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2 years

Philosophy papers really be like: "If A steals B's car and runs it through B's garden into B's living room, B has a pro tanto reason to find A blameworthy (Miller 2014, Rosenberg 2021, Kant 1788, Jimenez forthcoming)."

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The Tractatus / The Investigations

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Studying philosophy? Oh, you mean the 'likes to read' to 'will avoid reading at any cost' pipeline?

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@Esqueer_ "Nobody *has* a cold, nobody *has* a good day, those aren't things you can *own*! I am very smart!"

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Lunar eclipse: [happens] Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.

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The correspondence between Elisabeth and Descartes goes so hard because she'll be like, "uwu I'm such a doofus, here's a nuclear objection to your work", and then he'll be like, "Madam, first of all, [ENTIRE PARAGRAPH ABOUT HOW HOT SHE IS]"

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CN Queerphobia I was just physically assaulted and called a child abuser by a lady in broad daylight, in front of people at a bus stop, for having too much gender-nonconforming swagger in public. The Groomer Industrial Complex and its consequences have been a disaster for the US

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3 years

Meet the 16 year old entrepreneur interested in language games

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2 years

@katiedimartin My very first conference presentation was in front of (1) the person I was criticizing in the paper and (2) the most famous analytic feminist philosopher. I almost died.

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3 years

Do you hear that sound? It’s every screenwriter in the world whispering a reverent “FUCK” under their breath.

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I'm so fucking good at flirting, it's unreal

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2 years

If I were editing the Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, I would simply not have the piece on pronouns written by someone who is confused by the 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 terminology.

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2 years

If you’re 16-24 and trying to get ahead, I have an idea for you. Try this:

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PHILOSOPHER: So you see, all emeralds we observe are both green *and* grue. ME: grue seems fake P: Ah, so you're saying green is more natural! M: I guess P: Aha! The Naturalness Worry! You claim green is a joint-carving property M: I don-- P: A *heavweight* metaphysical claim!!!

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3 years

I mean you already know what it is

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2 years

It's wild to me that we have a word for "throwing someone out a window" but not for, like, "the day after tomorrow". What's going on here? Big Window?

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11 months

I worry I lack the temperament to publish in philosophy. There's probably nothing I can say that hasn't been said already, somewhere in the unsurveyable literature. And even if there's something worth saying, it'll only disappear into the very same literature. How does one cope?

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@Dervine7 Get rekt

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You baby, you absolute goon, I did TWO SEPARATE DEGREES at the SAME TIME, and they were PHILOSOPHY and COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. You cannot even begin to comprehend the extent to which I won't get a job!!

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?

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@anendinitself @EtheHerring Border guard in NYC once looked up at me and said, "Oh, so you're a smart guy, huh?" Devastating burn.

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BREAKING: Bob Brandom just lectured about logic for 90 minutes, closed by saying "I'm fully aware that I run the risk of looking like this", and screen-shared this meme.

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Descartes was kinda going off with this one

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1000 likes by midnight and I include this meme in my Linguistics MA application

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3 years

Philosophy grad school is hard! I don't know if this resonates with anyone, but let me share how I cope:

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3 years

I HAVE A PAPER ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION LET'S FREAKING GOOOOOOO!!!

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@SarahjayneC88 @katiedimartin Y e s

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Went to a German climate change exhibit and........

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11 months

I'm not feeling great about philosophy at the moment and I also need to take a day off, so I'm going to make this a thread with the 10 philosophy papers I've found most inspiring, the ones that have impacted my own work the most. (So far.) Let's see what I come up with...

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Okay, after deleting my last dating app profile within 80 minutes, I am once again taking bets on how long I'll make it this time.

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Happy Bisexual Awareness Week to round about 92% of all philosophy students!! 💜

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Your regular invitation to self-reflection 🙏

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11 months

Help! My 5yo daughter now identifies as a "builder" in a "primitive language game"?? All she says anymore is "block", "pillar", "beam", and "slab"... does anyone know what to do? Do I send her to therapy?

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Wittgenstein attending Vienna Circle meetings, ca. 2021

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I'm at a conference dinner, sitting between two philosophers who have both pulled up Wittgenstein's Proto-Tractatus on their phones

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2 years

What are you doing to celebrate Bertrand Russell's 150th Birthday today?

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1 year

So true

florence ☧

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i love science

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3 years

Wait no more! The types of Wittgenstein papers are here:

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3 years

quack

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1 year

The conceptual engineering effort to brand everything queer as 'child abuse' and to make 'sexual perversion' the #1 ready-to-hand category of political analysis is moral corruption of soul-crushing proportions, and also terribly uncool.

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2 years

"Queering Wittgenstein"

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@lastpositivist Selling indulgences but without the forgiveness -- what a business model!

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LOOKS LIKE I'M A PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE NOW BAYBEEEEEE!!!!

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2 years

Hey [with the intention of playing a language game with you]

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@rochellehd Yeah I mean at this point it's an old hat

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9 months

"One of the sages of our time, Liam Kofi Bright, has divided philosophical personalities into the Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats and the Sexy Murder Poets, and I think Quine and Sellars embody this duality perfectly." ~ Robert Brandom

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2 years

Admissions letter! Admissions letter! Ya boi got an Admissions letter!

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1 year

Wittgensteinians must shut up

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Ethics professors must be good people Epistemology professors must know stuff Metaphysics professors must exist Aesthetics professors must be beautiful

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3 years

Tragic.

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2 years

I gave a big intro philosophy lecture to 100+ students today and it was my first time and it was fun and I didn't die!!

