Chenhao Lu

PhD student in philosophy at Maryland. Interested in the puzzles surrounding "might", "may", and "if". Always wondering whether I know what I know.

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

Giant mushroom in front of my neighbor's house

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

Couldnt find any merch of this cat at the Getty center. Sad.

[Cambridge University Press - Philosophy @CambUP_PHILNYUK]

New Cambridge Element Iris Murdoch by Bridget Clarke is now free to read for 2 weeks!
https://t.co/BUNkRN0JtC
#cambridgeelements #philosophy

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

early spring = tax season

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

The sentence I recently read and liked the most:

"Sweeping trouble under the rug is not the method of true philosophy, especially if it creates a bad bulge."

(Haslanger&Yablo, Amelioration as Course Correction)

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

@baiyunhui123 @HelenaXYFang A context that licenses free choice inferences might an example. And I kind of like thinking about "might or might not p" by comparing it with "must p or must not p". There's a sense in which "must p or must not p" is informationally equivalent to "p or not p".

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

@baiyunhui123 @HelenaXYFang I will! though I don't think sentences of the form "might or might not p" should mean something like "might p and not must p". My view is that they are generally licensed in contexts where the inference from "p or not p" to "might p and might not p" goes through.

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

*It's not always redundant to assert what can be presupposed*

[Helena Fang @HelenaXYFang]

@RealBarnimField : i think when ppl say 'might or might not p' they simply ARE conveying trivial information (hence triviality doesn't matter)
Me: oops guess i should stop writing like that in my paper

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

My plan for Chinese New Year's Eve reading：

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

Seems that Gabriel García Márquez does indeed have a theory about the assertoric content of "The man has fallen"? Horizontalism or Diagonalism?

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

me (listening to a group of philosophers of mind talking about *belief*):

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Words of wisdom ...

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

@HelenaXYFang Kaplan's monsters :)

[JL @unebarque_sur]

sometimes we mistake mark for @chazfirestone , but never the other way round.

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

Seems to be a good candidate for the cover image of "Talking About Nothing"

[Impressions @impression_ists]

René Magritte, L'art de la conversation

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

@unebarque_sur Hi!

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

Can't say how much I love this stylesheet. Always think that it partly reflects the true meaning of 'the pleasure of the text'.

[Chenhao Lu @RealBarnimField]

吾日三省吾身：

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

From one procrastinator to another—

Think thrice before doing anything.
Can I not do it?
Can I do it tomorrow?
Can I let someone else do it?

[Alex Worsnip @AWorsnip]

To my great surprise, on the back of my Aeon piece, I was invited to be on Connecticut Public Radio (an NPR affiliate) discussing incoherence. (The show describes itself as "public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric program.") Listen here:
https://t.co/yqXZ3iAD6j

[Alex Worsnip @AWorsnip]

Almost exactly a year ago, I took on the very tricky challenge of writing a piece about incoherence and structural irrationality for a lay audience. It's out in Aeon today, and I hope you'll consider reading it. Longer backstory in the thread below.
https://t.co/dLu5UwZ2lD