Ethan Nowak

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

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Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

Linguistic innovators out here solving the conceptual engineering implementation challenge everyday …

Great news for Bay Area philosophy!

Cardiff Philosophy once again leading the way!

Everyone go read this!

Linguists swear up and down that natural language determiners are uniformly conservative. But three HVAC techs we spoke with in the parking lot outside a Hobby Lobby in Redding, CA aren't so sure ...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Can't wait to see it!

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for you tho
or sorry that happened

Columbia Philosophy Statement on Mahdawi / Fundraiser - Daily Nous The Department of Philosophy at Columbia University has issued a statement about Mohsen Mahdawi, the philosophy major taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this past Monday. The statement...

A fundraiser has been launched to help pay for the legal expenses of the philosophy major taken by ICE earlier this week, and the Columbia Department of Philosophy has issued a statement about the situation and calling for the university to help him.

Last week we were informed that our #NEH grant for the #WiseWomen series was being terminated. We were close to finishing season 2 and had recently applied to produce two new seasons. But with that funding now off the table, we find ourselves in a precarious position.

Our future is on the line. 1/3

Kristi Noem Made A Lynching Postcard The American tradition of celebrating racial terror.

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

Tired of calling your Congresspeople? You could always also call your state reps! I’m calling mine to ask that the state stop cuts to the UCs and CSUs in light of the federal government’s attacks on higher ed. In CA, find your folks here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/wh...

Program for Day 1 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Program for Day 2 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

Today would be a good day to consider donating:

savelife.in.ua/en/

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

“Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence & think: one of us.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book co-authored by Cardiff University philosopher Dr Sarah Fisher.

Book launch!

Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher

Wednesday, 26 February 2025
18:00-19:00

Cathays, Cardiff

Full details ––

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

but I didn't mean to suggest in response to @elinm.bsky.social that the phenomena are exactly parallel

I was thinking point of contact is that both the professor and the president are in a position where the normative statuses instituted by their speech (which is key on @quillkukla.bsky.social's speech act theory) differ from the normative statuses other speakers would institute w/same words.

Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice on JSTOR REBECCA KUKLA, Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice, Hypatia, Vol. 29, No. 2 (SPRING 2014), pp. 440-457

www.jstor.org/stable/24542...

Basic structure is old white man professor wants to ask his student out. He would only want her to accept if she genuinely reciprocated the romantic interest, and wouldn't want for his invitation to be coercive. But no matter what he says, it'll be coercive (full case on pg. 455 in Kukla 2014)

Yes this is an apt comparison it seems to me

We Can Make an Impact. SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone (A Norton Short) Amazon.com: Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone (A Norton Short): 9781324064923: Kukla, Quill R.: Books

Oh hey! My book is already on Amazon, I did not know! Look how pretty! If you are a person who still uses Amazon, will you please consider pre-ordering? It's cheap, and it really helps with the algorithm and with my ability to promote the book. I hate to push my own stuff but I would be so grateful!

First they came for the vibes-based theories of aesthetic discourse and I did not speak up because I was not selling a vibes-based theory of aesthetic discourse. Then they came for the vibes-based theories of semantic bleaching and I did not speak up because …

Nat Hansen & Shen-yi Liao, Measuring Conceptual Inflation: the Case of 'Racist' - PhilPapers Is the term ‘racist’ being applied so widely that it is losing its moral force? Theorists and pundits from across the political spectrum think that it is. They call such a ...

Is the term "racist" losing its meaning through overuse? Theorists and pundits across the political spectrum say that it is. But what evidence do we have that "racist" is "conceptually inflated" beyond mere vibes? @liao.shen-yi.org and I take a close look in a new paper:

philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI

To be clear it was like one problem or two and one reference to a rule that wasn’t defined. I could probably dig up in my notes where this occurred if you end up going with this book…