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Michael Rea

@michaelreand.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor, Notre Dame Pastor’s Spouse, Church of the Savior Working in metaphysics, analytic theology, and feminist philosophy; current book project focuses on love, beauty, and objectification www.michaelrea.org #philosophy #philsky

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper by Jess Hocking, @lucyosler.bsky.social and me on the phenomenology of anorexia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disrupted embodiment: empirically assessing phenomenological accounts of anorexia nervosa - Journal of Eating Disorders
Background Recent philosophical reflection on eating disorders has taken a phenomenological turn. These approaches have focused on the experiences of those with eating disorders, many taking as their ...
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just published: my contribution to a symposium on Danielle Tumminio Hansen's book, Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations. philpapers.org/rec/REANHA
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Walking around campus listening to AC/DC doing sound checks for their upcoming concert in the stadium tonight…is very cool!
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’s a glorious thing when your kid can drive you to work—and her siblings to school—instead of you always having to be the chauffeur.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’m reading a book about superhuman AI called “if anyone builds it, everyone will die”. That’s the thesis of the book. 😳
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Should I worry that my kids have found my Wikipedia page and are now laughing about the fact that they can make edits?
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The American Conservative Movement Has Failed. My latest, posted at The Contrarian open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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The American Conservative Movement Has Failed
Assuming the republic survives, we will have to pick up the pieces. But first we must understand who and what brought us here.
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
rewriting a paper rejected by Analysis
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Among Cities Church’s pastors is Joe Rigney, who has recently become a MAGA media darling because he, along with podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, has been pushing the idea that empathy is a sin.”
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Courtesy of the "don't tread on me" crowd
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Jenny Saul @jennysaul.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Why Donald Trump is telling such obvious lies on the ICE Minneapolis killing
Obvious lies aren’t necessarily failed lies. They can confuse, distract, excite and intimidate a range of audiences. They can also be believed, no matter how obviously false they seem.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I submitted a paper to the journal Ergo in 2021 and, in the process, made the “optional” donation to Syracuse U. to support the journal. (If you don’t get the scare quotes around “optional”, just think for a bit about the dynamics.) Now I still get regular support emails and mailings from Syracuse 🫤
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We cannot forget the outrages against democracy bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I’m done teaching until Fall 2026!
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My “flight” is a bus…which I could have discovered by reading the fine print but, you know, booking something called a “flight” and choosing seats on an image shaped like a plane encourages certain expectations. Hard eye roll, #AmericanAirlines.
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Fuck it. I’m in a mood. Let’s do another Saturday with Camus.
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble— yes, gamble-with a whole part of their life and their so-called "vital interests."
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Lillies in full bloom in June 2. A cocktail on the porch with close friends. 3. Donuts on Sunday morning 4. A campfire at the end of a long day 5. Rolling up a new DnD character
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I can’t understand a parent shouting in rapid succession from the sidelines at a soccer game “Go! Go! Stay! Stay! Go!” How does one follow that instruction?
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
New paper by Laura Callahan and me, forthcoming in Nous: philpapers.org/rec/CALEAI-3
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Laura Frances Callahan & Michael C. Rea, Epistemic Authenticity - PhilPapers
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one’s epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which ...
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is a great article by @amandaheldopelt.bsky.social
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A great post by Elizabeth Barnes on the value of conversations across serious disagreement: dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
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The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a person with a disability making claims about disability, and ...
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I wrote for Substack about the BBB & the psychology of fascism
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
say what you will about nancy pelosi (as one of her constituents believe me i have) she'd have impaled herself with a gavel live on the house floor before she'd have allowed this shitshow of a vote on her watch as speaker
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Looks like the “Art of the deal” is just to announce in all caps that a deal has been made and then wait and see what happens.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
As a friend on FB commented, not really unbelievable, but otherwise yes.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"We are today ruled by gerontomorphic old men...who [have] confused [their] fantasies with life and who ought to be undergoing therapy instead of being in charge of anything." --Alice B. Sheldon, writing as James Tiptree, Jr. in 1974. God help us.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Not entirely wrong…
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I've got a new paper coming out in Philosophical Quarterly: philpapers.org/rec/REABIA #philsky
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Michael Rea, Beauty is a Social Property - PhilPapers
The ontology of beauty has been relatively neglected in both metaphysics and aesthetics over the past century or more, and nowhere more than in the literature devoted to feminist critique of ...
