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2 years

This is the best interaction I've seen in at least three days

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Only now just learning that my favorite Bright Eyes song is about a woman with a Coke addiction and not, as I thought, about his girlfriend having IBS!!!

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if analytic philosophy is of “no practical use” then how am I using all these books on ideal political theory to press my tofu? 🤔

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my advisor writing letters of recommendation for me:

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my favorite brand of guy is “everyone except me misreads foucault.” it’s wild how many 24-31 year olds have exclusive access to the truth of foucault. we’re so lucky! keep on the good work fellas!!!

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i don’t know why i find this so funny but wittgenstein is one of the only philosophers who makes me laugh out loud

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hey man i just wanted to apologize for what i said last night. i dont really think the categorical imperative is an empty formalism and that kant should eat my shorts, im just going through some things right now and frankly had a bit too much to drink

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Me, reading unintelligible German philosophy: Fuck yeah!! doesn't make any sense but it's awesome!! Me, reading unintelligible French philosophy: what the fuck. why would someone write like that

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I have absolutely no idea what phenomenology is

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he overcame humean skepticism and rationalist dogmatism is what he did. brought about a copernican revolution. how did they repay him? by wanting knowledge of things in themselves. but in this house, immanuel kant is a hero. end of story.

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Reading marginalia in some of my old Hegel books, and I have to say that my past self was simply unparalleled in astute note taking

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“Just keep going to the bathroom / Always say you'll be right back” can be interpreted multiple ways, it seems like!!!!

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@js_thrill gonna change my handle to "jobathan" in hopes that I get a philosophy job

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the fact that Kant knew about the existence of the State of Connecticut is deeply concerning to me…. it should worry us all…

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Empiricists explaining why they don't do metaphysics:

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me, reading Kant: what

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The opening of Hegel’s Science of Logic, decolorized and then colorized, 2022

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the TSA agent made fun of me for bringing this lmao

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thinking about how good life was before that New Yorker Agnes Callard article was published

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being a grad student in philosophy means you have absolutely no idea what the other humanities nor what the sciences are talking about. also you don’t know what philosophers are talking about

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what it means when a man says "I got a lot going on"

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what does it even mean when a man says “i got alot going on”?

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happens to the best of us

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*writes and deletes one paragraph* wow. another hard day's work. im gonna need to need to treat myself to several overpriced book purchases and a three day weekend to fresh myself enough to even begin thinking about writing again

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if the german idealists had twitter kant would tweet stuff like “we can’t have knowledge of things in themselves! a 🧵” and hegel would quote tweet it saying “people will literally say anything on this website fr 😂😂”

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FYI to high achievers/straight A-ers/gifted and talented-ers, my therapist says a lot of us get existential this time of year bc our whole lives revolved around completing the system of German Idealism and our bodies simply can't handle the dissolution of various shapes of Geist

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This is exactly what most contemporary analytic philosophy journals sound imo

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GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL: so, as you can see, nothing is the same determination, or rather absence of determination, and thus altogether the same as, pure being NATHAN FIELDER: oh okay

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experimental philosophy sounds so much cooler than it actually is. i thought it would be like “we took acid to see if absolute idealism is true!” but instead it’s like “we misconstrued a bunch of what Anscombe thought and polled ten people to see if it was plausible. it’s not!!!”

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the plan? publish an article about ignoring the history of philosophy which is so obnoxious that everyone becomes passionate about doing the history of philosophy, undermining analytic philosophy's obsession with the contemporary from the inside

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i think philosophy journals need covers like normal magazines, with famous philosophers on the cover. i wanna see a copy of Philosophical Studies with like John Hawthorne posing on the cover with a quote like "How I took on the lottery problem -- and won!"

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Just heard about “analytic philosophy”— disconcerting, worrying stuff! Why aren’t our senators doing anything about this?

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we need an an equivalent of Hot Ones in philosophy. I wanna hear bob brandom talk about his reading of Hegel while he chugs milk and eats the spiciest wings he's ever had

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We saw you from across the bar and really liked your vibe

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reading Hegel in the cafe and saying “what the???” out loud

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bringing this energy into 2024 ❤️

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just remembered we can’t have knowledge of things in themselves

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no babe seriously i love that you put 'epistemic' in front of every noun, it's the people who dont that scare me

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Showing up to your first ever philosophy class excited to talk about what makes for a good and meaningful life but instead they’re talking about “priors” and “eliminative materialism”

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someone in my department asked me "who likes your dumb tweets" so I made them this venn diagram to explain !!!

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nietzsche wouldn't have said all those things if he had heard sufjan's christmas albums

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@bartleby_era “right what’s all this then??”

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most philosophy is terms I don't understand being explained by more fundamental terms I also don't understand

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I just wanted to update you on uh... a couple of developments. some of you may have noticed that naturalism is over. and yeah. im afraid I have to inform you that naturalists are dismissed. utilitarians, humeans, weird Quine guys... all out. Platonism is back, and in a huge way

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normalize wearing these bad boys at academic conferences

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i frankly do not care about theory, nor do i care about praxis.... i care about HANGING OUT

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i stg this would get some of y’all

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the existentialists fucking rock. they’re like: what if we wrote philosophy but made it pertinent to daily existence. then the rest of philosophy was like: no thanks , i’m too busy eliminating mental states ,

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doing some important organizing in my folders today

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I think it goes without saying that this is LJ's best tweet

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btw the "e" in e-girl stands for "encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences in basic outline, part one: science of logic"

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What song is Barbie singing along to? Wrong answers only

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a woman is getting interviewed for a job in the cafe im in got asked what she likes to do outside of her studies. she said she hopes to direct a movie, speaking at length about her love for film. she ended by saying: “actually fuck this job - i’m going to make a movie instead” !!

