pretty unrealistic cases.

I mean, a Sox fan who can't remember what year the curse was broken?
December 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM
My research projects if I didn't have to devote so much mental energy to job applications:
December 9, 2024 at 10:57 PM
I don't know if anyone who follows me on here will appreciate this meme but I was compelled to make it.
December 2, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Inspired by a forum post on influential works of philosophy, I asked GPT about major philosophical works of the 21st century.

The results might surprise you!
October 28, 2024 at 3:11 PM