Andrew Lopez

My uni has installed hideous big screens to display advertising. One ad has our logo and says "A top public R1 research university", and I feel that's the kind of line you would use to defend it, not promote it.

Sorry, i sent that while drunk, please disregard

Great to hear! It's on my radar of things to read but had balked a bit at the price tag for the paperback 😅

We face two potential missteps in ecophysiology: 1) measuring animals under socially unrealistic conditions & 2) extrapolating results to nature, where social dynamics alter trait expression, plasticity, & evolutionary outcomes. Our new commentary in @jexpbiol.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Very good moment in DBS

Good time for folks to read stuff on populism though!

The alcohol would help you sleep and rest though (if you get it exactly right)

Is Fodor in there or something

Yes this ha been a bizarre thing for a while now. As you can probably guess, these people have never bought a sack of rice or any other grain.

And it's not exactly the author's fault that our discipline requires them to rehash the argumentative moves that other experts could reasonably reconstruct to arrive at the novel conclusion

I would agree with a qualified version of your last statement, but only because I'm already an expert. So papers in e.g. animal ethics, i can normally guess all the argumentative moves the paper will make so much of it is of no benefit for me to read. But that doesn't make it bad.

I think of much work in philosophy as workman-like, or like "normal science" in Kuhnian terms. It's always surprising to me how much disdain philosophers express for this.

That should say vice*

Cards on the table: i am perplexed by it and find it hard to not immediately interpret it as an instantiation of vic, self-conceit, or unreasonable expectations. But maybe there are good sorting mechanisms available to individuals to reasonably make this claim?

I somewhat regularly see people gripe that most philosophy today is bad. If you yourself think this or feel this way: can you share why? Do you earnestly believe it, or are you just reporting a vibe or expressing an affect that you feel? If you believe it, can you elaborate why?

I know there's more involved, but imo it's pretty funny to be like "this is THE guy when it comes to this sentence"

Also funny who they warned about this being a possibility. Bill Clinton left office 25 years ago. there are people in their 40s today who were still kids when he left office, why would they care

I wonder why people would make different assessments with regard to two different people working at different things at different scales, maybe they're just weird, capricious, and inconsistent

Sentientist Political Liberalism This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism. Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons ...

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In a new paper in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Eze Paez and I introduce “sentientist political liberalism,” an attempt to reconcile the ideas of society as a system of cooperation and public justification with taking animals seriously.

After several months, @dualipa.bsky.social still has not DMed me to talk about animal ethics. BlueSky is frankly not sustainable as a platform.

They put you on notice

It’s interesting how we default to assuming animals are not like humans until proven to be so.

With an evolutionary framework, what is the right null hypothesis?

Totally normal and expected to give a paper a few times to different audiences for feedback!

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Just like being a Simpsons fan

Surely they will immediately boot you when they find out you're a philosophy professor

i bring this up all the time, but jason stanley once tried to say that knowing LaTeX was privilege and then blocked me for asking whether .docx was "the people's format"

Can confirm, they loved receiving my feedback too