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Philosophin @unihh tweets mostly about #metooacademia and early modern philosophy DE/EN

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I spoke with Kyle about Iris Marion Young and how a theory of oppression that starts with the body helped me make sense of sexual violence I experienced as a student. Enjoy :)

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New Give Theory a Chance! Mary Peterson ( @DeutscheBot ) guides me through Iris Marion Young’s “Throwing Like a Girl” - Special thanks to Mary for helping me better understand and appreciate one of my favorite essays. @TheSocietyPages @Brockport

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I went on a date with a PhD student 5 years ago in Berlin. We drank beers in a graveyard, he said that Spinoza's substance is Kant's noumena. We didnt talk again until this morning, when he texted me that he would've liked to see me again + has been thinking a lot about the monad

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my argument is unsound? it can’t be, some of the words are italicized

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It’s coming up on two years since @SchoolofPPLS @EdinburghUni didn't fire Mahrad Almotahari for claiming to me via text that he’d slept with ‘6 maybe 7’ students. I am still struggling to find my respect for the UK university system and academic philosophy.

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I was raped by a professor at the beginning of undergrad.

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2 years

Alongside Catharine MacKinnon, Susan Brison and many other feminists, I have signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard. #IStandWithAmberHeard and support the ability of all to report intimate partner violence.

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@OlufemiOTaiwo “No one thinks its okay to comment on a woman's weight” hurts his case for sure

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“My opponent points out that my conclusions are counterintuitive. Well, tell me something I don’t already know. In particular, tell me where my argument goes wrong.” -Michael Della Rocca, The Parmenidean Ascent

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I wrote a piece on classroom flirtations and subtle forms of sexual harassment @timeshighered

Flirting with students is not harmless

Whether targets of sexualised attention or audience members, students lack power to divert harmful classroom dynamics, says Mary Peterson

www.timeshighereducation.com

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hey this was so fun ☺️

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Friends: I am so excited to share my latest video in my on going series on #TheYoungIdealist On a philosopher whose importance knows no bounds. An Introduction to The Life & Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza with Mary Peterson Ph.D ABD @DeutscheBot #Spinoza

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no I do not like this

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the hypocrisy of making a career off of materialist and anarchist feminisms only to ignore the institutional violence done to mostly low- and middle-income students who go into deep debt to be sexually exploited and humiliated by your piece of shit colleagues

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With multiple investigations into Simon Critchley’s alleged sexual misconduct, it’s striking that feminists in the NSSR philosophy department haven’t spoken up on behalf of students. Nancy Fraser, Cinzia Arruzza, Chiara Bottici… what are you doing? @NSSRNews

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2 years

from Mahrad Almotahari’s Rate My Professors page

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2 years

Most of the harassers I come across in philosophy are between the ages of 30 and 45. Waiting for the bad ones to die doesn’t strike me as an option.

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2 years

It’s become vital for me to break from philosophy (/sexual harassment). For a while, my ‘off-time’ activity was drinking alone at various restaurants around Hamburg, but if I already feel low, that can make me even more sad. I joined a gym with a pool.

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I wrote a piece for @OxonianReview on doing philosophy in the wake of sexual violence.

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Philosophising Like a Girl

'When the school year began, I noticed another disconcerting change. Studying philosophy started to hurt.' A reflection on the relationship between philosophy, misogyny and invasive thoughts.

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A senior man in philosophy told me yesterday that philosophers find the topic of sexual misconduct “annoying” and thus prefer not to think about it. That’s funny.

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2 years

We need to have honest, detailed and in-depth conversations about the problem of sexual violence in philosophy. Twitter disables those conversations.

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When I was in undergrad, a 10th year phd student who had moved into an admin job and become a fixture around the dept made a big show of losing all his work bc he hadn't backed up the documents making up his dissertation. I remember suspecting he just hadn’t written anything.

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2 years

Upon introduction, German academics always ask, incredulously, why I would do a PhD in Germany. I never say “sexual harassment drove me out of the UK system and made all but the most truncated and unstructured PhD with limited exposure to male professors unrealistic.” Exhausting.

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One of these posts is from December 2022, the other from June 2021. @EdinburghUni is your faculty member harassing more students because you failed to take action in my case?

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master thread on sexual misconduct @TheNewSchool

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@ellieanderphd I’m also pretty unsure women cannot be objective

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2 years

One of the teachers who tried to initiate a sexual relationship with me during my undergrad said, before the incident, “I have anxiety about you. Sometimes I wonder if you’re serving me, not the other way around.” A flash of self-awareness on his part.

