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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

5 months

If your university has no philosophy department, then your university is not a real university. Universities are not only for career preparation, but places where the deepest mysteries can be studied.

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5 months

What is the point of it all anymore? If I were to stop writing philosophy altogether, nobody would ever notice. Nobody cares and that's a hard fact to reconcile with.

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11 months

Isn’t it mind-boggling that you can get a BA in philosophy in the United States and not read Emerson, James, Peirce and Dewey? In France everyone has to read Descartes and Bacon. In Scotland they read Hume with pride. I find it mind-boggling.

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4 months

I think Hegel is overrated. Sorry internet, I do. The same with Thomistic-Aristotelianism. These systems don't get you quarks and neutrons nor the pain and suffering of human finitude that pragmatism and existentialism get you.

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2 years

I often think that multicultural and decolonized #philosophy will never happen when philosophers are resistant to thinking philosophy is a form of literature. To be decolonial means to read as wide as literature people do and to adopt the belief one is a humanities scholar.

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4 months

How do we reach students about the value of philosophy (no matter its tradition) and that it;s worth their time when so much of the reasoning ab this challenge rubs up against the idea that university education is about job training & credentialing? Any ideas beyond platitudes?

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6 months

I still can't believe that you can get a #philosophy Ph.D. in the United States without reading Emerson, Dewey, James, MLK and Peirce. The French can't avoid Descartes, nor the British Hume. Analytic pretensions are so strong we ignore our own intellectual history and canon!

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5 months

What is the purpose of philosophy? #philosophy #academia

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

Not a bad academic year: 4 peer reviewed articles 3 conference presentations 1 co-edited anthology 1 novel 1 book chapter. 2 book contracts issued 1 book series proposal submitted All on a 6/6 load. Imagine what I could do if...well... You know what I am implying.

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5 months

Of course, I am wondering about the value of philosophy as I have been proceeding for 11 years since my doctorate, but more generally, is philosophy even valuable anymore? I've reached a point where I wonder if working on pragmatism and phenomenology is worth it.

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@SIUChasmite

10 months

I’ll never understand the hatred btw analytic & #Continental philosophy except maybe that there are different temperaments as James observed. The future of philosophy is their synthesis lest we forget. When #philosophy departments close, administrators don’t care about CP or AP.

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5 months

Student pulled me aside after logic & said that I was the best professor she's had all year. This hits me right in my feels as the young people say. I might wonder about my place in the larger philosophical world but at least my teaching is having an effect. #WeareSouthern #su28

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

My insistence on capitalizing "Black" in a journal and downright refusing to budge about my article, but also seconded by the young Associate editor, has led to a style sheet of a journal being changed.

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

This next year is my last year going on the #philosophy market. By the Fall, I'll have 35 peer reviewed articles, 45+ presentations at national and international conferences. I work on American and Continental philosophy in ethics, philosophy of religion, and Af Am phil. 1/

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5 months

In the age of the social media, there is no aporia. When you reveal someone’s blind ignorance through Socratic elenchus, they just block you while their last post is an ad hominem. It’s internet gotcha culture of the worst type & reveals only why more philosophy is needed.

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@SIUChasmite

3 years

Name your favorite work in sci fi or fantasy and how it ties to a philosopher...any takers? #philosophy #AcademicChatter #popculture

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

I’m seeing young ppl regretting their interest in Continental philosophy against the perception of their peers. Somehow it’s regarded as lesser. Bullshit. I’ll take a close hermeneutical paper of a text over some contrived analytic discourse w timeless concepts any day.

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5 years

@e_j_barnes Anonymous Catholic University sent out rejections of a position and instead of blind CCing everyone they CC'd the whole list of about 300+ applicants. I even saw some friends in TT jobs looking.

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@BayouPhilosophy Here Kevin argues for unnecessary abbreviations in analytic metaphysics. Let us call this the Unnecessary Abbreviations thesis (UAT hereafter): S writes paper p and is guilty of UAT if and only if they've abbreviated a formal thesis. *Cracks open Buber's I and Thou.

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

Hey #Philosophy Twitter, promote the work of another philosopher with an article or book you loved and post it here in this thread. Lift others up. What have you read that you just couldn't put down?

