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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

LIFE HACK: if you go to a restaurant and the server asks you “Have you ever dined with us before?” just say ‘yes’, even if you haven’t, as this will save you several excruciating minutes of them explaining to you how restaurants generally work

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heyyy very quickly what does everybody think is the most romantic movie of all time

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Jeremy Davis

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For every cool, seemingly new idea you have, there's precisely one (1) guy from 1981 who published your exact idea in some obscure now-defunct journal, which was probably never read (much less cited), & who then apparently faded into total obscurity, never to be heard from again.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Some personal news: Nearly all the places I applied this year reported that I was "among the many qualified applicants" that applied, and even though I wasn't selected, they wish me well on my future endeavors!!

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Does anyone know of any good readings in logic or epistemology on the distinction between a claim's being 'correct' and its being 'correctamundo'?

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

The six archetypical philosophy papers: -Bold idea paper -Pure reply paper -Reply + positive view paper -All views have problems paper -"Don't look there, look here" paper -"People should write more about this" paper Am I missing any others?

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Jeremy Davis

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7 months

what

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

I wrote this piece describing my 5 years on the philosophy job market. It's deliberately matter-of-fact, rather than a personal essay. I found the job market opaque & wished I knew more about what it looked like. This aims to remedy that somewhat.

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

The entire Saints defense to Tom Brady:

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

I don’t wanna be ‘that guy’ or anything, but I’ve heard so many good things about Schitt’s Creek and I’m six episodes in and wondering...when does it get funny?

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Jeremy Davis

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8 months

If you were thinking of coming to my APA session that starts now, don’t worry, there are still a couple seats left

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

Will never not cringe at the memory of when my dissertation committee brought me back into the room after my defense to tell me whether or not I passed, and in the overwhelming anxiety of the moment, the first thing my dumb ass uttered was “we good?”

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Jeremy Davis

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6 months

There has been no remotely persuasive argument yet made that these protests are damaging to the security of the university, despite the university’s insistence otherwise.

Fiza Pirani

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6 months

🚨 Police arresting students now @ #UGA for criminal trespassing on their own campus. University of Georgia had set up the Gaza Solidarity Encampment hardly an hour ago.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Beyond excited to announce that in August I’ll be joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Happy Philosophical Studies Editorial Manager Update Day to all who celebrate

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

"John Rawls: The Man Who Had a Theory About Justice"

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4 years

What a subtitle.

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

It’s true, we do do that

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

I often encourage students to 'flip' their theses when they encounter a major problem with the view they had been defending. So I wrote a piece of philosophy writing guidance for students on how to do 'thesis flipping'. Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

#philosophytwitter

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

@lhfang This looks to be essentially a speaking/consulting fee at the Coast Guard Academy in the wake of some incidents of racism at the school. I’m not sure it’s illuminating to say “under the Trump admin” in this case.

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4 years

I have a US foreign policy joke, but it constantly bombs

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Once again I was faced with the apparently impossible task of convincing a room of military service members that they simply cannot kill an infinite number of enemy civilians to save one American life, despite their insistence to the contrary.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

@NoamChompers made and never posted this because i was doing it too much but i feel ya buddy

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

seriously hilarious to me that philosophy has two figures, Hegel and Schlegel, who were rivals. if you presented that idea in a writer's room, you'd get laughed right outta there

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

I've never seen an episode of star trek, but I suspect if you were tasked with trying to lure me in with a single frame of the show, this is probably about as good as you could possibly do

Star Trek Minus Context

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Advice for all graduate students: save all the slides, lecture notes, exams (if you're allowed), essay prompts, etc. for every class you TA—and, if you're able, for those of classes your buddies TA. That stuff will come in handy when you're teaching your own classes later.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

At the ATL airport, flight is overbooked, and they need 3 volunteers to be bumped to tonight. They started at $600, now they’re at $800. No takers. Everyone is on the edge of their seats. I think if we all work together, we can get them to $1500. I’ve never felt more alive.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Would be cool if philosophy made like a proper zine series. Short, pithy essays; interviews; photographs; random bits. No veneer of stuffy professionalism, just enjoyable content put together in a DIY fashion. Maybe they'd become collectibles, they'd be traded at the APA, etc.

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@freganmitts @maplefirkin is this maybe what @maplefirkin is getting at? (something I regularly assign)

Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts

On a visit to my son’s second grade classroom, I found a troubling pair of signs hanging over the bulletin board.

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Jeremy Davis

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9 months

it's a trap

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

It’s interesting that in the song “Guilty Conscience” by Eminem, Dr. Dre uses consequentialist-based motivations—esp. about reputation—to try to convince people not to do wrong. Is this just because it’s more a effective tool, or is Dre a consequentialist? In this essay I will

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Jeremy Davis

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@linds_goldberg @j_d_fielder I’d email them beforehand & have them come with a “hot take”—a view they think would not be widely shared in the room. They had silly ones (pineapple on pizza etc) & serious ones. Then, rather than arguing, the rest of the room can ask clarifying questions or probe the claim…

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Excited to share that I've got a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on some issues related to the interpersonal ethics of killing in the context of the pandemic.

