Shea Stevens

Few things worse to see on your TV than Cowboys fans experiencing an ounce of joy

This Eagles vs Cowboys game has been wild.

CDC website edited to say that there are only four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, and that atomic theory is not evidence-based.

Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay

So excited to share the UK cover of my forthcoming book THE TRAVELLER ... which is about a quite remarkable human being. George Forster, a man who tried to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart - he saw unity behind our diversity, not discord and division.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

BREAKING: The Senate just passed the Epstein bill by unanimous consent.

The bill will automatically pass once it's delivered to the Senate and will then advance to Trump's desk for him to sign — possibly as early as this evening.

Teaching on the meaning of life again, and it dawns on me (I'm a slow learner) that the way in which the question of life's meaning can be asked in a cosmic register (can any human life have meaning?) or in a quotidian register (why are some human lives more meaningful than others?) recurs. 1/

My 19 month old son is super into sealife and oceans and can now identify and name anglerfish and angelfish, which is pretty impressive given he's still taking a random punt on whether any particular woman in the room is Mama

Hilary Pecis (American, b. 1979). Botanical Gardens (2019, acrylic on canvas).

New Yearbook for #Phenomenology & Phenomenological Philosophy. Vol 23
Eds Burt C. Hopkins, Daniele De Santis – Phenomenology & the Frankfurt School, & book discussion (Trizio, Philosophy’s Nature: Husserl’s Phenomenology, Natural Science, and Metaphysics)
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/11/18/n...

So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Poster for the talk by Chris Shambaugh, entitled "What is Dialectical Biology?". It will take place on Monday, 24 November 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

Somewhere along the line, a healthy distrust of politicians was transformed into pathological loyalty to a politician

Somewhere along the line, a healthy distrust of government was transformed into a pathological demand that more power be handed over to a small number of politicians

After watching Nuremberg I bought this excellent book. I highly recommend. “Aftermath” by Harald Jahner. Utterly depressing to read, for someone who wants to believe in human goodness. But important in so many ways.

Saw the new Nuremberg movie last night. I think it’s just what this moment needs: an unmistakably direct and political story that reminds Americans that Nazism is bad, demagoguery is bad, racism is bad, and that crimes against humanity must not only be stopped but also punished.

Do you ever contemplate the forms?

New on my blog: I posted a paper I wrote earlier this year, “Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sense and Non-Sense.” I’m pretty proud of it and plan to include it in a future edition of my book. It talks a little about Hegel; that’s an area I’m still planning on diving into further on a future blog post.

No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.

Grounds grounding the grounds:

Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎

Thrilled to join this fantastic team !

That’s such high praise coming from you! And I’m the same way.

The sad reality. Not posting to discourage anyone from getting a PhD, but we should do more to normalize people philosophizing without a PhD.

So fun to see my book on that pile 🤘🏻Thank you for ordering, Eric.

"I am breathing deeply and slowly in order to summon sleep, and suddenly it is as if my mouth were connected to some great lung outside myself which alternately calls forth and forces back my breath. A certain rhythm of respiration, which a moment ago I voluntarily maintained, now becomes my very being, and sleep, until now aimed at as a significance, suddenly becomes my situation."

Merleau-Ponty on falling asleep #philosophy #philsky

yep!!! merleau-ponty-ass problems

A naturalistic portrait of a woman’s face from a Fayum mummy

While this looks like it could have been painted yesterday, it’s actually a 1,700 year old (!) portrait from a Fayum mummy in modern day Egypt. This is one of ~900 of these portraits from the era, which broke from a more stylized tradition, and represented the subject more naturally.

Kirsty Wan (@micromotility.bsky.social) starts the second day of the workshop with a tour de force overview of the behavioral complexity of single-celled organisms and ways to study and model it. #evosky #cellbio #HPbio