Justin Khoo
@justinkhoo.com
I teach philosophy at MIT; philosophy of language, metaphysics, meta-ethics, aesthetics, film.
Web: justinkhoo.com
Movie podcast: @cowspod.com
Movie reviews: http://letterboxd.com/blobcat/
Photography: https://instagram.com/juskhoo
Web: justinkhoo.com
Movie podcast: @cowspod.com
Movie reviews: http://letterboxd.com/blobcat/
Photography: https://instagram.com/juskhoo
Considering the AI artist for the MIT Tech: thetech.com/2025/11/25/a...
When algorithms create, who’s the artist? | The Tech
MIT scholars Dr. Ziv Epstein and Professor Justin Khoo comment on AI art.
thetech.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Considering the AI artist for the MIT Tech: thetech.com/2025/11/25/a...
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I’m honored to be on @justinkhoo.com ‘s podcast to talk about my favorite heartwarming children’s animated film that is perfect for the whole family to watch together over the holidays. (I cannot listen to myself talk but I hope you will consider doing so!)
open.spotify.com/episode/7eK8...
open.spotify.com/episode/7eK8...
153. Grave of the Fireflies (w/ Sam Liao)
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November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m honored to be on @justinkhoo.com ‘s podcast to talk about my favorite heartwarming children’s animated film that is perfect for the whole family to watch together over the holidays. (I cannot listen to myself talk but I hope you will consider doing so!)
open.spotify.com/episode/7eK8...
open.spotify.com/episode/7eK8...
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WARFARE (2025) w/ @jimpenola.bsky.social! Garland, heroic sacrifice, music(!), decontextualizing violence, the film's commitment to realism, and much more!
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/c9f...
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/c9f...
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
WARFARE (2025) w/ @jimpenola.bsky.social! Garland, heroic sacrifice, music(!), decontextualizing violence, the film's commitment to realism, and much more!
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/c9f...
pocketcasts.com/podcasts/c9f...
Second year in a row proving that taxing millionaires works www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...
Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe
Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Second year in a row proving that taxing millionaires works www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...
meanwhile, at the boston globe... lol what is happening
August 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
meanwhile, at the boston globe... lol what is happening
the revolution started with a sandwich
August 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the revolution started with a sandwich
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39. This is a nice essay by @justinkhoo.com on where Tenet fits into Nolan's occupation with characters struggling against the constraints that bind us all, particularly time. It doesn't mention le Guin's wonderful essay about the purpose of sci-fi, but it locates Nolan's sci-fi in that tradition:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Christopher Nolan's $200 Million-Dollar Sudoku Puzzles - Reactor
A common complaint about Christopher Nolan’s films (often heard in critical circles) is that they are unemotional puzzle boxes—despite dazzling the senses and bewildering the mind, there is no deeper ...
reactormag.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
39. This is a nice essay by @justinkhoo.com on where Tenet fits into Nolan's occupation with characters struggling against the constraints that bind us all, particularly time. It doesn't mention le Guin's wonderful essay about the purpose of sci-fi, but it locates Nolan's sci-fi in that tradition:
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Same same for “the cat is on the mat”
it’s funny that when people need an example of a declarative sentence they go for “it’s raining” when that’s a really weird declarative sentence
July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Same same for “the cat is on the mat”
American politics today is a rollercoaster www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is First Republican Lawmaker to Call Gaza Crisis a ‘Genocide’
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
American politics today is a rollercoaster www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...
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Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Juan Murillo Vargas, How Language-Like is the Language of Thought? - PhilPapers
The language of thought hypothesis (LoTH) claims that thoughts are underpinned by language-like vehicles. A central motivation is that there is a relevant similarity between language and thought expla...
philpapers.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
a gallery of reflections photos.justinkhoo.com/street/refle...
Reflections
photos.justinkhoo.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
a gallery of reflections photos.justinkhoo.com/street/refle...
