Clayton Littlejohn
@cmlittlejohn.bsky.social
Melbourne based philosopher. Dianoia RIP. Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. Epistemology and ethics. #philsky #melbourne #democrats It ain't easy being blue
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Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
Do we think this real? Or is it true but not really real? Hegelian marries/frustrates physicist
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Do we think this real? Or is it true but not really real? Hegelian marries/frustrates physicist
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Cut it out.
HOPE IS A DECISION
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Cut it out.
A little paper on whether awareness of facts differs from factual knowledge (if that interests you; if it doesn't, fair enough). Includes a little twist on the fake barn cases and should annoy all the right philosophers of perception.
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Clayton Littlejohn, Could factual awareness be anything but knowledge? - PhilPapers
In this paper, I discuss Silva's work on factual awareness. He argues that factual awareness can help us acquire knowledge. This position is appealing to many of us who think of ...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A little paper on whether awareness of facts differs from factual knowledge (if that interests you; if it doesn't, fair enough). Includes a little twist on the fake barn cases and should annoy all the right philosophers of perception.
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
Does anyone know what the reference format for SEP is? They give examples but not a name. If you're using something like Zotero to manage references, it would be quite easy to get the formatting right if we knew what they used. I'm manually switching periods to commas and there are thousands.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Does anyone know what the reference format for SEP is? They give examples but not a name. If you're using something like Zotero to manage references, it would be quite easy to get the formatting right if we knew what they used. I'm manually switching periods to commas and there are thousands.
I've not been following the more technical discussions of the miners puzzle, but I'm really enjoying this discussion by Jennifer Carr on the subjective 'ought'.
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Jennifer Rose Carr, Subjective Ought - PhilPapers
The subjective deontic "ought" generates counterexamples to classical inference rules like modus ponens. It also conflicts with the orthodox view about modals and conditionals in natural language sema...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I've not been following the more technical discussions of the miners puzzle, but I'm really enjoying this discussion by Jennifer Carr on the subjective 'ought'.
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
Odd request. Need a copy of the faculty lists from the 2021 Gourmet Report. Existing links broken. The draft faculty list from 19 August 2021 or 18 September 2021 would be incredible. Feel like someone has a draft in dropbox or an email to the editors somewhere.
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Draft faculty lists for UK, Canadian, and Australasian departments for 2021 PGR
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has now shared with me the draft faculty lists for Anglophone departments outside the U.S. for the 2021 PGR, on whi…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Odd request. Need a copy of the faculty lists from the 2021 Gourmet Report. Existing links broken. The draft faculty list from 19 August 2021 or 18 September 2021 would be incredible. Feel like someone has a draft in dropbox or an email to the editors somewhere.
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Frustrated by this paper.
I think that if you're going to talk about excuses vs. justifications, you maybe don't get either for saying some 1/8th baked thing critical of someone and then saying, 'well, more to say here probably, but don't want to get drawn in'. Well, then don't.
I think that if you're going to talk about excuses vs. justifications, you maybe don't get either for saying some 1/8th baked thing critical of someone and then saying, 'well, more to say here probably, but don't want to get drawn in'. Well, then don't.
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Frustrated by this paper.
I think that if you're going to talk about excuses vs. justifications, you maybe don't get either for saying some 1/8th baked thing critical of someone and then saying, 'well, more to say here probably, but don't want to get drawn in'. Well, then don't.
I think that if you're going to talk about excuses vs. justifications, you maybe don't get either for saying some 1/8th baked thing critical of someone and then saying, 'well, more to say here probably, but don't want to get drawn in'. Well, then don't.
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how bout clayton lil john and he thinks a reason is a fact that says 'YEAH!'
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
how bout clayton lil john and he thinks a reason is a fact that says 'YEAH!'
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epistemology is cringe
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
epistemology is cringe
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Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before
To be fair, it might literally be true that most of the humans who have ever lived would not have earned a perfect score on this test.
a tiger an elephant and a giraffe
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
To be fair, it might literally be true that most of the humans who have ever lived would not have earned a perfect score on this test.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Is PhilPapers submit a paper function not functioning?
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Is PhilPapers submit a paper function not functioning?
I'm on the team that doesn't care that much about ballrooms when we're seeing a string of extra judicial killings take place on the high seas. And damn the media orgs that label the videos of these killings as hitting drug boats. There's been no evidence that that's what these boats are.
October 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I'm on the team that doesn't care that much about ballrooms when we're seeing a string of extra judicial killings take place on the high seas. And damn the media orgs that label the videos of these killings as hitting drug boats. There's been no evidence that that's what these boats are.
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10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
6 people dead this time.
Not a single arrest made.
Not an ounce recovered.
Not a shred of evidence provided.
This is a really nice example that illustrates how feeding an audience truth is often an artful way of spreading disinformation. (Don't ask me how standard theories of disinformation get the case right. I don't think that they do. Hoping the refs say 'yes' soon, so I can say more here.)
When tech funds academics, they pick who and which projects get funded – and tech disproportionately chooses researchers using methods and aims that tend to yield positive findings for their products
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is a really nice example that illustrates how feeding an audience truth is often an artful way of spreading disinformation. (Don't ask me how standard theories of disinformation get the case right. I don't think that they do. Hoping the refs say 'yes' soon, so I can say more here.)
Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
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October 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
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Let them eat shitposts and ballrooms
I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Let them eat shitposts and ballrooms
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This is such an insane thing to say.
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is such an insane thing to say.
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yeah this is the actual thing, there are smart right wing people but they're fucking making money somewhere because the non-financial rewards of academia are less important to them.
It sounds a little disingenuous, but if you want more conservative professors, pay professors better throughout their career path. Conservatives who have the intelligence to do academic work have better career options & little other motivation to stay in the academy.
AAUP saying essentially "there's less conservative professors because they're dumb" is one of those things where you may be right but you shouldn't say it, you gotta know a little more ball than that as a political group, c'mon
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
yeah this is the actual thing, there are smart right wing people but they're fucking making money somewhere because the non-financial rewards of academia are less important to them.
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The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)
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I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social
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