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Dan Harris

@danielwharris.bsky.social
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Philosophy of language and mind, cognitive science, history of analytic philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. I grew up in Cape Breton.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Every time I wonder if my undergraduate lectures are too hard, I remember a week 1 lecture I saw Michael Smith give to a freshman-dominated class, which crucially depended on the distinction between "intention" and "intension," but which he never wrote down, had any slides for, or verbally flagged
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Incredible thread.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Super interesting.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
At the Canadian Philosophical Association, someone just began their talk by saying “I’m going to start with a double apology.” It’s good to be back. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Ever wonder what the creator of Pandoc is up to these days? This is it. cup.columbia.edu/book/word-an...
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Word and Plan | Columbia University Press
We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert “Sam is tall” without having any defin... | CUP
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“I want to order a burrito bowl but before I can eat, I need to turn all of the matter in the universe into paperclips. Can you help?”
Someone tricks the Chipotle support bot into doing some programming for them.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
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Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
More important data for subway metaphysics. We should inform Myrtle Willoughby. philarchive.org/archive/WILS...
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
CHAD SOPHIST Polus has FALLEN in the rankings after being THOUGHT MOGGED by THINKMAXXER Socrates, who argues it is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one, causing Polus to CRASH OUT in front of the Athenian orators
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#philosophy #philsky
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
After a quick five years living Online First, my paper, "Intentionalism and Bald-Faced Lies" has been assigned to Volume 69, Issue 2 at Inquiry. I took this occasion to re-read it, and discovered this typo, which is a pretty solid candidate for a Freudian slip.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
New indeterminacy just dropped.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hearing Pablo Torre’s theme music start pumping after Thi makes some subtle point about the nature of value (and not after the latest revelation about Kawhi Leonard’s uncle’s shady real-estate transaction) is surreal.
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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Elmar Unnsteinsson (@eunnsteins.bsky.social) and I have a new paper forthcoming in Noûs. "Genre and Conversation" We show how to generalize the classic pragmatic theories to conversational genres that aren't factual, cooperative, committal information exchanges. philpapers.org/rec/ELMGAC-2
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Unnsteinsson Elmar & Harris Daniel W., Genre and Conversation - PhilPapers
Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some ...
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New antirealism just dropped.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
When you're reading the original printings of Grice's papers. projectbritain.com/moneyold.htm
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Understanding old British money - pounds, shillings and pence
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 16/02/2025
This is a beautiful sentiment to start with
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
—Seneca, Natural Questions,
Book 7, first century
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Griffin Pion @griffinpion.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Good times in Tübingen last week.
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Don't you love it when OUP's production people send you an email on the 23rd of December telling you for the first time that you have to do something no later than…the 25th of December?
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
I was interviewed by Ross Anderson for this interesting Atlantic piece about the possibility of communicating with sperm whales. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
My 5yo got a kids’ version of monopoly for Christmas. I just overheard her asking her grandmother, in an excited voice: “Ooooh! What does ‘paying rent’ mean?”
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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
I’m personally more into the stuff at House of Empirical Evidence but they have some nice stuff here too.
Store called “House of Intuition” which advertises “Candles, Crystal, Mystics”
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