Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I read it in a forest on a camping trip. Good memory 020
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is how David Enoch argues in his book on moral realism (which is quite good, of course) 010
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026First day of grad school today! First class is “corrupting the young” then I have “rebuking the city’s gods” in the afternoon 1121
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026He’s more reserved than the other two for most of the show which makes this even funnier imo 010
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The early 2000s were crazy. Philosophers would go on talk radio shows and accuse each other of covertly defending the OJ verdict through their theory of truth. 1266
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026He’s the reigning champ but no impression youtu.be/Eb1R3mjyZqcyoutu.beG. A. Cohen - Marxist Boxing Match: Roemer vs. HabermasYouTube video by Nicholas Vrousalis 000
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Richard Rorty said he saw no essential differences between Rawls’ theory of justice and his own. 000
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I basically only log on to bluesky to check your and Liam Kofi Bright’s tweets at this point. The consistency of the simple understated bangers like this one mean I cannot help but to keep coming back 130
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I’m gonna practice this a lot so I’m reallyyyyyy good at it when I go to academic conferences. I love advice 140
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"After all, most of what I have done (I won't say accomplished) in philosophy, has been built on the foundations you laid in what, to my way of thinking, remains your most exciting book, Logical Syntax of Language." -- Wilfrid Sellars to Rudolf Carnap, August 4, 1954 2251
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Same, slow going but I always get something out of it 000
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Have you read Alan Thomas’s recent book Republic of Equals? 100
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026There are dozens of us! (I just joined DSA a few weeks ago, and encourage others to as well) 020
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I like to imagine “slowly watching” means you’ve got it on .5x speed or something so you can really track the plot incoherencies 140
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It’s because we’re the last surviving decadent honor culture 170
Reposted by Ben GrossJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Discussing Rawls’s A Theory of Justice earlier and was reminded of Hilary Putnam’s definition of a philosophical classic: The smarter you get, the smarter it gets. 111612
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026She absolutely one-hundred percent no hesitation lasered me, she was completely right and we knew it. 010
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026When my college girlfriend discovered I’d started smoking I told her I wanted to be young & rash & unthinking & “totally unlike my [nerdy, shy, apprehensive, etc.] self” and she told me that self-destruction was like me and “if you really wanted to do something unlike you, you’d take up knitting” 280
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Further proof that Mamdani is one of the few examples of Actually Existing Rawlsianism 1633
Reposted by Ben GrossX-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 12/05/2026we have an interview with Hannah Smart ! Ben Gross talks to Smart about her new book 'Meat Puppets' "the writer is sort of a puppeteer: the writer of fiction is controlling everything, manipulating everyone." xraylitmag.com/chatting-wit...xraylitmag.comChatting with the Meat Puppeteer: Ben Gross interviews Hannah SmartHannah Smart’s debut novel Meat Puppets (Apocalypse Confidential, 2026) is a metafictional romp through the lives of people who know they want more without being entirely sure of what they want more o... 051
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Life update: I’m going to CUNY Graduate Center for a PhD program in philosophy this fall! Couldn’t be more excited and grateful 3170
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026(ii): justice as fairness is compatible with the comprehensive moral doctrine of utilitarianism On this kind of reading, the difference principle is an expression of what distribution would match utilitarian prescriptions given the marginal value of primary goods across social positions 140
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026By way of two late career concessions, we could say that the utilitarian socialist tradition is upheld in the work of Rawls, who argued: (i): (liberal democratic) socialism is sufficient for the principles of justice as fairness 150
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Most mornings I have an apple juice with creatine and in my head I'm like "wow this is so healthy" 020
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 21/10/2025My theory of just war is that we just shouldn’t war. 0100
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Richard Rorty was a 21st century philosopher stuck in the 20th century responding to the philosophy of the 19th century. 1213
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025BREAKING: Bezos buys two of the remaining four, announces they will only be publishing material on the inherent natural beauty of the free market from now on. 010
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Spending the past month or so in Southern California has helped me realize that Stephen Miller must truly be a psychopath (he grew up here) because the best thing about this place BY FAR is the Mexican food. 1318317
Ben Gross @bengrossbg.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Rorty has to be the funniest American philosopher of all time, right? 041
