Saw “American Pachuco” at the Charlotte Latino Film Festival—really great.

of junior TT faculty at the top 30 leiter rank philosophy departments:
2% have ever held a vap
0.5% have ever held an adjunct appointment
5% have ever held a renewable teaching position
11% have ever previously held a role at an R2
2% have ever previously held a role at a 4-year

Professor Banned From Teaching Plato Excerpt to Leave Texas A&M: ‘It’s Getting Worse’ Martin Peterson tells us why he’s not staying to fight.

"What’s the point of having an expert on something in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say to students? If the board or the university wants to ...tell us what to say..., the very idea of a university collapses."
www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

You’re really pushing on the premise that all of this is “deliberately obscure” or “willfully unclear,” which is directly disputed both by Liam and by myself.

In any case, I teach some continental stuff in intro level courses. The students are able to navigate it, if that skill is cultivated. YMMV.

I wrote up my response.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...

I tend to agree with Liam on this, though. Most continental philosophy might, in terms of clarity, be “often worse than it ought to be, but not so bad as all that.”

And, aside from that, there is a lot of pedagogical value in teaching students to navigate texts that are not crystal clear.

As always, one must also ask the “compared to what?” question. Despite right wing claims & lies about higher education, there are <exactly zero> other American institutions that are <more> protective of or better at safeguarding free speech, viewpoint diversity, or the marketplace of ideas.

Photo of a very short Arendt text: WAR CRIMES AND THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE I know that the war in Vietnam is not the first and will not be the last undeclared war. But I think it is possible to overlook an important point: When a nation declares war, it implies that it is prepared to play the game according to the rules. Since the beginning of this century there have been attempts to lay down certain laws for war. By not declaring war, a nation manages to evade even these feeble limitations. 1970

I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.

‘Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?’ by Gabriel Rockhill reviewed by Richard Gilman-Opalsky Before I read Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, I watched fourteen hours of him talking about it on YouTube. In the fourteen hours that I watched Rockhill discussing his book...

marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2262...

Have a new pub out here: philpapers.org/rec/FRICPA-7 was originally a conference paper but got picked up as an editor's pick of the conference proceedings (Society for Advancement of American Philosophy). I argue that if we want diversity in philosophy, we need jobs for philosophers.

It means the culture industry has reached full scale bot production and consumption. Nothing terribly interesting.

Adolphe Thiers is truly one of the most self-interested villains of the nineteenth century.

Anyone I know going to WPSA in San Diego?

Anyone I know going to WPSA in San Diego?

He is Greek. He is Great. I love Yanco.

Viva Varda.

Long-form writing instruction is becoming largely impossible.

Teaching logic is fun. And Carnap.io is working well so far.

Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name? It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content. You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name. There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

To give one of the little stories:

On Dec 21, 1339, a woman named Alice lay dead "of a death other than her rightful death" at the foot of the stairs in her home, and the coroner and his jury were called.

#medievalstorytime

And if you’re interested in writing for the series, please get in touch with me! There are many open slots on the docket—in particular, we are still looking for someone to write April’s post! (@apaphilosophy.bsky.social)

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And if you’re interested in writing for the series, please get in touch with me! There are many open slots on the docket—in particular, we are still looking for someone to write April’s post! (@apaphilosophy.bsky.social)

bsky.app/profile/greg...

“King of the who?”: Monty Python on Rousseauian Legitimacy | Blog of the APA Selections from Rousseau’s Social Contract are a staple in my introductory “Citizens and their Cities” class. We read most of Bk. I, and short sections of Bks. II and IV, in order to trace where Rouss...

This month’s post in the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social’s Teaching and Learning Video Series is by me. It’s about a clip I use from Monty Python to help illustrate the question of legitimacy Rousseau poses in The Social Contract. blog.apaonline.org/2026/03/18/k...

“King of the who?”: Monty Python on Rousseauian Legitimacy | Blog of the APA Selections from Rousseau’s Social Contract are a staple in my introductory “Citizens and their Cities” class. We read most of Bk. I, and short sections of Bks. II and IV, in order to trace where Rouss...

This month’s post in the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social’s Teaching and Learning Video Series is by me. It’s about a clip I use from Monty Python to help illustrate the question of legitimacy Rousseau poses in The Social Contract. blog.apaonline.org/2026/03/18/k...

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

I have just learned that Secret Hitler was co-created by the Philosophy Bro.

Trying to wrap my head around the fact that one of the WKUK directed an Oscar-winning film.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Another “oops, the LLM made stuff up” case. 🧵

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.