That shirt isn’t exactly giving ‘left wing nut’.

Can I vote?

You’re reading so many great books!!

I'm lucky to have them as philosophy-buds, even though they're wrong. And there's more work to do!

A highlight of last year was getting to talk with them about these issues, once in NYC and again in Sweden. I have learned a lot from them and our discussions have been, for me, ideal philosophy: fun, challenging, friendly, respectful, insightful, and productive.

Also I got to meet Karen Stohr and Will Fleisher! You’re lucky to have such great philosophers as colleagues!!

It was great. Sympathetic and thoughtful comments from Jonathan Fine and Jamie Ryerson and a really fun discussion. Afterward, we went out to lunch with Ryerson and he told us more about Sydney Morgenbesser than I knew was possible.

I'm sure I'm missing some, but where are the American biographers here?

and (a highly recommended favorite) Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. There is one exception, which is Hugh Eakin's incredible account John Quinn's influential collection of early Modernist paintings and the founding of the MoMA. 2/3

@strohltopia.bsky.social’s new book too—Hard to Watch. Also @ksetiya.bsky.social’s Life is Hard.

There are 26 of the 78 Caravaggios sitting in random churches throughout the city. Find them. Also the Pantheon is unbelievable, one the most beautiful human-made spaces I’ve ever experienced.

Yeah I was thinking of Either/Or. I wish I had more to offer! I wonder if this paper is useful, if only for its bibliography: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Well, first you love beautiful bodies and beget beautiful ideas there and then…jk jk—Schiller’s Letters is one classic source. Kierkegaard too. But there’s also a book called The Discipline of Taste and Feeling by Charles Wegener. There’s more on developing gustatory taste. Lmk if you find any gems!