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

@jes_hooper @PostdocVoice Try to not be too hard on yourself. It's hard out there. I'll tell you what I see, a promising scholar that would not take No for answer. Such a high-powered achievement and background might even make you a Director or Dean of an Honors College, Director of Service Learning etc.

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William James's Radically Empirical Philosophy of Religion is now done at 97969 words, minus a concluding chapter to wrap it up. I have yet to edit the footnotes, but all in all it's the work of 4 years with lots of teaching commitments.

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

I'll never understand the mentality to deny the reality of institutional and systematic racism. Wouldn't you want to make America better and improve upon it rather than do nothing about racism?

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@SIUChasmite

5 months

After a philosophy conference, the real world imposes itself upon you, mostly in the form of grading.

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

Levinas is a way to resist Foucault. Foucault reduced forms of knowledge to contextually mitigated notions of power. As a pragmatist, that’s fine so long as you don’t do away with normativity completely. Better critiques require normativity and power seen together. 1/

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2 years

Just got an article accepted in Cosmos and History on my reading of Emerson. Kinda excited about that.

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11 months

I'm Dewey adjacent. I am by no means published on Dewey. I've read enough Dewey and received an "Alexanderian" and "Hickmanian" orientation to those texts in grad school. I find myself this morning defending Dewey against erroneous ideas of Rorty's appropriation of him.

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@SIUChasmite

3 years

#GiveAlitaHerSequel It was honestly one of the better sci-fi movies. It has a discourse about ableism, that bodies are individuated by capacities, and the self-sacrifice of love. Plus, it was good story.

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@SIUChasmite

5 months

I'm ready to be some #philosophy dept's token Continental. I specialize in phenomenolgy and pragmatism. I can and have taught several sections of Af-Am philosophy courses, too. So, whisk me away to some place cold. But, you must have a research library w decent holdings.

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@SIUChasmite

5 months

I understand that your philosophy grad program might be either Analytic or Continental, but why are process thinkers and the classical pragmatists not largely taught?

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

I'm fine with hermeneutic philosophy and the goal of it being understanding, but philosophy that ignores the sciences in constructing that understanding is idiotic. That's why pragmatism is an advance over other philosophies, it accepts an evolutionary cosmos.

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@SIUChasmite

10 months

I was re-reading sections of Thus Spoke Zarathustra this morning. The lines "we have already killed him" made me think...what if the death of the #humanities have already occurred? We have already killed the humanities. The rest of us are living in the shadow of that event.

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@SIUChasmite

6 months

I publish on MLK's ethical and political philosophy, and this is absolutely not the case. In fact, King studied philosophical theology with Methodist theologians. He was very Christocentric in his thinking & approach to ministry & activism rooted in the agapic love of Christ.

Jesse Hughes ✝️🇺🇸

@JesseHughesNC

6 months

MLK - Denied the Trinity - Denied the divinity of Christ - Denied the virgin birth - Denied miracles - Denied the authority of the Bible MLK was not a Christian and we will not see him in Heaven

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Revising metaphysics in light of evolution and thinking philosophy should be consistent with the natural sciences are two reasons why we should all be reading the pragmatists and process philosophy. Being is flux and generativity.

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@SIUChasmite

1 year

I am flabbergasted that an analytic from an ivy league school would come down from their mountain on Twitter to argue w me in private that poetry and Emerson are not philosophical. We will never interact professionally, so why bother me...??

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My university classroom is now mandated by the state to display the Ten Commandments. I am forced to be surrounded by a value system I rejected for a Buddhist sangha. Freedom for thee, neither freedom from thee nor freedom of religion for me.

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@SIUChasmite

3 years

So, my monograph on James's philosophy of religion is nearing completion. I argue that radical empiricism is at the heart of his many religious topics. I need help with the title. WJ, Pluralism, and the Religious Multiverse is the current title. I don't like it. Suggestions?

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@SIUChasmite

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I got to get it through my head that analytic philosophers of religion who hold the gates at these very prestigious journals in philosophy of religion just don't care about Whitehead, James, or pragmatic or process philosophies of religion. 1/

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

Our Louisiana Enhancement Grant got funded, so I am Co-PI and just brought in 126k to an English and Philosophy Department. Science ppl won't think that's a big deal, but for the humanities, that's not a bad few months of work. This is my first awarded grant!

