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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ham salad stuffed peeps. Soft, sweet, salty, meaty.

Two stuffed pink bunny peeps on a rectangular plate.

One pink bunny peep, face down, stuffed with ham salad.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 15/03/2026

He was reading Adam Smith before it was cool

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Submissions (< 10,000 words) invited for 2026 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics. Topic Celebrating 300th anniversary of 3rd ed. Newton’s Principia. www.duchateletprize.org Winner will receive $1000, workshop & SHPS pub Open to grad students & w/in 5 yrs PhD Deadline September 1, 2026 #HPS

Portrait of Emile Du Chatelet at desk with books, compass, armillary sphere (source: Wiki)

Titlepage and frontispiece of the third edition Newton's Principia (source Wiki)

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy to announce that the book I wrote with Ahmed Alwishah on the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World is finally out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 20/02/2025

Who wants to play a game of 'Prescription Drug or Syllogistic Mood'? Datisi Entresto Lyrica Barbari Januvia Dupixent Felapton Dimaris

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I tried reading it in grad school (with an eye to figuring out whether or not to give it to teen relatives) and hated it. But maybe I was not yet old enough to enjoy reading young again at that point!

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list, Matt Strohl's *Why it is OK to Love Bad Movies*. #philosophybookgiftlist

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list, Cowling and Cray's *Philosophy of Comics*.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list: @carriejenkins.bsky.social's *What Love is--and What it Could Be?*

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list Conee and Sider's *Riddles of Existence*.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list: Carol Hay's *Think like a Feminist*.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Also on the list: @nickriggle.bsky.social's *On Being Awesome* and *This Beauty*.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A few years ago, I gave my then 14 year old nephew @aaronjames.bsky.social's *Assholes: A Theory*. So that is already on my list.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

WANTED: a list of philosophy or philosophy adjacent books that make good gifts to interested non-philosophers. #philsky

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Presumably they took themselves to be gods as well!

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And, more generally, is there more to this history of treating this passage as an instance of the Liar? Anything that might help connect it to al-Baghdadi, who, several centuries later, uses the Liar as a counterexample to the Manichaean position on agency?

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My question: Is this view of agency something folks like Origen and Jerome develop elsewhere, or is this just a one-off interpretative move applied to this passage?

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That is more or less exactly the view attributed to the Manichaeans by their early Islamic critics, like al-Nazzam: every created agent is either of the light, and so always tells the truth, or of the dark, and so always lies. #manichaeism

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Origen and Jerome argue that, if David were a man, then, by saying this, he would have said something both true and false. To avoid this, they claim that David, being holy, is a god and not a man. They then assert that what David said is true: gods always tell the truth, and men always lie.

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I have a question for folks well-versed on early church father #theology, about Psalm 116:11, where David says, "Every man is a liar". #liarparadox #philsky.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

FB reminding me of all the IMPORTANT things in life:

Screenshot from FB: Sara L. Uckelman, November 19, 2020: Today is International Toilet Day, International Men's Day, and the World Philosophy DAy. If that doesn't sum up everything about the state of my discipline, I don't know what does.

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you're interested in philosophical debates about slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries, please check out my recent books! You can get 30% off by using promotion code AAFLYG6 on global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Special Issue on The Futures of Trans Philosophy is excellent, open access, and features new work by Ray Briggs, Capucine Mercier, Sanjula Rajat, Billie Waller, and Perry Zurn! Many thanks to Imogen M. Sullivan and Rowan Bell for editing. cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonlin...

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just a close up of Bjarki living his best life. #dog #corgi

A tricolor corgi standing in front of flowers on a sunny day

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

I made it! Now I can see all of your Canadian news links!

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Gabriele Contessa @gabecontessa.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Philosophers on Bluesky: Let's play a game! Explain your current research project in one skeet. I'll start in the replies below. (Please feel free to reskeet(?) or reply to this skeet as you see fit and hopefully this will help more of us to connect here).

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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Within the Islamic world prior to 1500, some folks say weird things about the Liar Paradox, some folks say neat things about the Liar Paradox, but al-Dawani is the only one to say something plausible about the Liar Paradox.

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