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This is my academic feed for posting Buddhist philosophy, theoretical neurobiology, and aesthetics.
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Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here

I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published

link.springer.com/collections/...
Progress in Radical Embodiment
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Progress in radical embodiment. The special issue aims to explore progress ...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
TFW you realize that the syllabus that you wrote for philosophy majors needs to be adjusted to be a more introductory class (the university changed course numbering recently and I mistakenly assumed philosophy of music would be a higher level class than aesthetics—it’s a lower level class)
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Aesthetics friends! What is good on the pursuit of aesthetic individuality, and the development of aesthetic selfhood?

I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?

(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?

(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.

Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Das Kabinette - The Cabinet
YouTube video by brokendreamstream
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳

You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art...
www.routledge.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's normal to drink massive quantities of coffee as a way of reducing your experience of stress and anxiety, right?
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We finished Sthiramati’s commentary on Vasubandhu’s Madhyāntavibhāgakārikā today in my Buddhist philosophy group. At points I felt like I was gaining a deep understanding of Yogācāra, and it was such an interesting perspective to work through! But sometimes it really ended up deep in the weeds…
October 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My book that makes this argument, The Sonic Episteme, is 25% of right now in the Duke fall sale, get it here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-sonic-ep...
The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
www.dukeupress.edu
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@emmiemalone.bsky.social and @seantmurphyy.bsky.social gave killer papers on hardcore and emo thus morning. I feel lucky that I got to be on a panel with them. And it’s cool to remember that people are doing kickass work on things that I will be thinking about for a long time
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about
I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
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October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM