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Nick Riggle

@nickriggle.bsky.social
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Philosopher | Author | ON BEING AWESOME (Penguin) | THIS BEAUTY (Basic) | Papers: rb.gy/74liy4 | Dada x2 | former pro skater

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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wrote a very serious piece about the use of AI in journal submissions.
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Very Important Journal Editor Shares AI Report with Stakeholders
As the Editor-in-Chief of this very important academic journal, I would like to share some of the promising results of our new AI policy.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
new humor piece on my Substack -- "I like you. Like, a lot. But my emojis might be misleading."
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I like you. Like, a lot.
But My Emojis Might Be Misleading
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British Journal of Aesthetics @britjaesth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Matt Strohl says 'This Book' to Nick Riggle's 'This Beauty' in our latest issue. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky
This is the good stuff—the kind of bold intellectual confrontation with the mortal condition that I imagined when I first resolved to study philosophy.
- Matthew Strohl, Review of Nick Riggle’s This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
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Shamik Dasgupta @shamikdasgupta.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Inspired by @nickriggle.bsky.social, I updated my website blurb around Swiftian eras! I also posted some material from my current project on the metaphysics of mystical experience; see related links in the website. shamik.net
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Shamik Dasgupta
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New post on karaoke and djing and being vulnerable in aesthetic community.
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The Fundamental Rule of Karaoke (and Also Maybe of Life)
On Vulnerability and Giving It Your All
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about
photo of a hard taco from taco bell with a shell made from doritos. the shell-shaped wrapper says "Taco Bell: TACO on the inside. Doritos on the outside."
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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Say goodbye to seeing your life as a big narrative and embrace the wisdom of thinking of life as a bunch of experimental eras! Absolutely loved this piece.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Calling all Swiftie philosophers and also everyone else: here is a little essay on using personal 'eras' to structure our lives. No need for grand life narratives or pernicious identity labels--just adopt an era and then move on. (h/t to @floresophize.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/nickrigg...
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The Eras Tour Through Life
Embrace the Asteroid
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
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Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
PUNJUSTIFIED -- A meditation on puns and punners. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Punjustified
On Puns and Hope
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The Dudette abides.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I loved Martin Riker’s novel The Guest Lecture. There are a few novels that make you feel utterly stuck in someone’s head—perhaps the best is Fosse’s epic Septology—and Riker’s novel nails the claustrophobic feeling, laced with a too-familiar academic anxiety. Here's a sort-of review at GET SOME.
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Dear Author Martin Riker Whose Novel I Loved and No I Am Not Fishing for a Reply
A sort of review of the excellent novel The Guest Lecture (Grove, 2022) by Martin Riker
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Glad to see this out!!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Frozen 2 > Frozen 1 fight me
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
philpapers.org/archive/RIGA...
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Are you swimming in year-end lists? Are you inundated with rankings of books, albums, movies, and all sorts of aesthetic goods? Are you grumpy about it or unsure how you should feel? Do you maybe feel a little urge to issue your *own* ranking? Fear not friend. I have just the paper for you! [link ↓]
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Another life goal achieved: getting the word “party-pooping” published in a 150-year-old philosophy journal. "Can't Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse" is now published online. doi.org/10.1093/mind...
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Can't Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse
Abstract. In a recent paper, Nat Hansen and Zed Adams argue for an aesthetic discourse-governing principle they call Hope of Convergence. Inspired by the w
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My paper “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing” won the 2026 Arthur Danto Prize, and there will be a symposium on the paper at the upcoming Eastern APA with @rkubala.bsky.social and @kennywalden.bsky.social. I hope my fellow conferencefolk will join us!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Seems right 😎
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New paper of mine—I’ve been a huge fan of Rob Hopkins’s paper “How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony” (J. Phil 2011) since it came out. This is my attempt to slightly tweak and polish his “Unuseability Pessimism” to harness its full power.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
That shirt isn’t exactly giving ‘left wing nut’.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Can I vote?
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just wanted to share this wonderful news: The Lebowitz Prize went to aesthetics for the first time in its history. Congratulations to @domlopes.bsky.social and Samantha! I can't wait to see what they do together! www.pbk.org/2025-lebowit...