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1 year

I've been thinking about beautiful titles in philosophy. Here are some of my favorites: "The Avoidance of Love" "The Aptness of Anger" "The Bounds of Sense" "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts" "Authority and Estrangement" "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" "A Spirit of Trust"

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my fall plans the delta variant

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I simply must be stopped

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@fehloop Become ungovernable

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@lastpositivist HOW DOES THIS ALWAYS WORK?!

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Overheard in the Philosophy grad lounge: "You're not really seeing that snow is white. You're seeing snow in its whiteness!"

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2 years

RIP Ludwig Wittgenstein you would have loved our Halloween costume

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2 years

At trivia with the philosophy grad students. Our team name is "Prolegomena to Any Future Team Name". We got zero points the whole first round.

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Ashley St. Clair

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Who is the best modern role model men have for masculinity right now?

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This is how I read philosophy of language

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Mal Shah

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marie kondo but she goes through your ontological commitments and pares them down

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A sufficiently obnoxious understanding of Wittgenstein would dissolve almost all open questions in philosophy.

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11 months

Philosophy of language has so little bite as a cultural-critical institution! We write about slurs all the time, and yet we let 'cis is a slur' happen?! Is there no activist role for us to play in the ongoing ideological struggle over the normative vocabulary of public discourse?

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2 years

It's another day of anxiety about not being educated enough in philosophy, having no time left to learn about the things I want to know, and having wasted my time in school not learning anything. I'm sad :(

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Yoooo making syllabi is super fun!?! Here's my first draft of a class on political philosophy of language. What do you think??

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1 year

I'm perfectly ok, but that lady isn't and I wish she wasn't like this :/

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1 year

Fine, whatever.

Dess 💕

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Let me see yall at 19? 👀

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At 3k followers I will start being good at philosophy

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1 year

Few paragraphs of philosophy match the raw shitposting energy of section 297 of the Philosophical Investigations.

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1 year

Kant's German is the most drama queen ass language in Philosophy. Within the first 10 pages of the First Critique, mf said DIE MUTTER DES CHAOS UND DER NACHT

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In my personal opinion, the top ranked philosophy journals are: 3. The friends we made along the way 2. z-library 1. The girl reading this

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Solipsism

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what opinion will you defend like this?

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Wow I thought I wanted this smoke but turns out I did NOT want this smoke

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Wait is THIS what flirting is? Was I doing it all along?!

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EXPLAIN NAMES TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING CRY! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN NAMES TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING SOB FOR AN HOUR! WHAT THE FUCK IS REFERENCE? HOW THE FUCK DOES A WORD "PICK SOMEONE OUT"? HOW COULD I EVEN TELL? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL

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What's your "doing philosophy" face?

Hands off Rafah 🇵🇸

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whats ur "doing philosophy" face

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Gotta say I'm kinda proud that my presence in the Pitt Philosophy Department has led to higher shitposting competence among the Faculty. The ethics prof understands "smdh"? The language prof is on Twitter now? Brandom knows the used-car-salesman meme? That's all me, babyyy!!

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#NewProfilePic

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It looks like my paper arguing that conceptual engineering bad, trans people good, semantics bad, Wittgenstein good, might be getting published...

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Wanting the cat to love us dot jpg

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Men would rather publish a therapeutic reading of Wittgenstein than go to therapy

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2 years

Google engineer: Are you sentient? AI: beep boop Google engineer: [excited inhale]

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@em_hrnndz Everyday I wake up feeling like a fake enby. Meanwhile, cis people be like: 'you know what, I bet I could give a CONFERENCE TALK on this!'

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To the students coming out to me as queer in their final papers: 🫡

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Who up thinking about quitting academia???

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Lmaooo our Syntax textbook just casually claimed that (1) a vast majority of noun phrases get their meaning by referring to things in the world, (2) some of those things are fictional objects, and (3) those fictional objects exist in fictional worlds that are created by speakers.

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3 years

Hell yeah! It's about time we got a whole university dedicated to speech acts!!

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3 years

Same, J. L. Austin. Same.

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3 years

The continental/analytic divide is dead, long live the continental/analytic divide!

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1 year

Folks, I'm begging you, every time you comment that this is a Wittgensteinian take, an angel gets food poisoning. Please, please, save the angels! 🙏

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Every "philosophical" problem is just people failing to recognize that words don't have precise definitions, and words get used in different ways. Once we give words precise definitions, "philosophy" turns into just ordinary mathematics.

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9 months

I'm getting 600 bucks back from an airline. I could buy 10 pizzas right now and still have so much left over. I am a god. I will never die.

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In undergrad, woefully ignorant about Searle the abuser, I was a big fan of his work. So it was a lucky day when I realized that (1) he's a wack dualist, (2) he's fundamentally misunderstood speech acts, and (3) you can just read Sally Haslanger on social ontology instead. Fuckm.

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A friend here at Pitt has designed a class on varieties of sophistry, where she matches individual Ancient sophists with contemporary grifters to bring out how different flavors of manipulative rhetoric are cashed out nowadays. Unsurprisingly, Andrew Tate is taught in that class.

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Andrew Tate and Socrates In ancient Greece they feared the impact Socrates was having on the youth and so they accused him of corrupting their minds. He was put on trial and executed. The focus of the establishment is to control the minds of the youth because they will be the…

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Remember, kids: The wrong side of history is when things are illegal. The more illegal a thing is, at any given time, the wronger its side of history.

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I would like one single person—just one—who screamed, swore at me, and actively attempted to destroy my personal and professional life for being “on the wrong side of history,” to apologize.

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Early Wittgenstein / Late Wittgenstein / Some third guy idk

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I did it. I asked him to show cat

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McDowell is talking about his cat again. Reader, we have still never seen that cat.

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Just walked into the office. Someone turns their head and asks 'Hey, where does Wittgenstein say XYZ again?'. I tell them the section number by heart. And for a brief moment there, I was the coolest guy in the whole world.

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