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  1. This is the second in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Mediated Encounter Realism within the category of metaphysics for ontology. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/0FL5p

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  2. This is the second in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Mediated Encounter Realism within the category of metaphysics for ontology. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/0FL5p

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  3. This is the second in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Mediated Encounter Realism within the category of metaphysics for ontology. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/0FL5p

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  4. This is the second in a deeper look at 10 of my philosophical positions; this one is on Mediated Encounter Realism within the category of metaphysics for ontology. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/0FL5p

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  5. This is the first of a deeper look into 10 of my philosophical positions, this on diagnostic anti-foundationalism within the category of philosophical method for metaphilosophy. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/6bLZo

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  6. This is the first of a deeper look into 10 of my philosophical positions, this on diagnostic anti-foundationalism within the category of philosophical method for metaphilosophy. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/6bLZo

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  7. This is the first of a deeper look into 10 of my philosophical positions, this on diagnostic anti-foundationalism within the category of philosophical method for metaphilosophy. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/6bLZo

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  8. This is the first of a deeper look into 10 of my philosophical positions, this on diagnostic anti-foundationalism within the category of philosophical method for metaphilosophy. A full article is available on my Substack, with supporting information on a recent post on Philosophics Blog.

    Below is a ~5-minute short podcast.

    open.spotify.com/episode/6bLZo

    #philosophy #podcast #metaphilosophy #anti-foundationalism #diagnostics #dis-integrationism #quietism #blog #substack

  9. Oh wow, another philosopher valiantly defending the sacred "intuitions" 🙄, because who doesn't love a good game of mental gymnastics? 🤹‍♂️ But fear not, this article promises to delve into the riveting world of #metaphilosophy, for when you're just *dying* to ponder the unknowable with the help of vague gut feelings! 😂
    hilariusbookbinder.substack.co #philosophy #mentalgymnastics #intuition #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  10. Oh wow, another philosopher valiantly defending the sacred "intuitions" 🙄, because who doesn't love a good game of mental gymnastics? 🤹‍♂️ But fear not, this article promises to delve into the riveting world of #metaphilosophy, for when you're just *dying* to ponder the unknowable with the help of vague gut feelings! 😂
    hilariusbookbinder.substack.co #philosophy #mentalgymnastics #intuition #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Oh wow, another philosopher valiantly defending the sacred "intuitions" 🙄, because who doesn't love a good game of mental gymnastics? 🤹‍♂️ But fear not, this article promises to delve into the riveting world of #metaphilosophy, for when you're just *dying* to ponder the unknowable with the help of vague gut feelings! 😂
    hilariusbookbinder.substack.co #philosophy #mentalgymnastics #intuition #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  12. Oh wow, another philosopher valiantly defending the sacred "intuitions" 🙄, because who doesn't love a good game of mental gymnastics? 🤹‍♂️ But fear not, this article promises to delve into the riveting world of #metaphilosophy, for when you're just *dying* to ponder the unknowable with the help of vague gut feelings! 😂
    hilariusbookbinder.substack.co #philosophy #mentalgymnastics #intuition #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  13. We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

    In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.

    Read the full post:
    👉 philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/s

    #Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism

  14. We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

    In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.

    Read the full post:
    👉 philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/s

    #Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism

  15. We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

    In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.

    Read the full post:
    👉 philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/s

    #Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism

  16. We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

    In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.

    Read the full post:
    👉 philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/s

    #Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism

  17. Pills often feature in thought experiments to eliminate the difficulty of one of the response options. Example: It's hard to [X] in reality, but suppose you could [X] by taking a pill. Would you take the pill?

    I got curious about whether people find it so easy to take pills. Apparently not.

    In this meta-analysis, #medication non-adeherence was more than 40%: doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0

    #philosophy #metaphilosophy #experimentalPhilosophy #health

  18. Pills often feature in thought experiments to eliminate the difficulty of one of the response options. Example: It's hard to [X] in reality, but suppose you could [X] by taking a pill. Would you take the pill?

    I got curious about whether people find it so easy to take pills. Apparently not.

    In this meta-analysis, #medication non-adeherence was more than 40%: doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0

    #philosophy #metaphilosophy #experimentalPhilosophy #health

  19. Pills often feature in thought experiments to eliminate the difficulty of one of the response options. Example: It's hard to [X] in reality, but suppose you could [X] by taking a pill. Would you take the pill?

    I got curious about whether people find it so easy to take pills. Apparently not.

    In this meta-analysis, #medication non-adeherence was more than 40%: doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0

    #philosophy #metaphilosophy #experimentalPhilosophy #health

  20. Pills often feature in thought experiments to eliminate the difficulty of one of the response options. Example: It's hard to [X] in reality, but suppose you could [X] by taking a pill. Would you take the pill?

    I got curious about whether people find it so easy to take pills. Apparently not.

