Charlie Lassiter

Philosopher who thinks about mind and culture. Tinkers with agent based models. Tries to sift through data about the phil job market. Sometimes fresh & clean.

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

The Workbench is back with a refreshingly candid discussion of writing for publication, job market challenges, adjuncting, and much more. Please share!

Thanks to @chlassiter and Richard Atkins for the inspiring conversation.

https://t.co/QITgaEM8J0

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

Enjoyed continuing the conversation with Shade Hannum and @nathanballan :) https://t.co/F7lP0X4zM6

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

The kind folks at Ergo's blog asked @bertybaums and me for a short write-up about our work modeling reflective equilibrium: https://t.co/bTX8pF9gmD

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

Looking forward to a fruitful conversation with @nathanballan and Shade Hannum in @ReplyCollective !

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

A new piece on how novices identify experts at @ReplyCollective, responding to @chlassiter, co-written with Shade Hannum. It’s her first publication!

https://t.co/vAMRU61yna

@ASU_SHPRS

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@bertybaums and I have a paper out in Ergo on modeling reflective equilibrium. the upshot is that it's *really* hard to get agents to converge if they aren't working together. https://t.co/ycM8AfdI9o

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@jweisber gtfo it's Bayesian epistemology

[Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballan]

I am pleased to share a conversation I had with the philosopher Roy Sorensen. Check it out for insights into Sorensen’s craft and jokes and songs and much more!

https://t.co/GwsybAk9ks

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@drjamiewatson looking dapper good sir. happy birthday!

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@cailinmeister fwiw your response was measured and generous

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

how are models evaluated if there aren't clear criteria for success and failure for prediction? e.g. models predicting recidivism among 1st time offenders #PSA2022

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

when you publish in a dual-language journal and start getting emails from predatory journals in another language

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@jweisber @philosofacespin that's in a footnote in a book I'm writing. not cool man

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

RIP Kripke. I'll never forget that seminar I sat in on where he ate a grad student's macaroons like a damn chipmunk

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@cailinmeister congratulations! would love to read it :) useful feedback is unlikely but will be attempted

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

hey is our concept of coherence logically prior or posterior to our various intuitions in some domain?

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

the slogan of my new notebook makes me unreasonably happy

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@jweisber wait, you guys high performance computing clusters?

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

Baudrillard: The imaginary of Disneyland is neither true nor false, it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate the fiction of the real in the opposite camp.

Baudrillard's wife: ok so where do *you* think we should vacation?

[Charlie Lassiter @chlassiter]

@Arbitrary_user @maggiewestrum @mattyglesias hey don't sully the name of the man who graduated from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College by association with something ridiculous