Lesser evil voting, here defended by Noam Chomsky, needs to be taught in public schools (NYTimes investigation finds Trump’s surging support from nonwhite voters due to their dislike of Democrats)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lesser evil voting, here defended by Noam Chomsky, needs to be taught in public schools (NYTimes investigation finds Trump’s surging support from nonwhite voters due to their dislike of Democrats)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Just checked my Lightroom catalog and these maybe 100 or so photographs come from a total of 24,000 I've taken over the past five or so years, which seems like a lot?
Updated my photo site with lots of pictures of philosophers and from my travels photos.justinkhoo.com
Home
photos.justinkhoo.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Just checked my Lightroom catalog and these maybe 100 or so photographs come from a total of 24,000 I've taken over the past five or so years, which seems like a lot?
Updated my photo site with lots of pictures of philosophers and from my travels photos.justinkhoo.com
Home
photos.justinkhoo.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Updated my photo site with lots of pictures of philosophers and from my travels photos.justinkhoo.com
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Had lots of fun talking to my favourite movie podcast (@cowspod.com) about a really great movie. Thanks Laura and @justinkhoo.com for the opportunity!
open.spotify.com/episode/3RrL...
open.spotify.com/episode/3RrL...
144. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (w/ Abe Mathew)
Cows in the field · Episode
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July 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Had lots of fun talking to my favourite movie podcast (@cowspod.com) about a really great movie. Thanks Laura and @justinkhoo.com for the opportunity!
open.spotify.com/episode/3RrL...
open.spotify.com/episode/3RrL...
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Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
Kenneth Black, Common Ground, Conditionals, and _Ceteris Paribus_ Pragmatics - PhilArchive
In conversation, we make use of shared information in order to communicate. But what shared information? In theorising about conversation, it’s popular to allot a privileged position to a single body ...
philarchive.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
Just let AI see the movie, form an opinion for you, talk to your friends about it, that'll free you up to spend all your time doing... what? working in your meaningless job?
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Just let AI see the movie, form an opinion for you, talk to your friends about it, that'll free you up to spend all your time doing... what? working in your meaningless job?
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Did you watch Ritchie Rich a lot as a kid too? Tune in to our episode with @authorizedpod.bsky.social where we discuss non-transactional relationships and FILM NOVELIZATIONS wutttt ⬇️
OUT NOW! @cowspod.com joins to discuss the novelization of Richie Rich! Hannah goes gaga over John Larroquette, and we discuss Richie foe Timmy Time, the time-traveling Timmy. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Did you watch Ritchie Rich a lot as a kid too? Tune in to our episode with @authorizedpod.bsky.social where we discuss non-transactional relationships and FILM NOVELIZATIONS wutttt ⬇️
classic trump move: wait until everyone's bought one and thrown it away and then release your own version! gizmodo.com/your-next-in...
Your Next Instant Pot Might Be Made by Donald Trump
America has become a parody of itself.
gizmodo.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
classic trump move: wait until everyone's bought one and thrown it away and then release your own version! gizmodo.com/your-next-in...
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As we witness the entire research apparatus of the US being taken down in the name of attacking DEI, trans rights + antisemitism, the mainstream media must halt its absurd fantasy that leftists control universities + focus instead on the problem it has spent the last decade enabling-namely, fascism.
“For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
As we witness the entire research apparatus of the US being taken down in the name of attacking DEI, trans rights + antisemitism, the mainstream media must halt its absurd fantasy that leftists control universities + focus instead on the problem it has spent the last decade enabling-namely, fascism.
academics opposed to fascism (I signed, despite my lack of a nobel prize) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
academics opposed to fascism (I signed, despite my lack of a nobel prize) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fellow concerned academics: I recommend this conversation on endowment taxes (feat. @kewhittington.bsky.social and @bdgesq.bsky.social)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Should the Government Tax University Endowments?
Podcast Episode · The Academic Freedom Podcast · 06/11/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fellow concerned academics: I recommend this conversation on endowment taxes (feat. @kewhittington.bsky.social and @bdgesq.bsky.social)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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They just love 'big government' as long as they control it.
June 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They just love 'big government' as long as they control it.
The party of the working class 🤷♂️
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The party of the working class 🤷♂️