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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

10 years

Mini-interview thing in @TheNewPhil http://t.co/6R6Yiicl6E

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

My father in law died. This brutal disease. Rest in peace.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

“Once, reading Schopenhauer, he substituted ‘love’ for his ‘will,’ and this new philosophy comforted him for a couple of days”—Tolstoy.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

Nabokov vs. Black.

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Guy Longworth

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6 months

What’s the single best novel ever written about love?

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Guy Longworth

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6 years

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, summary: Blah, blah, blah. Shh.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

What is the most beautiful painting, please?

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

I think that I’m now Head of Department. Let that sink in.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Garden fox.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Questions one might have wanted to address before buying all those books.

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Guy Longworth

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1 year

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

I’ll be head* of department from January, apparently.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

Am I right to think that people used to get their heads stuck in railings more often in the 70s?

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Guy Longworth

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6 years

Brexit festival in pictures.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Please enjoy this tree as much as me.

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Guy Longworth

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2 years

Good to see Hegel trending. Does he have something new out?

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Ruin a work of philosophy by inserting “normativity”.

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Guy Longworth

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6 years

Footnote aspirations.

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Guy Longworth

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2 years

I’m becoming one of those “Why are you reading that when you could be reading Plato or Aristotle?” people.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

Pub!

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Guy Longworth

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6 years

Philosophy in stages: 1. Ask simple question. 2. Complicate indefinitely. 3. Fail to answer simple or complicated questions. 4. Complain about simple question. 5. Rinse. Repeat.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

What if I self-isolate and no one notices?

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Extra Pippin.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

9 years

"YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE!"

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

8 years

Brexit in pictures.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

My mother and me.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

I look like a giant.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

My doing philosophy face.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

1 year

Book 29.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Longest day of the longest month of the longest year.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Six books.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

Glock on classifying philosophy as Analytic.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Snow dog.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

“but if it is true that elephants can write I wouldn’t want them to be given paper and ink lest they leave to posterity in their memoirs that we are nothing but machines and that only they have understanding.”—Locke

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Guy Longworth

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2 years

New specs.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

The World's Greatest Gallery of Seductive Radishes.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

9 years

Delighted to say that I've just agreed to take over as editor of Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society when the present editor stands down

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

2 years

Private Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein review – sex and logic | Philosophy books | The Guardian

Private Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein review – sex and logic

Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

7 minutes after receiving his new ball, Mr Pip proudly presents.

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Guy Longworth

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11 months

Book 47.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Amazing what you can get done if you get up at dawn. Feeling a bit like a farmer of philosophy.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

Met real dog. Was good dog.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

6 years

Please, what would be the best philosophy book to get for junior school kids (8–11)? Thanks.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

My coffee pot’s seen things you wouldn’t believe.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Spilling over.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an ageing man in possession of a good book, must be in want of a brighter reading light.

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Guy Longworth

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2 years

Old favourite.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

The difficult third album.

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Guy Longworth

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1 year

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Forgot that we have pics of new dog:

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Philosophy writing tip: philosophy’s very hard, so go easy on yourself; philosophy’s very hard, so if you’re going easy on yourself, it’s worthless.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Mr. Pip seeks praise for his eviscerating activities.

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Guy Longworth

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1 year

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

Interesting question from one of my students: could there be a piece of analytic philosophy that took the form of a novel?

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

It’s my birthday tomorrow. Please send books.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Don’t like philosophers.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

The central question of epistemology is, how can everyone but me be ignorant?

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

Penguin envy.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Some philosophers that I like and that some others seem not to: Descartes; Locke; Frege; Moore; Austin.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

Idea for a paper: Is butter just very bland cheese?

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

2 years

Today’s look:

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Crazy hair day.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Been reading Schopenhauer in some of the gaps. Fair to say that he’s not a fan of Hegel.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

Gazing in awe at this sort of thing.

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Guy Longworth

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3 years

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

Day one on lonely rainy fascist island.

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Guy Longworth

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2 years

Chagall stained glass windows.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

6 months

New specs.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

Still don’t know what meta-ethics is supposed to be.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

6 years

“Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs in one.”—Hilary Putnam.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Mr. Pip a year ago.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Pizza and wine. Pizza and wine.

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Guy Longworth

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5 years

New arrival.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

Mansplaining in Vienna.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

First look at the venue. #JointSession2020

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

1 year

Review: M. W. Rowe, J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

2 years

People with standing desks, how do you stop yourself from wandering off?

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Guy Longworth

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1 year

Today’s look:

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Guy Longworth

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4 years

He’s sleeping now, next to the teddy with the heartbeat.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

2 years

“philosophy gives us the means of speaking plausibly about any subject and of winning the admiration of the less learned”—Descartes.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

“(It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?)”—I. Murdoch.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

3 years

Thomas Nagel · What is rude? Midgley, Murdoch, Anscombe, Foot · LRB 10 February 2022

Thomas Nagel · What is rude? Midgley, Murdoch, Anscombe, Foot

Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch all matriculated at Oxford in the late 1930s. When most...

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

If you can’t be clear, be careful.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

5 years

This tweet consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one.

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Guy Longworth

@GuyLongworth

4 years

Still a bit dehydrated.