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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The countdown is at 40 days until publication of When Things Get Personal, and it is starting to feel real, as my calendar is filling up with scheduled podcast interviews. In commemoration of 40 days, a few words about chapter 4.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So... I started a Substack? I'll be posting regularly this fall about how and why philosophy matters, how and why to use philosophy to shed light on interpersonal conflict, and from time to time some tangential musings. philosophymark.substack.com

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Mark Schroeder | Substack

I'm a philosopher and author interested in how philosophy can help us to understand and navigate conflict in interpersonal relationships. I teach at USC and am the author of When Things Get Personal. ...

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

50 days to until publication of When Things Get Personal! Chapter 5 begins with bad coming out stories, and explores why people who love us - including parents - sometimes fail to accept us for who we are. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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When Things Get Personal

How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I nearly missed it, but today is 70 days to publication of When Things Get Personal. Chapter seven explores issues about to whom and how we give credit - what we admire or are proud of people for. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I just had the coolest conversation with Yael Schonbrun substack.com/@yaelschonbrun, whose fantastic book Why Don't You Understand Me? The Surprising Science behind Connecting in a World of Missed Signals, publishes on the very same day as When Things Get Personal and hits many of the same beats.

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Yael Schonbrun | Substack

Clinical psychologist, faculty at Brown University, author of Work, Parent, Thrive & nap enthusiast. I write about the artful science of growing a happier, healthier relational life. Bylines at Washin...

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In chapter five of my new book (currently at the printer), I speculate about what happens "in the Hollywood version" of when Odysseus sails past the sirens. In retrospect this now feels irresponsibly premature.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chapter 8 of When Things Get Personal explores the kinds of "nits and spats" that can persist even in healthy loving relationships - things like where the toothbrushes go, how often the trash gets taken out, or (in my house) where my keys go. (80 days until publication)

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Have we hit peak book club scam yet? I’m now getting scam emails for different books less than half an hour apart.

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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If "so many" can take on the value of one, then consequentialism, since if there is only one choice you are always maximizing and can't go wrong.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The local Domino’s Pizza has a sign reading “So many choices, you can’t go wrong.” What sorts of moral theories are compatible with this claim?

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Everybody is posting about Colbert arriving at the Obama opening in a tan suit, but no one is mentioning what he went home in.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The good news is that my kids don’t think Mom is old. The bad news…

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

hey this guy has a lot of books in his office. maybe his book will be worth checking out, too.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We have a final jacket design. It’s starting to feel real! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jacket image for book titled “When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict”, by Mark Schroeder

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This semester, I taught an undergraduate course on Probability and Rational Choice for the first time. My lecture notes are here: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/par...

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Overheard (at my dinner table): Dad, what's a "dissertation prospectus"? Is that like a tesseract?

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Pleased to report that the board of Princeton University Press has given final approval to publishing _Interpretive Objects: Meaning in Language, Life, and Law_, with a planned release date in fall 2027, based on my 2023 Hempel Lectures. @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

What a wonder to find that awe is still possible in 2026.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

When Things Get Personal is available for pre-order! I couldn't be more excited that this work is finally making its way to the public. If you've ever clashed with someone - whether it was a blow-up fight, a minor spat, hurt feelings, or just a missed connection - this book has something for you.

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When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict

When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict [Schroeder, Mark] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Is it ok to start watching baseball if I haven't seen the other 150 seasons? Or is it better to start from the beginning?

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Replacing jobs is so 20th century. Once no one has an income anymore they'll need to replace *consumers* with AI.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

[Welp] just returned my copyedits to the press. I have so much emotionally invested in this project that it gives me more nerves than anything that I have done in many years. So eager to see my baby go out into the world on its own. @princetonupress.bsky.social

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nude gingrich @toriimacdaddy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If Venezuela wins, we have to return Maduro and give them Trump. Those are the rules as outlined by the World Baseball Classic.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 15/03/2026

He was reading Adam Smith before it was cool

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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SuPo @supo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I have to work hard to not just say "just" every other sentence.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

either "so" or "this." or the general defensive crouch that comes from always looking over your shoulder at invisible referees

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The worst danger of AI isn't that it exploits creators, nor that it guzzles energy, wastes water and hands power to an undeserving elite, but that it severs our links to each other. It discourages conversation, spontaneity, empathy, critical thinking: everything that makes us better than machines.

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Eric Linus Kaplan @ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

putting loud noises in a big font

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What's your worst writing tic? I'm on page two of my copyedits for When Things Get Personal, and my copyeditor is already complaining about my overuse of 'in fact'.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

popular misconception: it is one who has completed a doctorate-by-posting

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

We just wrapped our conference on AI and Data Ethics with a focus on talks combining research with pedagogy. People are doing so many cool things! @add-hawk.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

from a standpoint epistemological view you have to take this view particularly seriously

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’m on a tour this spring talking about my work on interpretive objects and how it applies to the philosophy of law. It kicks off tomorrow with pushback from all of the legal philosophy heavyweights at the Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference.

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

yeah I've read books I've seen how this goes. The seventh richest man is a noble and clever orphan who will rise above them all

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Just dug up old CDs with my weekend playlist from 2007. Flashing back.

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Some X-cellent alternatives have been spotted, but still (hypothetically) leaning toward Mutiny on the High C's: Concepts for Pirates

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Suppose (hypothetically speaking) that I want to write a paper exploring piracy as a metaphor for conceptual engineering. What is my title?

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Sara Protasi @saraprotasi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Here is the short and pretty version of a paper I published at the beginning of the year in which I argue that sleeping is valuable aesthetically, interpersonally and intrinsically. Happy to say that a short book on this topic is forthcoming with Princeton U press. #philsky #philosophy #sleeping

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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm having a fascinating discussion with Chat GPT right now about the differences in faculty strength in philosophy between the University of Southern California at its peak and a "hypothetical" list of faculty that I constructed by copying and pasting from my departmental webpage.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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