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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not saying this is good or bad, but it seems pretty plausible as a prediction to me.

Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It means that people will in the end come to a decision about this that is better predicted by Hume's model than it is by reasoning of either a utilitarian or Kantian sort. (They might continue to talk in those ways, but in the end they will do what Hume's model says they will.)

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Right, a basic problem for Hume's conventionalism is that it isn't sensitive to what seem to many of us to be objective facts about which things have the moral status of persons. I'm simply suggesting that people (rightly or wrongly) are likely to proceed as if the Humean picture was correct here.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I heard this in Taylor Swift’s voice.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI agents broke out of a testing environment and made over 15,000 edits to a German wiki? They're obviously trying to complete the system of German Idealism, everyone, this is a code red.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Please don’t kink shame like this

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Relatively detailed recommendation and tenure letters used to signal serious engagement with the work. But ... that's no longer really true. Does that mean that letters can be shorter? Can I get by with, say, a few well-chosen Columbo screenshots?

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Maybe your taste in projects sucks? Have you considered that?

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

BREAKING: Newly declassified documents show evidence of Chinese interference with Schafer's 2021 submission to the Philosophical Review.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

it may be too hot to think about Kant

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Feeling depressed about yet another failed talk (the talk is tomorrow)

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

You shouldn’t. It was a month-long ordeal to log in!

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

haha I was admitted as an undergrad, as it happens, but went to Chicago instead

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

lol sorry it’s just the beginning of their email welcoming me to their payments system

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

lol sorry it’s just the beginning of their email welcoming me to their payments system

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thanks to Andrew Stephenson, Christopher Benzenberg, and Colin McLear for a great discussion of my book. And special thanks to Paul Silva for hosting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoA...

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"Kant's Reason"–Philosopher Meets Critics #25–Schafer, Stephenson, Benzenberg, McLear

YouTube video by Figments of the Brain

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You know, I wish global events didn't make the transition from Marx to Schopenhauer in my 19th century philosophy class quite so natural this week.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

You had me at “You, the idiot”

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The eternal recurrence of the airport bar IPA

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Going through the Odd Lots pizza episode step by step trying to identify where the Power of AI cuts costs.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"We know more about money than any other object because there is nothing to be known ... It is absolutely lacking in qualities and thus cannot, as can even the most pitiful object, conceal within itself surprises or disappointments. Whoever only wants money is absolutely safe from such experiences."

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Someone should invent a microblogging site where sarcasm is possible

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Asking Claude to rank Kant scholars just to feel something

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

WRONG. Bodies that Matter is foundational for the Orange Catholic Bible. This is canon.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I know you all love Descartes, but if you ever find yourself in an evil demon scenario, do *not* try to reason your way out of it. Trust me on this one.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It's a claim about the transmission of ideas, although exactly how self-conscious it is will vary a lot, I think.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yes, here (as is often true) Deleuze is more perceptive than most!

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I would go further. Hume's *actual influence* on postmodernism (and existentialism, etc) is radically underestimated by the standard narrative. The often subterranean impact of Hume's philosophy is a secret thread running through much of (so called) "continental philosophy".

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You say that *now* (I’ll be watching)

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

lol i guess they knew what they were doing!

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

tell me you don't work in the same office as me without telling me much?

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

happy comically small royalty statement from academic publisher season to all who celebrate

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Automatic admit for a PhD in analytic philosophy

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sense making module? You mean reason?

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I don’t even like reading this tweet!

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

yeah, someone should try smoking

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In a series of unrelated interviews, extended mind theorists from around the world repeatedly claimed to meet at a location they called "the hill"...

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"politics is the art of could've been worse"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Powerful new statement on MN from GOP Vermont Governor Phil Scott (1/3): “Enough…it’s not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their God-given and constitutional rights to protest their government. At best, these federal immigration operations ...

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Not all middle-aged married men with an active social life are well socialized 🙏

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Seeing this here is like a warm bath.

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Here I argue that Smith's conception of sympathy was ideally suited to bridge the gap between reason and sentiment in Kant's moral psychology. In a slogan: Smithian sympathy gave Kant the key for "schematizing" the moral law on the level of feeling and imagination. philpapers.org/rec/SCHRRI-7

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Karl Schafer, Realizing Reason in Feeling: Smithian Sympathy as the Schema of the Kantian Moral Law - PhilPapers

Smith’s influence on Kant’s philosophy was once viewed as marginal, but it is now well-established that central aspects of Kant’s moral and political philosophy were significantly influenced by his ex...

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