There's a world of difference between not accounting for the material at all and thinking the material perspective is not exhaustive. Rorty is a great source for part of that discussion!

Good reason. Rorty was ultimately pro-plague of distinctions, obviously.

Seems to be the primary purpose of barre viz humbling you at every turn.

The pile-ons lead to intense conformism among other ills. Robert Talisse’s Civic Solitude and Overdoing Democracy might interest you. His description of democracy as suffering from an auto-immune disorder along these lines is really good.

Eugene is clearly not saying “politics bad, quietism good.” Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker did not sit around writing hourly op-eds filled with hot takes. And famously their advocacy grew from a rich soil of extra- (not non-) political community, which we have less than we need of these days.

Agreed.

I just teed off the title and looked the book up after I posted. I might need to read Bailyn’s Ideological Origins… :-)

Perhaps obvious and they’re primary sources, but have you read the pamphlet debates? Library of America has a two-volume set and they are *fascinating*.

This is in "The Apperceptive I and the Empirical Self", BTW.

This is a deep question. McDowell raises the point that Kant's aliens might not be constituted with spatiotemporal understanding! To me, noting the animal vs. "finite rational creature" divide is not anthropocentric per se, though "higher" primates & cephalopods should complicate the picture.

There’s an inverse map that shows how upstate Illinoisans think Champaign (or even Ottawa!) is “Southern Illinois” while those of us who grew up near Carbondale think Effingham is “upstate”. :-)

The third-grader version I remember was an earthquake on December 3rd (12/3) at 4:56pm, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, and the “90” was for 1990.

"Embodiment is such a scam." I feel like this needs to be a paper. Phenomenological reflections on feeling like trash and their implications for philosophy of mind.

That has been on my list forever! I just started The Book Censor's Library last night (incredible so far) but should really loop back to Erewhon next.

I'm looking forward to playing with the new feature because, as we discussed, I am not a very smart software developer. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of acting about 10% smarter and 10% lazier than I really am, though -- this will turbocharge that!

I’m doing non-agential coding with Windsurf, stepping through each request with the bot like it’s February 2025. Even so, I invented a documentation step just like this last week (document all endpoints, document how the front end works, etc) because I was losing the thread already.

Oh yikes. :-( Feel better soon!

Really, while there are exceptions among the men, women are on average better philosophical writers in my experience.