Joel A. Van Fossen
@joelvanfossen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (Hosei University). I work on ethics, love, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy.
Rawlsian sexuality: when someone is attracted to people with the best worst qualities.
July 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Rawlsian sexuality: when someone is attracted to people with the best worst qualities.
Maximin love: Choose the relationship in which the worst possible moments will be the least bad.
July 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Maximin love: Choose the relationship in which the worst possible moments will be the least bad.
I vaguely recall Spinoza dealing with this issue. According to Descartes there are two attributes, but Spinoza argues there are infinite. I think there is some argument in the ethics about how there’s no good reason to stop at just two
June 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I vaguely recall Spinoza dealing with this issue. According to Descartes there are two attributes, but Spinoza argues there are infinite. I think there is some argument in the ethics about how there’s no good reason to stop at just two
I’m at a university where English is not the primary language. LLMs are amazing for helping me to write admin-related emails.
May 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I’m at a university where English is not the primary language. LLMs are amazing for helping me to write admin-related emails.
At the beginning of section 5 of this paper, there’s a fairly extensive list of different things philosophers have called love
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finite love
It seems like a problem to say that love can be merited – its value is located in its transcendence of comparative judgments. However, we commonly make judgments about who is and is not worth lovin...
www.tandfonline.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
At the beginning of section 5 of this paper, there’s a fairly extensive list of different things philosophers have called love
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This has some interesting stuff that might be relevant: philpapers.org/rec/MARATP-4
Irene Martínez Marín & Elisabeth Schellekens, Aesthetic Taste: Perceptual Discernment or Emotional Sensibility? - PhilPapers
Two common strategies have dominated attempts to account for the nature of taste. On the one side, we have an affectivist understanding of taste where aesthetic attribution has to do with ...
philpapers.org
November 27, 2024 at 2:09 AM
This has some interesting stuff that might be relevant: philpapers.org/rec/MARATP-4
Wonderful! I joined last year as a regular attendee. We get a lot of really interesting presenters who come through.
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Wonderful! I joined last year as a regular attendee. We get a lot of really interesting presenters who come through.
Doing this a few days after gnx drops and dominates the charts..
November 25, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Doing this a few days after gnx drops and dominates the charts..
But they would pronounce it “lazy fair”
September 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM
But they would pronounce it “lazy fair”
Reposted by Joel A. Van Fossen
Except that we invented emojis, didn’t we? So maybe it’s a wash?
November 25, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Except that we invented emojis, didn’t we? So maybe it’s a wash?