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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today in hyper-specific tools for academics at course materials gathering time: Visual PDF splitter, for easily extracting chapters. Drag-and-drop to auto-display large PDFs as thumbnails; click to save one or more sections (combined or as individual parts): erickraphael.github.io/Textmill/tex...

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Textmill — visual PDF splitter

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Help! In Merleau-Ponty's 1959 course, he writes: "[Husserl] speaks of phenomenology as the Alps or the Himalayas: phenomenology is there; it has (a) solid, physical existence." Is this MP's image or H's? Anyone know what ref. MP has in mind that conveys this connection between phenom. and solidity?

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-… for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

Bold text reading 'CANCEL CHATGPT EDU.' with a red banner stating 'INVEST IN HUMANS' over a dark board background.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This was such a great conversation, and such a fun opportunity to explore some methodological tensions internal to classical and contemporary phenomenology. Thank you @jyoshimi.bsky.social and @trsam97.bsky.social!

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Rahul @trsam97.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A discussion on Merleau-Pontyan philosophy, cognitive science and ambiguity being fundamental to reality. @robinmuller.bsky.social youtu.be/YPmuFqUwSLw?...

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Merleau-Ponty & Cognitive Science (w/ Robin Muller & Jeffrey Yoshimi)

YouTube video by Rahul Sam

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My partner has started a newsletter/recommendations list/short-form blog/tl;dr for novels so you sound cool at parties. It mainly focuses on experimental and translated literature, so if that's your vibe, check it out: www.thebookhold.com

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The Book Hold

Extreme reading for very serious people

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My entry on "Humanism" for Springer's (truly excellent!) Encyclopedia of Phenomenology is out now: An attempt to grapple with a notoriously slippery concept, on whose definition (and philosophical or political significance) no two phenomenologists can ever seem to agree!

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Humanism as a Theme in Phenomenology

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Last year, the North American Society for Early Phenomenology invited me to give the keynote talk at their annual meeting. Naturally, I wrote a slightly unhinged paper about Merleau-Ponty, Copernicanism, and Einstein's fingers. Many thanks to NASEP for letting me play! Read it here: rb.gy/ftbnlu

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Looking forward to kicking off this year’s series on Friday. I’ll be arguing that readings of Merleau-Ponty as a “post-transcendental” thinker miss the aspects in his thought that make it an especially effective tool of social critique.

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Robin M. Muller @robinmuller.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Many thanks to University of Nevada, Reno for the occasion to return to this project.

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