@medvenson
Graduate (MA) Student and Research Assistant in Philosophy at the University of Florida Interested primarily in the philosophies of biology & psychology as they pertain to human evolution. More about me: https://micahedvenson.substack.com/p/about-me
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It's worth having a look at our website, if you haven't, or haven't lately. There are a lot of remarkable things going on at UF philosophy these days.
phil.ufl.edu
I mean, I shouldn't be surprised by this, but it's wild how many academics apparently don't want to do the main things (write papers, teach students) they are paid to do
“It is really a discussion of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and not really interesting unless those involved in the discussion are drunk or graduate students — two states of roughly similar incompetence”
-Stephen King
David Daegling
"(Continental philosopher): Without 5, we could not count to 6. (Me): Yes. (Continental philosopher): It could be said 6 is consequently in the 5-shadow, the forthcoming of 6 is 5-heralded, that 5 springs necessarily from the recapitulation of 6. (Me, checking my watch): Yes."
Some wisdom about life, from Wittgenstein
New video out!
Dr. Jody Azzouni (Tufts) on the Rule-Following Paradox:
youtu.be/X_rGMQBKke8?...
After Lecture II, I thought I was done. But I was wrong.
I've now finished compiling all my lecture notes from my history of analytic phil course into an 80-page review of all three lectures of Kripke's Naming and Necessity.
grahamsethmoore.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/b...
Next reads up starting this month
My top 5 books I read this year:
how it feels when you say there's a language of thought
Winter break reading, already a stimulating and engaging read ~20 pages in
Daegling has a unique ability to write engaging philosophy of science and practical functional morphology at the same time.
“When we evaluate beliefs and belief-forming methods, as opposed to merely describing them, we are doing epistemology, not science. In epistemology we both make and theorize about epistemic evaluations.”
-Jared Warren (The a priori without magic)
a man he saw tied to a dam in Africa while he was traveling around there for research
Robert Sapolsky on the allure of studying aggression
Kendrick dropped a new album and the Gators take down Ole Miss
What a wonderful couple days
this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
currently reading Cormac McCarthy and watching college football, sometimes life is alright
sticking with the pet theme, meet Gary and Callie:
I realize I didn’t post many pet pics on twitter, so anyway this is Mele
Call for papers for the University of Florida’s Graduate Philosophy Conference in the Spring:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
New Leiter report of philosophy PhD program rankings:
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/11...
Chappell Roan sounds like a place they have to defend in Lord of the Rings.
Two Philosophy Job openings at The University of Florida!
Assistant/Associate Professor:
philjobs.org/job/show/27482
Post-Doc in philosophy of mind/cogsci/AI
(w/ Dr. Cameron Buckner):
philjobs.org/job/show/277...
Now that philosophers of mind are moving over here we have an opportunity to change the conversation. No more panpsychism and illusionism discourse. That’s for the old app. Here we argue about the language of thought and embodied cognition
Trying to initiate my migration away from X, if you’re interested in philosophy, history, anthropology, horror lit/movies, metal music, or you’re just a cool person- we should be friends!
