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Declan O'Gara

@declanogara.bsky.social
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friendly neighbourhood moral error theorist philosophy phd student at edinburgh university philpeople.org/profiles/declan-o-ga… he/him

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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
in the room of the philosophers (ignore the tank top it was 36°)
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
do you think he knows this is where caesar was assassinated
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
braved the 38° heat to visit the forum and palatine hill this morning
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
for 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
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
managed 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
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I 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...
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Perfume, Butter, and the Philosophy of Taste and Smell
This article was originally published in The New World magazine on August 13, 2025.
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i read perfume recently and it was really fun to use a different part of my brain than a book would usually require
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
with the lads
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i came to rome for 1 litre beers and 1 litre beers only
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
first time flying tomorrow since becoming a doctor, hope they have some kind of mid-air moral dilemma they need help with
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
my experience on blue sky is that i only see the subskeets and never the original skeet
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
given the list of typos they gave me i think so
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alas I cannot take credit for it, my supervisor came up with it a few years ago
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yesterday I passed my viva with no corrections - I’m gonna be a doctor!
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
is the lore behind count binface that it’s a mask and he has a giant head or that the bin *is* his actual head
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
this should clearly say ‘…*and* the vibes are worse!’
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
maybe i’ll switch, supporting england in scotland is becoming untenable
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
we’ve arrived for FrankMeta
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
how does one even pack for this
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
i only started using it towards the end of my phd and can’t understand how i managed for so long
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
the idea that listening to a word doesn’t count as processing it is quite a take
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
league title doesn’t even really count now
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
this 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
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
be right back just gonna teach these nurses about the problems with quasi realism
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
marking these exams won’t kill me (it already has)
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
presumably wemby partly avoids falling for injury reasons
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
yeah 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
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
this 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
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My 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...
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Defensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail - Philosophical Studies
Debunking 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...
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Cat 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/SAIZAE
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Catharine Saint-Croix, Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology - PhilPapers
The 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...
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
my hot take is that wes streeting should not be prime minister
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
is this a good time for me to start skeeting about politics
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My paper ‘On Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory’ is now out open access in Philosophia! rdcu.be/fihkE
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On Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
excellent opening paragraph it has to be said
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
make sure you get out there and (support your local error theorist submitting his thesis today)
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
i reckon if you’re at the point where you’ve come up with a scale for this you’ve probably gone wrong somewhere
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
i’ve been in scotland for too long because i read this as ‘old firm’ and then got very confused
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
not if i have my way
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Final proof read before I submit
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
my 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....
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Canonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque musical composition
In 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...
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
they are comparatively expensive, but I have recently stayed seeing these vegan cream eggs in the shops vegantown.co.uk/products/chu...
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Chuckie Egg by Mummy Meegz 38g
The perfect plant based alternative to the popular Cadbury classic! Chuckie Eggs are delicious fondant-filled vegan creme eggs from Mummy Meagz.
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
this is an excellent ‘got to finish my phd’ album
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Amie Thomasson @amiethomasson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Here 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/...
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Metaethics 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...
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
is this too on the nose
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
i did think perhaps i’d seen other british people spell it judgment. either way i had used both so needed to pick one
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
thank god for control F
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
stupid American word processor ruining my evening
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
just peeped that I've spelled judgement wrong 170 times in my thesis
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
literally the second before i was going to submit it removed all my edits 🙃
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