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@SIUChasmite

6 years

@veschwab Life size replicas not bound to your will become "Literary Critics!"

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@SIUChasmite

5 months

From Descartes-Kant, experience is cut up from the world such that humans are not ontologically continuous w the world (esp. Cartesian dualism). Neuroscience only makes sense because my inner life and outer life are of the same stuff. Don't be afraid. Be a neutral monist.

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@SIUChasmite

10 months

Happy World Philosophy Day. Here's to nobody around here noticing.

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

This is the year of philosophy death felt in so many departments. Students are not reading. Expansion of higher ed matched the boomers and we are not having as many kids today as the boomers did after WW2. Republicans are attacking the humanities everywhere. To even have a job...

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@SIUChasmite

3 years

If I wanted to give a week long lecture series on William James's philosophy of religion, would there be any takers? I have always wanted to try and give sustained lectures for a long time on a concentrated topic.

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

I think #philosophy should replace #English as gatekeepers to well-reasoned writing. Philosophers should teach #Composition alongside applied epistemology and critical thinking in the same course. The idea that English is the sole embodiment of writing pedagogy is just dumb.

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5 months

I honestly think philosophers should be in charge of what normally passes for ENG102 at most colleges and universities.

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

@JasonXevier @SarahWieten There is no set rule in stone that you start with epistemology. That habit is a matter of orientation and training and reducing every philosophical problem down to epistemology is why you may be laboring under a misapprehension about philosophy itself.

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1 year

I feel out of place sometimes in an English department. Not literary enough for them, too analytic for the Continentals, too Continental and pragmatic for the analytics, sometimes too Modernist for the pragmatists, and I’m the only novelist in my department. I am alone.

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@SIUChasmite

11 months

The reason why many philosophers still do metaphysics is to see just how much magic remains, but I differ by temperament. Some of us feel deceived by the lack of magic we were told was there and we spend the rest of our lives seeing if there was anything like it to begin with...

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@SIUChasmite

3 years

Here's a picture of the new William James print Ashley got for my new office. #Philosophy #pragmatism #happybirthdaytome

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4 months

If you've read this far, I also just won a 125k grant for an English and Philosophy department. I'm starting a book series in the Summer, and I am well-positioned in some national societies to network grads. I wouldn't mind being the token Continental/American philosophy guy 3/

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3 years

When your wife allows you to go wild at a coffee shop! #philosophy #academiclife

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2 years

@alexxguss Love as a phenomenological act is reconstituted daily in the promise of its renewal. It's when people no longer reconstitute the promise of love that it fades away and healthy marriages require you to adapt and change. You don't love the same way you do at 42 when you're 24.

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If I had to say one essential skill in studying philosophy, then it's the ability to withdraw mentally while holding several varying different ideas in front of your attention all at the same time. This skill is so essential and it's clear that many do not have this ability.

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William James's Radically Empirical Philosophy of Religion is done. I folded the last chapter into the book, and it took 5 wks of this Summer to edit entirely. Final word count 97,663 Footnote word count: 9919 Number of Paragraphs: 1440 #philosophy #religion #theology

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@clar_rah I feel this way with Levinas and Whitehead actually. Such interesting philosophers in their own right and yet .... Whitehead says that everything possible is mind-independently real even if it is not actual. I have no idea what to think about that.

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@SIUChasmite

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In an analytic department insofar as what I do is respected by others. This includes attention to a text's history and context and reconstructing an author's pihilosophy in the vocabulary he/she employs. I'd consider Intellectual History or political theory too. End

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5 months

I asked my Philosophy of Religion students if they had encountered any black feminists in other classes. The answer is a resounding no, so next semester, I’m correcting this deficit in a Phil360B Social and Political Philosophy class. #su25 #su26 #su27 #su28

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@SIUChasmite

11 months

War produces suffering. The suffering humans produce while fighting any war is objectively intrinsically evil. Both parties can be guilty of producing that suffering, even if you think one side is more justified than another.

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The beautiful thing about being a professor is when people all over the world understand your love of books and erudition bc they're more similar to you than to most people. This love of learning transcends the animosity of political states. That's what gives me hope sometimes.

