Guido Tana

Journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif has been assassinated by Israel. Boycott Israel. Free Palestine.

All of this is intentional of course. The point is to kill journalists, doctors etc

I have received a review request from a top philosophy journal, but the paper is pure quackery. I'm really puzzled as to why this wasn't desk rejected, and now I'm suspicious that something fishy is going on.

En 48 heures, une Angleterre insoumise émerge à l'appel de Jeremy Corbyn et Zarah Sultana. En 48 heures, 400 000 personnes ont donné leur adhésion. La première condition du succès est remplie : rompre avec le Labour, ses mensonges, son néolibéralisme et la filiation pourrie avec Tony Blair et s'avancer de façon autonome et indépendante. Bravo Jeremy et Zarah ! Bravo les Anglais libres !

Really rude of Reviewer #3 to talk about my paper on social media

Fenner Tanswell giving a talk

Nastasia Müller giving a talk

TU Workshop Seminar room

Guido Tana giving a talk

Workshop on Epistemology and Philosophy of Mathematics, TU Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social @fennert.bsky.social @guidotana.bsky.social

Francesca Albanese for the peace Nobel!

Sometimes when I want to relax, I watch old Top Gear clips because they're really funny.

I selected the review of the Ariel Atom, and I was slapped in the face by Clarkson opening with: "I want to talk about middle-aged men. You're 35, maybe 40".

I wanna scream, the pain is too much

Grazie Dario, it comes and goes unfortunately

Carl Schmitt arguing against perceived (Anglo/French) liberal hypocrisy versus Carl Schmitt presenting his preferred alternative

So please there's no need to be sorry, because I look forward to next week's workshop. What I wrote concerns exclusively my own feelings of exhaustion with regard to how I work.

hey, no, it's absolutely not on you, because I love participating in conferences and workshops. The problem is with me. With everything I do in this field, it's either this absolutely overwhelming, monopolizing attitude or nothing, and I can't seem to get out of it even though I should have by now

a mental breakdown. Perhaps I should just stay home, go to Lisbon for the next 6 years only when I'm required to, and use the time to branch out into another career. That would be feasible if I only had a single idea on what that could be. Guess time will tell, but I might have had enough. 11/end.

I should also prepare for a move to Lisbon, which after living there for one year I'm absolutely dreading (the city has become an unlivable hell-hole of financial speculation. I don't want to go back living with 5 other strangers for 700€ a month in a small room), I feel on the constant verge of 10/

All this rant might be because in the month of July, where I'm visiting at the TU in Berlin and I was hoping to relax a bit, I might also instead have a job interview for a position close to home, and this overwhelms me mentally in a way I am tired of. Considering also that 9/

every other bit of my daily life. For a 30-minute presentation I have for next week, I wrote 15k words worth of notes again, researching everything I could lay my hands on. It shouldn't be like this. And yet, I can't manage to do things otherwise 8/

Perhaps it's time I reckon that I'm not good enough for this thing. I can achieve results by putting in insane amounts of effort, but at some point, it should just become easier, and it never does. I can only do philosophy with an overwhelming amount of work behind it that ruins 7/

I don't remember my last real holiday. Perhaps it was in 2022, when I finished my PhD, and for a while, I didn't apply for jobs. And yet, also at that time I was working round the clock trying to publish stuff, and I couldn't enjoy shit. 6/

Not sure why I'm doing this rant. I have job security, I have a well-connected network of colleagues, I manage to publish stuff. I have reasonably good metrics for someone who's in my career stage. And yet, while preparing yet another presentation for next week, I just feel exhausted 5/

settling for a more secure job and realizing that that's it about my life. But part of this also stems from acknowledging that I could have just done that more than 10 years ago and spared myself the difficulties, isolation, and distress that have made up my life since my early 20s. 4/

explicit enmity with one's own community, because that's what philosophy is. Showing that others are wrong and that... you are right? I have been quite upfront for a while that the reason I'm in academia is just (beyond simple luck) my refusal to accept a 9 to 5 life or 3/

just isn't there. And for what? Precariousness in your job situation and your personal life. It's not even well-paid. My next 6-year position in Lisbon doesn't pay me a living wage there. This adds to the frustration of living within a relentless wheel of criticism, fake solidarity, and 2/

As of late, I started to seriously entertain the reality that this thing I got into 16 years ago simply isn't worth it. Philosophy is a capricious discipline, where standards of merit are settled by prestige, trendiness, networking, all the while coming with an aura of rigor that 1/

Guido Tana, Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic? - PhilPapers This paper analyzes and objects to the anti-skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism, or Phenomenal Conservatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual...

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Hey, sometimes being stubborn pays off. After two years under review, my paper 'Dogmatism & Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?' has been finally accepted for publication at Analytic Philosophy.
Pas mal.

we met the enemy, and they are US

On the 11th of July, the TU will host a workshop on philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Details below. Speakers will be @guidotana.bsky.social, Nastasia Müller, Bernadette Lessel, @asgeirberg.bsky.social and me. All welcome!

www.tu.berlin/hpstl/verans...

I see a lot of colleagues on this website staying silent about the right of a nation under attack to defend itself.
I'm not surprised in the least

Analytic Philosophers interested in epistemology and metaphysics, can we do something about the journal Dialectica? The editors have repeatedly demonstrated, over the past 5-8 years, that they are unable to administer it competently. Shouldn't it be in our interest to reclaim editorship?