Eline Gerritsen

Deense donor met ernstige genetische afwijking verwekt 197 kinderen in Europa Donorkinderen die de mutatie erven, lopen een grote kans op het krijgen van kanker.

Interesting case for thinking about privacy: anonymous sperm donor has 197 kids across Europe, turns out he has a mutation giving some of his kids a 80-90% risk of cancer. Sperm bank refuses to reveal his case number or trace the families, because of donor's right to privacy.
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I'm teaching a writing skills sessions tomorrow where I will partially focus on the importance of making your research question specific enough - this will be an excellent illustration!

I've been binging the German version of The Office to prepare for watching the new film (for which I was allocated a ticket to help with my integration). Given the general state of German television, I am shocked to report that it is clearly better than the US version!

I got an ad for a true crime podcast for kids. Are we all OK? Happy with the direction our collective entertainment preferences have taken?

I signed up for a regional vegetable subscription and am genuinely excited to receive my first delivery today. It's getting hard to deny my identity as a woman in her thirties.

(The excitement is combined with a worry about how many recipes for cabbage and carrots I'll need this winter)

A chocolate stroopwafel (Dutch cookie) on top of a mug with the print 'Truth conquers all'

To break my streak of negative academia posts:

I currently get to do teaching prep on an interesting topic I wouldn't otherwise think about (ethics of adblockers), with a great snack.

I'm afraid all my recent posts sound like jaded complaints somehow!

In reality my paper did not get rejected after 7 months - instead I've found out at the 8 month mark that no one has agreed to review it yet.

So I'm stuck in limbo, waiting to improve my situation on the job market, because the few people with a job are too busy to review my paper. Perfect.

"Let's celebrate your published article and the time you spent researching your paper with your one-off exclusive poster" - only $89!

If there's no jobs anyway, maybe they're right to replace 'publish or perish' with a more positive 'publish and poster!'

It's a shame that when I achieve the thing we're all supposed to do it all for - my paper gets published in a journal - the publisher makes it feel like a scam event. Do I want to buy a poster with the paper title to celebrate?? Do I want to pay €300 for prints (of my own paper, not the journal!)???

I recently noticed people now talk about post partum depression as just 'post partum', which annoys me in a similar way as the 'mental health' thing - you're leaving out the essential bit?

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omg guys they're advertising a job in philosophy *and AI*!!!

Volgens mij wil Jesse het nog laten bezinken

Achterhoeker hier!

I couldn't figure out how to formulate my niche, but this might be exactly it.

PSA. I remember objecting when a Scottish person referred to my home country as 'Holland', comparing it to calling all of the UK 'England'. He was HORRIFIED.

It's too bad 'The Netherlands' is actually tricky to say with a Dutch accent, so in English people tend to default to 'Holland'.

On that note - my Digital Ethics course started this week and students expressed an interest in entshitification, but I can't find any philosophical texts about it. Am I missing something? #PhilSky #Philosophy

The dream! It felt like a real failure when I received *another* flu jab invitation from a GP in the wrong country because, after 4 years, deregistering from this GP is still on the non-urgent to-do list...

As a student I did a course called something like 'sex and death' which was actually about the details of evolutionary theory. To be fair, I only wanted to take it after finding out this was the topic.

Sent!

It's a great system!

Not like your livelihood depends on it or anything.

Academia: Publish or perish!
Also academia: Good, you finished a paper! Now just wait 7 months for a rejection from the first journal.

Thick Rules in Ice Cream Shops Models, experts and thick social norms: what Larry David misunderstands about etiquette.

@geneickers.bsky.social I just remembered I wanted to send you something I wrote on thick and thin rules, which was the basis for my comments on your book: elinegerritsen.com/2024/03/25/t...

Abstract: It is increasingly common in metanormative debates to distinguish between two kinds of normativity: formal normativity, which all norms have, and authoritative normativity, which is a significant force not all norms have. Yet, we lack a clear and neutral understanding of the concept of authoritative normativity. In this paper, I highlight and dispel common misconceptions that stand in the way of a careful debate. In particular, I argue that current discussions of authoritative normativity are shaped by the pervasive but unwarranted non-naturalist idea that authority must be an irreducibly normative and intrinsic property. This makes authoritative normativity seem more mysterious than it needs to be, fuelling normative scepticism. With demanding preconceptions out of the way, there is conceptual room for explaining the authority of norms with natural facts about agents or their commitments. I conclude that we must not dismiss metaphysically naturalist metanormative theories as mere theories of formal normativity.

My new paper is already out! Paper title & aim (+ description of how I spent years of my life): Demystifying Authoritative Normativity. Abstract in image.

Now open access in Journal of Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsky #philosophy

Are you interested in the formal/authoritative distinction? Are you wondering how you can be a naturalist and still have real normativity? Do you want to see me fight normative error theory *and* sketch a Kantian constructivist account of authoritative normativity? Then this paper is for you!

Abstract: It is increasingly common in metanormative debates to distinguish between two kinds of normativity: formal normativity, which all norms have, and authoritative normativity, which is a significant force not all norms have. Yet, we lack a clear and neutral understanding of the concept of authoritative normativity. In this paper, I highlight and dispel common misconceptions that stand in the way of a careful debate. In particular, I argue that current discussions of authoritative normativity are shaped by the pervasive but unwarranted non-naturalist idea that authority must be an irreducibly normative and intrinsic property. This makes authoritative normativity seem more mysterious than it needs to be, fuelling normative scepticism. With demanding preconceptions out of the way, there is conceptual room for explaining the authority of norms with natural facts about agents or their commitments. I conclude that we must not dismiss metaphysically naturalist metanormative theories as mere theories of formal normativity.

My new paper is already out! Paper title & aim (+ description of how I spent years of my life): Demystifying Authoritative Normativity. Abstract in image.

Now open access in Journal of Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philsky #philosophy

The irony, of course, is that I do not yet know what my job situation will be during the upcoming postdoc appreciation week.

I'm still processing the great social ontology conference in Dublin last week - this morning I slept through my alarm because I was having an intense dream about scripts?