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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last couple of years the Philosophers' Annual has left me feeling a little cold. So it is nice to see so many of my favorite recent papers (and a couple i had on my "to readily list) featured this year. Really great list of papers.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

www.umu.se/en/work-with... Please share with any (good) students who might be interested.

umu.se

Doctoral student in Philosophy, specialization in Ethics in Teacher Education

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We have another PhD position opening at Umeå. This time with a connection to 'ethics in teacher education'. This can be construed broadly so projects in e.g. social epistemology (like trust and testimony) likely count as long as there is a clear connection to ethics and education. Ad posted below:

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Just refereed AI slop for the first time. Great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm told the deadline for this has been officially extended from.thr 6th to the 16th of March.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

In Sweden a PhD position is a job, and you get all the benefits of Swedish state employment. Umeå is a great place to live. The PhD program is small, but our students get a lot of attention (and they are part of the department in a way PhD students elsewhere typically aren't).

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Since we're advertising at quite short notice i think the deadline might be extended by 10 days - the above post mentions only the current deadline.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We have an open PhD position at Umeå. Current deadline is March 6th which is pretty soon. S Please send this to any promising students who might be interested - especially if they are into the sort of stuff we do at Umeå. Here is the link: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

umu.se

Doctoral student in philosophy

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Getting Reddit ads for Mensa. Not sure whether to be complemented that the algorithm thinks I'm smart, or insulted that it thinks I'm the sort of weirdo who cares about their IQ (I have a staggeringly low IQ btw).

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Unfortunately I am not "the academy" though.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'd maybe take his opinions on Marx and Hegel seriously. Not so much his views on this history and sociology of analytic philosophy....

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I hadn't heard of this guy until people started dunking on him. Is he relevant in any way? Or is he just one step up from the species of random hack blogger that spends their time complaining about their quantum mechanical theory of the meaning of life not being taken seriously by the academy?

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Here you go: I teach a lot of adults who have already got their first degrees and are in it because they are interested in the subject. They are often brilliant, super engaged, and insightful.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I don't like this as a diagnosis of why some papers seem grad-studenty (not that I have a better diagnosis). But it is great writing advice independently of that.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm here! Yea basically it would be great for us if someone super senior applied. But super senior people often don't want to relocate to the far north of Sweden - so I wanted to emphasize that non-senior people have a shot too. Otherwise it may go to an internal candidate (maybe me, who knows).

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I especially recommend this for people fleeing dysfunctional higher ed systems in the U.S. and UK. Things seem to run (comparatively) well here.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We're hiring at Umeå. The position is full professor - but don't be intimidated by the professor title - you don't have to be fancy to apply. I'd say anyone with a potentially tenureable CV has a shot (obviously fanciness is a bonus). Area is pretty open. For details see ad below:

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Yea I'm currently dealing with rotator cuff (subscapularis) tendonitis, elbow tendonitis, and multiple finger injuries. Maybe there is a good reason that playgrounds are mainly designed just for kids.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They are called bouldering gyms. I know of one that even has a slide.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

He's also telling us to go outside and meet people which, if anything, is even more of an affront to our existence.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Having said this i do think there are clear examples of books published with academic presses that would have been better with a commercial editor. Katherine Hawley's trust book comes to mind. There are many genres of academic monograph with different aims...

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I dunno, the point of an academic monograph is to really develop a big idea in a lot of detail. Stanley's stuff is fun to read, but it doesn't always do what an academic monograph should. I can't see a trade press publishing e.g. Making it Explicit or the Origins of Objectivity...

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Looking forward to the new cottage industry of unpacking Trump 2.0's new and creative misuses of language. Had a lot of fun reading the Trump 1.0 literature.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

That's reasonably close to Russell's analysis. But Russell's analysis is controversial in part because it seems weird to say that sentences exhibiting presupposition failure are true or false rather than lacking truth value.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

p: "the grass outside is green" intuitively contains q: "there is grass outside". Suppose there is just tarmac outside. q is falsified. But p exhibits presupposition failure. It is not falsified, just lacks truth value. So q can't be part of p since for that every falsifier of q must falsify p.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Anyone written on presupposition failures in truthmaker semantics? Here is the issue I'm trying to understand:.....

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Maybe we should write more books. Get big ideas out there and develop them thoroughly at the same time...

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If the philosophical discussion centres on stylised vignettes with cutsey names, which it often does, then knowledge of the subject is reliability indicated by knowledge of stylized vignettes with cutsey names.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Less spicy: The main marker of cultural insiderness in analytical philosophy is... knowledge of the subject.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yea, also I think early career there is pressure to make every idea work which leads to a lot of well polished turds. With job security comes the ability to be pickier about the ideas one works on. That has been my experience at least.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I haven't read that many super recent books tbh, but I did enjoy: Mercier - Not Born Yesterday Hirsch - Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt Misak - Cambridge Pragmatism Honourable mention to Zawidzki's "Mindshaping" which I just finished and really enjoyed (it's just over 10 years old I think).

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fair, but maybe our problem is that we are too concerned with "really" reading things when the gist will often suffice.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Damn I thought one paper was bad. Folks in natural sciences average three a day don't they? I have some recollection of this coming up at your "Publishing Crisis" conference.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Don't philosophers average reading something like one paper a day (or less)?

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I wouldn't have thought of Yorkshire pudding as in the same class as desert pudding.... Well I wouldn't until I arrived in Sweden and found people serving them with whipped cream and jam and calling them "oven pancakes"...

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I guess that getting a kebab pie to not be absolutely disgusting would be quite an achievement. But I'm skeptical.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They made a kebab pie so I think perhaps the lack of seat was deserved.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Has anybody ever come up with a remotely compelling response to Enoch's "Schmagency" argument?

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Very weird to think that ordinary philosophy students wanting to build on their baby logic foundations will have worked through Frege & the Tractatus.. ..

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Yea. I'm reading it now and not hating it, but worried that I'm missing something.

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I remember Ted Sider's logic book getting a lot of hate from logicians when it came out. Can anyone remember why people hated it so much?

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Trivial point but since when was Edinburgh Scotland's oldest University? St Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen are all older...

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

To be fair though, maybe he just loves his kid and wants to spend lots of time with him and have him experience a bunch of cool stuff that most people never will?

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Andy Peet @andypeet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

At first I thought it was so nobody would go all Luigi Mangione on him, but apparently it predates that.

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