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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino

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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i reviewed steven nadler's latest book, which is the most sustained version of his argument that spinoza was an atheist to date i'm somewhat unconvinced; if you'd like to know why, go ahead and click through! philosophersmag.com/spinoza-athe...
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Spinoza, Atheist? - The Philosophers' Magazine
Stephen Harrop is not persuaded by Steven Nadler’s argument that Spinoza was an atheist.
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
against my deepest desires and fondest wishes, i once again find myself in boston
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
it's real and it's spectacular
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
i wish all the people reacting to arxiv's decision by saying it's bad to expect people to read everything they cite a very pleasant commendatore scene from don giovanni
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
if you wanna read a (draft and still under review) manuscript of my cambridge element on the spinoza-boyle correspondence, you're in luck! you can do so here: philpapers.org/rec/HARTSC-16
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Stephen Harrop, The Spinoza-Boyle Correspondence - PhilPapers
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
manuscript done time for ruthless editing
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
was a panelist for a viva with a presentation component and the presentation was full of ``it's not just X it's Y'' sentences
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
dispatches from the midwest
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
y'all ever wonder if they'd say ``surely you are right socrates'' to try to get him to shut the hell up
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
god made the midwest to train the faithful
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
no no, *my* feelings of disgust and revulsion carve the joints of the moral universe, *your* feelings of disgust are mere arational impulses bred into you by evolutionary and social pressures which you then mistakenly reify
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
want to read papers by nine excellent scholars and some weirdo on the thought of emilie du chatelet? you're in luck! the new bloomsbury companion is now out www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...
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Bloomsbury Collections
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
the absolute GALL of peter to put this in a throwaway line at the end of a chapter
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
inference to the best explanation? oh you mean adding as many ad hoc epicycles in order to save some preferred phenomenon?
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
other things aside there are two practical problems with this (i) depraved heart murder requires the committing of a ``dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved,'' and demonstrating this in cases i suppose qt has in mind would be prohibitive
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
read your lady some poetry before bed lads, cannot recommend it enough (this might well work for your lads as well, and for a lady's lady, i simply have no data there, but it won't hurt to try!)
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
checking in on small town missouri where my folks live and oh oh no
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
lfg
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
this is a risible disgrace, and i hope martin sues and wins damages to permanently immiserate every single one of the craven obsequious censors involved www.thefire.org/news/texas-a...
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Texas A&M to philosophy professor: Nix Plato or be reassigned
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson has a choice: Drop readings related to race and gender — including ones by Plato — from his course, or face reassignment.
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
i'll be around-ish for the eastern apa next week so if anyone wants me to come heckle then or something lmk
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
periodic reminder that God made the midwest to train the faithful
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
mom appears to have a carcinoma in situ on her back she'll get it removed in january, and the prognosis is excellent, but prayers are appreciated nonetheless
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
dawn be out here being rhododactylic today
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
happy wakey wakey hessians day
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
merry christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
perfect
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
whenever i'm down i go watch the moth joke again because it's basically impossible to be sad during this segment youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo?...
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Norm McDonald - Moth Joke [napisy PL]
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
YES, HA HA HA, YES! philpapers.org/rec/DORBCT
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Kevin Dorst, Bayesians Commit the Gambler's Fallacy - PhilPapers
The gambler's fallacy is the tendency to expect random processes to switch more often than they actually do---for example, to assign a higher probability to heads after a streak of tails. ...
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
gradually becoming radicalized into the opinion that spinoza was much more influenced by classical philosophy than by descartes
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
it has finally happened a journal has asked me to review one of my own papers
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
teaching the bit of _philosophical explanations_ about the meaningfulness of life this week and i am yet again struck by how unfortunate it is that nozick was largely pigeonholed as the anarchy state and utopia guy
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
because my adhd is too powerful instead of continuing on my current fantasy project i started a new one
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
this is an interesting paper but its framing (that davidson introduced the principle of charity) is just mistaken philpapers.org/rec/VERTSA-19
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Claudine Verheggen & Robert H. Myers, The Status and the Scope of the Principle of Charity - PhilPapers
The principle of charity was first introduced by Donald Davidson as an essential ingredient of radical interpretation, that is, as a principle that needs to be followed in order to interpret ...
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
the original one punch man
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It Begins
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
grading a student essay and they appear to have lifted a few passages, with cosmetic adjustments and no attribution, from a journal article one of MY OWN ARTICLES
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
we like being persnickety don't we folks, it's our favorite thing to be (pardon the typos)
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
interested in hearing great big nerds nerds talk about spinoza next year? you're in luck, check out the line-up!
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
almost as much as ethics, the treatise on the emendation of the intellect just endlessly rewards re-reading and re-returning to it
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
in an unexpected but welcome development, i got to translate a (very) little virgil for my spinoza book (a bit from the georgics)
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
broke: the norman conquest shows the superiority of french over english martial prowess woke: the norman conquest shows that not even the yoke can suppress albion forever bespoke: the norman conquest shows that, ultimately, the only way to conquer england is to be a norseman
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
if you had told little fresher bourbaki ``physics is the study of different sorts of lagrangians'' he would've laughed however,
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
tutoring electrodynamics has been a fun way to return to the subject forgot how much i liked it!
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
gm lads
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N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino @d08890.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
you must be hobbit-travel-maxxing
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