lol. Someone wrote me to yell at me (?!) for something my wife said here. You will know what I, a numerically distinct individual human being, think about something when I decide to tell you. Given how awful and pointless this site is, that will typically be never.

Universities should survey alumni once they are 10 or 20 years past graduation and ask them who their most formative teacher was. Have some special teaching award given the results (assuming the prof is still around and kicking)

A long standing practical principle that has never led me astray: keep interactions with the police to an absolute minimum, preferably zero, and never willingly introduce them into a situation unless you’ve exhausted all other options.

Student evaluations of teaching can help identify extreme dereliction of duty that needs to be dealt with. Less frequently the comments can identify outstanding teachers. But for almost all cases they’re not only useless, they make teaching worse.

Are military coups constitutional? Only time will tell.

I need to find out just how much Aristotle she knows

So now the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale and at Harvard are both philosophers.

Turns out I can buy a letter my father wrote in 1966 for $19.95. Somehow, someone in Estonia has this and is selling it.

I’m sure I can get my dad to write a new letter for half that price if you’re interested

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🤯🤯🤯

Kant: not a fan of Tahitians

Reminded of this when teaching the Groundwork this morning (1st quote).

Wife: what’s your zoom meeting about?

Me: I have to talk to a guy in Qatar about Wilfrid Sellars

Wife: 👀

Wait. Are you suggesting my research on ancient Greek theories of worm locomotion may not be of public interest?!

I don’t change lines or anything. But when the guy handing me communion on Sunday is the same guy that sold me a bucket of chlorine tabs at the pool supply store on Saturday, it does feel a tad incongruous

We invite students to our home all the time. Jennifer A. Frey was right to put friendship (amicitia) next to wisdom (sapientia) and virtue (virtus) on her honors college seal. Creating community both in and out of the classroom is a good thing for everyone.

I wish I had an In-N-Out near me. I'd pay twice that for a double double.

Oklahoma state taxes are giving me new ideas for more deductions

This is Hume denying that there's any evidence that any species has ever gone extinct. Does anyone know when the reality of extinction became widely accepted?

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