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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There was an unexpected delay in the new book moving into production, but it’s resolved now! Look for A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers: Rejecting Passivism, Then & Now (Bloomsbury), early in 2027!

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Happy to report that the Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026 was great. Participants from Turkey, Czech Republic, UK, Ireland, China, Canada, Finland & the US, in philosophy, sociology, & economics. Join us next year! Find the cfp & programs on the CSOW fb page or here.

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Trying one last time to fix all typos & errors! Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026!

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Slight glitches fixed: Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026 ~ Program! Conference is online!

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026 - Program!

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Rest of the ppl covered in my new book! 2/2 Ch. 5: Cartwright, Ellis, Mumford (& w/Anjum) Ch. 6: Heil, Molnar, Vetter, McKitrick Ch. 7: Chakravartty, Marmodoro, Ingthorsson (There will also be an Appendix. I just couldn't do everyone.) # A Critical Intro to Causal Powers & Dispositions

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Here are the thinkers whose views abt causal powers you'll find in my new book. (Post is 1 of 2) Ch. 2: Aristotle, Locke, Hume Ch. 3: Kant, Mill; Armstrong, Bird, Woodward Ch. 4: Reid, Wm. James, RW Sellars, Anscombe, Lamprecht (❤); then Harré & Madden, Roy Bhaskar

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

: Hey guys! I finished my new book, *A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions*. Am now doing the final line-editing, and I think that it's kind of good! It took me long enough to write each chapter that I haven't looked back until now. It will be published by Bloomsbury.

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My mom, who just wrote a wonderful memoir, called *Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Fight for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor* (Rivertowns Books, 2025) is on Bluesky! @meggroffauthor.bsky.social

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Admittedly, it might hinge upon whether or not there's a coherent self or even ego-state that has merely cloaked itself in surfaces or if, instead, it's fiction - or as good as - all the way down. Have I got it wrong?

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

But I think that the appearance is misleading, and my provisional answer is no. One can be a collage of artifice and also defy norms. It's just that we're more accustomed to the inverse combinations. 2/2

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

: Meanwhile, I was thinking - for distraction & by way of the omnipresent Dylan movie - abt whether or not one needs to have an authentic core to which to be true for it to be possible to "remain true to oneself" by refusing to conform. It may appear as though the question is tautological. 1/3

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hey look! It’s Orlando’s library!

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Even if you're not in the US. youtu.be/m57gzA2JCcM?...

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Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording

YouTube video by Stiletto

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Still not sure how to interact with 300+ strangers. Say something controversial for the philosophers? (Hume is just completely wrong on causation!) Announce my love for the Persuasions? youtu.be/ZDDGyOJQohc?...

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Don't It Make You Want To Go Home

YouTube video by The Persuasions - Topic

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

2/2 For starters, if you're following me & reading this, why not drop a reply saying what you're working on or thinking about or generally up to? Plus, I don't know, a link to a song or painting that you love. Something like that.

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hey! I looked up & found 249 followers! Posting to strangers is a new experience, as I had a locked account on the-platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter, so only posted to ppl I at least sort of knew. So: hi! I'm optimistic that I will figure out a nice way to build a little community here. 1/2

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Nous Bros @nousbros.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

: FB is down so I thought that I'd come over here today. But I hardly know anyone over here ... . Still, if you see this: hi!

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