Mark Alfano

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

new paper on bullshit questions just dropped link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

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Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕

#philsky

Sorry of my life over the last year

Please, Mr. Pope was my father. I’m Jeff. Jeff Pope.

If I were an ICE agent, I would do it for the exposure, for instance by removing my balaclava and presenting my identification on request

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

DMV Worker: Stop staring at your phone while I take your driver's license photo

Guy: But this is how I look when I drive

truly we live in the stupidest of timelines

That's some pretty heavy slopaganda #slopaganda @michalk.bsky.social

They're really going to go full Horst Wessel, aren't they?

I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

merry as-many-citations-this-year-as-all-of-last-year day to all those who celebrate

Cool how the Vice President (not a real job) has the time to livestream (also not a job) threats to destroy the lives of people with actual jobs

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

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at least two of these things are true

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

fighting words are not protected speech

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

if it happens, we all know jd vance is a suspect here considering what happened to pope francis

Benefits of Studying Philosophy | APA On DemandAPA Mission - The American Philosophical Association To activate captions, click on the CC icon at the bottom of the video, then select English from the menu.

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There's a reason NWA never recorded a song titled "Fuck the Fire Department"

Cracker Barrel? I hardly know her.

Isn’t Cracker Barrel’s real problem that they serve bad food?

Doctor: You’ve got moxie, kid.

Me: Aww, thanks doc!

Doctor: And also gonorrhoea.

It's actually so funny that you have a cloth mother and I have a wire mother. No im like not even mad it's literally just funny. No like I love her cold metal frame. Yeah I got used to it really quick and actually I like it even better than I would like cloth mother I think. No like actually

Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with Thomas Kinkade .gif

APA Live | “Benefits of Studying Philosophy,” Wednesday, August 27, 6 p.m. Eastern / 3 p.m. Pacific, with panelists Michael Prinzing, Michael Vazquez, Deborah Mower, Mark Alfano, and Heather Battaly.

Are you a faculty member trying to convince university administrators that philosophy is important? Or a student wondering about the benefits of taking philosophy courses? Join us for “Benefits of Studying Philosophy” on August 27. Registration is open to all: www.apaonline.org/events/Event...