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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 5h

Bring back shame (Roman Curia edition)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping.

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Yale Stewart @yalestewart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The official Mister Rogers YouTube channel has been posting full episodes recently, and believe me when I tell you that watching one is a great way to take a break from the general state of things. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...

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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Khalil Gibran, in his book The Prophet, wrote : Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you, but they are not of you. 🌟 perhaps this turns the question “Who am I?” into a more important one.. “Whose” am I?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My daughter had JUST turned 2 I was not prepared lmao

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is the exact opposite of the time you linked to a YouTube video of “the procession of the celestial beings” without explanation. (Which did cause me to watch the movie out of curiosity, so thanks and also oh my God.) bsky.app/profile/last...

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Even contamination or cleanliness themes which like, the popular stereotype seem to be based on, are totally misunderstood. “You’re so neat and tidy!” “I can’t tell if I’ve eliminated all the dust that possibly has trace levels of toxins, and I feel like I’m gonna die, so I have to clean again.”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People just don’t know what OCD really is. Imagine saying “I feel like I gotta drive back around this corner like 10 times to make sure I didn’t accidentally hit someone with my car. I’m so quirky!” Or “Oops I got stuck checking whether the gas stove was left on for an hour. I’m so quirky!”

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Remembering Rawls’s term ‘the fair value of political liberty.’ Political donation caps are opposed by those who hate the idea of genuinely fair and free elections and hope to benefit by someone putting a finger on the scales on their behalf (though Trade Union funding complicates things).

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Many of you will know the famous finding from @existwell.bsky.social and Derek Anderson: Philosophers' views on philosophical questions are not predicted by their personality traits But why not? I asked Anderson about this, and he had a very intriguing suggestion philarchive.org/rec/YADTPO-2

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s a super paradoxical lesson to learn that you can care *better* by caring less. It makes you feel like a bad person at first!

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Caring excessively about things that are worth caring about? Self-undermining because your “care” becomes smothering. Caring excessively about things that aren’t worth caring about? A mistake twice over. Caring excessively by caring about too many things? Now you’re spread too thin and burnt out.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that.

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The preferred term is “midlife existential opportunity”

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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally found a use for this meme.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you don't know now you know. "The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." @bakerdphd.bsky.social

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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“ There seems something important missing in those who persistently ignore, cynically dismiss, or remain coldly indifferent to the vast range of things that are sources of joy, inspiration and value for others, and potentially for themselves.”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Failing to appreciate nature is a telltale sign that someone lacks the virtue of appreciating what’s good. Tom Hill Jr. has a nice short paper on this, with a funny little example with Stalin and Khrushchev. www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/defaul...

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

you hate to see a language game go to penalties

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.

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draculaderonda from the crypt @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The videogame guy I'm controlling? That's not me; I'm me. The main character in a novel I'm reading isn't me either. More and more I feel like this is an unusual attitude towards art.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

don't talk to me until i've had my salmon of knowledge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_...

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Salmon of Knowledge - Wikipedia

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I actually do not get, at all, the instinct that dolls are not worth studying. It does actually strike me as pretty interesting that we have so consistently throughout history made little people and used them as make belief aides. Why would that be even prima facie contemptible or absurd to study?

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/08/2026

I‘ve been thinking about Walter‘s essay all afternoon. I‘ve been trying to think of an analytic political or moral philosopher whose arguments wouldn‘t require a radical change to the status quo & I‘m struggling. Almost the entire characterisation of analytic philosophy in the piece is false.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RIP to everyone who confuses the claims they think are true but won’t argue for with the mystical outputs of the Faculty of Intuition (Noûs) but I’m different. And better. Maybe even better than Plato.

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Cat Saint-Croix @catsaintcroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To remember the Great Lakes, we used to learn the acronym H.O.M.E.S. The Trump admin has torn down H.O.M.E.S. to replace it with S.H.A.M.E. It's just SO on the nose 😭😭😭

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Analytic philosophy is leftist in the sense that it is off-putting to normies but conservative in the sense that it is bad at comedy

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Only analytic philosophers get to disparage analytic philosophy. When others do it it’s in poor taste.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve seen analytic philosophers with takes normies wouldn’t believe. Tables that weren’t tables but atoms arranged table-wise. I watched theorists claim that scribbled down phone numbers are part of my mind.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Charging money for Content is dishonorable. Sophist behavior. A true visionary, in the tradition of the great Socrates, is annoying for free

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/08/2026

A wonderful interview of Paul Gooch by Nathan Ballantyne. Gooch says: "the teacher must be open to interrogation as well as the student. I want the conversation to be interrogative in both directions, between teacher and student." What do you do to help foster that?

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“Proper education arouses intellectual curiosity” - Daily Nous

Nathan Ballantyne (ASU) continues his wonderful series of thoughtful, in-depth interviews of philosophers, The Workbench, with a conversation with Paul Gooch (Toronto). . The conversation is wide-rang...

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I explained moral perfectionism to a friend who’s a therapist one time, and they were like “do these other philosophers also have OCD?”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gilbert and Sullivan adaptation of the Horus Heresy. “I am the very model of a modern chaos heretic, I’ve information warp-psychic, ruinous, and daemonic. I know the Primarch’s loyalties and curse the False Imperial, In the Eye of Terror I find myself immaterial.”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What does it say about our culture that the solution to the conflict we created between working life and being a parent is a machine-simulacrum of oneself? What a devil’s bargain to get out of the bind we’ve created, the illusion that one can be (kind of) fully present at work and in home life.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m organizing a session at the 2027 Pacific APA’s AAPT-APA Teaching Hub on “The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI,” and I’m sharing the CFP in case you or someone you know is interested! philevents.org/event/show/1... Anonymized proposals of 500 to 750 words are due on September 1st.

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2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: "The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI"

Pacific Division Meeting The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Tea...

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That’s incredible. Job interview villain behavior!

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hero: “FODOR-STYLE: DISUNITY OF THE SCIENCES JUTSU!” Villain: “You’ll never pass your comprehensive exams with such predictable attacks…”*laughs villainously* “…behold the power of THE CAUSAL EXCLUSION ARGUMENTTT!!” Hero: *shocked face, inner monologue* “so this is the power of somebody ABD!”

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If “gym shoes” is the word they use for all kinds of athletic shoes, sneakers, etc., they’re either from Chicago or Cincinnati.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Same with everybody else: it worked like normal peer review

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