Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 15/08/2026in the room of the philosophers (ignore the tank top it was 36°) 110
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026do you think he knows this is where caesar was assassinated 020
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026braved the 38° heat to visit the forum and palatine hill this morning 000
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026for anyone else who goes they’re not expensive, you just have to buy them exactly 30 days (to the hour) before you want to go 000
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026managed to get attico tickets to the collosseum, which ironically are difficult to come by even though these would’ve been the worst seats for the spectators 231
Reposted by Declan O'GaraEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I wrote about how strange it is that we think so little of our senses of taste and smell, and about two novelists and a philosopher who do a great job of rectifying this wellreadherring.substack.com/p/perfume-bu...wellreadherring.substack.comPerfume, Butter, and the Philosophy of Taste and SmellThis article was originally published in The New World magazine on August 13, 2025. 97414
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026i read perfume recently and it was really fun to use a different part of my brain than a book would usually require 040
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 11/08/2026i came to rome for 1 litre beers and 1 litre beers only 390
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 10/08/2026first time flying tomorrow since becoming a doctor, hope they have some kind of mid-air moral dilemma they need help with 050
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 31/07/2026my experience on blue sky is that i only see the subskeets and never the original skeet 030
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026given the list of typos they gave me i think so 020
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Alas I cannot take credit for it, my supervisor came up with it a few years ago 010
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Yesterday I passed my viva with no corrections - I’m gonna be a doctor! 17591
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 08/07/2026is the lore behind count binface that it’s a mask and he has a giant head or that the bin *is* his actual head 020
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026this should clearly say ‘…*and* the vibes are worse!’ 110
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026maybe i’ll switch, supporting england in scotland is becoming untenable 030
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 10/06/2026i only started using it towards the end of my phd and can’t understand how i managed for so long 010
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 31/05/2026the idea that listening to a word doesn’t count as processing it is quite a take 060
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/05/2026this is my experience in the U.K. as well, or at least that people make both kinds of arguments as well as just pointing to the reasonably good projected earnings for phil graduates 130
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 28/05/2026be right back just gonna teach these nurses about the problems with quasi realism 150
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 27/05/2026marking these exams won’t kill me (it already has) 030
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 25/05/2026presumably wemby partly avoids falling for injury reasons 110
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 22/05/2026yeah it’s really quite mad, part of it is that they decided to add a bike lane last minute when doing the tram tracks. In some places they have a bus stop on an island next to a bike lane so you can exit a bus straight into bike traffic 000
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 22/05/2026this kind of thing is especially bad on leith walk where many of the crossings have pavement on them creating a dangerous level of confusion about who has the right of way 110
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 21/05/2026My paper ‘Defensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail’ is now out open access in phil studies! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comDefensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail - Philosophical StudiesDebunking arguments in metaethics are generally viewed as arguments against moral realism. In this paper, I distinguish these kinds of arguments, which I label offensive debunking arguments, from defe... 062
Reposted by Declan O'GaraCat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAEphilpapers.orgCatharine Saint-Croix, Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology - PhilPapersThe Advantage Thesis is the centerpiece of standpoint epistemology. According to this thesis, standpoint occupants—those who bear a particular sort of epistemically fruitful relationship to marginaliz... 14314
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026my hot take is that wes streeting should not be prime minister 040
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026is this a good time for me to start skeeting about politics 120
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026My paper ‘On Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory’ is now out open access in Philosophia! rdcu.be/fihkErdcu.beOn Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory 082
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 07/05/2026make sure you get out there and (support your local error theorist submitting his thesis today) 060
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026i reckon if you’re at the point where you’ve come up with a scale for this you’ve probably gone wrong somewhere 011
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026i’ve been in scotland for too long because i read this as ‘old firm’ and then got very confused 010
Reposted by Declan O'GaraKate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May! With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-... 02511
Reposted by Declan O'GaraHane @hane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026my paper "Canonic Counterpoint as a Philosophical Practice: Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque Musical Composition", is now published in Philosophical Psychology! this particular paper means a lot to me for a couple of reasons ... (1/4) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comCanonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque musical compositionIn an essay entitled “Schopenhauer’s Flute and Descartes’s Lute” (2024), Helen De Cruz asks: “what can musical practice tell us about philosophy?” The present paper offers an answer to this questio... 28717
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 04/05/2026they are comparatively expensive, but I have recently stayed seeing these vegan cream eggs in the shops vegantown.co.uk/products/chu...vegantown.co.ukChuckie Egg by Mummy Meegz 38gThe perfect plant based alternative to the popular Cadbury classic! Chuckie Eggs are delicious fondant-filled vegan creme eggs from Mummy Meagz. 150
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 04/05/2026this is an excellent ‘got to finish my phd’ album 010
Reposted by Declan O'GaraAmie Thomasson @amiethomasson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Here is my latest paper. Thanks to St. Andrews, it's open access. I hope some people find it of interest. Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language - Thomasson - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comMetaethics and the Functions of Moral LanguageMetaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still... 0183
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/04/2026i did think perhaps i’d seen other british people spell it judgment. either way i had used both so needed to pick one 010
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/04/2026stupid American word processor ruining my evening 120
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/04/2026just peeped that I've spelled judgement wrong 170 times in my thesis 150
Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 28/04/2026literally the second before i was going to submit it removed all my edits 🙃 000