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Dan Speak

@danspeak.bsky.social
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LMU Philosopher. Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Evil (The problem of), Faith, Hope, Intellectual Virtues in Higher Ed. LMU Intellectual Character Initiative: academics.lmu.edu/ici lmu.academia.edu/DanielSpeak

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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) is also available to you. Willem effing Dafoe up in there.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
give the… people… what they want.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This takes me back. Well done.
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jalylah @jalylah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My department is hiring -> Open Rank Professor in African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Deadline is November 1. lmu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
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Open Rank Professor in African American Studies
Who We Are The Department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a Carnegie-classified R2 institution in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks outstand...
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.andrewmbailey.com/wpa/BeliefAc... philpapers.org/archive/HOWT... (You gotta wade through the Christ-y stuff but the points about belief and acceptance are modular and extractable, I judge).
andrewmbailey.com
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good! Yes I have and I think of acceptance roughly like William Alston outlines, where (unlike belief) it can be under my voluntary control, can lack the phenomenology of the prop “feeling true”, etc. So, yes, I’m inclined to endorse acceptance without belief if the other elements are in place.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really looking forward to seeing how this comes out! I suspect I believe some of the views I have defended— say, non-skepticism about knowledge and moral objectivity. But I doubt I believe most of my philosophical positions.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This gap between the two of you might be narrower than you’re feeling. After all, one might need to be loved but deserve hate. I hope this helps with your Morrissey intimacy.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Louder for the folks in back, Johnny Locke.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very similar case for myself. Optometrist told me I have beautiful macula. It’s on my cv now.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How does the food look?
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A thing of beauty (and potency)!!
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I know this parenthetical feeling of relief too. Thankful for transparent lucky white mediocrity.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think you are forgetting about the meta-moral goodness properties that describe the objective priority relations among the moral goodness properties.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If someone can write this: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... and not be an expert, then I’ve lost my grip on expertise.
dissentmagazine.org
The Odyssey Belongs to All of Us - Dissent Magazine
In many ways, Christopher Nolan’s film is not a faithful adaptation. But it takes seriously both what the text is doing and how it has been read since. Why, then, have Emily Wilson and other scholars ...
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Masterful, sincerely.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It really is great!
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thanks for the pointer to this! Just read it and have fallen in love!
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On getting stuck, from time to time, in a Borges short story:
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Harry Frankfurt in the house.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"The dedication and sustained energy that go into true perspicacity and expertise were exhausting even to think about." (Hal Incandenza, in Infinite Jest).
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wow. Thanks for the junior high dance flash-back. (And also for the provocation to reflect on whether “rick springfield avers…” is a unique token utterance).
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oof. I remember it well. Vaya con Dios, pops.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Atlantis?
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
President Camacho endorses this message.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You can count on me.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Super cool!
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Already SOP for me. Highly recommended.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Yup. Sent one of those proofs to a Math friend to confirm it looked like a real advance. He thinks so. Trying to update my credences accordingly (but not liking it).
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Whoa!!
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 28/07/2026
A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy
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Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I found Sarah Rose compelling here: bsky.app/profile/thes... But how to weigh against “astronomical privacy concerns”? Shoulder shrug.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is the only that’s gotten my moral axiologisl attention.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A tricky initial implicature in those first sentences. But a fun turn; and glad to get the good word about this work.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My phronimos!
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Agree to disagree.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
static.klipy.com
There She Go There Goes My Baby
Alt: Image of Usher declaring, “these are my confessions.”
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Did I forget to sign that review? Shoot, it looks like I did. My apologies. (More seriously, sorry dude. But glad you can have some fun with it).
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I strongly suspect that Healthline’s experts have massively under-estimated my antecedent determinations of dangerousness.
healthline.com
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A viral new trend known as “ballmaxxing” has men injecting fluids like saline into their testicles to increase their size, but experts warn it could lead to permanent damage. Here's what you should kn...
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’ll allow it.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Verify that, Freddie.”
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Welcome to socialism…
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sheesh. I work on the problem of evil. So… I think I can smell what you are cooking here.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I receive it.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Laughing… to keep myself from crying.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Posted now, one supposes, for no particular jurisprudential reason.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Welcome to the club, fellas.
scientificamerican.com
Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm
Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A tad tiresome, though, when it does so by complete enumeration.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Maybe for the best. Just get it out of the way. They are coming for me eventually; no reason to draw it out. Same vibes here as @lorispeak.bsky.social who is dedicated simply to letting the velociraptors catch her immediately in any Jurassic Park scenario. Too exhausting staving off the inevitable.
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Dan Speak @danspeak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A nice extension (and expanded image) of: www.lottocracy.org
lottocracy.org
LOTTOCRACY
A website for the book Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections published by Oxford University Press. Includes an introduction to lottocracy, events, audio/video, and connections to others working on s...
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