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Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 15h

New paper forthcoming in Philstudies: There Can Be No Dispute Quick Pitch: You can make arguments from disagreement without disagreement. Contextualists defenses, including appeal to metalinguistic negotiation, are neutralized. Thread: philpapers.org/rec/SKETCB-2

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really cool paper; great example of how different methods and ideas from linguistics and philosophy of language can be brought together to ask a great question and explore some very interesting answers

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in the dept we learned that if you explain Vann McGee’s counterexample to modus ponens three times, Vann appears

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we've always had the secret hack of 'cheating'. You could, in principle, pay a qualified human to fully write your materials for you. If you see what's wrong with that, apply that reasoning to using genAI for this. If you see nothing wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you.

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The clout analytic philosophy used to have

From Sander Verhaegh’s new book on logical positivism: And the logical positivists were even connected to Beatles mania when John Lennon and his friends started conquering the United States. The Press Telegram ran an article titled "Beatles Take Note: Logical Positivism Put to Music" when Elisabeth Lutyens released a record featuring passages from the Tractatus; and a local Missouri newspaper reported that someone graffitied "The Beatles are Logical Positivists!" on the outside wall of a Pennsylvania train station.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan

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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Further evidence that only philosophers should be allowed to write press releases (which would have the salutary effect of eliminating press releases)

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One thing interesting to hear about from the history of 20th century philosophy is that people used to publish articles in prestigious journals *about* conferences. Like, “I went to such and such conference; the trends were x; the vibes were y.” I think that’s kinda cool, bring it back

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve been digging into this recently and it is quite enjoyable in addition to being genuinely illuminating. Lucidly written, fascinating material. Super great if you’re at all interested in the recent-ish history of philosophy and/or science.

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

Noûs is a cool journal name, obviously, but i feel like it could be fancier, to really emphasize that it's a fancy journal. maybe something like Ñöûš

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper! “Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways” is now forthcoming in Noûs. It’s been a really fun paper to write and I’m stoked to share it.

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

tell all memoir by southern philosopher of mind titled “reckoning with belief”

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

MIT’s new library search engine having a hard time with analytic philosophy cases

ARTICLE
Reference and Definite Descriptions
1966
Donnellan, Keith S.
Source: Articles, Books & More
In: The Philosophical Review, 1966-07, Vol.75 (3), p.281--304
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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For anyone who enjoys thinking about the formats of mental representation: I found this paper from Rodrigo Garro-Rivero to be thought-provoking! philpapers.org/rec/GARACA-19

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Out today! elifesciences.org/articles/111... @elife.bsky.social

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Dan Harris @danielwharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well as usual I think that Grice knew something that many others didn’t.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

if everyone had recognized that most words are polysemous we'd just have got *more* analytic philosophy. it can't be stopped

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Young Wittgenstein, being shown out of the fly bottle for the first time

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

this guy seems like a super genius language understander. let's set up a whole research program where we try to discern the meaning of his cryptic remarks about how language works

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line

We speak of birds singing. When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn't singing. Finally someone said to me, "All right, don't call it singing, call it something else"
'. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Inside you, there are n analytic philosophers (for some n>0)

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cheers to everyone writing their own papers today. ☕

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

To stay motivated, every morning I go to the mirror and say

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Whitehead when Quine was a grad student: “Willard, there is a difference between a draft and undetached draft parts”

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How do people live with lying? I accidentally misidentified a fish to a random guy at a park and it’s been troubling me all day

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Akshan deAlwis @adealwis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

food label: all natural ingredients! philosophical naturalist, brow furrowing: what’s the alternative, twinkie dualism?

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

listen, i'm not here to tell you about quine. you already know about quine. either he lives in your heart or he doesn't

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Philosophers, we need your help We are running a study on philosophers’ intuitions about thought experiments moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/ Only takes a few minutes!

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The worst use/mention disaster you’ve ever seen

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Lots of lessons about conditionals here

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Continental breakfast is nice and all, but have you ever tried a hearty *analytic* breakfast?

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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 26/06/2026

6 year old son convinced me sun is a living thing.

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As a grad student, allow me to share ONE WEIRD TRICK to having a philosophical research program: just be able to be annoyed by something and let it become your whole life

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Loud rooms with lots of people trying to talk are such a prisoner’s dilemma

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If you were invited to do a Philosophy Talk at a High School, to speak about a subject that should blow the kids' minds and make them want to study Philosophy: 1. What would you talk about? And, most importantly 2. Are you really confident in your ability to be *understood and liked* by teenagers?

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is true but Kenneth is being misleading: every day at MIT philosophy is corner quote day

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Drove on one French King Highway today, big news for philosophy of language

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Been watching an old legal show lately and thinking it would be kinda fun in philosophy Q&As if the chair got to say “objection; asked and answered” or “this line of questioning is irrelevant”

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Are there notable correlations between hobbies and AOSes in philosophy? Like, is a philosopher of biology more likely to be stoked to look for tiny salamanders with me than the average epistemologist?

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I would like a poll on academic philosophers to see how many of us are already prone to talking to ourselves when no one is around

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Got to mess around with some Greek the other day because I want to slip an Aristotle reference into one of my papers. It was fun, made me a little sad I don’t generally have sufficient reason to do that sort of thing (given time constraints etc)

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