Knicks fandom, the philosophical way — The Strickland: A New York Knicks Site Guaranteed To Make 'Em Jump In a world dominated by short attention spans, are sports one of our last bastions of shared interest communities?

1) answer that question, and
2) to offer some thoughts on what the point of caring for a sports team might actually be.

www.thestrick.land/strick/knick...

The second piece asks Why do fans of good sports teams often seem less happy than fans of bad sports teams?

I integrate insights from Thi Nguyen's new book "The Score", and Susan Wolf's views on the meaning of life to:

Motivating Students to Read By Building Classroom Community (Guest post by Dallas Amico-Korby) By Dallas Amico-Korby With the increased prevalence of AI tools, it is difficult to ensure that students are doing the assigned reading, and previously popular enforcement mechanisms seem insuffici…

I’ve written a few pieces recently (short thread).

This piece asks the question: how do you get students excited about reading philosophy? Short answer: Build community around reading. I offer a bunch of strategies for accomplishing this philosopherscocoon.com/2026/01/19/m...

The epistemic organism: a defense of other-regarding epistemic obligations - Synthese Synthese - It’s a well-recognized truth that what’s morally or politically required can come apart from what’s best for you individually. But this thought—the thought that...

Officially out!

If you’ve ever thought it strange that morality may require you to sacrifice your interests for the sake of the others but epistemic norms cannot, this paper is for you!

I show that we often have other-regarding epistemic obligations

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m happy to announce that I have a new paper coming out in Synthese!

In it I give a range of arguments in favor of the view that there are other-regarding epistemic obligations.

Abstract and link below :)

philpapers.org/rec/AMITEO-6

Dallas Amico-Korby, Maralee Harrell & David Danks, Do It Yourself Content and the Wisdom of the Crowds - PhilArchive Many social media platforms enable (nearly) anyone to post (nearly) anything. One clear downside of this permissiveness is that many people appear bad at determining who to trust online. Hacks, quacks...

I have a new paper out in Erkenntnis w/ Mara Harrell and David Danks.

We argue that recommendation algorithms pick out and recommend expert DIY content creators, and we explain why they fail to do this for climate change and vaccine content creators.

Check it out!

philarchive.org/rec/AMIDIY

Dallas Amico-Korby, Maralee Harrell & David Danks, Environmental Epistemology - PhilArchive We argue that there is a large class of questions—specifically questions about how to epistemically evaluate environments that currently available epistemic theories are not well-suited for answering,...

If we want to evaluate questions like: “is this social media platform epistemically healthy?” or “what’s epistemically problematic about our political environment?” we’re going to need some new epistemic norms

(With Mara Harrell and David Danks)

philarchive.org/rec/AMIEEV