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Philosopher of regret, sport, sometimes both. (Tweets represent only my own opinion) Portrait by Vanessa Brassey (who is on Instagram at Vanessa.Brassey)

Rochester, NY

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Joined July 2011

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Jake Wojtowicz

1 year

Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan is now available in stores (well, at least online)! We build a case for why being a sports fan is great... if you are critical. Otherwise, the violence, racism, and other misdeeds of fans and players lead to moral pitfalls.

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Jake Wojtowicz

8 months

People complaining that it is perverse or sick to celebrate the Pop-Tarts mascot's "death" have failed to grasp the notion of a telos. He did not die, hd fulfilled his purpose: to toast. In this essay, using MacIntyre's notion of a narrative, I will... (1/94)

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2 years

From what horror does the last basket protect us?

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3 years

Has anyone written the philosophy of mushrooms book and called it "Groundwork of the metaphysics of morels"?

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7 months

The answer is obviously "no". Policeman is a job, the warrant let's them do their job - but that does not overcome the more fundamental law of nature that binds the vampire. This is why we need more philosophers

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7 months

This made me laugh, then think and now my head hurts.

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5 years

Defended my PhD today. Also went to my favourite (and now aptly named) dive bar.

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6 years

It is World Philosophy Day, this means that you have to buy presents for the philosophers in your life, and also buy or make them dinner and drinks. It is a strong and ancient tradition.

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3 years

Colleges asking adjuncts for donations is the height of bad taste.

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7 years

@PeterSweden7 You've got a pretty fucking weak identity if this threatens it

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3 years

@ClimentQD @PrincetonEcon Why graduate students in particular? If anyone in academia has a right to refuse to provide you with free labour, it's graduate students. Also, invitations are invitations, they are not demands and thus don't need any explanation...

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3 years

Maybe utilitarians shouldn't write papers that lots of people find very hurtful 🧐

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4 years

Stephen Pinker has not blocked me, MC Hammer has not followed me, am I even part of philosophy Twitter?

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5 years

"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." David Hume/Me, abandoning my thesis to play FIFA.

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2 years

What I find weird about ranking journals is that I never really *read* journals, I read papers. I suspect that's true of many people, who'll read good papers in "bad" journals and bad papers in "good" journals. Does it matter except for "THIS is where I'd love to get published"?

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3 years

My new socio-political thing is Upstatecentricism, where I pretend not to know what New York City is. I say things like "New York city? Which one?" and "Where? Is that south of Albany?" I have yet to try this in the wild but looking forward to doing so.

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5 years

Now that I've finished my PhD I can't call myself a PhD student, so I'm just going to go with "Philosopher of Regret".

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3 years

Hannah got her sister to embroider me this fantastic top

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2 years

Sometimes I am a little sad about no longer being in philosophy. Then I see there are 35 very earnest - and some very serious - comments on a philosophy blog about whether we should say "passed away" or "died" and I no longer care.

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13 is unlucky for some, but my paper just got accepted at the 13th journal I sent it to.

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2021: quit a job on the spot (which was fun), became a professional baker for three months, got a better full-time job, found morels (no morals), published some stuff, signed a philosophy of sport book contract, brewed some weird shit, taught ethics to future cops.

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Me, last week: "oh I have a 9am meeting with leadership, I'm a millennial so I'll spend all weekend worrying I'm being fired!" Leadership this morning: "Sorry, your position is being eliminated as part of the reorganisation"

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My paper "Agent-Regret, Accidents, and Respect" has been accepted at The Journal of Ethics. I wrote this just after finishing my PhD, for a (great) conference on punishment and the emotions - punishment has fallen out of the paper, but it's sort of related...

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The illusion of freedom

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3 years

I've been awarded a grant by the lovely folks at the Society for Applied Philosophy, so I can spend some of my time writing about the philosophy of sport.

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@secret_ledger @Nigel_Farage It's our identity? Really? It's a blue passport! You have a thin identity, I fear.

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2 years

Nice that a philosopher has finally experienced love and can describe it from the inside, unlike everybody else.

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4 years

I wrote a short (and hopefully accessible) piece about agent-regret and agency. If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents? –

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If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents? | Aeon Ideas

Luck – whether good or bad – means that what we do is not fully in our control. Should we find this unsettling?

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5 years

Yesterday's job fair highlight: "So, what's your background?" "I've just finished my PhD in philosophy" "Do you have any other skills?"

