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Eli Benjamin Israel

@badkantian.bsky.social
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Philosopher working on trust, consent, and other relationship stuff. www.eli-benjamin.com

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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Super excited to share that my paper "Breaking Trust and Relocating Reactive Feelings" is forthcoming in Episteme! philpapers.org/rec/ISRBTA
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Eli Benjamin Israel, Breaking Trust and Relocating Reactive Feelings - PhilPapers
In this paper, I argue that reactive feelings such as betrayal and personal disappointment are not inherent to the attitude of trust. Instead, such feelings are better understood as responses to ...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
2026, you don't look promising. Surprise me.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Coming back to this weird place, not sure why, but I guess it still serves for shameless self-promotion, so... My "On Moral Perfection: An Atemporal Reading of Kant's Postulate of Immortality" is forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy — philpapers.org/rec/ISROMP
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The philosophy of s3x community is so niche I could guess the author by sentence three lol dailynous.com/2025/07/29/t...
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To Philosophers of Easy Virtue (guest post) - Daily Nous
"My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is to learn to take sexual and romantic rejection well." That's one of the obser...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Couldn't straighten my arms after a workout, and when I searched for a fix, I found out that more exercise might help. Is this the adult equivalent of hair of the dog?
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Officially published! My paper “Caring for Valid Sexual Consent” is out in the new issue of Hypatia! In this paper, I argue that consent, to be valid, requires trust, and in intimate contexts that trust is warranted through care. 📰 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Caring for Valid Sexual Consent | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Caring for Valid Sexual Consent - Volume 40 Issue 2
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Many congratulations to PhD candidate Eli Benjamin Israel on his recent publication "Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust" in The Philosophical Quarterly. You can read a preprint of his paper on PhilPapers at the link below: philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
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Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
What exactly happens when two people disagree about what they can trust one another to do? I discuss this form of interpersonal conflict on the blog of Mark Schroeder's Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project www.philosophy.academy/conflict-blo....
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Conflicts of trust — CFCP
One is not born trustworthy but becomes trustworthy through practice. When we engage in trusting relationships of all kinds, we develop a better grasp of what those relationships are, what particular ...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Revising a paper really trying to be less of am as*hole toward the opposing views.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Karl was a man of great kindness and intellectual generosity. Though I wasn't his student, he took time to engage with my paper that drew on his work on Kant’s "The End of All Things", offering supportive feedback that meant the world to me.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The proper way to celebrate Kant’s birthday today is by taking an afternoon walk. Also getting drunk. He liked that too.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Admins will be admins...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I was watching my son in Jiu Jitsu, and suddenly I hear all the kids shouting, "Korsgaard!" I asked the parent next to me, "What did they just say?" to which he responded: "close guard"...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I trained the kid to answer "Led Zeppelin" whenever asked what's the greatest band of all time. My work is done.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My "A Kantian Account of Moral Trust" — Winner of the 2024 North American Kant Society Markus Herz Essay Prize — is finally available (open access) in Kantian Review >>> www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Kantian Account of Moral Trust | Kantian Review | Cambridge Core
A Kantian Account of Moral Trust
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Oz (5 years old): "Everything I look at gets in my mind."
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
APA member Eli Benjamin Israel spoke about AI, dating apps, trust, and consent on a recent episode of @whyythepulse.bsky.social (audio + transcript) @badkantian.bsky.social
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Meeting Your Match: Navigating the World of Modern Dating - WHYY
We explore the complicated world of modern dating, and what science has to say about how to find love.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Had a blast talking to The Pulse about the ethics of online dating, what flirtatious deception can be counted as fair game and what we owe to our fellow online daters.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
For all you folks that like me teach in Philadelphia/South Jersey - good luck teaching today!
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust " is now published online in The Philosophical Quarterly >>> academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...
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Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust
Abstract. In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Second week of my intro to Ethics, I just love to play with their minds as I present them with 30 variations of the trolley problem
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Shut up, Nietzsche.
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the
delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this
experience he passes judgments on the work and course of
his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet
the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these
confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Academic superpower: Get more citations on your old papers by citing them in your new ones
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Kicking off 2025 with some good news - Very proud to share that my paper "Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust" is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly! philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
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Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 15/01/2025
The most important thing to learn is to think for yourself. The second most important thing is that just because an idea is yours, that doesn't make it not stupid.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Kant keeps drunk-dialing me for "just one more paper and we're done"
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Wrapping up #APAEastern2025
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Oz (5yo): "I'm done with this darkness business"
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
That's very early-career of me, but today I got an email with questions from some whos engaging with a paper of mine in their research, and it's really flattering! It's sometimes unimaginable that we get to write ideas and then they are out there for others to read and use.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The GSC is now on Bluesky! Please follow us for updated on our initiatives in service of grad students in Philosophy!
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Just hit submit on this R&R before New Years. Here's to 2024, you beautiful purgatory of peer review.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
One is not born trustworthy but becomes trustworthy.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I fixed this sign
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Thrilled to be awarded a fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies! #IHSFunded
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My 5yo son decided to tell me what "a little bit" means. We've been working through this for 30min now. I feel like Socrates, which is pretty annoying.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This isn't jackass, this is winter break.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
5yo niece: i pressed something on your computer i probably shouldn't have pressed
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Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
So many papers misunderstand someone else's point. A quick call would clear things up. No need to write an 8k word paper rigorously illustrating your misunderstandstanding to everyone else.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Student essay starts with "A wise man once said..." Well, I'd really love a reference for that.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Thank you Hans!
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Kid called in sick today, and I had to stay home with him. Two hours later I'm in a research group meeting, one of the participants is laying out a very structured argument, and in the moment that my son pops in all philosophical rigor goes away and we are left with a collective "own he's so cute!"
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It's an honor to receive the 2024 Marcus Herz Prize!
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You, like me, shouldn't be revising your paper right now.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I just spent half an hour explaining why anti-realists can still be morally reasonable people.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Doing a podcast interview tomorrow. Perfect timing for a sore throat.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Looking back at the giants in the history of moral philosophy, it’s striking how little has been said about trust. This reminds me of Gilligan’s ideas about how significant aspects of our moral lives were overshadowed by the language of duty for millennia.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I'm thinking about what is a "relationship" and I want to pick on your intuitions. Do you think of relationships as individualized by participants or norms? If participants: colleagues becoming romantic partners = same relationship changing If norms: different roles/norms = new relationship
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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Unpopular opinion: this is why people should read less Heidegger. (I'm being cute here, but this article names a very real problem with the news. Feels like it has been going on for at least a decade with Google News sensationalism and feeding social media algorithms.)
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My gym has signs saying "No Critics" and "Judgment Free Zone"... As a kantian, I feel attacked.
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of two options: your reviewer is philosopher X, or they’re philosopher X's biggest fans, trying to get you to cite them at every turn.
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