kristopher g phillips, Ph.D.

Of course it still has grades! What is this, some sort of new-age feel-goodery?

I still assign final grades, and I give copious feedback on where and how to improve. Numbers and letter grades don’t tell a student how to do better.

Ugh. This is such lazy writing.

It’s hilarious because the first paragraph pretty well describes me, right up to the, “they are frauds” and then literally everything that follows is a straw-person of the actually thoughtful pedagogical choices I make.
But also, my rejection of grades has nothing to do with “who am I to judge?”

I actually pretty much exclusively use Garamond. And my jeans are blue, but cuffed, so.. you know. Trying too hard.

Fuck man. That really is me.

Descartes gave us all the tools we need to survive in an era of misinformation. Simply begin with the understanding that you are real but everything else is fairly likely to be the cruel games of a demon sent to torment you specifically.

Since January, I’ve written 38,811 words.

They’re pretty good words in what I take to be an interesting order.

Gotta keep going. October 1 is fast approaching.

Oh shit! I’m here for it

YouTube video by djbuddylovecooljazz Angela (Theme From 'Taxi') - Bob James (1978)

Not to be too much of a hipster, but the Taxi theme song popped up on my Spotify and honestly, it slaps.

Great writing music!

youtu.be/5DL8SGEyhZE?...

I have a productivity app that I use to track my writing time. While I’m not always great about making sure I use it, it’s tracked 77+ hours of writing since Jan.

I have somewhere around 40k words, which puts me at ~519.5 words/hour.

Can I finish this book by September? We will see!

Be careful what you wish for!

OOOOH. Good idea!

I thought this would streamline my feedback process because I assumed few students would pick 5.

All but one of my students picked 5 this term.

Side note: I just spent 90 minutes on one paper.

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I have a lot to say about that as a definition and purpose of higher ed, but I’ll let you read the rest of the chapter before I respond, as I suspect a lot of what I’d say here has already been said in the second half of the chapter.

My partner is so damn amazing!! She’s cooler than you (and me).

Dude, you’re not alone. Getting students to do philosophy without AI is just getting students to do philosophy. And it’s important. I feel you.

Phillips Kristopher, Is Philosophy Impractical? Yes and No, but That's Precisely Why we Need It - PhilArchive This chapter makes the argument for both the practicality and impracticality of philosophy as it relates to liberal education. An exploration of the history of science in the seventeenth and eighteent...

I’ve seen a handful of articles about how humanities programs need to focus on “practicality”.

In 2017 I published a chapter arguing that a focus on practicality in higher ed is a mistake. It seems especially relevant right now

philarchive.org/rec/KRIIPI-2

This is a great thread and I agree with all of it. Reviewing takes a ton of time but it's important work, even when I hate the paper I reviewed. Editors can confirm I send lengthy details about every decision and I'd be wracked with guilt not doing that. It's the entire point of the process!

I’m a recent meta study, we scoured 2550 lists of things with which one fucks.

We found a number of things appearing on multiple lists & most things appeared at least once.

Conspicuously absent from *all* lists was the Wu Tang Clan.

We conclude that Wu Tang Clan is, in fact, nothing to fuck with.

As someone who has published many things that make interesting contributions to human knowledge, but who has VERY few citations, I’m frustrated by this characterization

He was the master of that particular gesture. No question.

Wrestling is so great. 😂

I’m sorry to say this is my first Chandler! I’m loving it so far!

I started reading The Big Sleep last night.

I'm one of those people who hear the words in their head as they read, but what really stands out to me is that I cannot help but hear all dialogue/narration in a Mid-Atlantic accent.

I think that makes it even more enjoyable, to be honest.

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Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!

The student concluded that this shift doesn’t ultimately do much to change the interpretation, but wanted to make a note of it anyway just in case.

That’s so damn cool!! I’d never noticed that before!

I have a lot to say about the shift, but for now I just want to brag about my students!

I’m teaching early modern philo this semester and I have these weekly close-reading assignments. One of my students noticed a shift in pronouns between the Latin and French editions of Descartes’ Third Meditation (from 1st person singular to 1st person plural)!