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4 years

In philosophy, we might face dull, unimaginative criticisms from Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson. But we have MC Hammer on our side.

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You bore us. If science is a “commitment to truth” shall we site all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists ? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy ... It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your Thinking and Consciousness. When you measure include the measurer.

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Nice to get the proofs through for Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan! Very much enjoyed writing this with @AlfredArcher2 and looking forward to seeing it published!

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4 years

I have an analytic philosophy joke. It's long-winded and complicated. 6 people will read it.

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I have a history joke. It’s not funny any more.

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Some of the anti-PAB discourse in Rochester misunderstands *who the police should be accountable to*. The idea that the public do not understand police work is probably true. But that doesn't mean police should be accountable to the police.

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This is weird because the perspective makes it look as though the queen is a horse and you are riding her into battle with the unicorn

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I think I might’ve found the worst artwork in the world.

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Just had a paper accepted, which I'm very pleased about. It's on something totally different: the identity of sports teams and the severity of punishment that can be directed at teams for bad behaviour by fans.

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4 years

Subscribe to my OnlyFans for my advice on writing philosophy.

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2 years

@CityRochesterNY Rather than "discourage panhandling", why don't you lead with how we can help unhoused people? Is it because you don't really care about these people?

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@Nigel_Farage Who gives a fuck? Really, why is this important?

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3 years

Yes?

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5 years

Confession: I don't hate Rawls and don't get why people hate Rawls.

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Five years today married to Hannah, an excellent garbage plate-explainer, England fan, roadside trash pile explorer, and the best partner I could wish for. Here's to many more years of hiking, eating good food, and doing up our ugly (but beautiful deep down) house.

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@pauljb123 @MrDrewF @LBC We voted in the 70s so why did we have this one...

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5 years

Now that a bunch of people are rightly unfollowing "Philosophy Matters", who should they follow instead? What are the best public philosophy accounts out there?

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There are a bunch of excellent public intellectuals. They're excellent because they take ideas, including ideas they don't like, seriously. They try to understand them and criticise them. The crap intellectuals are crap precisely because they fail to take ideas seriously.

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Jake Wojtowicz

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My PhD on luck and the limits of human ability did not prepare me for job application questionnaires with questions like "do you think we are in control of our achievements or do we always need some luck?"

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Us, three days ago, when we got into our new house and started cleaning, before we realized that we would need to tear out the entire kitchen and would never smile again. (Okay, it's not that bad.)

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3 years

One day, I will tweet my list of philosophers who have annoyed me in mild ways on Twitter.

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5 years

Which section of A Theory of Justice is this in?

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@ShalMarriott Peter Singer

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Gonna set up a Twitter list for philosophers who don't tweet in the panpsychism wars.

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4 years

Now that the chance of a standard academic career looks very unlikely (and not all that appetizing), I want to write much more public-facing work. Really, I'd love to write a trade book about sports and luck.

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Hot take: the job market is terrible and most of us won't get jobs so it's probably fine to have a normal Twitter account, so long as it isn't horribly offensive or puerile, and there are better things to worry about.

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A barleywine reward for four job interviews in one day

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3 years

My attempted takeover of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

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4 years

This is actually my profession.

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@KayaLanden @realchadfile @JustinWhang This is basically the plot of Animal Farm

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4 years

Here's one for @BookPhilosophy

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6 years

The good folks at the Journal of the APA have published a paper of mine. It's about agent-regret, and how this is precluded by what Williams called taking an "external" view on your own actions.

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2 years

A visitor at work

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4 years

The only stage worse than "under review"

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Jake Wojtowicz

5 years

We have a cat! We also agreed that if we got a cat I could name it after a footballer, probably Diego Armando Maradona (which is an hilarious cat name). But she so obviously is not Diego. Any suggestions?

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4 years

That is one hell of a footnote

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Hannah saw a frog in the store window and has been calling him her frog son. Today, she bought him

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4 years

The terrible job market should be the final nail in the "early 'career' researchers need to be careful about what they say" coffin. There is no career. Say what you want.

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1 year

Enjoying the responses by people who know nothing about academic philosophy

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I am truly loving watching all the academic philosophers arguing that they don't need to study ... logic. 🍿🍿

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Jake Wojtowicz

4 years

I have only ever used the "Dr" title in academic applications and also for signing petitions. I await the one time in my life (for surely it happens to all Drs once) where I can say "It's Dr, actually" to someone who is being a shit.

