AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

okay but, to her credit, this might have also been @kmdoublev.bsky.social compromise to reign in my affinity for clownish acronyms

incredible abstract, 10/10, no notes

Meaning-as-Use and the Punisher’s New Logo - The Prindle Institute for Ethics Having been co-opted by various organizations, it's unclear what the long-toothed skull stands for.

Since the FBI's new challenge coin is again making the Punisher logo politically relevant, here's something I wrote in 2022 about Wittgenstein, symbols, and cultural contexts:

www.prindleinstitute.org/2022/01/mean...

four-sided triangle?

A great alt-ac phil. language job just opened:

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

the mean girls extended universe goes hard

brb reserving everything the library has on derrida

yeah, i do peer review

A photo of a small brown cat resting on my lap facing away from the camera. I'm sitting at a desk with two computer monitors (both with windows open, though they are too blurry to read), a keyboard, a coffee mug with a crossword puzzle on it, and a small handmade statue.

Celebrating this Postdoc Appreciation Week in the traditional manner (working from home on job applications)

It's postdoc appreciation week eve, so make sure to leave out some extra pens and a travel coffee mug from an institution you didn't even know they were affiliated with.

A badly photoshopped image of Kid Anakin Skywalker from 'The Phantom Menace' in a cockpit, wearing aviator goggles: "Now THIS is [public philosophy]!"

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I think it's almost a requirement for philosophers of language to write at least one paper about baseball 😆

Yup

I'm sure it really tied the paper together 🫡

A screenshot of Tywin Lannister, an older man dressed in fancy armor, sitting at a table and looking stern

Just read a footnote in a (great!) paper that apologized for using a "pop culture reference" (to Tywin Lannister from ASoIaF/Game of Thrones).

What are more examples of philosophers referencing "low" art (vs. something like Shakespeare or a Bach concerto)?

The old school brown and yellow logo for Cracker Barrel, but the old man image on the left has been replaced by a stylized version of Diogenes sitting in his barrel

RETVRN

A clip of Plato and Aristotle from Raphael's 'School of Athens' painting

Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨

YouTube video by Bionic Disco Kenmore Microwave 'Thanksgiving' Commercial (1978)

Ahh, that makes sense!

Maybe microwave ovens? Early ads were certainly unrealistic
youtu.be/m_bscfynyaE

look, you should've known better than to try and celebrate pumpkin spice day while abroad

A room with a wooden floor, absolutely filled with wooden bookcases piled high with books. In the foreground a table sits, but is barely visible under the mountain of books sitting on it, as well as a vase of dried flowers

A tall wooden bookshelf completely filled with books to the point that books are stacked on top of shelved books. Another similarly crammed bookcase is visible in the background

A closer shot of a different bookcase filled with books. The titles of several are visible with the name 'Rorty' on a few

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People who know tech history: what are some examples of past hypes around new technologies that didn’t come true and which seem silly now? Where people thought the world and our lives would change rapidly and radically… and then they didn’t.

Why the Bar Code Will Always Be the Mark of the Beast Joe Woodland invented the bar code -- that collection of lines and numbers used to ring up your groceries every time you visit the supermarket -- and after the longtime IBMer passed away earlier this ...

Would panics work for what you're looking for?

Fears about UPC barcodes were pretty widespread in certain religious circles in the 1980s. Similar "Mark of the Beast" stories exist for credit card numbers, RFID chips, and vaccines (just to name a few).
www.wired.com/2012/12/upc-...

because it should just be 'one-shot'? 🤔

A black and white profile photo of Nancy Bauer in a leather jacket wryly smiling into the camera. Laser eyes have been shoddily photoshopped onto the image

the more i think about it, the more i like this one

symbolic logic: not even once
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