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happy world philosophy day to my favorite philosophical interlocutor!!! here’s a picture of us talking about narcissism 😂

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so you get to the end of the book and I SHIT YOU NOT, you find out that all the propositions in the book are nonsensical, leading the reader to -- seriously, get this -- *remain silent* about the very content of the book itsel--

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we’re getting spinoza-pilled

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I worked at a used bookstore as an undergrad and I am currently feeling so nostalgic for it! I want to be around books like this again!

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with public philosophy on the rise, im thrilled to announce im launching private philosophy! if you'd like to try it out, feel free to contemplate the beautiful, the true, and the good, all while keeping your thoughts to yourself ! there's nothing quite like remaining silent ☺️

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dialectics is when you turn that frown upside down ☺️

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how reading the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit feels

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every time someone numbers their premises in an argument, u know they’re smart as hell. there’s no way a continental philosophy would ever have the wits to try that

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how talking to my hegelian buddies on twitter goes for me

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The plan? Convince the libs that Kant was the originator of critical race theory to deflect from the explicit racism in his work, leaving liberalism’s foundation secure

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me after reading one (1) article in analytic metaphysics

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my bad

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I love doctors in 19th and early 20th century novels. they're always like "well buddy you seem pretty sick. Idk what to do really. I guess you should probably go to switzerland or start drinking brandy or something? maybe take a bath." amazing stuff imo

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i fucking love jargon. everytime I write “geist” in a paper i imagine all my friends and colleagues losing it. hell, even the losers and critics are hootin and hollerin. everyone’s on my team when i write about Dasein

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The Phenomenology of Spirit is a Young Adult novel

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Joe Biden is purportedly all about “unity” but hasn’t even once brought up the unity of apperception?? Wtf???

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The “T.S” in T.S Eliot stands for Tony Soprano, which I think is cool as hell

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Midjourney is getting crazy powerful—none of these are real photos, and none of the people in them exist.

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me, finally realizing how to articulate my deepest philosophical commitments in a paper: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!! me, realizing that those commitments cannot stand the slightest reflective scrutiny: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck

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drinking beer... reading nietzsche... LIFE!!!!

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me, whenever cog sci presents problems for my views: PHILOSOPHY IS AN A PRIORI INVESTIGATION WHICH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BEAR UPON me, whenever cog sci supports my views: PHILOSOPHERS WHO FAIL TO DRAW UPON THE HARD SCIENCES ARE THE SCOUNDRELS OF OUR DISCIPLINE

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I saw the best minds of my generation confuse shitposts and memes for serious philosophical takes

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Oof sorry, unfollowing now. I just thought it was cool that he said God was dead. I didn’t realize he’d try to reevaluate all our values

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i love when people in action movies have "unfinished business," and imo we need more of this energy in philosophy. I wanna read book blurbs that say things like: Christine Korsgaard is BACK and has UNFINISHED BUSINESS with THE SCHMAGENCY OBJECTION

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Anytime I have to read Derrida:

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Many academics don’t speak their minds about certain issues for one simple reason: they want to keep alive the guise that they understand the Critique of Pure Reason

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hey! that’s me! this feels very cool and nice !!

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A hot & smart person told me this, now I feel DUMB and need to show how naive I am online

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I will never — and I cannot emphasize this enough — get over this image

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one easy way to not feel alienated because of your political views is by not having fascist political views. hope this helps!!

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heres what youre gonna do. you will build upon & overcome the rationalist and empiricist traditions. jot down "synthetic a priori." you will transcendentally deduce 12 categories. no more, no less. then show how metaphysics results in antinomies. if you do that, you will be OK.

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socrates when thrasymachus and glaucon express skepticism about the good of justice:

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You either die a hero or live long enough to tweet about how everyone but you misunderstands Marx

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HOT TAKE: Not being a transcendental idealist is weird and is a cultural or emotional defect. We were made for transcendental idealism and are literally biologically wired to think it's true. It's entirely unnatural to not to believe it.

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What the heck?? Why did no one tell me??

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happy to say that Roland Barthes has gutted me entirely !

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My roommate, who has a PhD in ancient philosophy, is currently editing the Wikipedia page for Socrates. More energy like this please !!

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Wittgenstein (1921) reading the Tractatus: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Wittgenstein (1936) reading the Tractatus: Well this fucking sucks, What the fuck

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*flirting* i hear there's going to be another new translation of the tractatus logico-philosophicus this year

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sometimes I read philosophy papers that are like “this is meant to fill a gap in the existing literature” and I’m like sweetie maybe the gap exists because it’s boring and we simply need not write about it

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i can't wait to make one of those long, ambitious summer reading lists, only to ignore it entirely and instead listen to neil young and drink beer on the beach every day for two months

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BREAKING: Northwestern philosophy has officially replaced the grad program “logic requirement” with a broader “hang out with Sam" requirement. Students can choose how to hang (grilling, crush some beers, etc). Feels like a symptom of a much larger change in the discipline

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after years of studying Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus i am begin to wonder if maybe it doesn’t pass the Bechdel test

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“Here at Analytic Philosophy, we pride ourselves in the *clarity* of our product.” The product:

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Just read an old paper of mine where I wrote “while this view has the virtue of being interesting, it possesses the unfortunate vice of being incoherent” lmao calm down past Sam

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What's your "doing philosophy" face? Coming up with an idea Trying to write a paper