Jeremy Davis, The Ethics of Killing in a Pandemic: Unintentional Virus Transmission, Reciprocal...

philpapers.org

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Has there ever been a reasonably high-profile case of a professional athlete quitting or retiring early from a sport because they came to see that sport as stupid/pointless? (To be contrasted with, e.g., seeing it as too harmful to their body)

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Jeremy Davis

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11 months

Agreed. The PhD is evidence of above average quantities of stubbornness, foolishness, and obsessiveness—not intelligence.

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getting a phd isn't that impressive. most of the people who have them are midwits in a very specific way

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@mellinger q b c o n t r o v e r s y

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2 years

Used to have this above my computer in my office for inspiration

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

Why did all the big-name 20th century philosophers have these extreme close-up black and white headshots?

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

my absolute favorite part of every academic paper is the part right after the introduction where they issue a huge list of caveats. it's just so riveting hearing about all the abbreviations and assumptions and things we are going to bracket in what follows!!

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

The fact that Shelly Kagan wrote a brilliant 600+ page book with only 11 citations—four of which are to his own work—is truly one of the most baller things ever.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

What is your ‘doing philosophy’ face?

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

I’m pretty sure this is nonsense: if my being a leader requires producing a leader below me & their being a leader requires producing one below them, the condition is never satisfied & no one can ever be a leader

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Jeremy Davis

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@NoamChompers Assuming I have inferred the context correctly: monogamous relationships are generally exclusive in very specific ways & not in others. So friendship being *fully* exclusive is not properly analogous: it would have to be exclusive in certain specific relational aspects

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Me and ⁦ @ellenmburch ⁩ back in ‘07. Celebrating 16 years together today 🥰

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

There should be a philosophy journal that only publishes video essays. They'd be viewed more than most articles are read; they'd increase accessibility; they'd be good for teaching; etc. Vox, Contrapoints, etc. all do this effectively. Academics/phil'rs should get on board.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Departments hiring TT should heavily discount applicants currently in TT positions. In one of the worst job markets ever, it’s unfair & very bad for the profession to pass over the precariously employed (& at risk of flaming out) in favor of those who already have job security.

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4 months

@NC_Renic how dare you

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@linds_goldberg @j_d_fielder The idea, then, was to model the culture we wanted for the room: intellectual humility, curiosity, openness and engagement, deliberate lack of hyper-reactivity and so on.

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Jeremy Davis

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9 months

Very excited about this workshop I’m putting on in April! and almost equally as excited by the poster I made for it, inspired by vintage wrestling posters

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

My philosophy department’s Lost and Found box has gone missing, which is surely the plot point in some bad Campus Novel

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Jeremy Davis

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6 months

I'm excited: I get to teach a one-credit course in the fall to incoming freshman on the Philosophy of Kendrick Lamar! Welcoming suggestions for readings, topics, themes, I might not already be thinking about!

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

Dang, it's pretty elite then, eh

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1 year

Love to text with my 6 year-old nephew

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Jeremy Davis

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4 months

pretty glaring omission from the Tell Them You Love Me documentary. Maybe this isn't decisive, but still: not mentioning this pretty big factor in the film seems to raise issues of journalistic integrity to me.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Always remember: You are loved!!! Not by me, of course, but presumably by someone I bet!! And if not, that stinks, sorry!!!

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2 years

@KOosterum I think Putnam is the most famous example

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Is there any philosophical literature that explores or references the idea of moral exhaustion/fatigue—i.e. the phenomenon of being worn down by incessant moral decision-making, moral concern, etc.?

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3 months

@NoamChompers

Bhad Bhabie - Wikipedia

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Shameless self-promotion incoming: I have two new papers coming out soon that I'm very proud of. The first, "Five Challenges for Data-Driven Policing," surveys the literature on the ethical issues that arise from using data-driven methods in policing.

Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert & Schuyler Sturm, Five Ethical Challenges for Data-Driven...

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

My wife made me this banner with my personal mantra on it for my birthday and I love it so much

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

From Missouri

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Cedar Point

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best Christmas present

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

in grad school, a prof gave me feedback on an essay that was like: “the main virtue of this paper is that it’s written so clearly, which makes it easy for me to identify the many, many weaknesses in the argument.” Possibly the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

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“Wild and woolly prose may sound radical, but it’s really the easy, comfortable option, because its unclarity makes it unrefutable… The risky option is saying something clear and specific enough to be refuted.” - Tim Williamson (Doing Philosophy)

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Jeremy Davis

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4 months

@RadishHarmers great tweet, but impossible to retweet in case people misunderstand it lol

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

@sam_director_ I'm tempted by this, but I'd add the condition that the non-contiguous nature of the bread has to be intentionally part of the structure. I think it's counterintuitive to think that when my taco shell breaks, it thereby becomes a sandwich

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Jeremy Davis

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It’s 👏 not 👏 the 👏 roof 👏 of 👏 your 👏 mouth 👏 it’s 👏 the 👏 ceiling 👏 of 👏 your 👏 mouth 👏

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

This is going to sound like a troll but it's not: Has anyone seriously considered arguing that access to abortion pills is protected by the 2nd amendment, since abortion pills are the distinctive sort of 'arms' one must use to defend oneself against the threat posed by a fetus?

