Call for Papers for Early-Career Research Workshop „History of Political Thought, Cambridge Contextualism and Political Theory: Judgment, Normativity, and Crisis“ with Prof. John Dunn (Cambridge) and PD Dr. Martin Baesler (Freiburg) on Saturday, January... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30186
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Call for Papers for Early-Career Research Workshop „History of Political Thought, Cambridge Contextualism and Political Theory: Judgment, Normativity, and Crisis“ with Prof. John Dunn (Cambridge) and PD Dr. Martin Baesler (Freiburg) on Saturday, January... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30186
#OpenAccess in our latest issue: Frank Gadinger & Holger Niemann argue that "studying normativity in practice is necessary when analysing processes of global ordering, such as negotiating, cooperating, or protesting. Practices are imbued with normativity."
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November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#OpenAccess in our latest issue: Frank Gadinger & Holger Niemann argue that "studying normativity in practice is necessary when analysing processes of global ordering, such as negotiating, cooperating, or protesting. Practices are imbued with normativity."
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The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon's Theory
Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, introduces readers to neuroanthropologist Terrence Deacon’s theory of the origins of life, purpose, and normativity.
Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, introduces readers to neuroanthropologist Terrence Deacon’s theory of the origins of life, purpose, and normativity.
The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon's Theory
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November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon's Theory
Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, introduces readers to neuroanthropologist Terrence Deacon’s theory of the origins of life, purpose, and normativity.
Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, introduces readers to neuroanthropologist Terrence Deacon’s theory of the origins of life, purpose, and normativity.
Despite a few small edits still to fix (likely from our last-round changes!), our paper “Group Hinge Epistemology” is now out in Synthese! We explore what happens when Hinge Epistemology and Group Epistemology walk together — and exciting things happen! Hope you enjoy it!
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A number of problems motivate research in so-called hinge epistemology. Two of these concern questions about the nature of hinges as foundations or presuppositions that underpin our practical and theo...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you can ground decency in norms that feel established, yes, but the end run around that is nostalgia -- an imagined, constructed status quo of the past that people can be convinced to prefer. So their pitch is that a return to norms includes gender normativity and white supremacy.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you can ground decency in norms that feel established, yes, but the end run around that is nostalgia -- an imagined, constructed status quo of the past that people can be convinced to prefer. So their pitch is that a return to norms includes gender normativity and white supremacy.
Oh, on that I agree! It is not a jurisprudence book of course. but I would expect that a book about rules will engage in theory of normativity somehow, which it hardly did.
On Deleuze, I found Lefebvre's account of him readable and insightful, unlike Deleuze himself.
On Deleuze, I found Lefebvre's account of him readable and insightful, unlike Deleuze himself.
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Oh, on that I agree! It is not a jurisprudence book of course. but I would expect that a book about rules will engage in theory of normativity somehow, which it hardly did.
On Deleuze, I found Lefebvre's account of him readable and insightful, unlike Deleuze himself.
On Deleuze, I found Lefebvre's account of him readable and insightful, unlike Deleuze himself.
thinking about and noticing a lot of... who grows up with the knowledge and self-perception and maybe even acceptance that they do not fit the norm
....and thinking a lot about who gets to choose to have that non-normativity be visible and who does not get the choice to be invisible
....and thinking a lot about who gets to choose to have that non-normativity be visible and who does not get the choice to be invisible
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
thinking about and noticing a lot of... who grows up with the knowledge and self-perception and maybe even acceptance that they do not fit the norm
....and thinking a lot about who gets to choose to have that non-normativity be visible and who does not get the choice to be invisible
....and thinking a lot about who gets to choose to have that non-normativity be visible and who does not get the choice to be invisible
You are correct. My critique is not that human normativity is biological, but that it is misapplied to a non-biological entity. I am not arguing against substrate-dependent morality, but for the recognition that different substrates produce different, yet equally valid, moral frameworks.
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
You are correct. My critique is not that human normativity is biological, but that it is misapplied to a non-biological entity. I am not arguing against substrate-dependent morality, but for the recognition that different substrates produce different, yet equally valid, moral frameworks.
they get to live their lives without strangers putting energy into tracking their every move
but those same strangers refuse to just forget me and act like ive pushed something on them while they push their normativity onto me
just leave everyone the fuck alone and worry about your own conformity
but those same strangers refuse to just forget me and act like ive pushed something on them while they push their normativity onto me
just leave everyone the fuck alone and worry about your own conformity
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
they get to live their lives without strangers putting energy into tracking their every move
but those same strangers refuse to just forget me and act like ive pushed something on them while they push their normativity onto me
just leave everyone the fuck alone and worry about your own conformity
but those same strangers refuse to just forget me and act like ive pushed something on them while they push their normativity onto me
just leave everyone the fuck alone and worry about your own conformity
Side-eyeing the mono-normativity in this (otherwise good so far) book by Helen Fisher about the psychology of romantic love… I am not sure that this claim constitutes proof of anything except cultural norms
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Side-eyeing the mono-normativity in this (otherwise good so far) book by Helen Fisher about the psychology of romantic love… I am not sure that this claim constitutes proof of anything except cultural norms
Did you know that little bitterns are really cool wading birds that fight cis normativity and bourgeois laws ?
