AgnesCallard
Philosopher, UChicago.
My book _Aspiration_ in the TLS:
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in the New Yorker:tinyurl.com/yavs5z9s
Profile drawing: Abe Callard
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Jonathan Kay on the tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape
Without intending to, Twitter’s culture warriors have created a sort of crowdsourced ideological autocracy ― and paradoxically, it’s left-wingers who are often targets
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"...wages within the journalism industry flat-lined, job security eroded... less motivation to toe your boss’s line, more motivation to focus on your own digital brand.Your boss could take away your paycheque. But she could never take away your followers."
8d
The pseudo-profundity of Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is sometimes criticised on the basis that, although he has a reputation as a thinker, all he does is précis other people’s research. That’s not fair. Popularising academic ideas with style for a broad audience is hardly an ignoble...
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“The art here lies in making the platitudinous conclusion seem like a revelatory place to end up, after one has enjoyed the colourful “stories” about carefully described plucky individuals with certain hairstyles and particular kinds of trousers.”
11d
On Left Straussianism
Nobody shares all their private complaints with an audience, but how do we know how much to share and with whom? Certainly, in the name of various kinds of shared commitments, it seems best…
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This piece could serve as a manifesto for The Point, and makes me proud to write for it.
23d
Fanning the Flames While the Humanities Burn
A debate over 'privilege' threatens to overshadow the real problem.
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Great piece by @a_n_a_berg on how the responses to Kay prove his point.
Has the the life of the mind become so incomprehensible that longing for it can only be read as maleness and colonial chauvinism?
28d
Can philosophy be cool? A Hyde Park debate series revives the art of the late-night dorm rap session
A portrait of Night Owls, the philosophy series at University of Chicago that has become a centerpiece of intellectual life in Hyde Park
An Interview With A Man Who Eats Leftover Food From Strangers' Plates In Restaurants
Alex is a 43-year-old San Franciscan who works in the financial sector. He also eagerly eats uneaten and untouched leftover food off of plates if he spots it out in the open at a public dining establishment, even if it’s off a stranger’s plate. He...
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"With guacamole, you’re not putting a spoon in there. You’re taking a chip, the chip is grabbing the guacamole, and then it’s going right in your mouth. All in one bite. People aren’t really double dipping chips."
Hard to argue with his reasoning.
35d
Against Advice
This is the fourth in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. We live in a glorious era of podcasting, public conversation and boundary-crossing interest in niche academic…
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My newest column for @the_point_mag, in which I argue that all advice is bad advice.
39d
Formalisms and Formalizations: Glass Bead in conversation with Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Reviel Netz
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This is a great interview on the origins of logical and mathematical reasoning with Reviel Netz and @cdutilhnovaes.
41d
Love, and Be Silent | Julia Yost
Regretting Motherhood: A Study by orna donath north atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a . . . .
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”these mothers have experienced “disappearing” and emptiness, and look back on their prematernal selves as fuller and more satisfied”
45d
Stop Calling It “Casual Sex”
Our concept of “casual sex” has given us permission to be casual with each other’s humanity.
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Great piece by @brosandprose on how there is no slippery slope leading from loveless sex to total mutual indifference.
50d
The Data ‘Bad Moms’ Need
What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood.
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Really good point:
”The first hour with my kids is great,but by the fourth,I’m ready for some time with my research
My job doesn’t have this nose-dive in marginal value-the highs are not as high,but the hour-to-hour satisfaction declines much more slowly.”
59d
Carnap Did Nothing Wrong!
This is a post about what it means to have a fave, a philosopher one likes and identifies with and champions. Spurred by the fact that folk ...
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”So that's Carnap for me. Someone ... with whom I feel a kind of aspirational moral identification...and who I think was, like, wrong about everything but... in a cool way.” Great piece by @lastpositivist
#notnoheroes
59d
Is Philosophy Fight Club?
This is the third in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. Once an esteemed philosopher was mean to me. He began by dismissing the value of the…
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My new column for @the_point_mag, in which I argue that philosophers should fight more, in order to experience what it is like to die.
63d
Bertrand Russell on Philosophy (1960)
A short interview with Bertrand Russell on philosophy from 1960. It's already on Youtube, but I tried to fix up the audio and video a bit. I also added Engli...
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Bertrand Russell on (a) what philosophy is and (b) why it is good.
(a) "science is what we know and philosophy is what we don't know, that's a simple definition"
(b) "The human mind shouldn't be limited and enclosed within what can now be known."
Watch!
80d
3AM Magazine's radical chic motto--"whatever it is, we're against it"--turns out to be bollocks
Their real motto is "whatever right-thinking zealots in our little corner of the universe agree on, we're for it." The magazine has withdrawn Richard Marshall's interview with philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne) because in the course of the...
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3AM Magazine withdraws Richard Marshall's interview with philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith; Marshall resigns; end of series.
89d
The Emotion Police
This is the second in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read the first here. If you tell me to calm down, I probably won’t. The same goes for: “be…
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My second column for @the_point_mag , in which I tell you what you can and cannot feel.
94d
College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged
Fifty people were charged including the Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, a fashion designer, a top lawyer and college coaches, officials said.
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Blah blah college admissions scandal blah blah but did you catch this reference to Aristotelian metaphysics:
“The parents are the prime movers of this fraud,” Andrew E. Lelling, the United States attorney....
PRIME MOVERS!!
Congrats @AristotlesStgra
96d
The third cohort of Emergent Ventures recipients
As always, note that the descriptions are mine and reflect my priorities, as the self-descriptions of the applicants may be broader or slightly different. Here goes: Jordan Schneider, for newsletter and podcast and writing work “explaining the rise...
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Congratulations to @ElucidationsPod to which you should all be subscribing!
Proud to have been interviewee #100 as well as #1, which was in fact my first public interview.
98d