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Jeremy Davis

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@bluestein Greg, can you point me to the part of the statement where he says anything about pro-Hamas protests?

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3 years

Also...first annual? The organizers aspire for this to be an annual thing???

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4 years

@doltery Wittgenstein couldn't even figure out what a game was

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Might get to teach "Philosophy of Sports & Games" next semester. Have plenty of ideas of my own, but I'd love suggestions for topics/readings! ( @JakeWojtowicz whatcha got for me?) Especially looking for ideas that aren't just centering on questions in ethics/political.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Feeling this again today after yet another heartbreaking rejection—this one much more personal than most. Mercifully, I guess, it is likely the last of this cycle. Just taking time to reflect on the cumulative psychological toll of all of this. It’s really hard to articulate.

Jeremy Davis

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4 years

To have a shot at any job, you have to seriously imagine what life would be like: how you fit in, the faculty's research, the courses you'd teach, how you'd carry out your life there. The eventual rejection often brings a sort of grief at a life and career that could have been.

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3 years

I wish I were even half as productive as the version of me who writes my to-do lists thinks I am

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7 months

not a good look for me, frankly

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It was great to meet @kate_manne in person and to see so many UGA faculty and students at her talk.

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

Academic job rejections are tough. Getting them first thing in the morning: ruins entire day. Getting them mid-day: kills whatever joy/productivity I had going. Getting them at the end of the day: ruins sleep. Today is the second of these. Send vibes.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

As someone who has taught hundreds of military service members, I can tell you confidently that this is false.

Crispin Sartwell

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3 years

I don't think philosophical ethics has actually helped anyone figure out what to do or who to be.

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I just did the wordle for the second time today—having completely forgotten that I already did it on my phone earlier—and it still took me four tries

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3 years

This *has* to be a joke.

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1 year

This *has* to be Parfit, right? (From Elif Batuman’s *Either/Or*)

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"philosophy is by it's very nature erotic" @apaphilosophy put this on the advertisements

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We always explain the wrong of plagiarism by referencing honor, fraud, academic integrity, etc.—which is good. But we don't talk much about the fact that when students commit plagiarism, it makes professors feel like total garbage. Like, it genuinely makes me very sad.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

@alexxguss I've argued we have (defeasible) duties to anyone who is vulnerable to us, though the extent of those duties is a function of how responsible I am for creating and sustaining those vulnerabilities.

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Finally...my dream job is available

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

Got my nose pierced again as a gift to my 19 year-old self who was forced to take my nose ring out for a job and swore I’d get it pierced again someday

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

To have a shot at any job, you have to seriously imagine what life would be like: how you fit in, the faculty's research, the courses you'd teach, how you'd carry out your life there. The eventual rejection often brings a sort of grief at a life and career that could have been.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

"A total of six (6) documents are required to complete the online application. Our application platform allows the attachment of five (5) documents."

Southeastern Middlestill University Hiring Visiting Assistant Adjunct Just Because They Heard...

Classification Title: Visiting Assistant Adjunct Working Title: Department Head’s Lackey Position Number: 000.5 Salary: $38,000 The School of Commu...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

All APA Prizes should come with WWE-style championship belts @apaphilosophy please make this happen

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Jeremy Davis

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1 year

attention all philosophers! if you submit a paper to @ErgoEditors , and I'm asked to review it, and the word 'ergo' does not appear anywhere in your writing, I will reject it immediately! govern yourselves accordingly!

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

I hope it’s consistent to say I’m very proud of this outcome & have worked so hard to get here, while also acknowledging the tremendous role that luck has played—& noting that others much more deserving regularly miss out due to factors like bias, unfairness, and just bad luck.)

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

I often think about how one of my professors in undergrad owned a Quizno’s franchise in town and gave out coupons for free sandwiches to students who participated in class. Now that’s vertical integration.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

*clearly hears rain on my roof* *googles ‘is it raining right now’ just to be sure*

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Jeremy Davis

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3 years

Hot take: grad students should almost always decline referee requests. The 'reasonable' explanation is: it's free labor for a career field that may or may not ultimately allow you entry on the basis of capricious demands—none of which involve credit for having refereed papers.

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Jeremy Davis

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2 years

Have you ever witnessed anything more infuriating than the slight and ostensibly pointless differences in the spine designs for these two Descartes volumes?

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Jeremy Davis

@myavidjeers

3 years

I would love to meet the person who was previously vaccine hesitant, but decided to get it after hearing from OJ Simpson

O.J. Simpson

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Get your shot!

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Jeremy Davis

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Again, I always found the market confusing and opaque. I wish we had a better system to communicate to early career folks and graduate students just what the process would look like. This post won't allow for drawing big conclusions but hopefully it's illuminating in some ways.

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Jeremy Davis

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4 years

Does anyone know of any good public-facing writing on the way the talk and practice of 'ethics' outside the academy has gradually become shorthand for 'compliance'? (I know of a few passing references, but anything more systematic?)

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