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@SIUChasmite

9 months

Around 11 AM, a student came upstairs. She said to me, the yearbook allows us to submit a picture of us with our favorite professor. We did superhero poses, Rodin-thinker poses, silly ones, and a nice smile. Despite my hair looking a mess, this has made my whole day. #su27

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@SIUChasmite

11 months

Hello #Pragmatism Friends, Today is John Dewey's birthday. #philosophy #research

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

@Helenreflects I wrote this two years ago in tension with the analytic philosopher Michael Huemer. The question of methods is, at the same time, a question of how strange the term "CP" really is.

A “Huemerous” Farce: Huemer’s Failure to Understand Continental Philosophy

Michael Huemer is not the last analytic philosopher who thinks that his metaphilosophical assumptions about philosophy should hold for all philosophy and that such assumptions call into question wh…

thehorizonandthefringe.wordpress.com

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This past Friday I was awarded a book contract for “Levinas, Scheler, and the Infinite Value of Persons.” I have yet to start in on it, but I should get it done around January 2026.

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If Heidegger recast the Thomistic question of being in phenomenology to render the question answerable in more existential terms resulting in near-like Buddhist social ontology, then really we should be reading the Kyoto school influenced by Heidegger, but not his thought...

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Nobody gets away with any statement in philosophy unchallenged. If you want unchallenged dogma, then go to religious and theology programs. If you want freedom from being challenged, then don’t go into philosophy at all.

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Are people so enamored w philosophers that agree w them that they think somehow what they find important in philosophy isn't to be challenged? Everything written in philosophy should be challenged. Doesn't matter if you're Continental, analytic, pragmatist etc. #makeanargument

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@alexxguss The older you are, the more vulnerable you become as you have a lot more existential density in the world. That longer history and existential density means you risk more the older you are when you love.

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@SIUChasmite

5 years

#writingcommunity #academictwitter All of you. Please watch VelociPastor on Amazon Prime. You will not waste an hour of your life. See what 35,000 dollar budget and really bad-but-really-good script writing gets you. Horror Comedy genre.

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

Since so many have liked this tweet, I published a paper that talks about this very issue.

Does Decolonizing Philosophy Entail Teaching Philosophy as World Literature?

In this essay, I reflect upon what it is like to teaching philosophy in a decolonizing fashion. I argue that the decolonizing of philosophy might mean changing both the way we teach philosophy as...

www.academia.edu

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You don’t exist just ‘to be useful’, President tells young philosophers

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I loathe Mother’s Day. My mom, an ex-addict and narcissist, pretends she’s lovely on social media w cards she received from the dogs, but is/has been horrible to me and my wife for the past 6 years. She put the dog show trophies of these goldens in front of my framed doctorate.

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Unfortunately I have discussed ethics with other disciplines only to find that ethics means adherence to professional code rather than reflecting on the sufficiency of the code. The other mistake is thinking what’s legal is moral. There’s a reason why ethics belongs to philosophy

Inside Higher Ed

@insidehighered

11 months

Opinion | Should Colleges Engage in Ethics Education? Yes. Moral, civics and ethical education shouldn’t simply be a subspecialty in the philosophy department.

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Sometimes, I wish I did my Ph.D. elsewhere. SIU is just not a prestigious enough place for many academic biases in North America and Europe to warrant responses back from people who see themselves as participating in the Ivy tier. 1/

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@MikeBenchCapon I see this tendency a lot from theists. Either God is the source of moral reasons or everything is permitted. This is a false dilemma. Plenty of Good candidates to be the source of normativity apart from god. An evolved capacity to cooperate in groups, human rationality etc.

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@carl_b_sachs JJ Abrams ruined Star Trek by auditioning his directorial debut of Star Wars by first directing the first movie Star Trek starring Chris Pine.

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1. Superman basks in the sun. 2. My cat basks in the sun. 3. Superman gets superpowers from the sun. inference to best explanation 4. My cat will get superpowers!

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There’s need now more than ever for philosophy and culture to recover Dewey’s analysis of democracy as an ethical way of life while the ineffective Democrats do nothing substantive to stop the Far Right’s authoritarian impulse and corruption of democratic institutions.

