Goodbye Ghostfly

graduate student in philosophy. ADHD. okie. BLM. interested in social justice, science, classical pragmatism. some kind of leftist. any pronouns.

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Ask me anything! https://t.co/T5GzD4mUd4

[Mia @prionthot]

@keithdorejel @BigPaleTone Had a chemistry prof who said good chemists are reincarnated as physicists. Bad chemists are reincarnated as economists.

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@keithfrankish I couldn’t ever predicted a Peirce reference and the r-slur in the same sentence.

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@corymassimino Damn that sucks. I’m so sorry.

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@SIUChasmite I literally say the same thing!

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@deontologistics Congrats!

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@SIUChasmite Nor even pragmatist-adjacents? No Whiteheadians? No Habermasians?

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@deontologistics As someone who has strong sympathies for naturalizing normativity, but who finds transphobes and their sloppy philosophy moves anathema, would you be willing to say more?

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

Indeed, out of contrite fallibilism, combined with a high faith in the reality of knowledge, and an intense desire to find things out, all my philosophy has always seemed to me to grow.

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

I think often about the United States as an entity willing to commit war crimes against its own citizens on its own soil. Today marks 41 years since the MOVE bombing. It took place here, in West Philadelphia. And America remains a nation constitutionally at war with itself.

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@SamSmichh But there are many pragmatisms! So its nice to have another pragmatism in the long line of pragmatisms :)

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@SamSmichh That formulation is broader than yours. I don’t think that “knowing” entails know-how strictly (tbf I’m pretty close to the radical anti-intellectualism myself) and it doesn’t peg things to psychology. Peirce is famously antipsychologistic for example.

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@SamSmichh This is overstated. Peirce did have some issues with James, but there are a lot of ways in which Peirce overall moved closer to James, especially in the last 20 years of his life. He did want his own view to be distinct from James's view, but they still agreed on a bunch.

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@_Thrill_House_ @JPober @lastpositivist @KantUpdates I think it depends on which era we’re talkin’. Early and middle CSP would be a nightmare but I think late, humbled CSP would might be tolerable.

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@NeuroYogacara Sorry to hear that. I miss my grandma everyday.

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@mc_kupo It’s got There Will Be Brawl energy

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@MikeBenchCapon @peligrietzer A big tricky part is whether one could handle being a child again after presumably autonomous adult. At best, very tough. At worst, maddening.

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@MikeBenchCapon @peligrietzer Not to mention that acting on foreknowledge will often depend on your acquired wisdom if there’s any chance making things better the second time around.

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@MikeBenchCapon @peligrietzer Sorta both, innit? Certainly knowledge of future events is helpful but it’s also perhaps that the more you act on that knowledge the less predictable your life and even the world becomes. Then it becomes a lot more about the wisdom you gained from the first time around.