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Mark Alfano
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Mark Alfano is an American philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the editor of The Moral Psychology of the Emotions, a series of books published by Rowman & Littlefield. Alfano is known for his research on virtue ethics., virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and Friedrich Nietzsche. .. more

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Jul 31
facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 2d
new paper on bullshit questions just dropped link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 7d
PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 7d
Sorry of my life over the last year
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 8d
[Werner Herzog voice] Charlie Brown seems surprised when Lucy pulls away the football, and yet he knows that failure is his destiny
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 8d
[Werner Herzog voice] Charlie Brown seems surprised when Lucy pulls away the football, and yet he knows that failure is his destiny
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 8d
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
Pope Leo XIV Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal Austin I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 9d
If I were an ICE agent, I would do it for the exposure, for instance by removing my balaclava and presenting my identification on request
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d
Hundreds of thousands of stasi agents won’t even get paid. Are you happy now libs? Not so funny when the secret police have to work for free
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9d
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d
Hundreds of thousands of stasi agents won’t even get paid. Are you happy now libs? Not so funny when the secret police have to work for free
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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10d
DMV Worker: Stop staring at your phone while I take your driver's license photo

Guy: But this is how I look when I drive
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 11d
truly we live in the stupidest of timelines

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 11d
That's some pretty heavy slopaganda #slopaganda @michalk.bsky.social
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 12d
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 12d
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 23d
They're really going to go full Horst Wessel, aren't they?

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 23d
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 23d
I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 24d
merry as-many-citations-this-year-as-all-of-last-year day to all those who celebrate
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 24d
Cool how the Vice President (not a real job) has the time to livestream (also not a job) threats to destroy the lives of people with actual jobs
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Sep 8
I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

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PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust
This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Aug 30
at least two of these things are true
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 30
The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 30
The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Aug 30
fighting words are not protected speech
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · Aug 29
Since social media is terrible now, I mainly go online to argue with Australians about what day it is.
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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · Aug 30
if it happens, we all know jd vance is a suspect here considering what happened to pope francis
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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · Aug 29
Since social media is terrible now, I mainly go online to argue with Australians about what day it is.
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · Aug 29
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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Michael Prinzing @mprinzing.bsky.social · Aug 29
I had a great chat about how studying philosophy can make people better thinkers with @mvazquez.bsky.social, @markalfano.bsky.social, Deborah Mower, and Heather Battaly. Thanks to @apaphilosophy.bsky.social for hosting and making the recording available!
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Aug 28
There's a reason NWA never recorded a song titled "Fuck the Fire Department"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 28
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing "Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. "I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 28
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing "Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. "I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Aug 27
Cracker Barrel? I hardly know her.