Barrett Emerick

The deadline to submit to this year's NASSP conference has been extended to March 15! As always, abstracts or proposals in all areas of social philosophy – not just those on the conference theme - are welcome.

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Wed. Jan. 15 @ 3p EST: Abstract Writing Workshop (more info @ link)

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Prediction: students who go to colleges where they sit in humanities classes of 30-300 will receive 90% fewer sustained writing, research, and reading education than students who go to schools where they sit in classes of 14, because of the way we teachers are adapting to AI cheating.

This is a reminder of the Call for Papers for the North American Society for Social Philosophy's journal, Social Philosophy Today. The full CFP is here. www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/publications/

Please share it with anyone you know who may be interested. Some key details follow.

It is so exciting and interesting and weird and magical and like an authentic expression of self all at once.

All of that is totally banal but I still think it is really cool. It feels exciting to be in it - to be chopping onions and have an idea or turn of phrase pop into my head, or to open a Word doc and to find the page filling up - to discover what I think as I am seeing the words appear on the page.

I have come to love the way that writing feels like it comes from me and not from me at the same time. The things I write feel like they are mine like nothing else does. But they also, at the same time, feel like they are not mine - that I was the conduit by which they happened.

We are happy to report that issue 10.4 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy these three peer-reviewed articles, followed by acknowledgments of referees, editors, and assistants here at the end of our first ten years as a journal.

Or just anyone at any career stage!

Our account helps to explain which normative principles we ought to accept, and as a result it can explain why it is acceptable to make inferences involving race in some contexts (e.g., in defense of affirmative action) but not in others (e.g., in defense of racial profiling).

In this paper, we provide an account of induction in social contexts and explore its implications for policy.

In comparison to the normative step, the inductive step of a policy defense may seem trivial. We argue that this is not so. Satisfying the demands of the inductive step is difficult, and doing so has important but underappreciated implications for the normative step.

Next, there is an inductive step in which the statistic is projected from the past to the future. Finally, there is a normative step in which a policy is proposed as a response in the service of some goal—for example, to reduce crime or to correct socioeconomic imbalances.

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Most social policies cannot be defended without making inductive inferences. For example, consider certain arguments for racial profiling and affirmative action, respectively. They begin with statistics about crime or socioeconomic indicators.

This paper that Tyler Hildebrand and I wrote came out online last year but has now officially been published. Glad to have it out there - and open access at that!

Philosophers! Please follow & share our new account with your colleagues - we would ultimately like to move away from Twitter/X. #philosophy #philosophers #appliedphilosophy #philosophyjournal

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Identity Politics Is Dead—Except For White People If someone is racist and sexist then they will be inclined to look for reasons not to vote for Harris, and the left did and continues to do an excellent job at providing such reasons.

New piece by me and the most excellent Nico Orlandi on the recent election.

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Social Epistemologists: I was trying to populate a starter pack for us manually but got lazy and thought it would be much more fun to turn this into a game!

Post a link to your favourite paper you wrote on the topic below with a post-length abstract and I’ll add you to it!

#PhilSky #SocEpis

Today's humanism lecture is @rimabasu.bsky.social on Sherlock Holmes and Moral Failure and Kelly Weirich on ChatGPT and Emotional Outsourcing.

In short: the moral floor is to act like a human being and treat others like a human being. Cut out the humanity at either end and you're doing it wrong.

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Faux Feminism profiled in the CUNY Graduate Center's newsletter <3

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