al

☆ alex, 23, she/her, pan, 2nd year philo undergrad at lse, host of @coffeenphilo ☆

[al @braininabab]

in lieu of my recent overall appreciation for hilary putnam I have updated my username from itshumebab to braininabab but hi its me still :)

[The Coffee & Philosophy Podcast ☕ @coffeenphilo]

EPISODE 21: EMPIRICIST RESPONSES TO SCEPTICISM OUT NOW ☕💕

and that's a wrap on all the main specification epistemology content... just a little review and two bonus eps and I'll be moving on in season 2 to moral or mind!

[al @braininabab]

@SinistousStudio @jk_rowling There's also XXY men and cis women with XY chromosones (AIS) and cis men with XX chromosones (DSD) and those are just the ones I know of and I'm far from a scientist lmao- if you were really a man of science you'd have taken the time to fact check yourself

[al @braininabab]

@jk_rowling those labels don't exist absolutely beyond us and science appears to recognise that quite well enough- is it so hard to see how we update our concepts as we come to understand ourselves more? 2/2

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@jk_rowling gender isn't that simple- and neither is sex. Would you be upset at a woman with AIS for participating in women's sports because she has XY chromosones? Many fall out of the binary of sex we created in an attempt to categorise and make sense of the world- (1/2)

[al @braininabab]

@alexrmoskowitz love this tweet don't love the suspiciously naturalistic 'some people are just born better' responses to it lol, as if intelligence is purely academic anyway and as if it's that easy to define, which is why I'm assuming you said "smart" and not just smart

[al @braininabab]

@AStrasser116 it is comforting to know that there are more than a few people who also turn to burying themselves in philosophy papers as a coping mechanism for life lol

[al @braininabab]

weirdest hobby this year has been repainting old board games and card sets into my own custom games; the first was an inside joke related set of cluedo, presently it's making a multi-armed bandit problem card game to see how risk averse my loved ones are <3

[al @braininabab]

the combo of these two as my top artist and top song is sad in the 'you're gen z not gen x you should not be listening to the coldfeet anthem on repeat' kinda way but also in the 'are you ok you've been using hellogoodbye as a substitute for therapy all year' kinda way

[al @braininabab]

me at 14: I'm learning about philosophy bc I'm sad and want answers about what it means to be good or bad & what our purpose is so I can fix some people

me at 23: aww, you adorable control freak 💕! I'm learning philosophy so I can heckle ideal theorists & write in funky symbols

[al @braininabab]

spotify wrapped: who was your top artist this year? let's find out!

duolingo wrapped: is the green bird gonna find out where you live and hunt you down in the middle of the night? let's find out!

[al @braininabab]

@JessicasuAKA vibes I'm getting off the account that keeps replying to you make me think they shit on the social sciences, humanities etc because recognising the research done by these fields means no longer having some naturalistic bs excuse for discrimination :')

[al @braininabab]

one could say, even, that the female of the species is more deadly than the male- cue xylophone

[al @braininabab]

first bilaterian: would you love me even if I was a worm
godfrey-smith:

[al @braininabab]

besides this is a shitpost anyway that would prob be more tumblr-friendly but it is a philosophy shitpost I gotta get the logic right and don't tell me it hasn't made you think about how fascinating it is how messily we define even the simplest of things teehee

[al @braininabab]

brennan lee mulligan believes a baguette is a sandwich which makes me think perhaps other people also believe a baguette is a sandwich and as a philosophy student who has exhaustively discussed the ontology of sandwiches as an icebreaker: that ain't right 🧵

[al @braininabab]

You may say 'Al stop being pedantic for everyday purposes we can stipulatively refer to baguettes as sandwiches even if they aren't' tablets and smartphones are v similar but pragmatically it would mess you up if every time I used my phone I said 'lemme check my tablet'