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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

After a summer hiatus from poasting so Paul Blaschko and I could rest up, @thephillibrary.bsky.social is back for another school year!

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy.

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

absolute terms, leading to a number of discoveries about the behavior and semantics of gradable adjectives. This paper considers the research program that his argument has spawned, first in linguistics and then increasingly making its way back to philosophy, influencing debates

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Abstract: In Ignorance, Peter Unger famously argues for a version of radical skepticism, that everyone knows “hardly anything to be so.” Skepticism, of course, is nothing new. What was unique about Unger's position is that it relied on a distinction between relative and

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

More jobs, this time to join us at the Chase Center at Ohio State. It's that time of year! go.osu.edu/DPbg

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Year 4 is in the books, and what a year it's been. Can't wait for the next adventure with you. Happy anniversary babe!

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Getting in the studio with Dan Gullotta and @jacobbruggeman.bsky.social. More soon!

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Grokking the Purpose of Education My attempt to make sense of what schooling should look like in the age of AI Link here: theheartofthepublic.substack.com/p/grokking-t...

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This might be related to multi-dimensionality. There is only one dimension to tallness: height. But there are many different factors to consider when thinking about whether a nation is just.

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Institute for Social Concerns is launching a new journal, The Annual Review of Virtue and the Professions. The focus? Cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on integrating character into professional and preprofessional education. Submissions due September 1! Details:

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open-ended, there is a key sense in which identifying perfectly just societies is required to fully possess the concept of justice, demonstrating the relevance of ideal justice for comparative theorizing.

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In this paper, I will argue that there is an important disanalogy between the concepts of tallness and justice. In particular, because the concept of justice has an uppermost point on its underlying scale whereas the conceptual scale of tallness is

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Sen points out that we do not need to identify the tallest mountain in order to compare the heights of other mountains. Likewise, why suppose that we need to identify the perfectly just society in order to make comparative claims about justice?

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Abstract: Amartya Sen has argued that identifying fully just societies is not necessary for the practical project of diagnosing ways that our society could be made more just. Employing an analogy with tallness,

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

*New Paper* Knowing Justice When You See It Australasian Journal of Philosophy We are good at identifying justice and injustice, even when we don't have a theory about what exactly they are. This has implications for what kind of concepts justice and injustice are. Link below!

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I got to take Laura and Judah to Ole Miss. It was a walk down memory lane. I lived in Oxford from 2011-2013, working with #teachforamerica in Holly Springs. After my favorite restaurants - Ajax, Snack Bar, BBB - we still found time for a philosophy conference #hottytoddy

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Year 1 at Ohio State is in the books. Finishing up finals week will never get old 📚

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

10 years. You have seen me through grad school, engagement, marriage, and my first child. Oh, and did I mention that in those 10 years, you have lived in 9 different states? Happy birthday, Bella! 🐕🌎🎂

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Χριστός ἀνέστη! ✝️🌷🪺

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A lot of exciting courses at the Chase Center this fall - my wife Laura will be teaching about How Politics Breaks Your Brain, @sabrinablittle.bsky.social is tackling happiness, and Daniel is looking to the life of Bonhoeffer as an inspiration for leadership and discipleship.

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Spring vibes 🕶️💐☀️

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"On our end-of-year survey for all the programs, we had many students say that they were more likely to apply to graduate school in philosophy, but a large number also indicated that they were not." Seeing the direction academia is headed, maybe that means we were successful?

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Easily the best workshop out there for academics looking to do public-facing work. The last workshop will run this summer - apply by March 1st! Link below

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Do you want to live a good life? Of course! Who wouldn't? The harder question is how to do it. I'm teaching a Thomistic Institute reading group on Zoom in March, open to all college students. Join us to learn more about Aquinas's views on happiness! Sign up link below:

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The Chase Center is currently advertising for postdocs. 2 year position open to economics, English, history, law, philosophy, political theory/science, theology/religious studies, and sociology

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I grew up the son of a Baptist preacher. Unsurprisingly, the first time I read the word ‘philosophy’ was in the Bible. The message was not a positive one. And somehow I still ended up a philosophy professor!

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our first full year at @thephilosopher.bsky.social just wrapped, and what a year it was. It has been humbling, building a website and teaching library from scratch. For helping me learn that there are many, many things I don't know how to do, thank you to everyone who made it possible!

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

No way there’s another discipline with more inaccurate caricatures

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The good news: There is a new movie about philosophy professors out on @primevideo.bsky.social The bad news:

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A Korean translation of my @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social article on epistemic arguments for democracy is now available. Unfortunately I can't read it to see if they translated me correctly. An overlooked application for Google translate

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Along the way, we touched on: 📖 How teaching in the Mississippi Delta reshaped my vision of education 📖 Why philosophy must move beyond specialization to recover its practical vocation 📖 The “Philosophy as a Way of Life” movement and its call to form whole persons

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I was interviewed for the Classical Commons podcast on @thephillibrary.bsky.social. The question - can the Library be a good resource for classical educators? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-Z...

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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New @thephillibrary.bsky.social promo video just dropped. Enjoy the drone shots of @notredame.bsky.social's campus!

Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

NBC came to my class! Proud of my students for stepping out of their comfort zones and discussing difficult issues with their peers.