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PBK - 2025 Lebowitz Prize Winners
Phi Beta Kappa's press releases.
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Awesomeness of Bad Art I love bad art. Gather some friends and create some bad music. Cruise in a car covered with graffiti doodles. Hand a five-year-old crayons and free time and see what weirdness emerges. Something worth celebrating happens. Although the art is "bad" in one sense -- 1/
I can swim like a grasfl dolphin can you? by my daughter Kate at age six
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
You’re reading so many great books!!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'm lucky to have them as philosophy-buds, even though they're wrong. And there's more work to do!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A highlight of last year was getting to talk with them about these issues, once in NYC and again in Sweden. I have learned a lot from them and our discussions have been, for me, ideal philosophy: fun, challenging, friendly, respectful, insightful, and productive.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New paper forthcoming in Mind--my response to Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social and Zed Adams's paper on aesthetic discourse (“The Hope of Agreement: Against Vibing Accounts of Aesthetic Judgment," Mind, 2023). philpapers.org/rec/RIGCKT?f...
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Nick Riggle, Can’t Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse - PhilPapers
In a recent paper, Nat Hansen and Zed Adams argue for an aesthetic discourse governing principle they call Hope. Inspired by the work of Stanley Cavell, they argue that when we ...
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I support this message!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Also I got to meet Karen Stohr and Will Fleisher! You’re lucky to have such great philosophers as colleagues!!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It was great. Sympathetic and thoughtful comments from Jonathan Fine and Jamie Ryerson and a really fun discussion. Afterward, we went out to lunch with Ryerson and he told us more about Sydney Morgenbesser than I knew was possible.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Hats off to Alex for organizing an excellent conference!!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm sure I'm missing some, but where are the American biographers here?
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
and (a highly recommended favorite) Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. There is one exception, which is Hugh Eakin's incredible account John Quinn's influential collection of early Modernist paintings and the founding of the MoMA. 2/3
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
What's up with the British monopoly on really good intellectual biography? All of the recent ones I've loved are by British authors: I Am Dynamite!, Metaphysical Animals (ok, Clare Mac Cumhaill is Irish but educated in Scotland and working in England), Parfit, The Murder of Professor Schlick ... 1/3
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
sunrise over Sweden
sunrise over snowy rivers in Sweden
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I’m having way too much fun working on aesthetic ranking at the moment. This has to be the worst high-profile ranking I’ve come across—just diabolical putting Jay-Z at #1, Lil Wayne over Tupac, Drake over Eminem?! What are some other bad lists??
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The 50 Top Rappers Of All Time
Discover the greatest rappers of all time, celebrating the iconic voices and lyrical prowess that have shaped hip-hop's rich history.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
cold and dark and lit with ideas
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@strohltopia.bsky.social’s new book too—Hard to Watch. Also @ksetiya.bsky.social’s Life is Hard.
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David Sanson @davsans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
WANTED: a list of philosophy or philosophy adjacent books that make good gifts to interested non-philosophers. #philsky
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Street art??
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Man ran 700 miles to make ‘insanely impressive’ art on GPS fitness app
It took Duncan McCabe 10 months to make a 27-second digital art video.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
There are 26 of the 78 Caravaggios sitting in random churches throughout the city. Find them. Also the Pantheon is unbelievable, one the most beautiful human-made spaces I’ve ever experienced.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yeah I was thinking of Either/Or. I wish I had more to offer! I wonder if this paper is useful, if only for its bibliography: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Aesthetic sensitivity | 13 | Origin and development | Ana Clemente | T
Aesthetic sensitivity is a core idea in empirical aesthetics, which refers to the study of the causes of individual variation in aesthetic appreciation.
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Well, first you love beautiful bodies and beget beautiful ideas there and then…jk jk—Schiller’s Letters is one classic source. Kierkegaard too. But there’s also a book called The Discipline of Taste and Feeling by Charles Wegener. There’s more on developing gustatory taste. Lmk if you find any gems!
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"The aesthetics of hardcore, skramz, and metal are surprisingly neglected, except by ME." How's the book coming along?!
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"Topic x is surprisingly neglected" is the grownup version of "for millennia philosophers have debated...".
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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
starter pack for aesthetics!!
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