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Michael Kates

@michaelkates.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Man City supporter; proud father to my amazing son.

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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 3h
Interesting.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 22h
Oh god
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great win!
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looked offside to me
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
nytimes.com
Separatists Are Poised to Win Quebec’s Election. Independence Is Still a Hard Sell.
The Parti Québécois has vowed to hold a referendum on independence, three decades after Quebec voted “no.” Voters want change, but maybe not that much.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TY!
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite worried about the safety of the traveling fans
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From the US or England?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Terrible defending from Croatia
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From our FirstView: "Structural Injustice as Emergent Disorder" by Hochan Kim, buff.ly/TPOHteM
APSR abstract for "Structural Injustice as Emergent Disorder," by Hochan Kim, The author develops the Complexity View of structural injustice, arguing it arises from emergent properties of human action rather than culpable wrongdoing, though this account sets real epistemic limits on social reform. Full abstract is available in linked article.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hear, hear
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I guess there's less of a consensus than I thought. But the practice is clearly more prevalent for reviewers of books.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As someone who is very self-conscious about his looks, I find the repeated tendency of people on this site to mock their political enemies because they are "ugly" or "unattractive" in some way to be incredibly distasteful.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you! Was looking for the video and couldn't find it in my region
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cherki with some great OOP work to almost set up a Dembele goal
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tell me who it was (to thank them for the boost it gave my career) and I was told, in no uncertain terms, that asking the editor that question would be seen as very unprofessional.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That makes sense. But I've been told (by more senior people in the field) that I shouldn't unmask myself even if I gave a very positive review. Likewise, someone once gave me a very positive review in a very prestigious journal and I wanted to ask the editor (long after the fact) if they could...
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow! Thanks for the explanation.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is there a real chance that a referendum might go forward? (Haven't been following this very closely.)
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The book looks excellent (will purchase). Your exchange prompts a question though: it seems that anonymous reviewers for books often unmask themselves, but that almost never happens for journal articles (and I've been told that it's something that shouldn't be done). Why the difference?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Were you surprised?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Always been proud to be a vaygan
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what I find so difficult to comprehend
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that their standards for assessing evidence must ultimately be compatible with English law
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's beautiful
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I take it that the members of the IC simply dismissed this evidence. What I don't understand is what legal basis they have for doing that. In other words, how would members of the IC know whether the evidence is real or fabricated, and do they have to provide evidence to substantiate that claim?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've never understood that either. The view always seemed more like branding to me, rather than a basic rejection of moral principles/rules
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Utter madness
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oy, I won't bother to listen then
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thought you might say that
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How so?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right, but she always discusses "Spur" vs. "Fat Man," and says the same basic problem arises
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See the discussion I had further down in the thread
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How are teachers handing out prescriptions, for Christ's sake? My kid's school confiscated a moisturizer I gave him because we didn't get a doctor's note for it
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sounds plausible. I was confused because whenever I've talked about TTP with fellow philosophers, we've always assumed the issue was the contrast cases.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, that's right. But it's also how I've always thought of the trolley problem: how to explain conflicting intuitions people have in seemingly similar cases (Bystander, Footbridge, Transplant, Loop, etc.)
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very cool! But why do you think this shows that the trolley problem isn't what you thought?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Think you can access it through the link above
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I haven't. Worth it?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He obviously can't grow a proper one
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I agree, but does that mean the IC will presume that any such witnesses are liars? That seems hard to justify as a legal matter.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it‘s a complete shitshow
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same. Hang in there, mate; we're all in this together.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes, absolutely. But the two are not mutually exclusive
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very concerned about the mental toll this will take on City's players.
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good piece. But what if your university gave each student the newest version of Gemini and embedded it into Google Workspace?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm especially concerned about the impact this might have on my son. He's young but has been supporting City for most of his life and the players are his heroes (esp. Haaland).
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting; I haven't seen that. Do you have a link to an article?
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Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What did you learn?
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