evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Really excited to announce that starting in the fall I'll be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at East Tennessee State University! So hit me up if you're ever in Appalachia! 4363
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 01/01/2026it was an old american tale that a great ball, representative of time itself, dropped from the sky at the culmination of each year. (it is worth noting that while most sources refer unambiguously to a ball, we see occasional talk of a "square of time" as well) 191
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 26/12/2025another new paper!!! "The Ambiguous Inference: Sanches’ Refutation of the Self-Contradiction Objection to Global Skepticism" is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly! Thread below for details... 1123
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 29/10/2025NEW PAPER ALERT! "Quid Facti Between Kant and Maimon" is forthcoming in Kant-Studien! 🧵 1162
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 28/07/2025of course i'm an expressivist. my statements always express my beliefs 070
Reposted by evanGeorge Webster @georgewebster.bsky.social · 25/07/2025A watershed moment: my first citation!! 🎉🎉🎉 #philsky #philsci 3291
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 22/07/2025NEW PAPER ALERT: deleuze's epistemology of inquiry is now forthcoming in the southern journal of philosophy! read on for more info on what deleuze's epistemology (of inquiry) is! (link at bottom) 1337
Reposted by evanyoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 03/06/2025husband: i found some vital data today wife: oh honey not again husband, putting papers out on the table: gorilla city is real. the ancient Aztecs knew it wife: how would gorillas even build a city husband: look at this. Gorilla averages near Tlatelolco are off the charts 210711
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 29/05/2025be on the lookout for my upcoming book "Gestures Towards a Prolegomenon of Future Prefatory Remarks: Some Fumblings in the Dark of a Humble Servant of God, Illuminated Only by the Grace of the Almighty, tho' Otherwise Ignorant, O! A Wretched Sinner Am I!" 070
Reposted by evanGabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Newest issue of Fichteana: Review of J.G. Fichte Research is now available online. Includes many reviews, including of two volumes I edited + a review of Owen Ware's Fichte's Moral Philosophy, plus news, CFPs, new publications. Thanks to @symphilosophie.bsky.social! sites.google.com/view/fichtea...sites.google.comFICHTEANA - Latest IssueFICHTEANA 24 (2024) (To read: click on the pop-out feature at the top right-hand corner) 1154
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 21/03/2025my bracket is perfect so far... I predicted BIG BUSINESS would win every round 070
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"Beyond Rustic and Urbane" has just been uploaded to Apeiron's site, making it my first official publication! PLEASE change all of the "forthcoming"s in your multiple glowing citations to "2025"s and check it out here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...degruyter.comBeyond Rustic and Urbane: A Unified Reading of the Pyrrhonist’s Assent to AppearancesI propose to dissolve the distinction between “rustic” and “urbane” interpretations of Sextus Empiricus’ account of Pyrrhonian assent to appearances. On the traditional picture, the “rustic” takes the... 1111
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 17/03/2025philosophers call absurd sentences "moorean" in a cruel and meanspirited attribution of nonsensical thinking to g.e. moore 0161
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Wow! A new paper! One of the main topics in scholarship on ancient skepticism is the "rustic vs. urbane" debate: whether skeptics were weirdo forest sages with no beliefs or normal guys with everyday beliefs. I think this debate is kind of silly and I show why in this paper! 1274
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 03/03/2025teachers always complain about students having nothing to say after lectures but that doesn't make sense. if you've explained yourself well there should be no questions. a good lecturer should strive for a reaction of respectful silence. perhaps applause 040
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 05/02/2025obviously it seems like sextus empiricus was an empiricist, but we really can't discount the possibility that maybe that was just his last name 2100
Reposted by evanlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025In the preface to his lectures on Machiavelli, Strauss says that Machiavelli was evil. So straight away I know he doesn't think Machiavelli was evil. I know how this works. 3824
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 21/01/2025fun jules feiffer character designs from unproduced 50s pilot 071
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 21/12/2024it's a difficult concept to pin down, but I would define speculative fiction as any fiction in which a character utters the oath "blast!" 091
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 17/12/2024incredible fact: in the second sentence of "a plea for excuses," his defense of ordinary language philosophy, j.l. austin uses the word "ramiculate," which does not have a definition in any dictionary 1435
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 13/12/2024John Quincy Adams, as well as his similarly famous cousin John Quincy Public, 083
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 13/12/2024careful there brother. you almost forgot about rudolf eucken 050
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 22/11/2024in timothy williamson's wacky world, belief is unjustified untrue knowledge 0181
Reposted by evanKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 16/11/2024A desiderata of any philosophy talk is upshots 4393
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 16/11/2024you're telling me every full moon you turn into a withal? 0141
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 15/11/2024they call you the corresponding author because you're the author that corresponds to the paper 0160
Reposted by evanicchantika @pad.bsky.social · 28/10/2024the left is trying to say a buddha doesn't have to have marks, that buddha-nature is without names and without marks. sorry but no. if it doesn't have the retractable penis, it's not a buddha, it's just grass and broken tiles! they're trying to undermine reality itself 082
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 30/09/2023it is my view that the natural state of any sport is a scoreless 0-0 and that any movement past that is pure hubris. you think you're too good to just play the game? you need to play for "points" too? 2110
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 09/07/2023the beatles version of twist and shout is by far the best one because john lennon sounds like he's about to die and if you don't shake it up baby he's going to kill you 0100
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 08/07/2023sitting on the fast food patio morosely looking at birds thinking "stupid birds. you don't even have cognition." but then I remember: I also don't have cognition 1151
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 06/07/2023google search: j. alfred prufrock interpretation google search: ts eliot pants google search: do old men roll their trousers? google search: pants fashion 1880s google search: pants height fashion history google search: old men hot ankles? google search: old men high temperature ankles 3141
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 17/06/2023honestly if I was an ancient pagan I'd also give christians shit for their god being dead. it's just not a good way for a god to be 170
evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 27/05/2023bluesky is great cuz I open it up once a day, get caught up on the 4 posts the people I follow have made, and then shut it down 170
Reposted by evancordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 24/05/2023attention mmxs & mxssrs: please follow @beingandslime.bsky.social. thank you, that is all. 121
