It is with shame and regret that I acknowledge I probably have a second paper in me on Schiller's influence on Hermann Cohen.
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It is with shame and regret that I acknowledge I probably have a second paper in me on Schiller's influence on Hermann Cohen.
In a way, I get it! Thinking through those concepts isn't everyone's expertise, and that's okay! But, uh, then maybe you shouldn't be trying to make arguments that hinge on the concepts you don't understand. That's why you'll never catch me making arguments in genetics.
Well, now I don't deserve the cookie, but I'm eating it anyway. Hobnobs rule.
Like, a large part of my research has been looking at how philosophers and scientists in the long 19thC confused each other and fought with each other about what the word "objective" even means. Show me a guy who thinks it's simple, and I'll show you a guy who doesn't know anything.
The above skeet is absolutely the most polite way I could make my point. I am (no joke) going to go get myself a cookie for not posting my actual thoughts. I'm so tired of these guys.
Not QTing, because this is Bsky. But there's an economist arguing that university research should be "objective" and "neutral" "apolitical" and discover "the truth.' Who defines what those concepts mean? What happens when there's good-faith disagreement about them? Are those debates allowed?
"We could have fixed the sensor so it works properly, but instead we decided you should drag your bike over the curb. It's just a lot easier for us that way."
I realize my complaints are not about the most problematic or dangerous aspects of what's happening to masculinity, but my god, whatever is happening to masculinity is *so embarrassingly stupid*.
Samwise Gamgee taking stock of the lembas bread, but for PB on multigrain.
I agree 100%. But in middle-age, I am also leaning hard into arguments that aren't instrumental at all. Canada is a rich country. It's young people should be able to take a few years to pursue their interests before assuming the full weight of the responsibility of crushing debt.
Yuuuup. That kind of wage stagnation is a huge part of what makes university unaffordable.
It's profoundly unjust.
The combination of cheaper tuition and unionized jobs in the summer made it possible for me to work my way through my BA and graduate debt free. I think my generation was last in Canada that was able to do that.
Not my first job, but since it's Labour Day, my first unionized job: fisheries shore worker in a cannery. ~$15/hr, which in 1993 was very good. Shout out on Labour Day to the United Fisheries and Allied Workers Union!
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is an eye-popping relic of Anglosphere foreign policy in the late Cold War. (A tall, skinny leader of the Mujahadeen? Who wears a beard and a turban? From a rich family? And is very charismatic? And is a HERO? Huh. What a specific set of character traits.)
This is an excellent meme.
Morning walk.
I find that your parenthetical gets more important to say out loud, and repeat regularly, every year. It's especially rewarding when the students hear it with relief!
Oh, absolutely. One of maybe four or five books that influenced me most to get into the history of philosophy from Kant and Carnap.
That sentence cracks me up.
You have to know how to hate.
How rural Canada sees itself: quaint, old-fashioned, relaxed. How rural Canada actually is: racist and seething with resentment.
(I have become the insufferable guy who browns his butter and lets his dough rest in the fridge for 24 hours before baking.)
If the cookie isn't worth eating without the chocolate chips, it's also not worth eating with them.
Folks, this is not a drill. An honest-to-god TT job in the humanities in my city.
Always worth remembering this corporate empire started out as a website for guys to rate the hotness of their women classmates.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
It's amazing to see many of the most powerful political figures in the Anglosphere think that their job is posting.
My father is talking a lot about his "bisexual card game group," and I wonder when I'll have the chance to suggest that perhaps "mixed gender" is the phrase he wants.
"Well hell, y'all, y'all know I'm Walon and I'm an addict."
Sorry I missed it!
Very sorry to be out of town for this one!
I'm honestly awed by this. Like, in English we don't have a concept for failing this catastrophically, but also being so stupid that you think you're a genius. It's incredible.
"The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I used to watch Mr Ed with a horse and he was always like “a horse wouldn’t say that”
Folks, Atlantic Canada is getting JACKED.
*Based on the documentary evidence we have available to us now,* probably. But that's a big qualification.
My (hated, loathed) minority view that is R1 as a whole is a pretty big mess, but the last 20 (or so) minutes are so good, everyone forgets how mid the rest of the movie is.
We're doing a lot of "here's a person you've never heard of!" At some point, we'll need to figure out the philosophical narratives that explain why we should care about any of them.
History of philosophy is in a stamp collecting phase.
Alanis should have sang about having an hour to yourself to work but no wifi password.
I spent the day offline with my family, and now I see the global economic hegemon is having a very normal day.
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The egg salad sandwich I've jammed into a tiny pocket of my book bag is going to be delicious in four hours. There are no flaws in this plan.
I never would have predicted what a curse it would be to have a memory.
My thoughts exactly.
Wait. So you can see the whole revision history?
I didn't think I'd find myself here, but here I am
A 90s infomercial for a gadget that lets you self-impose your minority IN UNDER TWO MINUTES WITH NO MESSY CLEANUP!
This idea that thinking for yourself is an unbearable chore is going to turn me into "bring back the Enlightenment" guy.
Worth reflecting on what it might take to have affordable groceries without relying on an exploited, legally unprotected underclass.
And it's no coincidence that centrist scolds never offer up their preferred language for robustly defending trans rights.
One of our dogs barfed on the matt at the backdoor, making it irredeemable. No problem, right? Just a quick trip to ikea for a new one. Nope. We know to steer clear of that place until after the first two weeks of classes are done.
Whole marketing research teams working for years to determine the exact kind of movie that's desired by people who are tired, uncomfortable, and have access only to a tiny screen.
I suspect there are multiple explanations that apply to different generations. For boomers, their formative years were Clinton & Blair's left-punching centrism. For Xers & elder millennials, a type of guy accustomed to being young & hip & countercultural can't stand anyone younger, hipper than them.
Everything you say here seems 100% right to me. I only want to add on this point that, in the US & Canada (at least), RW humourless dogmatists are regarded by taste makers as real and authentic. But LW humourless dogmatists are regarded as fake, unserious, and immature.
OKC and also the first WTC bombing attempt. By the time 9/11 happened, the idea of "middle eastern terrorists targeting the US" was already an established concept in the (news junkie) public's mind.
The Dems have got to stop saying “the logical space of reasons” if they intend to win in 2026
In the past 15 years, Silicone Valley hasn't invented anything as useful as the small tube of PL Premium.
Correct. The newly released provincial Regional Transportation Plan proposes not to start building any major public transit project for at least another 10 years.
A heroic tale of obstacles overcome to get close to the popcorn.
Uneasy standoff.
You can try to bribe me, but I'm never going to write that Quinean naturalism is interesting.
Thank you! That looks like great research!
What's the best way to extend that basic thinking from healthcare into land use and property taxes? It's a really good problem to think about.
An analogy: It's just & fair that I subsidize people's chemo. It's also just & fair that *don't* subsidize gym bros' calf implants, and if I did the incentives would be perverse. (There's also room for disagreement in a democracy about exactly where the line is between those two categories.) So:
I'm definitely thinking along the same lines as you. The hard part IMO is finding the right balance between structuring incentives to encourage sustainable finances and a basic commitment to social democracy.
If we're getting serious about this, there are a couple of distinct issues. What would a property tax regime look like it were both just and sustainable? But also, how do you design a just transition from the regime we have now to the ideal one we want?
The Planet of the Apes reboot is four for four. But arguably restricting it to the reboot is cheating.
"What Cars Did to Municipal Finances" in one simple picture.
What Cars Did to Municipal Finances in one picture.
The price of embodiment is paid in time (spent doing physiotherapy exercises).
Folks, philosophy's new and most important mission is to make K-Pop happen.
I remember riding those Philadelphia buses. You wonder why you didn't just walk.
There's no definition of liberalism here? There's a (vapid, silly) definition of the enlightenment, but no definition of liberalism at all.
Achieving previously unseen levels of unity!
If we're being honest, this is what *should* happen anytime two people bump their handfuls of food together in a disgusting simulacrum of a toast, and call it "cheersing".
Yeah, it matters that in this flight attendant case the government just kool-aid manned its way into (at best!) a legal gray area. That's rare! The legal machinery usually works!
They're calling it "the scab ratio."
Folks, I'm developing a theory of everything. It's going to be great.
Some people are less emerged from their self-imposed minority than others.
Dammit, Kevin. Now you've raised my expectations for cool live music at the WSE.
I was wrong when I was a kid, and Zack de la Rocha was right all along. (I say this a lot, but it bears repeating.)
Using, then denying, the work of academic historians seems very common in pop history. I assume it's because "THE UNTOLD STORY OF" is a lot more attractive than "we did the readings and are mostly just telling you what they said."
Look, after the Sharknado killed my grandfather in 2014 it's difficult to let my guard down when there are vegans running around with bazookas. that's just reality
The next 10-15 years are going to provide a natural experiment in whether or not doing the hard work of acquiring a skill is in any way important for producing good art, literature, music, etc. (I'm putting my money on "we're always going to be able to tell who did the work and who didn't.")
Imagine conflating "learning" and "hazing."
My most cancellable opinion as a teacher? It was a terrible mistake to spend generations encouraging the idea that learning has to be fun or enjoyable. Sometimes you just have to grind through the hard parts!
To be clear, it's a very dumb movie! But also extremely fun (IHMO).
The Old Guard (but not the sequel), Kimi, and Prey are recent-ish action/thrillers I've loved.
Indeed! (Beiser is now three-quarters of the way towards having a nice chapter on every German in the 19thC!) For my part, I now suspect that Laas' I&P should be understood as histoiographically important in the sane way as, e.g., Lange, Fischer, Ueberweg, etc.
Lange has lots of discussion of Mill, and you'll find lots of discussion of Mill (explicitly identifying him with 'positivism') in Laas.
A large part of Laas' IDEALISMUS UND POSITIVISMUS is history. Whether you'd want to call it classic is a different question, but I'll make the case that it's important in the mix in the 1880s.
I wish ill on JK Rowling.
Another suggestion: rain pants that fit over your regular pants, and can come off easily at the office (or wherever).
Went back to this over the winter for the first time in probably 35 years, and it is *so good*.
I went to grad school with a US Army cpt who had just finished two tours in Iraq. He was doing his MA prepping for a tour teaching at West Point. He wrote his thesis about how just war theory justified the Iraqi insurgency. He was a smart guy.