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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 19h

they don't let you just say "yeah I didn't understand that part" in footnotes anymore and we're worse off for it

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump's trade nonsense is like if you combined girl math with mercantilism

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

something about being rich and famous for too long makes people start reasoning like pre-socratic philosophers and I think that's beautiful

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anytime I’m at an interdisciplinary faculty function I’m struck with how philosophy is kinda the Not Like Other Girls of academic disciplines

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Does anyone know what the norms are if one were to publish a public philosophy piece on an idea before actually writing a peer-reviewed journal article on the topic? Would you mention in the manuscript that you had first coined a certain term or idea in a public venue?

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

amazing that LLMs are (apparently) so bad at generating reliable reference lists when that's, like, the one part of paper writing that I wish a robot could do for me!! (yes I know zotero exists but the juice just doesn't seem worth the squeeze when I've tried to dabble in it)

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

one thing that sucks is that there are so few highly regarded journals in empirical phil mind-adjacent fields that I can't afford to tell [redacted] journal that I never want to referee for them again because of how shitty they've treated me as an author. only in my dreams!!

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unimportant, but: Does TAH think all highlighters are referred to as yellow highlighters regardless of color? Or do these dorks he's envisioning have six different shades of yellow in their highlighter collection?

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The APA's paper categories for submission are so rough... does philosophy of psychiatry fall under philosophy of science --> philosophy of cognitive science more than it does phil mind? Even if I approach phil of psychiatry from a kind of mind-y perspective?

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

anyone have suggestions for good/recent work on what it would take/mean for AI to be conscious for an undergrad phil mind course? cards on the table, I'm mainly hoping to find an accessible but serious piece that can disabuse them of the notion that current LLMs are or will be conscious lol

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Has anyone written about anorexic dog whistles? If not I'm worried I'm gonna have to be the one to do it... online discourse in formerly ED'd circles with the current Ariana Situation has brought up some really interesting things from an epistemic and normative perspective!

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I must have really made it if the platonic form of philosophy is emailing me to complete top secret missions!

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Been a while since I planned to submit something to an APA conference. Anyone have a sense of how much they let you abuse the footnote word count exclusion loophole? Asking for a friend whose straightforward paper is becoming increasingly non-straightforward...

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’ve said this before, but the issue with imposter syndrome is not that there’s chronic under confidence at large, it’s that it’s not optimally distributed

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A lot of jerks will smugly ask undergraduate philosophy majors ‘what are you gonna do with that?’ and it can be hard to know how to respond. One option, though, is ‘dress up marketing for AI firms as profound philosophy ahead of their IPOs’

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'm sorry, but it's just completely false that analytic philosophy (of all places!) has a norm that we shouldn't call each other names. Maybe we should have that norm. But we are, very famously, the one field that doesn't have that norm

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Genuine Q: Have we given up the fight on em dashes? I'm seeing more people saying they're just giving up on them altogether, but I legit don't know if I can manage that. Will I trigger reviewer alarms at this point if I continue to use them? Why couldn't LLMs have taken the semicolon instead ughh

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As someone who came super close to ending up at a Catholic institution numerous times on the market (likely due to my undergrad from Notre Dame, lol) it is SUCH a relief to not have to worry about whether my research or teaching will offend certain Catholic tastes ever again 😇

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you're curious why I feel so confident in making this claim, check out my new piece, "The Horseshoe Model of pathological loss of control", forthcoming in Mind & Language! philpapers.org/rec/EVATHM

philpapers.org

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There’s an argument to be made that it is, in some sense, unethical to buy tickets to see Ariana Grande perform in the current state she’s in. I don’t feel like fleshing out the whole thing rn, but it may be on par with (indirectly) enabling an addict to get their fix of choice.

