I've been looking forward to this moment for a long time …

I finally have a DOI refer to something I wrote!

https://doi.org/10.21825/digest.95449

I'll be here celebrating with cookies and ginger beer 🥳 🎈 🎊 💃🏼

#achievements #AcademicPhilosophy #Serviceberry #RobinWallKimmerer #BookReview

I've long been disappointed at the lack of tech-savviness in philosophy departments. People there don't care about free software, are content struggling with unmanageable 200-page Word documents, and give me a dead stare when I tell them I write in LaTeX.

Imagine the joy I felt when I saw that the zine Being Trans in Philosophy has a GitHub page! Because »of course« they do  

https://github.com/BeingTransinPhilosophy

#Trans #Transgender #Queer #Philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Check out my new paper!

Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice-Based Theories of Reference

I argue against a recent view about the reference of proper names (held by two people who have supervised me) and discuss the wider implications of this for metasemantics.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phib.12382

#philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #academicphilosophy

A bit of fun: suggest some really *hard to read* philosophy papers. I'm designing a course where we go through readings deliberately chosen to be dense and difficult, and discuss techniques for reading and engaging with them.

I'll start: most things by McDowell. In particular
- on the sense and reference of a proper name
- de re senses

#philosophy #academicChatter #academicphilosophy

I’ve noticed that some people think academic #philosophy is bad to read or engage with because they deem something they’ve read as incorrect. This distaste for incorrectness comes from the misconception that #AcademicPhilosophy is instructive not constructive—that the reader should merely accept the conclusions of a work rather than engage with the arguments’ validity or soundness.

#academia #philosophyofscience

A genuine #pedagogy question, esp. for #AcademicPhilosophy:

It is reasonable to ask for the style of paper assignments we do given the expected audience for the paper is precisely 1 (namely, the person grading it)?

I find myself occasionally giving feedback to students about how to approach writing within the style of the philosophy essay, and sometimes I think, "this approach with e.g. the introduction, is that just for my sake isn't it? Is that like stapling on the top left?"

It's #PhD application season so here's a question:
If you are in a #Philosophy PhD program and have a "fellowship year" or more than one, how does that work and what do you do during it?

(We do not, which means you're working as a TA or something the whole time).

For instance, some places have funding packages setup such that you wouldn't be required to work during the coursework period of the degree--this would surely yield a different relationship to #coursework!

#AcademicPhilosophy