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Dr. Brandon Beasley 🇨🇦
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Philosopher at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. I work on mind, language, and metaphysics at the intersection of pragmatism, German Idealism, and analytic philosophy.

Website: www.brandonbeasley.net
Substack: beasley.substack.com
Why? Because 3 out of the top 5 (namely, 3, 4, and 5) cited philosophers of mind are people who are part of the 4E and/or phenomenology-based views in phil mind and cog sci. A very interesting indication that what was once a minority report in phil mind is now a big player.
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
As always, James is a partial exception; though really I think he is a post-Kantian despite himself.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
...intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

-- From Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio play, 1938

Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
...over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space. Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle...
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
...perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence, people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion...
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
(Also, the snake has tiny little vestigial-looking legs, which is hilarious to me. Had the artist ever even *seen* a snake? Honestly, probably not...)
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, para. 802 (modification of Pinkard's translation).
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Dr. Brandon Beasley 🇨🇦
of my use of ‘experience’ are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term ‘culture’ because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience.”
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October 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sad to missing talks by friends, and missing out on meeting new friends in the City of Dewey. I'm sure it will go splendidly, and I wish all attending the best! I am with you in Geist. @thehangedman.com @carlsachs.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Regardless, though, I think the time is again ripe for pragmatism, not just in the academy, but at large.
October 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This sounds uncharacteristically Peirce-triumphalist of me, but, I don't think it is unique to Peirce--my students often find pragmatism in general to be a bit of "fresh air". Though there is always the contingent that think that they 'miss the point', so it's not universal.
October 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Something about being and...time, I wanna say?
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM