Dan Harris
@danielwharris.bsky.social
Philosophy of language and mind, cognitive science, history of analytic philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. I grew up in Cape Breton.
We’re not allowed to have h-indices are we?
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We’re not allowed to have h-indices are we?
Who is writing about this supernatural thing as opposed to the legal/social-institutional thing?
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Who is writing about this supernatural thing as opposed to the legal/social-institutional thing?
More like somebody should hit something.
October 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
More like somebody should hit something.
Yeah this exact thing made me feel indignant about the charge that analytic philosophy has a problem with unnecessary formal notation that does more harm than good. I mean, yes, but also: Marxists heal thyselves!
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yeah this exact thing made me feel indignant about the charge that analytic philosophy has a problem with unnecessary formal notation that does more harm than good. I mean, yes, but also: Marxists heal thyselves!
I definitely considered this reading.
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I definitely considered this reading.
When I took a course with David Harvey on Capitol vol2, I was pretty surprised by the number of Carnaps in there.
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When I took a course with David Harvey on Capitol vol2, I was pretty surprised by the number of Carnaps in there.
Would prefer to run this move in reverse thanks.
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Would prefer to run this move in reverse thanks.
Studying aerodynamics by looking at how wings move in zero-gravity vacuums.
September 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Studying aerodynamics by looking at how wings move in zero-gravity vacuums.
I like your poster!
September 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I like your poster!
Having made this website, I find it hard to disagree. This (from Carnap’s intellectual autobiography) is another candidate, in part because it was maybe responsible for saving the lives of Carnap and a number of others. Some of those other early-20th century congresses seemed pretty cool too.
September 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Having made this website, I find it hard to disagree. This (from Carnap’s intellectual autobiography) is another candidate, in part because it was maybe responsible for saving the lives of Carnap and a number of others. Some of those other early-20th century congresses seemed pretty cool too.
You have to admit that this (probably made up) number is nice, though.
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You have to admit that this (probably made up) number is nice, though.
The past tense in the title is bold! (I am looking forward to checking this out.)
September 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The past tense in the title is bold! (I am looking forward to checking this out.)
Important context: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
The Sphex story: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote
The Sphex story is an anecdote about a female digger wasp that at first sight seems to act quite intelligently, but subsequently is shown to be a mere automaton that can be made to repeat herself e...
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Important context: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Time to write a paper defending an iteration principle about scolding: If one is scoldable for doing x, then one is also scoldable for scolding someone for doing x. “The SS Principle” doesn’t seem like a great name so I propose calling it “the tsk-tsk principle.”
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Time to write a paper defending an iteration principle about scolding: If one is scoldable for doing x, then one is also scoldable for scolding someone for doing x. “The SS Principle” doesn’t seem like a great name so I propose calling it “the tsk-tsk principle.”
I’m actually only seeing people scolding people for scolding people for posting in poor taste.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I’m actually only seeing people scolding people for scolding people for posting in poor taste.
I hadn’t remembered that. It’s been a while.
September 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I hadn’t remembered that. It’s been a while.
So rather than hit the usual low-hanging fruit (unknowable truths about the past, say), Williamson tries to go all the way to the canopy.
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So rather than hit the usual low-hanging fruit (unknowable truths about the past, say), Williamson tries to go all the way to the canopy.
Right, sorry, I didn’t put that clearly. I think what’s radically anti-Dummett about epistemicism is that it posits unverifiable truths in one of the domains where we would be *most* tempted to think that the metaphysics depends on the epistemology in a way that might motivate verificationism.
September 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Right, sorry, I didn’t put that clearly. I think what’s radically anti-Dummett about epistemicism is that it posits unverifiable truths in one of the domains where we would be *most* tempted to think that the metaphysics depends on the epistemology in a way that might motivate verificationism.
The one that is most interesting (to me at least) is the epistemicism about vagueness view, which reads as an attempt not only to refute verificationism, but to stake out a position as far away as possible: a proof that there are truths we can’t verify.
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The one that is most interesting (to me at least) is the epistemicism about vagueness view, which reads as an attempt not only to refute verificationism, but to stake out a position as far away as possible: a proof that there are truths we can’t verify.
Williamson’s whole career is one big attempt to refute Dummett.
September 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Williamson’s whole career is one big attempt to refute Dummett.