Craig Fox 🌖🇨🇦
@neohempelian.bsky.social
Asst professor of philosophy
Love science, especially sciences that tell the story of the past.
Was a chemist, then a teacher. Now a philosopher of science. What's next?
Awkward mix of personal & professional
Occasional DIYer
Love science, especially sciences that tell the story of the past.
Was a chemist, then a teacher. Now a philosopher of science. What's next?
Awkward mix of personal & professional
Occasional DIYer
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Craig Fox 🌖🇨🇦
@neohempelian.bsky.social
· Mar 26
I can't believe what I'm about to share...
I've just accepted a tenure track position at MacEwan University in Edmonton where I'll join the Department of Humanities and work to build bridges between the humanities and the sciences.
Really excited about this opportunity.
#philsci
I've just accepted a tenure track position at MacEwan University in Edmonton where I'll join the Department of Humanities and work to build bridges between the humanities and the sciences.
Really excited about this opportunity.
#philsci
The inertia of bedtime should circle around but it doesn't.
Take that Newton.
Take that Newton.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The inertia of bedtime should circle around but it doesn't.
Take that Newton.
Take that Newton.
If my wife still smiles when I'm 90, fuck, I'm Lord of the universe.
Honestly, he looks healthier than the last photo I remember of him
People are so ridiculous about aging.
“Tom Baker isn’t looking too good,” someone commented online after the beloved actor made a recent promo appearance. HE IS *91* AND LOOKS FINE, good grief.
“Tom Baker isn’t looking too good,” someone commented online after the beloved actor made a recent promo appearance. HE IS *91* AND LOOKS FINE, good grief.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If my wife still smiles when I'm 90, fuck, I'm Lord of the universe.
forgot the #philsky
One of the joys of teaching logic is how often I get to point out that the insight that made the proof possible was the realization that "it is what it is."
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
forgot the #philsky
One of the joys of teaching logic is how often I get to point out that the insight that made the proof possible was the realization that "it is what it is."
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
One of the joys of teaching logic is how often I get to point out that the insight that made the proof possible was the realization that "it is what it is."
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
I tell my students, "every time you use the tautology inference rule" you said "it is what it is" in a non-trivial way...
Me: [reading my students' seminar papers in my History and Philosophy of Science Seminar] You're wrong about even the tiniest detail you thought was trivially true... [writes more words in my comments than they wrote in their papers]
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Me: [reading my students' seminar papers in my History and Philosophy of Science Seminar] You're wrong about even the tiniest detail you thought was trivially true... [writes more words in my comments than they wrote in their papers]
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Me: [reading my students' seminar papers in my History and Philosophy of Science Seminar] You're wrong about even the tiniest detail you thought was trivially true... [writes more words in my comments than they wrote in their papers]
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
Also me: Well done. You checked all my boxes, welcome...
I once met someone who had really strong opinions about ketchup. Not just brand preference, but checking the labels for which city produced in. Not bc he wanted to support a town, either. Because the flavour was far superior.
I still sometimes wonder what that form of life is like.
I still sometimes wonder what that form of life is like.
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I once met someone who had really strong opinions about ketchup. Not just brand preference, but checking the labels for which city produced in. Not bc he wanted to support a town, either. Because the flavour was far superior.
I still sometimes wonder what that form of life is like.
I still sometimes wonder what that form of life is like.
I have it on good authority that season 1 is about how the protagonist goes undercover as a weekend assistant trailer park supervisor to bust a shopping cart theft ring and discovers worse, an unlicensed kitty boarding racket.
Any guesses about the sorts of crimes and criminals we’ll see on Law & Order: Toronto?
have been sent a screener of Law & Order: Toronto, am alarmingly excited about it
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I have it on good authority that season 1 is about how the protagonist goes undercover as a weekend assistant trailer park supervisor to bust a shopping cart theft ring and discovers worse, an unlicensed kitty boarding racket.
It ain’t easy being genX
Offspring the elder has a new girlfriend and we’re having a bit of a culture shock. She doesn’t know anything about the cliffs of insanity, or or the pit of despair, let alone of the six fingered man or the ROUS’s. What form of life is this?!? How can we ever come to terms?
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It ain’t easy being genX
Offspring the elder has a new girlfriend and we’re having a bit of a culture shock. She doesn’t know anything about the cliffs of insanity, or or the pit of despair, let alone of the six fingered man or the ROUS’s. What form of life is this?!? How can we ever come to terms?
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Offspring the elder has a new girlfriend and we’re having a bit of a culture shock. She doesn’t know anything about the cliffs of insanity, or or the pit of despair, let alone of the six fingered man or the ROUS’s. What form of life is this?!? How can we ever come to terms?
Only in America does the opposition party get 49% of the vote and says, "fuck it, I guess we can't do any fucking thing."
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Only in America does the opposition party get 49% of the vote and says, "fuck it, I guess we can't do any fucking thing."
"Jeffries predicts House Democrats 'will be strongly opposed' to bill to reopen federal government"
I'm totally sure it's going to matter.
Your party sucks, you suck, suck it. The reboot began, but it's not done. Good luck in the coming few elections, mate.
I'm totally sure it's going to matter.
Your party sucks, you suck, suck it. The reboot began, but it's not done. Good luck in the coming few elections, mate.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"Jeffries predicts House Democrats 'will be strongly opposed' to bill to reopen federal government"
I'm totally sure it's going to matter.
