Victor CastonI started an account at BlueSky because so many other academic #philosophers had signed up, but there is even less activity than here.
I'm especially interested in #GreekPhilosophy but also #philosophyofmind and #metaphysics.
Any others out there?
Philipp Steinkrüger@TrueSciPhi has a list of philosophy accounts on Bluesky I think. it’s really dire here, but I really don’t want to make an account there.
CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston @TrueSciPhi I don't find it dire here at all. Do you follow @philosophy ? And tag it in your philosophy related posts? All new platforms are suffering from the "spreading out" of user activity, but it's worth sticking to one and building a community. For my money, the best place to put in that effort is here.
@WorldImagining @vcaston I do, and the hashtag, and lots of other stuff. I even wrote @icymi_philosophy, which follows 460 philosophy accounts and boosts those posts that get most interactions. Unfortunately, interactions on here are so rare that the bot is often forced to boost posts without interactions whatsoever...
@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston @icymi_philosophy Ah, didn't realize you were behind the icymi bot. It also regularly boosts posts (of mine anyway) that are not philosophy related. Though I guess this is a ML learning curve thing. On the other hand, personally, I also enjoy that over here we don't get much of the nonsense discourse that regularly pops up on philosophy twitter and attracts huge levels of interaction. A case in point, when it comes to chastity discourse, I choose abstinence 🙃
@WorldImagining @vcaston I definitely don't miss all the attention-seeking philosophy tweets, but it is too quiet here. More than half of the accounts the bot follows haven't been active in 6 months (so effectively dead) and there are very few new accounts being made (I watch the well-known lists).
Regarding the bot: it's not doing any post analysis but simply goes by interactions, the idea being that posts that many philosophers interact with are of potential interest to other philosophers.
Regarding the bot: it's not doing any post analysis but simply goes by interactions, the idea being that posts that many philosophers interact with are of potential interest to other philosophers.
@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston Out of curiosity, would you have an idea who is the biggest active philosophy account on Mastodon? In biology/life sciences, for example, there's @ct_bergstrom and anyone who follows him has a pretty reliable source of things to interact with. I kind of have the impression that "nodes" or "focal points" like this play a major cohering role.
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Dr Ro Smith@vcaston hello there! Before I got sick I was a philosopher of mind and metaphysics. I still talk about it, and its present in my fiction, but ME/CFS means I'm not able to keep up with research.
Victor Gijsbers@vcaston #metaphysics is my thing. 😎
Friedrich Wilhelm Graferegrettably, there's not so much #philosophy discussion traffic here, but a lot of residences, see e.g. mastodon lists
https://eyssette.github.io/Mastodon-Philosophy/
https://truesciphi.org/phi_mas.html
else - in my perception - definitely more online discussion activity at
and the APA's general discussion
(of course, topics and/or level of professionality vary widely)
Chris Rauh@vcaston Also interested in philosophy of mind but don’t post about it. Would be nice to hear what/who you find out.
It took me a bit to curate a good list but pretty happy here.
A lot of what I was missing initially I learned it was part of an addiction really, it passed with time. You will not find that hit on Mastodon, which opens a lot of space for other interests.
I actually like Mastodon a lot for just the reason you cite, the absence of the dopamine hit from other sites' algorithm.
Just was hoping to see more philosophy discussions.
Julia Solis@vcaston more of a reader than a writer (I incorporate metaphysics and epistemology into event narratives to some extent), but happy to listen and be inspired
Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈@vcaston I just took a class in Greek philosophy for my ministerial degree. All about Plato's Theory of Forms.
Interesting. What did they make of it?
Jan D@vcaston 👋 mainly pragmatism, process philosophy, phenomenology
Evan Prodromou@vcaston I am not a philosophy academic, but I am now following you.
Alaric@vcaston I love posts on these topics so please keep them coming and in time the community will grow--and no one can stop it! Ever!
David Hull 胡大衛@vcaston I've been having trouble finding folks over there, too. Seems it's a common issue.
Jason (no more, no less)@vcaston Im a stoic, study stoiscm & some metaphysics (like Kant)
Michael of St. Joseph 🖊️@vcaston I have an interest in philosophy and metaphysics insofar as it relates to my religion and storytelling in general. My learning is second hand from others I've listened to so don't take me as any sort of authority.
Sean MurthySean Murthy (@[email protected])
BlueSky is what I'd call a "write only" social network. People are posting alright, just not replying as much. I mean in general, not just to me. If others there are like me, they are rarely, if at all, even visiting their home TL (skyline?). So, not quite social yet. #bluesky #social
Carly Sagan@vcaston I really rec the partially examined life podcast if you don’t already listen: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/category/podcast-episodes/
@vcaston I'm there as @Chrisblue, will find + follow you
kæt@vcaston I asked the other day for "the one book" to read about Parmenides' work (after starting with WP and then his SEP entry), but got no replies. I'm sure there are philosophers here somewhere: we can try to dig them out, 😀.
Do you mean John Palmer's 2009 book? (He wrote the SEP article.) I think it's had a very favorable reception.
If you want something that looks at the poetry and the Greek, I'm still partial to my advisor's book: Alex Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides. And Matt Evans' book will be great when it comes out.
#GreekPhilosophy #Parmenides #Presocratics #PresocraticPhilosophy
@vcaston Ah, that sounds excellent. "Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy", OUP?
I kept on hearing references to P. which piqued my interest so I read a little online about him, but want a little more. Usually I reach a dead-end where there's an extensive, unvariagated bibliography though, and I don't have the time or resources to go through them all, but I'd like to read "a book" about him and his ilk. I will order a copy.
That's the one. But maybe read a little online on Amazon or Google to see if it's the right sort of pitch for you.
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dennisaurus@vcaston FWIW I minored in philosophy and maintain an interest in it. Always interested in seeing posts on the subject though I don't have much to offer myself.
cyborgneticz@vcaston I'm a political theorist, but I use a lot of Aristotle 
but my posts are not often on those subjects
but my posts are not often on those subjects
Deji
Evgeny Lepekhin@vcaston I am interested in philosophy, too. Not as an academic study, but as a practical life technique. Nice to meet ya!
Patrick Duffy@vcaston The Ship of Theseus is moored here...
acm@vcaston have seen flocks of philosophers, but a lot of their activity subsided after the November influx and hasn't recovered at the end of the academic year as I imagined...
Yeah I've been disappointed. Overall I've been happiest with Mastodon so far.
sparseMatrix 📻I have no formal education in these matters so I cannot claim to be an academic, except perhaps in my modes of thinking and reasoning.
If you're willing to engage with me given as much, I would be delighted 😀