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2 years

No woman can study or teach philosophy with dignity @TheNewSchool until every single predator is fired from the department. The current situation is untenable and deeply depressing.

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6 months

In a room with 14 men and 2 women, the professor calls the other woman by my name. I correct him and she says “we’re not even the same race,” to which he replies “I don’t see race!” What a disaster.

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I turned 28

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For a long time, all I could articulate to myself was that something bad happened and I would never talk about it.

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glum on airplane…. in a onesie

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2 years

Artistic depictions of male professors who view sex with students as an entitlement, and thus a choice, repeatedly unsettle me. Sex with students is there for the taking, these characters think, it’s only a matter of deciding whether or not to take. 1/

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2 months

I keep my DMs open in case survivors want to reach out, but it's dismaying to receive flirtatious messages from random men (daily, frankly), many of whom don’t follow me. I do anti-violence work; read the room.

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At one point in undergrad I was so out of my mind and afraid to sleep that I gave up my apartment and moved into the school library. I bathed and changed in the university center showers. It hardly mattered because I would go days without sleeping.

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An especially creepy instance of professors using class time to groom students: a prof in my undergrad liked to flirt with a particular student during seminars. He showed a film with a lead actress who looked very similar to the student. 1/

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Not having to publish is a privilege.

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2 years

@QuillRKukla from the article "One commenter wrote: 'I think this is one of those things, where you see it … and suddenly you think the interesting question is not, why are there so few women in philosophy, but rather, why are there so many of you still here?'" I ask this all the time

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Later I had panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, disordered eating. I can’t afford good therapy on my salary, though I’ve tried to find affordable options everywhere.

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If u even, etc.

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I am the first woman to get a PhD in philosophy

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2 years

University reporting systems run on bad faith evidentialism. Victims expose themselves to further misconduct in order to collect evidence, only to be told the evidence needs more context, he claims you were harassing him, we simply didn’t look at what you sent over.

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In the seven years since, I have been unwell physically and mentally, not always to the same degree or in the same ways. I remember thinking my person was split in half, brain scans would show it.

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I can heal and move on until I’m blue in the face, but there won’t be meaningful change until perpetrators are routinely fired from academic posts. Not much more to say on the topic.

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When the lecturer at Edinburgh implied there were professors in my past, nothing could have been darker to me in that moment.

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2 years

“Half a dozen or so”

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sitting in a talk on Cartesian scepticism and the guy next to me pulls up the Wikipedia page for the Meditations before raising his hand to make a comment about representationalism

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@MoiraDonegan This ‘feminism that leaves everyone happy’ is ironic, too, given that a turning point in the film comes when America Ferrera’s character gives an impassioned speech about how women kill themselves (and inevitably fail in) trying to please everyone

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Once, as an undergraduate, I visited the Ombuds office for help filing a complaint about sexual harassment. The staff member asked me the professor’s name. When I gave his name, her face lit up. “Oh I know him! I mean, from the media and stuff.” She just loves his work.

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An ex-girlfriend of one of my harassers works in the subfield. I walked with her to the train after today’s event, but I felt reticent and paranoid. I then went back to the hotel, read a press release for his latest book and threw up bile.

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2 years

PhilTwitter who was the first woman awarded a full professorship in philosophy at Oxford?

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Last month I saw something he wrote and got so sick I couldn’t hold down food for seven days. I’d thought it was past.

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lovely @HIAS_Hamburg

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Prof. Sir Yes Sir

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1 year

this was fun!

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2 years

This is hard news. Saul was my one of my teachers during the last few terms; I learned a lot from his manner of doing philosophy (incidentally, he once told me that he's never read Hegel). He also leaves behind a very serious and painful legacy of alleged sexual misconduct.

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We mourn the passing but celebrate the life and achievements of Saul Aaron Kripke (Nov. 13, 1940–Sep. 15, 2022). His family and friends ask for privacy at this time.

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very much in my wheelhouse

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I’ll present my paper “The Role of Experience in Spinoza’s Denial of Free Will” at the Oxford Student Conference on Spinoza at Pembroke College this May 7th.

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Since last week’s developments in the Routledge case around the book Sexual Misconduct in Academia, I’ve thought a lot about the chapter—by Lieselotte Viaene, Catarina Laranjeiro and Miye Nadya Tom—at the center of the controversy. Their writing is rich with insight.

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Since joining Twitter, I’ve seen straight older men in my field, tweeting from accounts with their full name and professional affiliation, interacting with (liking, following, mentioning) pornographic material.

