Matthew J Brown
@thehangedman.com
Boydston Chair of American Philosophy, Director, Center for Dewey Studies at SIU Carbondale. @deweycenter.siu.edu
Editor: @hoposjournal.bsky.social
Dewey, Pragmatism, HPS, HOPOS, values in science, TTRPGs, comics.
Website: https://thehangedman.com/
Editor: @hoposjournal.bsky.social
Dewey, Pragmatism, HPS, HOPOS, values in science, TTRPGs, comics.
Website: https://thehangedman.com/
Fake small-town "Autumn Festival" shirts at the outlet mall.
August 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Fake small-town "Autumn Festival" shirts at the outlet mall.
The platform of the most popular Democratic president of all time.
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The platform of the most popular Democratic president of all time.
Definitely no one banging ghosts or weird glowing lights from space, either.
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Definitely no one banging ghosts or weird glowing lights from space, either.
I can't believe this is actually happening. link.springer.com/book/9783031... #philsci
April 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't believe this is actually happening. link.springer.com/book/9783031... #philsci
What are your favorite fictional depictions of actual philosophers? I like Plato, Aristotle, and Diogenes in Reign: The Conqueror.
January 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
What are your favorite fictional depictions of actual philosophers? I like Plato, Aristotle, and Diogenes in Reign: The Conqueror.
"Centrist" is not the same as "unbiased" or "impartial" AT ALL. One can be heavily biased towards a centrist position. This basic mistake is ubiquitous, e.g., in these stupid "media bias" charts. Whatever biased-unbiased means (if anything), it is orthogonal to left-center-right.
December 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
"Centrist" is not the same as "unbiased" or "impartial" AT ALL. One can be heavily biased towards a centrist position. This basic mistake is ubiquitous, e.g., in these stupid "media bias" charts. Whatever biased-unbiased means (if anything), it is orthogonal to left-center-right.
I'm having a pretty good time in China!
November 28, 2024 at 12:22 PM
I'm having a pretty good time in China!
Southern Illinois University Carbondale would like to submit these two very pragmatic dogs, who are also research assistants at the @deweycenter.siu.edu
November 21, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Southern Illinois University Carbondale would like to submit these two very pragmatic dogs, who are also research assistants at the @deweycenter.siu.edu
Everything I've been told is a lie.
October 3, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Everything I've been told is a lie.
A perfect album that came out the day I turned 21.
September 16, 2024 at 4:36 AM
A perfect album that came out the day I turned 21.
My session at the APA Eastern is Thursday 11:00am-12:50pm (assuming I make it with the weather delays). The app doesn't have all the session information, but the full details are in the full program - its an author-meets-critics session on my Science and Moral Imagination. #philsky #philsci
January 15, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Does anyone know who this is a picture of? Is it George Axtelle?
October 7, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Does anyone know who this is a picture of? Is it George Axtelle?
Quite disturbed by this list, posted by @medievaliste.bsky.social, of academic institutions that PAID a company to surveil student and faculty social media.
nitter.net/medievaliste...
More info: pulitzercenter.org/stories/trac...
(Yes this is almost a year old. But I missed it before.)
nitter.net/medievaliste...
More info: pulitzercenter.org/stories/trac...
(Yes this is almost a year old. But I missed it before.)
September 7, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Quite disturbed by this list, posted by @medievaliste.bsky.social, of academic institutions that PAID a company to surveil student and faculty social media.
nitter.net/medievaliste...
More info: pulitzercenter.org/stories/trac...
(Yes this is almost a year old. But I missed it before.)
nitter.net/medievaliste...
More info: pulitzercenter.org/stories/trac...
(Yes this is almost a year old. But I missed it before.)