Personal ads of the philosophers (and other humor)
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Here’s an amusing way to respond to scam invitations
Philosopher Jason Brennan kindly gave permission to share his response: Dear Cara, Thank you so much for reaching out. I’d ordinarily be delighted to do the interview, but unfortunately the timing may be difficult. I’m leaving shortly for Antarctica, where I’ll be spending the next six years studying whether penguins have a sufficiently robust conception…
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First there was the “Boghossian Report,” now there is the “Spode Report”
And it doesn’t mince words. In this case, the task was assigned to EJ Spode, “who assembled the following crack team of elite scholars to work as a totally independent group to address the issues raised in the charge: Somerset Maugham, Edmund Burke Junior, Joseph de Maistre, and Thomas Carlyle. Fortuitously, at the time the…
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If Plato had written a dialogue about the New Infantilists and Wokerati in philosophy
As the reader who sent this to me observed, this amusing piece seems inspired by “that other philosophy blog and how it reflects some troubling trends in the profession.”
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“Growing market demand for ontologists”
A software engineer comments.
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“Identity politics and scolding moralism” on the “academic left”
This was amusing, from philosopher and political activist Ben Burgis: It’s one thing to know that someone whose overwhelming passion is metaphysics or epistemology or even abstract moral philosophy is a huge lib, and another to see them become more and more politically engaged in ways you find insufferable. Part of this story is about…
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The *real* reason Texas A&M did not want that bit of Plato taught
At last the truth comes out about the A&M academic freedom scandal; a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy elsewhere writes: If you have given much thought to Aristophanes’ speech in the Symposium, you can see why Texas wanted to step in to remove it from the curriculum. 1) It reinforces the oppressive gender…
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Elise Stefanik: Good riddance!
A humorous farewell to a despicable politician.
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Here’s a little holiday cheer: really wicked book reviews!
Quite a collection.
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Public service announcement
Discovered this on FB:
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When Lenin died…
Philosopher Noel Carroll shared this funny joke: When Lenin died, as you’d expect, he went straight to Hell. Satan decided he would assign Lenin to a sort of diabolical monastery that he had set up for clergy of all ranks and genders who had been damned for their sins ranging from selling indulgences and fornication…
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Some observations about Twitter, esp. philosophy-related Twitter
Max Noichl, a graduate student at the University of Vienna, made a map of philosophy tweeters (based on followers and retweets) which is making the rounds on Twitter. I’m not really sure what it means, but it looks neat! (Mr. Noichl offers some explanation here.) Friends and colleagues like Leslie Green at Oxford and Queen’s,…
The phrase ‘Does the fact’ naturally invites howls of derision: it’s a fact that every child knows that the Japanese…