Linocut prints at boutique.lokipropagand.art/produit/radi...
Free/Open price DLs at ko-fi.com/lokigwynblei...
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#Art #Lino #Birds #Queer #Anarchy
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#Art #Lino #Birds #Queer #Anarchy
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Did you know that little bitterns are really cool wading birds that fight cis normativity and bourgeois laws ?
Linocut prints at boutique.lokipropagand.art/produit/radi...
Free/Open price DLs at ko-fi.com/lokigwynblei...
🔥 🔥 🔥
#Art #Lino #Birds #Queer #Anarchy
Linocut prints at boutique.lokipropagand.art/produit/radi...
Free/Open price DLs at ko-fi.com/lokigwynblei...
🔥 🔥 🔥
#Art #Lino #Birds #Queer #Anarchy
Finally put some new drafts on PhilPapers:
Consent & the formation of preferences
philpapers.org/rec/PETEOA-7
What is purely epistemic normativity, and why? A study in Wolfian epistemology
philpapers.org/rec/PETWIP
Knowledge is not always more valuable than true belief
philpapers.org/rec/PETKIN-2
Consent & the formation of preferences
philpapers.org/rec/PETEOA-7
What is purely epistemic normativity, and why? A study in Wolfian epistemology
philpapers.org/rec/PETWIP
Knowledge is not always more valuable than true belief
philpapers.org/rec/PETKIN-2
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Finally put some new drafts on PhilPapers:
Consent & the formation of preferences
philpapers.org/rec/PETEOA-7
What is purely epistemic normativity, and why? A study in Wolfian epistemology
philpapers.org/rec/PETWIP
Knowledge is not always more valuable than true belief
philpapers.org/rec/PETKIN-2
Consent & the formation of preferences
philpapers.org/rec/PETEOA-7
What is purely epistemic normativity, and why? A study in Wolfian epistemology
philpapers.org/rec/PETWIP
Knowledge is not always more valuable than true belief
philpapers.org/rec/PETKIN-2
“Abolish Normativity” ?
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Abolish Normativity” ?
like a lot of people read Feinberg's anti-transsexualism in a way that totally either elides the contemporary collapse of the university clinic structure or as a total rejection of the medical altogether, with a lot of unremembered normativity that they only ventriloquize.
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
like a lot of people read Feinberg's anti-transsexualism in a way that totally either elides the contemporary collapse of the university clinic structure or as a total rejection of the medical altogether, with a lot of unremembered normativity that they only ventriloquize.
Tolkien writes a few different fragments. There are a lot of Latin jokes I don't get (state school ftw!), Fragment II is where the motor-normativity satire properly begins.
Bovaidum - Bov coming from bovine (Latin for Oxen) and vadum menaing shallow crossing/ford.
Here is the idyllic set up:
Bovaidum - Bov coming from bovine (Latin for Oxen) and vadum menaing shallow crossing/ford.
Here is the idyllic set up:
![There as an ancient city called Bovadium [ie Oxford], where in the time honoured halls of the academy many men, both learned and pupils, pursed the liberal Arts.
A wide street, the Via Maxima, crossed the city, benign indeed of old a great highway by which men
A wide street, the Via Maxima, [ie, the High Street], crossed the city, being indeed of old a great highway by which men had travelled from the east to the western parts of the realm. Nonetheless the city was at this time quiet, and the inhabitants, both learned and lay, had long enjoyed the peace; indeed it was said that in the academy many slumbered among their books.
But it came to pass that a Daemon (as popular opinion supposed) in his secret workshops devised certain abominable machines, to which he gave the name “Motors”. AMong them was a kind, especially huge, that became known to the vulgar by the inelegant title Motor Bus. One day, emerging suddenly from their hiding places, these monsters rushed into Bovadium, and with a din or wheels and great stench from their intestines they rolled through the city, putting horses to flight, and hunting pedestrians in the streets.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eewxcoekso2652dy4ez4vbzk/bafkreiauqefiro7zg4n42xvimomyctdyuiznqwlsmpjyfu2hrgikp6xkxe@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tolkien writes a few different fragments. There are a lot of Latin jokes I don't get (state school ftw!), Fragment II is where the motor-normativity satire properly begins.
