Devin Curry

ah cool looking forward to reading!

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agreed. I think current trends are partly encouraged by academic philosophy increasingly recognizing "public philosophy" as professional accomplishment, and partly by Substack's design choices and ethos ("a new economic engine for culture")

Kenneth Black, Common Ground, Conditionals, and _Ceteris Paribus_ Pragmatics - PhilArchive In conversation, we make use of shared information in order to communicate. But what shared information? In theorising about conversation, it’s popular to allot a privileged position to a single body ...

Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵

gonna walk into the first day of class next semester, make a face, and say "you guys can't be here. it's just not realistic."

OUTER (ALL-ENCOMPASSING) LAYER OF INTERPRETIVISM • to have a mind is to be aptly interpretable as minded • a phenomenon is mental iff it is aptly interpretable as mental SECOND (PARTIAL) LAYER OF INTERPRETIVISM • to believe is to be aptly interpretable as believing • to be intelligent is to be aptly interpretable as intelligent • …and so on for an indefinite number of other interpreter-dependent phenomena INNER CORE OF INTERPRETER-INDEPENDENT NATURAL KINDS • conscious experiences like feelings of pain, visual experiences, and so on • cognitive capacities like working memory, cognitive models, and so on

The article also includes a sketch of the one true ontology of mind, for a treat.

I argue that even wacky relativists like me should reject the claim that mental state ascriptions are works of fiction. And if *I* shouldn't be a fictionalist, then surely more reasonable people like *you* shouldn't be fictionalists either.

Devin Sanchez Curry, Nonfiction stories about minds - PhilPapers According to mental fictionalists, folk psychological ascriptions of mental states are a kind of storytelling that does not commit ascribers to the existence of mental states. Interpretivists about th...

"Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity.

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Tess Strauch, Devin Sanchez Curry & Galen Curry (eds.), Philosophy, History, and Other Productively Useless Endeavors: Essays in Honor of David C. K. Curry - PhilPapers This book is a festschrift (a celebratory collection of writings) honoring Dr. David C. K. Curry, edited by his three children and presented to him upon his retirement in the summer ...

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it resulted in a very good party on saturday from which he is still (emotionally and physically) recovering

shirts v skins

and here he is qua baller

handsome bespectacled balding man gesticulating in his only vest

here's dad qua philosopher

PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND OTHER PRODUCTIVELY USELESS ENDEAVORS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DAVID C. K. CURRY This book is a festschrift (a celebratory collection of writings) honoring Dr. David C. K. Curry, edited by his three children and presented to him upon his retirement in the summer of 2025. The festschrift includes autobiographical reflections from Dr. Curry’s students, colleagues, friends, and family; scholarly essays on evil, pedagogy, and the historiography of philosophy; a pastiche of Miguel de Cervantes; and several instances of what can only be described as “original multimedia content.” Contributors: Kristin Andrews, Vita Ayala, Rob Badger, Tom Baker, Carrie Bates, Frances Bottenberg, Peter Brouwer, Annie Browne, Kevin Browne, Ruthann Browne, Jim Cargile, Matt Chick, Amelia Curry, Arwen Curry, Bo Curry, Clinton Curry, Denise Curry, Devin Curry, Galen Curry, Jimmy Curry, Lee Curry, Mary Ann Curry, Maya Curry, Laurie Daugherty, Joe DiGiovanna, Antonio Dos Santos, Caroline Downing, Rachel Fedock, Justin Francos, Carmen Gutierrez, Nabeel Hamid, Jimmy Harris, Kate Nicole Hoffman, Ed Holler, Brian Huss, Jose Lara, Lisa Long, Mark Lyon, Jacob MacDavid, Derek Maus, Michael McKenna, Tim Murphy, Chris Propert, Carmelina Roca, Diana Roca, Elsa Schmidt, Jorge Secada, Steve Stannish, Tess Strauch, Andy Van Kempen, Rick Vitray, Hank Zimmerman

fifty-three of my dad's students, friends, relatives, and ardent admirers helped put this festschrift together: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dckc

ah cool, thank you!

any of those papers in the second section you'd especially recommend teaching? i'd like to make my course less US-centric next time.

i've had success teaching the bit on Morton in The Mismeasure of Man as a prelude to The Racial Contract, since Mills doesn't really dig into the role of science in racial mythmaking, and it helps make Mills's claims about the Racial Contract being epistemological really concrete for students

philosophy is the ethos that we should judge all positions in their strongest, most defensible forms, except relativism, which we should judge based on the views of undergrads

Excited about today's new #HoPWaG episode, in which I interview Gary Hatfield about the argument of Descartes' Meditations! We discuss his reasons for writing it, the cogito, the proofs for God, and the Cartesian circle.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me...

#philsky #descartes #meditations

you really have internalized fodor's argument style

strus should've gone in for a knowledge norm of showing up to work instead

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unfortunately it writes many of them

love fellllini

yeah, there are, including digital artists who are big into nfts in a non-grifty way

for sure! complicating only insofar as it makes the distinction between our distinctions murkier haha

all beliefs are of course difference makers, counterfactual dependence causes, etc

the other complicating factor is that i only take attitudes of belief to be acausal on a narrow, "producing" conception of what constitutes a cause (which pushes towards but isn't quite identical to how you now define "deep")

haha yeah definitely closely related

nice. fwiw, i'm happy to say that cognitive states of belief are properties of persons--and that (eg) jackson&pettit-style cognitive states of belief are superficial properties of persons (so i agree that your distinction doesn't reduce to mine)