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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm reading Anne Conway this weekend for class, so here's my contribution to bsky's philosophy and AI debates: The computer has a soul. Why? Because everything has a soul, because only spirit is metaphysically fundamental and matter is nothing but the privation of spirit.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 17/08/2026

Today I got to watch my first undergrad mentee, Tessa Brunnenmeyer, SUCCESSFULLY defend her dissertation! Hers is a fascinating & timely project on Margaret Cavendish, philosophical genre, & early science/humanities discussions. It was awesome. Congratulations Dr. Brunnenmeyer!

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Anetra: I'm Just So Proud

Alt: I'm Just So Proud

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 14/06/2026

My first book is available for pre-order! If you’re interested in higher Ed, the humanities, philosophy, early modern philosophy, or the philosophy of education this is right up your alley. www.bloomsbury.com/us/personal-...

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Personal Virtue, Public Happiness

When higher education recenters philosophy, students can become more than skilled workers: they can be virtuous people who promote the flourishing of those arou…

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 11/07/2026

I think I could put together a really cool class on philosophical modality, epistemic bubbles/echo chambers, and logical reasoning based on the INSANE free-associations in the shows on the “History” Channel.

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Personal Virtue, Public Happiness

When higher education recenters philosophy, students can become more than skilled workers: they can be virtuous people who promote the flourishing of those arou…

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 02/06/2026

I just submitted the final draft of my first book, *Personal Virtue, Public Happiness: Rehumanizing Education through Early Modern Philosophy.* I’m really proud of how it turned out and I look forward to seeing it in print (Jan or Feb?)! It’ll be published by Bloomsbury.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 23/04/2026

I get a lot of spam texts. One time, I responded immediately as if I were a bot, and by texting me they had signed up for daily updates about Herbert Hoover. I started by texting each day at 9a with actual facts from Wikipedia. I always included the “text STOP to unsubscribe”.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 16/04/2026

I taught a seminar this semester where my students and I read a bunch of stuff that I read in preparation for writing a book. Then we read a draft of my book. It. Was. Awesome!! I learned so much from my students, & they made INCREDIBLE memes about my (forthcoming!) book. I’ll post some soon.

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Cassie @angrycassie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness"

the cover of bell hooks' book entitled "communion: the female search for love"

the cover of bell hooks' book "Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place"

the cover of Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 10/02/2026

One cool thing about having a partner who is also a philosopher is that we get to think, write, and publish together.

The cover of the book, “Innovations in Teaching Philosophy: A Toolkit for the 21st-Century Classroom” Edited by Brynn F. Welch.

The first page of chapter 29, “Virtuous Dialogues in Epistemic Communities: Helping Students Understand the Value of Citations” by Cassie L. Finley and Kristopher G. Phillips.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 17/12/2025

Listen, I was cheering for the Detroit Lions for every game of 0-16. I’m not about to boo them for 8-6 and a shot at the playoffs. #onepride

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 12/12/2025

Holy shit. I wrote like, 4500 words today. I might finish this book after all.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Descartes gave us all the tools we need to survive in an era of misinformation. Simply begin with the understanding that you are real but everything else is fairly likely to be the cruel games of a demon sent to torment you specifically.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 27/06/2025

Since January, I’ve written 38,811 words. They’re pretty good words in what I take to be an interesting order. Gotta keep going. October 1 is fast approaching.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 13/06/2025

Not to be too much of a hipster, but the Taxi theme song popped up on my Spotify and honestly, it slaps. Great writing music! youtu.be/5DL8SGEyhZE?...

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Angela (Theme From 'Taxi') - Bob James (1978)

YouTube video by djbuddylovecooljazz

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 30/05/2025

I have a productivity app that I use to track my writing time. While I’m not always great about making sure I use it, it’s tracked 77+ hours of writing since Jan. I have somewhere around 40k words, which puts me at ~519.5 words/hour. Can I finish this book by September? We will see!

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 20/04/2025

I thought this would streamline my feedback process because I assumed few students would pick 5. All but one of my students picked 5 this term. Side note: I just spent 90 minutes on one paper.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

CFP: Special Issue: AI and Public Philosophy The Public Philosophy Journal invites contributions for a special issue focused on AI and public philosophy. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Special Issue: AI and Public Philosophy

CFP: Special Issue: AI and Public Philosophy  The Public Philosophy Journal invites contributions for a special issue focused on AI and public philosophy.  The rapid evolution of artifi...

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 07/03/2025

My partner is so damn amazing!! She’s cooler than you (and me).

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 06/03/2025

I’ve seen a handful of articles about how humanities programs need to focus on “practicality”. In 2017 I published a chapter arguing that a focus on practicality in higher ed is a mistake. It seems especially relevant right now philarchive.org/rec/KRIIPI-2

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Phillips Kristopher, Is Philosophy Impractical? Yes and No, but That's Precisely Why we Need It - PhilArchive

This chapter makes the argument for both the practicality and impracticality of philosophy as it relates to liberal education. An exploration of the history of science in the seventeenth and eighteent...

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is a great thread and I agree with all of it. Reviewing takes a ton of time but it's important work, even when I hate the paper I reviewed. Editors can confirm I send lengthy details about every decision and I'd be wracked with guilt not doing that. It's the entire point of the process!

