Andy Peet

Getting Reddit ads for Mensa. Not sure whether to be complemented that the algorithm thinks I'm smart, or insulted that it thinks I'm the sort of weirdo who cares about their IQ (I have a staggeringly low IQ btw).

Unfortunately I am not "the academy" though.

I'd maybe take his opinions on Marx and Hegel seriously. Not so much his views on this history and sociology of analytic philosophy....

I hadn't heard of this guy until people started dunking on him. Is he relevant in any way? Or is he just one step up from the species of random hack blogger that spends their time complaining about their quantum mechanical theory of the meaning of life not being taken seriously by the academy?

Here you go: I teach a lot of adults who have already got their first degrees and are in it because they are interested in the subject. They are often brilliant, super engaged, and insightful.

I don't like this as a diagnosis of why some papers seem grad-studenty (not that I have a better diagnosis). But it is great writing advice independently of that.

I'm here! Yea basically it would be great for us if someone super senior applied. But super senior people often don't want to relocate to the far north of Sweden - so I wanted to emphasize that non-senior people have a shot too. Otherwise it may go to an internal candidate (maybe me, who knows).

I especially recommend this for people fleeing dysfunctional higher ed systems in the U.S. and UK. Things seem to run (comparatively) well here.

Professor of Philosophy

www.umu.se/en/work-with...

We're hiring at Umeå. The position is full professor - but don't be intimidated by the professor title - you don't have to be fancy to apply. I'd say anyone with a potentially tenureable CV has a shot (obviously fanciness is a bonus). Area is pretty open. For details see ad below:

Yea I'm currently dealing with rotator cuff (subscapularis) tendonitis, elbow tendonitis, and multiple finger injuries. Maybe there is a good reason that playgrounds are mainly designed just for kids.

They are called bouldering gyms. I know of one that even has a slide.

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He's also telling us to go outside and meet people which, if anything, is even more of an affront to our existence.

Having said this i do think there are clear examples of books published with academic presses that would have been better with a commercial editor. Katherine Hawley's trust book comes to mind. There are many genres of academic monograph with different aims...

I dunno, the point of an academic monograph is to really develop a big idea in a lot of detail. Stanley's stuff is fun to read, but it doesn't always do what an academic monograph should. I can't see a trade press publishing e.g. Making it Explicit or the Origins of Objectivity...

Looking forward to the new cottage industry of unpacking Trump 2.0's new and creative misuses of language. Had a lot of fun reading the Trump 1.0 literature.

That's reasonably close to Russell's analysis. But Russell's analysis is controversial in part because it seems weird to say that sentences exhibiting presupposition failure are true or false rather than lacking truth value.

p: "the grass outside is green" intuitively contains q: "there is grass outside". Suppose there is just tarmac outside. q is falsified. But p exhibits presupposition failure. It is not falsified, just lacks truth value. So q can't be part of p since for that every falsifier of q must falsify p.

Anyone written on presupposition failures in truthmaker semantics? Here is the issue I'm trying to understand:.....

Maybe we should write more books. Get big ideas out there and develop them thoroughly at the same time...

Content-Focused Epistemic Injustice Abstract. There has been extensive discussion of testimonial epistemic injustice, the phenomenon whereby a speaker’s testimony is rejected due to prejudice

academic.oup.com/book/44919/c...

If the philosophical discussion centres on stylised vignettes with cutsey names, which it often does, then knowledge of the subject is reliability indicated by knowledge of stylized vignettes with cutsey names.

Less spicy: The main marker of cultural insiderness in analytical philosophy is... knowledge of the subject.

Yea, also I think early career there is pressure to make every idea work which leads to a lot of well polished turds. With job security comes the ability to be pickier about the ideas one works on. That has been my experience at least.

I haven't read that many super recent books tbh, but I did enjoy:

Mercier - Not Born Yesterday

Hirsch - Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt

Misak - Cambridge Pragmatism

Honourable mention to Zawidzki's "Mindshaping" which I just finished and really enjoyed (it's just over 10 years old I think).

Yes.

Fair, but maybe our problem is that we are too concerned with "really" reading things when the gist will often suffice.

Damn I thought one paper was bad. Folks in natural sciences average three a day don't they? I have some recollection of this coming up at your "Publishing Crisis" conference.

Don't philosophers average reading something like one paper a day (or less)?