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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 14h

What is faith yourself supposed to be if not “I’ll hit on one of the good/right things to do”, where that’s not guaranteed in advance on your or your community’s say so? (Genuine question)

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 19h

I would be indifferent to whether people did that as such, though I wouldn't want to have lived in a way that would make people want to do that.

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 3d

Well, but he says in performing virtuous acts we have to perform them for the sake of the fine and for their own sakes. Isn't the accusation of virtue signaling that they're being performed with some other motive, e.g., gaining influence?

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 3d

maybe should think they'll use a lot of our same at least fundamental concepts. That said, for any example of a concept some philosopher has said is indispensable for understanding the world, a different philosopher has argued that it's incoherent or at least non-instantiated. Hard to say!

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 3d

solve problems? It seems to me a very difficult question whether you can really be said to be thinking about the world if you say don't have concepts of persisting objects, etc., which might tell against the Carnap strategy. So, insofar as we think smarter AI will still understand the world,

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 3d

choose between them other than pragmatic benefits like what it's useful to think in terms of. His distinct frameworks were in terms of phenomenal qualities (red there, blue there, big booming noise, etc.) and the language of physics. I think maybe the latter is what you have in mind by good ways to

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 3d

Some philosophers think that very basic categories are indispensable for any successful cognizing of reality at all. Aristotle for example thought you needed the concepts of thing (substance), quality (whiteness), etc. Carnap thought that there could be distinct conceptual schemes with nothing to

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Eliana Hadjiandreou @elianahadtime.bsky.social · 6d

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 5d

Would you double up on "yabba"s in the full phrase or just go with "yabba doo"?

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 8d

Fine, I'm not sure that's wrong about guilt-by-association arguments generally, but the associations are extremely weak in this specific case.

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe short-term? Long-term it is not good or rational politics that benefits from those modes of engagement, in my opinion.

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 8d

That sounds a little like justifying dishonesty, though?

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 8d

Guilt by association arguments are often weak even with strong associations, which is very much not the case here. Argue against the idea itself!

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 10d

One thing that's fairly crazy-making to me is how rarely people are suspicious that the thing they want politicians to run on are the things that would be most emotionally satisfying to them for the politicians to run on. It's great when they align, but you should be worried you're forcing it.

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 11d

Endnotes for a start. Two-column portrait doesn’t work great for reading philosophy imo, but I think that may be more idiosyncratic.

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 11d

They brought back endnotes though!

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 11d

Why did PPR ruin its layout so badly?? philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=RO... (the paper looks interesting, no shade to the paper)

philpapers.org

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing typo

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez @cmunozperez.bsky.social · 12d

SALT 36 will be held at my alma mater, the University of Buenos Aires, on July 29-31 2026. This will be the first time the conference takes place in South America.

Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 15d

When a post begins by skeptically invoking my training as a philosopher I know I'm in for a good time

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Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 15d

Don't threaten me with a good time etc etc

(I don't mean for it to be a universal norm for all posts, but a lot of stuff has had a "THEY don't want you to know about x" feel for me lately.)

Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 15d

Right! I mean as a general phenomenon we'd all be better off giving specific quotes, because attribution standards seem problematically loose these days.

Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 15d

Doesn't have to be here, and it's not really specific to this at all, but I've been seeing so many misattributions of views to Klein lately that I think people in general would be better off giving specific quotes when available.

Daniel Drucker @danieldrucker.bsky.social · 15d

Is there anyone who says there's no upside to losing the battle? I think what they'd say is that in most cases where someone's defending losing the battle for coalition inspiration, the consequences of losing the election are dire enough that the hope for greater strength later is not worth it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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