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
OMG the “Eulogy” episode from the current season of Black Mirror. Only San Junipero competes with it, IMO.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just about shed a tear today listening to my 11yo daughter recite the preamble to the constitution.
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Alessandra Tanesini @ale1808.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Some of you may be interested in this post about humility and oppression by Laura Callahan on Open for Debate. #philosophy #philsky blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
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A Careful Call for Humility
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 09/04/2025
It boggles the mind that Democrats could lose because they were blamed for an inflation they didn’t cause. While Republicans could win on a campaign of inflation they’ll intentionally cause. But here we fucking are with 104% tariffs on China. “When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds."
Trump looking like a big, smug, dumbass. Smiling behind the presidential seal.
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In #vol38issue3 we host a symposium for Health Problems (OUP), a book authored by Elizabeth Barnes. Follow this thread to learn more! #philsky #booksky 1/9
Book cover of Health Problems, with green apples on pink backgroundElizabeth Barnes, teaching
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
TODAY! Find the rally nearest you ⬇️ www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Just finished @amalelmohtar.com’s The River has Roots, hoping it might be even half as good as This is How You Lose the Time War. It did not disappoint. When I finished Time War, I immediately read it again (I never do this). This one I may have to read three or four times. So incredibly beautiful.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/03/2025
In an extraordinary blunder, key figures in the Trump administration copied a journalist into a chat used to discuss secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.
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Journalist accidentally added into White House Yemen war planning group chat
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Jennifer Mittelstadt @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A less recognized genealogy for US foreign policy in the current era, from the book I'm writing on movements for sovereignty in the US. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
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Opinion | The Lost Tradition That Explains Trump’s Obsession With the Panama Canal
Inside the lost tradition in American foregin policy that explains the president’s overseas obsessions.
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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Proud of the graduate students who have organized the 2nd graduate conference in political theory and constitutional studies at Notre Dame—next Friday March 28th. Featuring Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley) as keynote speaker.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My 11yo child with me in a candy store: “I feel like a child in a candy store!”
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I have belatedly discovered Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland) and, really, there is no more powerful vocalist
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Another reasons among many Dems should not surrender on protecting trans people.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Reposting this today just because things tend to get lost pretty quickly in the feed here (in my feed, anyway)
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
From @michaelreand.bsky.social: “Empathy suppression is what helped Eichmann and others to steel themselves in the face of other people’s suffering to carry out their military duties… religionnews.com/2025/03/12/e...
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Empathy isn't a sin. It's a risk.
(RNS) — But a lot of good things are risky.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’ve written a piece on the “sin of empathy” discourse: religionnews.com/2025/03/12/e...
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Empathy isn't a sin. It's a risk.
(RNS) — But a lot of good things are risky.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It never was about "free speech" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We are happy to report that issue 11.1 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy 5 peer-reviewed articles. As always, FPQ is free to all authors and all readers.
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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is an impprtant read, as the NAR is an important piece in the puzzle of understanding how we got yo the current political moment open.substack.com/pub/stephenw...
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What Is the New Apostolic Reformation?
It's not a simple question to answer.
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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So proud of my former doctoral student Karie Cross Riddle, now an advanced assistant professor at Pepperdine, for publishing this important article on feminism, peace, and DEI, via an analysis of the life and work of Sojourner Truth! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Educating for peace in the culture wars: The example of sojourner truth
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) education in the United States (US) is embattled, facing charges of “wokeness” from the right as well as critical scholarship questioning its transformative cap...
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us! philjobs.org/job/show/28814
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Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews - PhilJobs:JFP Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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