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2 years

Whenever I present work on feminist critiques of the canon, at least one audience member makes the familiar (right-wing?) error of mistaking criticism for cancellation. “No good philosopher would propose we stop reading the greats!” they squawk.

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Last week, I was asked to assist in a Title IX case at the New School. It brought me back to 2018, when I confronted a faculty member directly for using class time to hit on me and disclosing a past relationship he had with a female student. 1/2

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I’ve been facing burnout and related mental health challenges the last few weeks—but today I ate square meals, struggled through 5 miles on the treadmill, finished a good book

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2 years

no person’s sexual gratification should come at the expense of another person’s education

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I love history of philosophy, but sometimes it feels as though my own questions are perpetually pushed off until another day, once I’ve read this or that, acquired another language or exhausted every connection to be drawn between thinkers.

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what an opening from Iris Marion Young

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The four other incidents with professors relate to the first. There are so many predators running around.

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visited the new-to-me Marni store on Gansevoort / no longer at peace with my stipend

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Under the "Heads" tab on Jesse Prinz's website. "During talks, I draw heads." They're almost all young women. Some examples:

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9 months

I relayed a creepy, fat-shaming comment that a man made to me, my mother was horrified. I added that the man was my father, her husband, and she changed the subject immediately. The lightning-fast capacity of some women to rationalize, it is truly a cognitive feat.

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1 year

don’t let what the author said get in the way of what you wish they had said

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9 months

@anitaleirfall classic phone handset was not my first thought

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1 year

I’m glad I chose to do a PhD. Seeing this project through to the end has given me a sense of peace, contentment and closure. With that said, I’m ready to wrap it up.

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2 years

a woman gives an excellent talk and an agitated male audience member opens the Q+A “I don’t want to be too hard on you so I’ll only say [drivel]” … don’t spare her, really, what’s your substantive objection?

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At yesterday’s physical, the doctor said that my blood pressure is nearly twice the level of a healthy 27 year old. Defensive, I launched into a speech about how academia has destroyed my health, but it was just a faulty reading.

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this is a meaningful accomplishment from the past year, so I put it on my CV

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Yesterday I witnessed a case of bullying that was upsetting in its own right, but made worse when the senior academic gassed up his first year “star” male student at the expense of the more experienced woman under his attack.

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I wonder if, at times, the plea to make sure [abuse, assault, harassment] doesn’t happen to others is also, even foremost, a plea for acknowledgment that something bad already happened

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I found a 2016 e-mail from one of my harassers. I’ve side-stepped a sexual question and he’s asked me to answer him directly, then suggested it would be a step toward writing together. Christ.

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2 years

wie es läuft

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2 years

My study habits currently look like doing philosophy for as many minutes/hours as I can before I start to get upset about sexual harassment, then working a little longer. I hope for relief in 2023.

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they’ll slap Spinoza on anything these days (it’s good)

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take it a step further: analytic philosophy is like scholastic philosophy, only worse

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If a professor makes a conduct complaint against a student while the student says she was harassed by said professor, even if the school upholds the complaint, please PLEASE consider closely what might be happening.

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dug up the April Cornell Easter dress I wore when I was 8

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Most of my clothes are baggy or billowing now. I thought it didn’t bother me—and I detest buying new pieces—but putting on a dress that fits my body sent my sense of well-being through the roof.

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The professor’s boldness in my case is particularly troubling. I hardly knew this man and have never met him in person, yet he felt comfortable putting what he did in writing.

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surviving academic philosophy

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I am pretty sure he is still doing the same things. I mean, he got away with it multiple times now already, so if anything he probably now knows that no one will hold him accountable. That's the message universities are sending with their inaction.

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12 hr Amtrak to Pittsburgh

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There’s a certain type who learns of an incident of sexual violence, and believing herself well meaning, jumps into action to micromanage the victim’s response. With all the love I can muster, I mean this: fuck off.

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white women love to distance themselves from other white women who are just like them, but I don’t do that, I’m not like other white women

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maybe I’ll kick myself later for speaking informally now, but I think the best way to affirm a student’s agency is by enabling them to be a student--and not to be a little schoolgirl in some sad creep’s fantasy

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He retaliated by filing a phony complaint against me—that was upheld. I was forced to delay my graduation a semester. I wish I’d never heard of the place, let alone studied there. (I also wish I could decisively say TNS is the worst academia has to offer.) Nightmarish. 2/2

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In the Amtrak bathroom once again…….

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2 years

zurück nach Deutschland

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I wish all men would understand that having sexual feelings for a woman does not mean she’s elicited those feelings. Taking ownership is a fundamentally important part of adulthood.

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