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@RonBorsh If you're gonna wield the #pragmatism , then you need to be okay with other people experiencing the world through their religious habits. Pragmatism yields a respect for the many ways we experience and comport ourselves in this world-- #pluralism .

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Whenever someone in phenomenology uses the word "irreducible". they mostly mean how autonomous phenomenology is in its "transcendental" variety as if everything that Husserl said about the natural attitude is actually correct. Fuck that. Let's be pragmatists with phenomenology.

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@AnonGlobe79158 Nope

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All I did was say I don't like Hegel or Aristotelian-Thomism thought and that post is now at 45.5k. I was just saying what I like and don't like. One never expects that you have to defend the view that our metaphysics should be in line with our best natural sciences.

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7 months

Helen De Cruz is one of the most interesting philosophers on social media. What is she doing now I wonder?

Helen De Cruz

@Helenreflects

7 months

As I'm reading and analyzing over 120,000 words of transcribed interviews with natural scientists I am struck by the diversity of minds of scientists, and the way they devote their lives to the pursuit of knowledge. Thanks so much to all who participated!

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@SIUChasmite

10 months

I am writing an essay in public philosophy, Academic Solitude and the Death of Philosophy. It's about how I've mostly been the only philosopher at various full-time positions wherein I teach in the core, but never have I taught courses in a philosophy department. 1/

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@SIUChasmite

4 months

I'm looking to teach in a graduate program or undergrad granting major, but wouldn't mind a religion department like BU, Drew etc. or being someone's philosopher of religion wrt "religious ethics." I teach historically-informed philosophy. 2/

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@SIUChasmite

2 years

Every unarmed Black person killed by police is both a murder and a state-sponsored lynching. His name was Keenan Anderson.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

3 months

I have to say over the last two years I've had the best editorial experiences in journal publishing. The people who run and manage the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Process Studies, and The Pluralist are all fantastic. They all have something awesomely in common 1/

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

Philosophy is the physics of the humanities. There's very little done in other fields that philosophers couldn't do if they entered those fields. It's like physicists could easily understand the problems of engineering given the same amount of time. 1/

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

10 months

I really don't have a philosophy of science and will never probably have one. If I did, then it would be building consensus amongst peer experts from Peirce, engaging in shared inquiry alongside Dewey, and thinking if there is a difference made in our experience a la James.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

4 years

My wife got me a t-shirt!!!! #pragmatism Jamesian in style!

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

5 months

@TransitFossil Tell me that you haven’t read any philosophy without telling me explicitly.

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

So many ppl try and do ethics or metaethics on the internet without reading anything about it. #Philosophy requires solutions just as much as a clear understanding of its problems.

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@SIUChasmite

11 months

Someone should invent what I call the fallacy of amplified disciplinary concern. It occurs when any one specialist will only see some complex phenomenon from how their discipline engages it. This is done a lot in philosophy with things that should be studied in many disciplines.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

2 years

I just received word that John Cobb recommended my short piece Radical Empiricism as Process Philosophy in Process Perspectives 2020 to someone. That feels pretty cool.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

1 year

Think about it. We will not attend the same conferences, write in the same journals, or have the same network of colleagues. If we have friends in Pittsburgh, mine are at Duquesne and his at Pitt. It's shit like this that make me suspicious of analytics saying there's no divide.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

4 months

In a Hegelian universe, all that will be is an expectation of being implicated in the whole such that particular individual is absorbed into the unfolding of that Absolute. In such a universe, everything that could be already is anticipated. There's no surprise and no novelty.

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@SIUChasmite

9 months

Long ago, I developed a love of systematic thinking, even if what justifies a system is its pragmatic appeal to experience. I think you need to know how humans are situated in the cosmos, what persons are, their relations to each other for an ethics and a politics.

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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist

@SIUChasmite

5 months

I would love to work in a religion department that really is a philosophy department. There are a few schools like that but not many.

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@SIUChasmite

2 months

Too much antirealism about values gets you only power. Too much realism about values gets you moral dogmatism and abuses of power. End/

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@SIUChasmite

5 months

I'm really excited to meet Bettina Bergo. I've read her work on Levinas for years. I'm really looking forward to this French Philosophy Conference. Meeting Continentals from all over!!

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