Kenneth Black

Conversation between students in my class today (we were discussing Nagel/Anscombe on the self)

“Do you think you’re [name]?”
- “No, I don’t even think I exist!”
“That’s rough, buddy”

That’s what I’ve done. Worked for me! Easier to keep track of everything

Bad epistemic luck

Funny, I heard them saying the same thing

One of my favorite papers from the past few years

I too will check my manuscript status when I am neither hungry nor thirsty

Trying to convince students that Moore’s proof of the external world is brilliant

He’s trying to get them covered up

Allow me to introduce you to inference to the worst explanation

Philosophy blog idea: Guest posts discussing why a "real world" example from some corner of philosophy is actually false or misleading and why it matters to the respective debates.

Strong MIT representation in these comments lol

Ah interesting. Maybe! I guess I’m a bit warmer to the idea that this looks like it expresses a genuine question, but when you look closer, you realize it’s senseless. But I agree that this feels like it expresses a genuine question—if it doesn’t, what are theorists of the Liar disagreeing about?

I take it that if we have a problem here, it’s just an extension of the liar problem which plagues truth-conditional semantics more generally? In which case whatever tools people use to cope with the liar should apply here. Unless you think the liar isn’t meaningful?

radical

Is this like your “What we talk about when we talk about mental states” paper? Big fan of that one!

I have heard of academics enjoying it but it also sounds far too stressful to me

My phenomenal self might be subject to the rule according to which everything that happens in it proceeds from a cause but my noumenal self is just built different.

Would suggest birding but I think about epistemology way more while birding than at literally any other time

Time to find a new hobby

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It’s that or “my favorite philosopher is Plato but I don’t hold any of his views etc” so

Was wondering if I’d get called out lol

Also known as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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Just don’t expect donations

I mean, you could throw a neat little party with the whole Fodor gang

Reminder to check in on the bibliography addicts in your life and see if they’re okay

For some reason I think you have a good shot at Gimli

I think you’re totally right. Lewis can distinguish them just by their temporal/modal profiles

That sounds right! What’s sort of puzzling (among other things) is why the stative reading of “imagine” has a doxastic feel

Do you have a sense of why this might happen?

(There’s something similar with ‘thinks’ in English, although it’s very hard to get “I’m thinking that p but I don’t think that p” to work)