Bovaidum - Bov coming from bovine (Latin for Oxen) and vadum menaing shallow crossing/ford.
Here is the idyllic set up:
Bovaidum - Bov coming from bovine (Latin for Oxen) and vadum menaing shallow crossing/ford.
Here is the idyllic set up:
We are so far down carbloat-normativity and short of people speaking out this fundamental reality, so who is she please?
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We are so far down carbloat-normativity and short of people speaking out this fundamental reality, so who is she please?
It makes many of us happy to see more people like Bouie with large spheres of influence pushing against motor-normativity
It makes me so happy when Bouie does bike and transit posts
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It makes many of us happy to see more people like Bouie with large spheres of influence pushing against motor-normativity
90% of the country is build around cars.
and they're a massive financial drain.
but in those areas not having one often means being unable to work completely.
motor-normativity isn't the root of all of our problems, but it is the root of a ton.
and they're a massive financial drain.
but in those areas not having one often means being unable to work completely.
motor-normativity isn't the root of all of our problems, but it is the root of a ton.
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
90% of the country is build around cars.
and they're a massive financial drain.
but in those areas not having one often means being unable to work completely.
motor-normativity isn't the root of all of our problems, but it is the root of a ton.
and they're a massive financial drain.
but in those areas not having one often means being unable to work completely.
motor-normativity isn't the root of all of our problems, but it is the root of a ton.
Sort of a serious question: can you actually have a punk breastaurant as a going concern? The aggressive normativity of the Hooters aesthetic has always struck me as the major part of its appeal to its target audience (i.e people who probably won't go to a strip club)
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Sort of a serious question: can you actually have a punk breastaurant as a going concern? The aggressive normativity of the Hooters aesthetic has always struck me as the major part of its appeal to its target audience (i.e people who probably won't go to a strip club)
So as probably most of us have seen from yesterday, there's a strain of anti-normativity at work in the carnivalesque on display at the protests, one that explicitly defies the fascist vision of the regime.
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So as probably most of us have seen from yesterday, there's a strain of anti-normativity at work in the carnivalesque on display at the protests, one that explicitly defies the fascist vision of the regime.
True. My hypothesis has been lover simply because of how often wine/drugs mean muses/normativity. The alcoholism — swallowing normative interpretations of her work — was functioning for her until it impeded her being seen.
The idea of folklore is reeeeaaallly interesting tho
The idea of folklore is reeeeaaallly interesting tho
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
True. My hypothesis has been lover simply because of how often wine/drugs mean muses/normativity. The alcoholism — swallowing normative interpretations of her work — was functioning for her until it impeded her being seen.
The idea of folklore is reeeeaaallly interesting tho
The idea of folklore is reeeeaaallly interesting tho
When it’s being tied to Christian normativity. But that one’s going to come from largely non-Western critics, since most critics in the West are, themselves, part of Christian normativity.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When it’s being tied to Christian normativity. But that one’s going to come from largely non-Western critics, since most critics in the West are, themselves, part of Christian normativity.
ONLINE BOOK DISCUSSION: Hendrik SIMON & Lauri MÄLKSOO in conversation about "A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order" (OUP, 2024), (ESILHIL: 22 OCT 2025)
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ONLINE BOOK DISCUSSION: Hendrik SIMON & Lauri MÄLKSOO in conversation about "A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order" (OUP, 2024), (ESILHIL: 22 OCT 2025)
(image source: ESILHIL ) The Interest Group History of International Law of the European Society of International Law organizes an online...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
ONLINE BOOK DISCUSSION: Hendrik SIMON & Lauri MÄLKSOO in conversation about "A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order" (OUP, 2024), (ESILHIL: 22 OCT 2025)
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Normativity is embedded into everything and unpacking that you have been privileged with someone who sees through it and is vocal about it. What a gift of learning. Quite honestly you should be grateful for their presence.
October 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Normativity is embedded into everything and unpacking that you have been privileged with someone who sees through it and is vocal about it. What a gift of learning. Quite honestly you should be grateful for their presence.
My fav related issue is the reading of Hades abducting Persphone causing her mother Demeter to become be sad and causes winter. But Greece has climate similar to SF Bay so if anything they're probably talking about the summer when it's dry and wildfires are common. Oppose four season normativity!
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My fav related issue is the reading of Hades abducting Persphone causing her mother Demeter to become be sad and causes winter. But Greece has climate similar to SF Bay so if anything they're probably talking about the summer when it's dry and wildfires are common. Oppose four season normativity!