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Carrie Jenkins

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Philosophy prof. Author of What Love Is and What It Could Be, Sad Love, Victoria Sees It, and some other things. Sphynx cat staff. On unceded land. she/they www.carriejenkins.net

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Aug 21

I’m excited to share that my paper ‘Hermeneutic Decentering’ is forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly! It discusses (what I call) ‘hermeneutic dismissiveness’ as a kind of epistemic injustice, then develops a generalized version of Iris Murdoch’s notion of unselfing. This involves decentering …

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 6d

New ink!

By @shewolftattoo.bsky.social

A close-up of Carrie’s wrist with a freshly tattooed black line monarch butterfly

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 10d

… from all ”the real trouble“ and presents itself as “apolitical.”

This is from her essay “The Novelist as Metaphysician” (1950)!

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 10d

“And can we really describe … what moral disagreements are like without … using the real concepts which are causing the real trouble? Political concepts, for instance.”

Once again, Iris Murdoch was doing it before it was cool: here, dissing Ideal Theory-style analytic ethics that abstracts away …

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 12d

It’s giving David Bowie’s Goblin King in Labyrinth, but in some kind of horrible gangly acne-ridden adolescent/larval stage

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 14d

"Science vs. art is a stupid distinction though. This is what Aristophanes should have said: Zeus divided not us but our attention, so that we should never be able to deal with the whole situation."

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 17d

Time t is here!

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 18d

If your partner sleeps with someone else, is it cheating? Philosopher Carrie Jenkins says not necessarily. Mononormativity, the belief that “real love” must be exclusive, prevents us from recognizing ...

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 22d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 22d

Student at my Iris Murdoch seminar this week (re: IM's biography): "She gets around town. No judgment."

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 25d

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying "I don't know" to even 30% of queries
- a conservative estimate based on the paper's analysis of factual uncertainty in training data. Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 25d

… it will be necessary to get rid of the existing intellectual class so as to concentrate that power in the “right” hands. Also, of course, to force feed the opposite message (“books and thinking are useless, you want yummy slop!”) until it’s too late for most people.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 25d

I was chatting with a student yesterday, ranting about a future where the primary class distinction is between people addicted to AI slop and people who can read books and reason critically. Access to such things will be an elite status symbol, as in earlier periods of mass illiteracy. But first …

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 8

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence ... The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind ..."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in AI (probably)

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 6

Much dragon. Very lair. Rawr.

#sphynxcat

A grey Sphynx cat paw, with claws extended, emerges from a soft, fluffy brown blanket. The rest of the cat cannot be seen.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 5

Why yes I would recommend this book! And I did!

@quillkukla.bsky.social’s latest just hit my mailbox.

Carrie’s hand holds Quill R. Kukla’s new book “Sex Beyond Yes: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone”. It is orange and purple, with a stylised hand pulling down a blind.

The back cover of the same book. Various endorsements, including Carrie’s.

“Bold, incisive, and brilliant, Quill R Kukla's Sex Beyond Yes is a provocative exploration of how to negotiate sex that is pleasurable, free, and ethically sound. A must-read for any feminist."
-KATE MANNE,
author of Down Girl and Unshrinking

"What a smart, level-headed, and even-keeled exploration of the highly contentious, deeply polarizing topic of how to get what you want and avoid what you don't when it comes to having sex-however you like to have it. If the #MeToo movement left you wanting more, this is the book for you."
-SUSAN STRYKER,
author of Transgender History

"Readable without sacrificing rigor and sexy without sacrificing seriousness, Sex Beyond "Yes' is a must-read for anyone who approaches sexual relationships thoughtfully, as we all should."
-JOHN CORVINO,
author of Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination

"Timely, well-informed, wise, and highly readable, Sex Beyond 'Yes' draws upon an exceptionally deep and broad understanding, both of the theoretical background and of the diverse and richly nuanced realities of human experience. A rare gem."
-CARRIE JENKINS,
author of What Love Is and What It Could Be

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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · Sep 3

#philosophy

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 3

a woman is sitting in a bathtub with the words `` let them eat cake '' written on the bottom .

Alt: A film clip of as Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, sitting in a bathtub wearing dangly earrings and a full face of makeup saying “Let them eat cake”.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 3

Top moment:

clip.cafe/thunderheart...

'Crow Horse, fuck you. You'd love to.' - Thunderheart

Ray Levoi: Crow Horse, fuck you. Walter Crow Horse: You'd love to.

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 3

Thunderheart was much better than Dances With Wolves. Just saying. Watch it instead.

#grahamgreene

Graham Greene as Crow Horse in the 1992 film Thunderheart. He wears shades and a denim jacket and holds a black handgun, pointed upward. He has long straight hair and looks at the camera directly in a way that is extremely badass.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trump academic job market
🤝
technically not dead

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Sep 2

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, fail to recognize that AI also can't.

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The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It

AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · Aug 30

I don’t know who needs to hear this but, Shaka when the walls fell

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Aug 31

me the second the clock hits midnight and turns to sept 1st

An old white man in warm tweeds carries books and coffee across an autumn campus strewn with orange leaves.

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Aug 26

3. Who is the “Community” in Community Organizing? (Katherine Cheng, Manager of Intercultural Organizing and Research, Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative; PhD Philosophy, UBC)

Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · Aug 26

2. Double Othering and Indigenous Identity Politics (Robin Roberts, X̱aayda, Ts'msyen and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh artist and Indigenous Education Teacher, Vancouver School Board; M.Ed Art Education, UBC) ...