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3 years

I very fondly remember the gentle and kind senior people who, when I was a grad student, chatted to me after their talks. They never made it seem like a chore.

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The thing I regret most about not getting an academic job is the conferences. Sitting around talking about the philosophy of sport for four days, in a beautiful city I would likely not otherwise visit, would have been fantastic.

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But Daniel Prude was no real threat, and this was no split-second decision. Any civilian who killed Prude in that way would face criminal charges. Tell me why it should be any different for officers facing no grave threat and with plenty of time to think.

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If you think there's a lot of noise around the Callard piece, imagine what it would be like if the New Yorker wrote something on the Leiter Reports.

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First Finger Lakes Trail hike of 2022 #FLT 6.5 miles outside Ithaca (and another 6 back on the roads). Not the most scenic, but we saw a partridge and got some excellent cider at South Hill

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5 years

The worst academic experience is using a library search for a book, seeing it is available, and then realising it isn't available but a review is.

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6 years

My new paper idea: "what is it like to be a sardine" in which I refute Nagel, showing we can know what it's like to be another animal, namely by getting on the first GWR off-peak train.

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3 years

Ah, "Major Revisions". Academic purgatory.

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2 years

I simply do not have access to that quantity of marble

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A 23 year old sculpted this. What's your excuse?

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The way this obscures "about art" is helpful for me as an ethicist.

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4 years

Errrm it's 20 minutes!? Doesn't that just happen to ice-cream in normal heat?

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This is how hot the UK is right now 😮 #heatwave

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2 years

Submitted the final draft of "Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan" with @AlfredArcher2 today! Looking forward to seeing it out hopefully some time in 2023.

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3 years

Is Magritte back?

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4 years

A decent start to Monday

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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but not that kind of doctor. Flight attendant: The pilot accidentally, and through no fault of his own, hit a small child whilst taxiing, he wants to know the precise way he should feel bad, and why. Me: I'm on it.

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Jake Wojtowicz

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I've uploaded a pre-print of my forthcoming paper on agent-regret, where I argue that you can feel agent-regret without any associated regret about what happened. (You might not regret that the evil bastard died, but you regret it was you who killed him):

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"Grad student Twitter accounts should be highly professional" often seem to ignore the fact that grad students might have had accounts before becoming grad students and might also have interests outside their field.

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Hannah's first football game!

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My article "Fans, Identity, and Punishment" is now available. I argue that sports clubs should be punished for bad behaviour by their fans in a way that affects the club’s sporting success, particularly with racist chanting in mind.

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I think my least favourite objection in philosophy is that something isn't informative or interesting. It's also perhaps one of the most important constructive sort of criticisms if it means "look, you need to explain why this is important a bit more clearly."

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What!? Some people get swords, Swedes get rings, I got a piece of paper.

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In Sweden you can get a special ring when you obtain a PhD ()! Due to covid I'm not sure if I will ever have a graduation ceremony, but I'm very happy that I got my doctoral ring now.

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To join the public philosophy wars, or to join the panpsychism wars?

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@RichardDawkins Why do you do this?

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How should one live?

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The book now has a cover! Exciting!

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After working on it for years, I am very pleased to announce that I have had my paper accepted in Ethics! "Against Sportsball: It's Just Opera For Idiots"

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Celebrating our wedding anniversary with diner breakfast. She only has eyes for me* *The German shepherd puppy poking it's head out the window of a car

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Ethics is about the good life. What does a philosopher who puts philosophy so *exclusively* at the centre of that life miss out on in their philosophy?

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Derek Parfit’s daily routine was pretty insane by the looks of it: (from @DavidEdmonds100 ’s new book)

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@WendyBellPgh We have this in my hometown. Does each mini-roundabout increase the risk of flooding or do they cancel out? Please help!

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Finished reading @PhilipPullman 's His Dark Materials trilogy yesterday, it's the second time I've read it (I read it first when I was an early teenager). It's absolutely wonderful, a truly great story.

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"Moore’s philosophy is marked by an affectation of modest caution, which clogged his prose with qualifications but rarely restrained him from wild error" Bernard Williams clearly wasn't afraid of speaking his mind.

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Remembering how last year, as part of some sponsorship/alcohol branding thing, a local restaurant declared "St Paddy's Day is Orange!" without a whiff of understanding that this is an accidental political statement.

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