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

not nearly enough janky diagrams like this in philosophy journals. we gotta step our game up

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

taking a page from the DNC and putting instructions in my will to perform a faux autopsy where they conclude I died from being too beautiful and nice

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

lot of this also stems from the societal fantasy that we can directly compare getting an A in an identically titled class at Place X and Place Y. As someone who's taught at a range of institutions, most of us are scaling the intensity of our coursework up or down depending on the student population!

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I know someone writing a hit piece on one of my papers is a good sign (means people are reading my work!), but, ngl, it does feel kinda weird that the first time for it to happen is by a senior (emerita!) person in my subfield. Do you know you're dunking on something I wrote in grad school lol

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

POV ~2 seconds after you post a v normal selfie on tumblr

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

One thing students often think about philosophy classes is that there’s no right answer, and while thats not literally true, it’s sorta in the neighborhood of something true. What they tend to overlook, though, is that there *are* lots of wrong answers

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

the job market version of this is having an equal proportion of search committees interviewing you being kinda annoyed at your work for being too sciencey/not "real" philosophy enough vs. being too philosophy-y/not sciencey enough

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

people like this also fail to consider the joy of an overpriced airport beer

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I need to know which of you sickos actually likes endnotes?? Why are we as a discipline continuing to allow this inhumane practice

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is where we’re at with my current job!! Counting the days

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

never been more proud to be an American, a true country of haters

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I am so incredibly excited to share that next fall I will be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College. I feel so insanely lucky that I landed such a great position AND that said position is in my hometown of St. Paul, MN!!!!!

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Some people don’t seem to know this but if your department is running an internal search you actually *don’t* need to advertise the job ad on your social media for your sham search to reach an even wider audience of suckers

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Eternal sunshine holds up btw

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Niche complaint: when you’re a small person the gate agents always think your carry on is bigger than it is because it looks bigger proportionally! Girl I know this is a regional jet but you let on several people with the same exact size suitcase before me without a pink tag I’m just small™️

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

When BL is posting "Abolish ICE" without any qualifiers you know things have gotten bad

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Anyone have any suggestions of topics for a 30-minute teaching demo in phil mind? I’m hoping to find a topic that could be accessible without being able to assign them any reading (or possibly a fairly short reading) and that would be conducive to discussion, small group work, etc.

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jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If only there were some role in society, a profession maybe, where someone could publicly, persistently ask leaders hard questions to make them explain themselves…

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Congrats to Mr. GRLpGpAG!

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

on the eve of october 15th, about time for my yearly sad musing where i try to add up all the wasted time and energy by all the super talented people who could be writing cool stuff and are instead writing a bunch of cover letters yet again

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Lowkey nostalgic for the days when the biggest hurdle in teaching undergrad ethics was cultural relativism

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This guy jumped on my laptop and managed to entirely delete the same footnote TWICE

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thanking my lucky stars I’m in a discipline where I get cold emailed treatises from someone called “God’s Joker” rather than brain scans from Very Impressive Boys

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I have officially fulfilled the promise I made to myself when I first watched this episode of LOST by not pulling a Jack Shepard and waiting until the night before the wedding to write my vows (5 days to go babyyy)

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The amount of feminist praxis I’ve performed at rural bars across the Midwest…

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Philosophers cannot be a part of ordinary society bar trivia :( (their metaphysics of disease is abysmal)

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

a st. paddy’s-drunk Welsh man at the bar yesterday informed me that it was imperative that my fiancé and I have child because he was “certain it would be the reincarnation of Karl Marx but with my ‘Disney princess eyes’”. Much to consider

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Just noticed a typo in the official typeset version of my article that definitely wasn’t in the proofs I sent to them 🙄 I know Synthese pumps em out fast but sheesh

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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I was invited to do a write up on my recent Synthese article for NWIP! This also marks the first time I've disclosed the personal significance of this topic in print, which was cool/scary to do. Check it out: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/amanda-eva...

newworkinphilosophy.substack.com

Amanda Evans (University of Pittsburgh), "Medical paternalism, anorexia nervosa, and the problem of pathological values"

Synthese, 2025

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