2002: I’ll study philosophy. It’ll help me argue well. 2007: I’ll study philosophy. It’ll help me argue well. 2012: I’ll study philosophy. It’ll help me argue well. 2022: Why does everyone find me insufferable?

@jweisber For a while my department was in a college called H&SS (Humanities & Social Sciences). When people asked what philosophy was, we would say "we're the &"

The error so nice, she did it twice

A constant refrain I've been telling my students: "a text, without context, is a 𝒄𝒐𝒏"

The Bhagavad Gītā is quite literally the story of Arjuna having a complete nervous breakdown in the midst of a horrific war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas; he's so traumatized, the god Kṛṣṇa has to show up to coach him out of it

Timely and thoughtful thread

My first publication in the social epistemology of conspiracy theories :) link.springer.com/article/10.100… (open access)

Es ist erschütternd mitanzusehen, mit welcher Verve hier ein sog. Analytiker den Zirkelschluss herausstellt, der hinter der Geschichtsphilosophie seiner Zunft steht. (Danke an Daniel-Pascal Zorn für den Hinweis: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…)

Morning office selfie

"Let no one enter here who is ignorant of Shai-Hulud!"

это бессовестно

OUP has rebranded, and it's shite.

"ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES?"

Oh...so mine...😑

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20’s: I hope I can be normal long enough for them to like me 30’s: They can like me or not, I don’t care 40’s: Maybe if I act REALLY weird they will leave and I can go to bed early

It's midterm season

every professor: I'm overworked university administration: please take this 30 minute survey about how overworked you are

Wissenschafting it up