Guido Tana

Mondial 2026 : le Cap-Vert qualifié pour la 1ere fois de l'histoire, le Cameroun en barrages Le Cap-Vert s'est qualifié lundi pour la Coupe du monde 2026 en battant l'Eswatini lors de la dernière journée des éliminatoires de la zone Afrique. Deuxième du groupe D, le Cameroun est en bonne position pour accéder aux barrages. 

Mondial 2026 : le Cap-Vert qualifié pour la 1ere fois de l'histoire, le Cameroun en barrages

The most moral army in the world.

The genocide has not stopped.

Ah, nothing like the feeling of preparing a course lecture on a paper, only to discover that the paper is completely uninteresting and would probably make the students die of boredom.

Two years of genocide.

Palestinians should govern Palestine not a war criminal like Blair

A Berlin, une foule appelle à la fin de la guerre à Gaza Brandissant des drapeaux palestiniens ou encore des pancartes proclamant que "nourriture et eau sont des droits de l'homme", des dizaines de milliers de manifestants ont défilé samedi à Berlin pour demander à Israël d'arrêter son offensive militaire dans la bande de Gaza.

A Berlin, une foule appelle à la fin de la guerre à Gaza

*gegen den Genozid in Gaza

Es ist überhaupt kein Krieg.
Es war nie

reviewers should not be anonymous

Today in Italy, there's been a hugely participatory national strike in support of Palestinian Freedom.
I could not be there, and it pains me, but it gives me so much joy to see the resonance it had, considering a smaller union launched it.
Free Palestine
Dal fiume al mare

Theories of analyticity cannot handle this

Abstract: An emerging narrative links the rise of social epistemology with the decline of a purist epistemological orthodoxy. The thought that motivates this narrative is that impurist epistemologies make space for social, moral, and pragmatic considerations, where purist epistemologies do not, which transforms epistemology from something that was once overly idealized and abstract into something that makes meaningful contact with the social realities of knowledge. Despite the intuitive appeal of this narrative, I argue that it owes its plausibility to a lack of conceptual clarity. When we more clearly articulate the contours of the purist orthodoxy, we see that i) different varieties of impurism make space for social, moral, and pragmatic considerations in importantly different ways, which complicates how this set of views hangs together, and ii) even the strictest of purists can attend to social, moral, and pragmatic factors in the sense necessary for producing socially-engaged epistemology.

Yay! This paper on impurist epistemology and the social turn is now forthcoming at Philosophy Compass :)

You can check it out here! philpapers.org/rec/TILIEA

Ah, yes, this really sucks. To avoid this, I might not submit there for a while. 😅

Guido Tana, Innkeeper! Is the Wine Good Here? Phenomenal Conservatism and the Arbitrariness Problem - PhilPapers Phenomenal Conservatism is an internalist theory of justification that upholds the idea that justification arises from a distinct picture of epistemic warrant based on seemings. Recently, it has enjoy...

I have a new paper accepted in Grazer Phil Studies, you can find the accepted draft here: philpapers.org/rec/TANIIT-5

This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest

Few things make me more despairing about the credibility and future of academic philosophy than reading certain referee reports.

You and me Bono, you and me both

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I took off 'politics' from the list of interests on this app because this is 'Enlightened Centrist Central'. Never seen such an amount of unabashed and unashamed support for western imperialism as on this app.

Same, but when I finally tried it it was one of the most underwhelming experiences of my life. It's just ice cream and some whipped cream on top. The presentation is what makes it feel like it's the holy grail of ice cream, but it really is not.

This sucks and journals shouldn't do this.

(btw this is not me projecting. The reviewer explicitly stated that this mistake 'informed the whole of the paper making it unsuitable for publication')

On a side note, everybody keeps repeating that they receive too many referee requests from Synthese, but I don't. I reviewed for them six times, and five were T.C.s - I think the Editors have very specific pools to pick referees from and keep pestering those who are in them.

For example, a paper that is currently conditionally accepted at another European journal was rejected there because the reviewer stated that Phenomenal Conservatism is not a variety of Dogmatism, which simply is not true. (Now the almost accepted paper has a footnote with just references on this)

I almost stopped submitting stuff to Synthese - the 'only' is because I still submit for T.Cs there. All my last experiences with them have been abysmal. The quality of the reviews was terrible, written by graduate students that had something to prove and just made up stuff in order to reject

I'm so fucking tired by the way. I spent half of August preparing a talk about stuff I don't understand. Will spent the next 10 days trying to come up with slides for a course I should begin teaching in a month in Lisbon, where I probably won't get paid because of the lack of NISS.

I should begin my new position there in 13 days and I regret having accepted it.

My institution didn't even know the procedure on how to do this thing. I had glimpses in 2023 that Portuguese bureaucracy didn't have standard rules and that you're essentially dependent on the goodwill of those who work in it, but this has become unbearable.

If this is real, nobody ever communicated it to me, and I can't contact Social Security because they only have an online system that, in order to be used, requires... You guessed it! the NISS!. I sent emails to any email address I could find, but to no avail. Not-a-single-response