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 26/02/2025

I’m a recent meta study, we scoured 2550 lists of things with which one fucks. We found a number of things appearing on multiple lists & most things appeared at least once. Conspicuously absent from *all* lists was the Wu Tang Clan. We conclude that Wu Tang Clan is, in fact, nothing to fuck with.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 18/02/2025

I started reading The Big Sleep last night. I'm one of those people who hear the words in their head as they read, but what really stands out to me is that I cannot help but hear all dialogue/narration in a Mid-Atlantic accent. I think that makes it even more enjoyable, to be honest.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 14/02/2025

Check out this great lineup for the @theaapt.bsky.social Talking/Teaching series! Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS
AAPT TALKING/TEACHING

JOIN US TO TALK ABOUT TEACHING PHILOSOPHY EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY ON ZOOM 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET

FEB. 26
USING SOCIAL ANNOTATION IN PHILOSOPHY COURSES
CHAEYEON LEE & DR. STEVEN BROWN

MAR. 12
TEACHING AROUND AI (OR "THE DEATH OF
THE COLLEGE PAPER")
DR. ANDRÉ DE AVILLEZ

MAR. 26
ASSIGNING PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS INSTEAD OF ESSAYS
DR. CLAIRE LOCKARD

APR. 9
HOW TO TALK TO STUDENTS ABOUT CHATGPT & CITATIONS
DR. KRISTOPHER PHILLIPS

APR. 23
PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR REGULAR SUBSTANTIVE INTERACTION ONLINE
DR. MEGAN FLOCKEN

MAY7
USING SIMULATIONS IN APPLIED ETHICS
DR. STEPHANIE ADAIR

MAY 21
TEAGLE & TRANSFORMATIVE TEXTS
DR. DAVID LIAKOS

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 06/02/2025

I’m teaching early modern philo this semester and I have these weekly close-reading assignments. One of my students noticed a shift in pronouns between the Latin and French editions of Descartes’ Third Meditation (from 1st person singular to 1st person plural)!

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 05/02/2025

I wonder how much of my anxiety, and perfectionism, and rule following tendencies stem from the notion of a “permanent record,” a thing I genuinely believed both existed and would play a large role in my future. As if a childhood mistake would fundamentally alter the future that was open to me.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 03/02/2025

This is such an awesome opportunity. I rarely wish I was still a grad student, but here’s one time where I do.

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

For grad students in the history of #philosophy: I'm organizing a virtual reading group on #slavery in early modern philosophy. We'll meet once a week on Zoom for an hour to discuss about 20 pages of primary source material. Grad students only. Email jjorati@umass.edu for info. #philsky #academicsky

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 30/01/2025

My extraordinarily long-con has finally paid off! In 2005 I made the decision to pursue grad studies in philosophy because I knew, even then, that I’d eventually have a shot at being cast in a reality show that blends Big Brother and Survivor. So long Academia! Imma be famous!

An email that reads, in part, “Subject: Looking for a teacher for a new TV show I'm casting
Leave a message: Hello Kris! I came across your TikTok page during my search for participants for a new TV show I'm casting. We are looking for a teacher to be one of the contestants.
I've pasted more info below.
The show is a competition/strategy reality show like "Survivor" meets "Big Brother" and includes alliance-building, gameplan strategy, challenges, and eliminations. The last person left wins a cash prize of $100,000. We are looking for people who use the power of persuasion and gift of gab in their daily lives.

The email concludes, “All in all, it's a light, fun competition show. I hope you apply!
More information: Filming takes place in March of 2025. Must be a US citizen. Must have a current US Passport or be willing to get one. All travel, accommodations, and meal expenses will be paid for. Participation includes a weekly stipend. ($500 per episode that you are on. To be paid after the show airs.) Winner receives a cash prize of
$100,000. Filming takes 4-6 weeks.
This is not a job, but rather an opportunity to be a contestant on a competitive reality television series.

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

People not understanding the importance of the Humanities is precisely why we need the Humanities.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 25/01/2025

What’s something you learned really late in life that should’ve been obvious? I’ll start: the reason Boys II Men called the song “Motown Philly” is because they were signed to Motown Records. I had always assumed Philly and Detroit had a sort of gritty, resilient city bond.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It would be awful nice if scientists would accept that humanities folks have actual expertise and rely on actual evidence.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 24/01/2025

THIS. But seriously, the ambiguous use of “this,” “that,” or versions pronouns is one of my all-time pet peeves in writing. If there’s one comment I write on student papers more than any other, it’s “what is ‘it’?” (Or ‘this,’ etc.).

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Love that the article slips in this banger of an observation: "...alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves."

Screenshot of a quote in the article: "chatgpt down in the middle of the workday I'm about to get fired pray for me," wrote a user on X, alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves."

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 22/01/2025

Apropos of nothing in particular, I’m reminded of an Indiana bill from 1897 where they tried to establish, by legislative fiat, that pi = 3.2.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

grad school grade school 🤝 learning how to read

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 20/01/2025

Probably an unpopular take: I find refereeing for academic journals really rewarding & genuinely enjoy doing it. Look. I get that it’s “free labor” & that academic publishing is, in many ways broken… /1

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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 19/01/2025

I’m gonna go quiet for a bit. This one hurts. #onepride

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 16/01/2025

I was first introduced to Lynch as a young adolescent watching Twin Peaks on network tv. I didn’t understand it, but it was also the first time I really bonded with my dad (an English prof). Years later, dad and I published a co-authored paper on Albert’s moral code. I’ll miss you, David Lynch.

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 16/01/2025

I’m my modern philosophy class this term, we are only reading Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Anton Amo. I’m so damn excited about it! It’s gonna be a fun semester!

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kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · 16/01/2025

You know what, coffee is really, really good.

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Interested in innovative philosophy pedagogy? Apply to fund your idea through the @plato-philosophy.bsky.social grants program. Deadline is January 31st, and funding can be up to $5,000! www.plato-philosophy.org/plato-grants/

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