Your party sucks, you suck, suck it. The reboot began, but it's not done. Good luck in the coming few elections, mate.
I'm totally sure it's going to matter.
Your party sucks, you suck, suck it. The reboot began, but it's not done. Good luck in the coming few elections, mate.
Teaching Whewell this week. Every time I read and prep for lectures on the post-Newtonian understanding of Induction, I'm more and more convinced...
Mill gave us a masterclass on induction and newton's method
Whewell gave us funner prose and a catchphrase
Mill gave us a masterclass on induction and newton's method
Whewell gave us funner prose and a catchphrase
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Teaching Whewell this week. Every time I read and prep for lectures on the post-Newtonian understanding of Induction, I'm more and more convinced...
Mill gave us a masterclass on induction and newton's method
Whewell gave us funner prose and a catchphrase
Mill gave us a masterclass on induction and newton's method
Whewell gave us funner prose and a catchphrase
15 minutes in to the new Del torro rendition of Frankenstein and I'm overwhelmed. I think every reading of Shelley's masterpiece is worth it. But this one hits me hard, Shelley's grief is more than I can handle. Human grief inflicts such horror on the world. So few see this so clearly as dear Mary.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
15 minutes in to the new Del torro rendition of Frankenstein and I'm overwhelmed. I think every reading of Shelley's masterpiece is worth it. But this one hits me hard, Shelley's grief is more than I can handle. Human grief inflicts such horror on the world. So few see this so clearly as dear Mary.
Relationalists will watch you drill a hole in a piece of wood and wonder, “man, how did you spin that wood so fast? Did, hmmm, did you spin the whole room?”
#philsci
#philsci
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Relationalists will watch you drill a hole in a piece of wood and wonder, “man, how did you spin that wood so fast? Did, hmmm, did you spin the whole room?”
#philsci
#philsci
Logicians be like, why not both?
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Logicians be like, why not both?
Jumped the shark today. In my heart I swore to never do it. But the abyss called to me in seminar this week, I couldn’t resist. Today I assigned my students to read some of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
I deserve and condemn myself to eternal hell fire, but it couldn’t be helped. #philsci
I deserve and condemn myself to eternal hell fire, but it couldn’t be helped. #philsci
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Jumped the shark today. In my heart I swore to never do it. But the abyss called to me in seminar this week, I couldn’t resist. Today I assigned my students to read some of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
I deserve and condemn myself to eternal hell fire, but it couldn’t be helped. #philsci
I deserve and condemn myself to eternal hell fire, but it couldn’t be helped. #philsci
I’m so excited for the coming onslaught of similar articles. Bro, literally everyone who ever thought about philosophy and language 30 years ago saw this shit coming.
How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT
Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m so excited for the coming onslaught of similar articles. Bro, literally everyone who ever thought about philosophy and language 30 years ago saw this shit coming.
Teaching Newton on absolute space, time and motion. Today in seminar I brought my drill and a pack of cards and we made a spacetime. 😁
#philsci
#philsci
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Teaching Newton on absolute space, time and motion. Today in seminar I brought my drill and a pack of cards and we made a spacetime. 😁
#philsci
#philsci
Personal confession for the grad students/earlier career folks:
It’s painful to see people getting notoriety talking about things I discussed before them in my dissertation. It’s not that I think they took my ideas. Far from it. The pain is that I lacked the confidence to publish any of it. #philsci
It’s painful to see people getting notoriety talking about things I discussed before them in my dissertation. It’s not that I think they took my ideas. Far from it. The pain is that I lacked the confidence to publish any of it. #philsci
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Personal confession for the grad students/earlier career folks:
It’s painful to see people getting notoriety talking about things I discussed before them in my dissertation. It’s not that I think they took my ideas. Far from it. The pain is that I lacked the confidence to publish any of it. #philsci
It’s painful to see people getting notoriety talking about things I discussed before them in my dissertation. It’s not that I think they took my ideas. Far from it. The pain is that I lacked the confidence to publish any of it. #philsci
Edmonton sports fans be like, “ah good run Jays, now we get to return to our regular schedule (freaking out about the bad Oilers goaltending)
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Edmonton sports fans be like, “ah good run Jays, now we get to return to our regular schedule (freaking out about the bad Oilers goaltending)
gotta be happy about some of the moustaches though
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
gotta be happy about some of the moustaches though
The cognitive dissonance of professoring:
Me: C’mon, you got this. Give me a draft so I can get you comments and then your paper will be all the better.
Also me: (writing an article) … fuck, this sucks I can’t bear share it with my people for feedback… delete delete delete
Me: C’mon, you got this. Give me a draft so I can get you comments and then your paper will be all the better.
Also me: (writing an article) … fuck, this sucks I can’t bear share it with my people for feedback… delete delete delete
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The cognitive dissonance of professoring:
Me: C’mon, you got this. Give me a draft so I can get you comments and then your paper will be all the better.
Also me: (writing an article) … fuck, this sucks I can’t bear share it with my people for feedback… delete delete delete
Me: C’mon, you got this. Give me a draft so I can get you comments and then your paper will be all the better.
Also me: (writing an article) … fuck, this sucks I can’t bear share it with my people for feedback… delete delete delete