    In this meta-analysis, #medication non-adeherence was more than 40%: doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0

    #philosophy #metaphilosophy #experimentalPhilosophy #health

  21. More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

    From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

    Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476

    They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
    - REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
    - shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

    #decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot

  22. More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

    From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

    Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476

    They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
    - REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
    - shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

    #decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot

  23. More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

    From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

    Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476

    They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
    - REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
    - shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

    #decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot

  24. More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

    From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

    Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476

    They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
    - REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
    - shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

    #decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot

  25. 🚨 Free book alert! (ePub and PDF!)

    *Applying Reflective Equilibrium* shows each step of #reflectiveEquilibrium (RE), so anyone can use it.

    This reveals the limits of reflective equilibrium, but also its real benefits.

    Where to find it: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-0433

    #CriticalThinking #Logic #Ethics #Bioethics #Politics #Science #Medicine #Epistemology #Metaphilosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PrecautionaryPrinciple #Philosophy #OpenAccess

  26. 🚨 Free book alert! (ePub and PDF!)

    *Applying Reflective Equilibrium* shows each step of #reflectiveEquilibrium (RE), so anyone can use it.

    This reveals the limits of reflective equilibrium, but also its real benefits.

    Where to find it: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-0433

    #CriticalThinking #Logic #Ethics #Bioethics #Politics #Science #Medicine #Epistemology #Metaphilosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PrecautionaryPrinciple #Philosophy #OpenAccess

  27. 🚨 Free book alert! (ePub and PDF!)

    *Applying Reflective Equilibrium* shows each step of #reflectiveEquilibrium (RE), so anyone can use it.

    This reveals the limits of reflective equilibrium, but also its real benefits.

    Where to find it: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-0433

    #CriticalThinking #Logic #Ethics #Bioethics #Politics #Science #Medicine #Epistemology #Metaphilosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PrecautionaryPrinciple #Philosophy #OpenAccess

  28. New book: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners

    The book includes chapters on various experimental designs and analyses of various kinds of data (from numeric scores to text analysis): doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-5804

    Seems like a great foundation for a course on the topic or for self-learners to get their feet wet.

    #xPhi #philosophy #psychology #quantiativeMethods #decisionScience #philosophyOfScience #Metaphilosophy #higherEd

  29. New book: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners

    The book includes chapters on various experimental designs and analyses of various kinds of data (from numeric scores to text analysis): doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-5804

    Seems like a great foundation for a course on the topic or for self-learners to get their feet wet.

    #xPhi #philosophy #psychology #quantiativeMethods #decisionScience #philosophyOfScience #Metaphilosophy #higherEd

  30. New book: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners

    The book includes chapters on various experimental designs and analyses of various kinds of data (from numeric scores to text analysis): doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-5804

    Seems like a great foundation for a course on the topic or for self-learners to get their feet wet.

    #xPhi #philosophy #psychology #quantiativeMethods #decisionScience #philosophyOfScience #Metaphilosophy #higherEd

  31. New book: Experimental Philosophy for Beginners

    The book includes chapters on various experimental designs and analyses of various kinds of data (from numeric scores to text analysis): doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-5804

    Seems like a great foundation for a course on the topic or for self-learners to get their feet wet.

    #xPhi #philosophy #psychology #quantiativeMethods #decisionScience #philosophyOfScience #Metaphilosophy #higherEd

  32. How should #higherEd govern #freeSpeech?

    A new (and free) paper in Philosophical Quarterly argues that the parties to this debate haven't sufficiently based their proposals on (a) the goals of #education or (b) scientific tests of their assumed mechanisms: doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae095

    #edu #policy #ethics #politics #logic #science #philosophyOfScience #metaphilosophy

  33. How should #higherEd govern #freeSpeech?

    A new (and free) paper in Philosophical Quarterly argues that the parties to this debate haven't sufficiently based their proposals on (a) the goals of #education or (b) scientific tests of their assumed mechanisms: doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae095

    #edu #policy #ethics #politics #logic #science #philosophyOfScience #metaphilosophy

  34. How should #higherEd govern #freeSpeech?

    A new (and free) paper in Philosophical Quarterly argues that the parties to this debate haven't sufficiently based their proposals on (a) the goals of #education or (b) scientific tests of their assumed mechanisms: doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae095

    #edu #policy #ethics #politics #logic #science #philosophyOfScience #metaphilosophy

  35. How should #higherEd govern #freeSpeech?

    A new (and free) paper in Philosophical Quarterly argues that the parties to this debate haven't sufficiently based their proposals on (a) the goals of #education or (b) scientific tests of their assumed mechanisms: doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae095

    #edu #policy #ethics #politics #logic #science #philosophyOfScience #metaphilosophy

  36. Are there social class differences in moral decision-making?

    When dissociating anti-social from deontological and utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas, social class predicted differences in the latter two response patterns among thousands of German speakers — the class differences in utilitarian thinking were partially mediated by reflection and empathic concern.

    doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1391

    #ethics #psychology #MoralPsychology #xPhi #philosophy #Demography #Metaphilosophy

  37. Are there social class differences in moral decision-making?

    When dissociating anti-social from deontological and utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas, social class predicted differences in the latter two response patterns among thousands of German speakers — the class differences in utilitarian thinking were partially mediated by reflection and empathic concern.

    doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1391

    #ethics #psychology #MoralPsychology #xPhi #philosophy #Demography #Metaphilosophy

  38. Are there social class differences in moral decision-making?

    When dissociating anti-social from deontological and utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas, social class predicted differences in the latter two response patterns among thousands of German speakers — the class differences in utilitarian thinking were partially mediated by reflection and empathic concern.

    doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1391

    #ethics #psychology #MoralPsychology #xPhi #philosophy #Demography #Metaphilosophy

  39. Are there social class differences in moral decision-making?

    When dissociating anti-social from deontological and utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas, social class predicted differences in the latter two response patterns among thousands of German speakers — the class differences in utilitarian thinking were partially mediated by reflection and empathic concern.

    doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1391

    #ethics #psychology #MoralPsychology #xPhi #philosophy #Demography #Metaphilosophy

  40. I find that this assumption of the intelligibility of nature, especially to a specific species of ape, is also very common, or even more common, in philosophy, where intuitions are often seen as a sort of evidence. Same for the tendency to simplify issues so as to fit specific standards of how a philosophy talk/paper must look like.

    Link to the book (OA): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045

    #philsci #metaphilosophy

  41. I find that this assumption of the intelligibility of nature, especially to a specific species of ape, is also very common, or even more common, in philosophy, where intuitions are often seen as a sort of evidence. Same for the tendency to simplify issues so as to fit specific standards of how a philosophy talk/paper must look like.

    Link to the book (OA): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045

    #philsci #metaphilosophy

  42. I find that this assumption of the intelligibility of nature, especially to a specific species of ape, is also very common, or even more common, in philosophy, where intuitions are often seen as a sort of evidence. Same for the tendency to simplify issues so as to fit specific standards of how a philosophy talk/paper must look like.

    Link to the book (OA): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045

    #philsci #metaphilosophy

  43. I find that this assumption of the intelligibility of nature, especially to a specific species of ape, is also very common, or even more common, in philosophy, where intuitions are often seen as a sort of evidence. Same for the tendency to simplify issues so as to fit specific standards of how a philosophy talk/paper must look like.

    Link to the book (OA): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548045

    #philsci #metaphilosophy

  44. By Mary Midgley

    ravenmagazine.org/magazine/rin

    > ... an account of human knowledge which women’s whole experience falsifies is inadequate and partial and capricious. Philosophers have generally talked for instance as though it were obvious that one consciousness went to one body, as though each person were a closed system which could only signal to another by external behaviour, and that behaviour had to be interpreted from previous experience.

    [1/2]

    #metaphilosophy #feministPhilosophy

  45. By Mary Midgley

    ravenmagazine.org/magazine/rin

    > ... an account of human knowledge which women’s whole experience falsifies is inadequate and partial and capricious. Philosophers have generally talked for instance as though it were obvious that one consciousness went to one body, as though each person were a closed system which could only signal to another by external behaviour, and that behaviour had to be interpreted from previous experience.

    [1/2]

    #metaphilosophy #feministPhilosophy

  46. By Mary Midgley

    ravenmagazine.org/magazine/rin

    > ... an account of human knowledge which women’s whole experience falsifies is inadequate and partial and capricious. Philosophers have generally talked for instance as though it were obvious that one consciousness went to one body, as though each person were a closed system which could only signal to another by external behaviour, and that behaviour had to be interpreted from previous experience.

    [1/2]

    #metaphilosophy #feministPhilosophy

  47. By Mary Midgley

    ravenmagazine.org/magazine/rin

    > ... an account of human knowledge which women’s whole experience falsifies is inadequate and partial and capricious. Philosophers have generally talked for instance as though it were obvious that one consciousness went to one body, as though each person were a closed system which could only signal to another by external behaviour, and that behaviour had to be interpreted from previous experience.

    [1/2]

    #metaphilosophy #feministPhilosophy

  48. What are philosophical thought experiments for?

    Two (real) experiments on over 1000 employed "a pre-training—training—post-training design".

    Results indicated that experiments served as "a tool to elicit inconsistencies in one's representations".

    doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13401

    #cogSci #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #edu #teaching #logic #decisionScience #JDM

  49. What are philosophical thought experiments for?

    Two (real) experiments on over 1000 employed "a pre-training—training—post-training design".

    Results indicated that experiments served as "a tool to elicit inconsistencies in one's representations".

    doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13401

    #cogSci #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #edu #teaching #logic #decisionScience #JDM

  50. What are philosophical thought experiments for?

    Two (real) experiments on over 1000 employed "a pre-training—training—post-training design".

    Results indicated that experiments served as "a tool to elicit inconsistencies in one's representations".

    doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13401

    #cogSci #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #edu #teaching #logic #decisionScience #JDM

  51. What are philosophical thought experiments for?

    Two (real) experiments on over 1000 employed "a pre-training—training—post-training design".

    Results indicated that experiments served as "a tool to elicit inconsistencies in one's representations".

    doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13401

    #cogSci #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #edu #teaching #logic #decisionScience #JDM