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Devin Curry
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· Jun 23
fifty-three of my dad's students, friends, relatives, and ardent admirers helped put this festschrift together: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dckc
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The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors.
link.springer.com/journal/1124...
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Topoi
Topoi's main assumption is that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our received views, relentlessly ...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors.
link.springer.com/journal/1124...
link.springer.com/journal/1124...
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
one semester's daily quizzes
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
one semester's daily quizzes
johanna's essay mostly resonates with
my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows
my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
johanna's essay mostly resonates with
my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows
my experience, except that the classroom i'm teaching intro in this semester doesn't have windows
my wife may be going into labor right when she goes on call as a midwife, generating a real russell's paradox type situation
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
my wife may be going into labor right when she goes on call as a midwife, generating a real russell's paradox type situation
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Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature.
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
Olivia Sultanescu, The Concern for What is True - PhilPapers
The concept of truth always had a special significance within Donald Davidson’s view of language and thought. For instance, Davidson always maintained that a basic requirement for understanding anothe...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature.
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
same as the old dorp
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
same as the old dorp
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Fourteen excellent new papers up at Imprint, including this paper by Anthony Reeves on the moral importance of due process, as well as papers by @neilwwilliams.bsky.social,
@devinsanchezcurry.com,
@frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.
@devinsanchezcurry.com,
@frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.
Anthony Reeves, (2025) “Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 33. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...
Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process
The paper examines important, but underappreciated, aspects of being a rights claimant to vindicate a fundamental moral claim to due process. Much current thinking on the justification of procedural r...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Fourteen excellent new papers up at Imprint, including this paper by Anthony Reeves on the moral importance of due process, as well as papers by @neilwwilliams.bsky.social,
@devinsanchezcurry.com,
@frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.
@devinsanchezcurry.com,
@frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.
favorite thing I've written
Just published:
Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...
Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...
On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds
Philosophers of mind (from eliminative materialists to psychofunctionalists to interpretivists) generally assume that a normative ideal delimits which mental phenomena exist (though they disagree abou...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
favorite thing I've written
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🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i don't think there's a particularly strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and being a productive writer, but i do think there's a very strong correlation between having regimented daily writing time and producing guides to productive writing
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Sept. 19-20: Retirement conference in honor of Gary Hatfield at UPenn. Speakers include Aleksandra Igdalova, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ben Baker, Peter Schwartz, Louise Daoust, and Uljana Feest. For those interested in attending, RSVP here:
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September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Sept. 19-20: Retirement conference in honor of Gary Hatfield at UPenn. Speakers include Aleksandra Igdalova, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ben Baker, Peter Schwartz, Louise Daoust, and Uljana Feest. For those interested in attending, RSVP here:
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#philsky
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#philsky
either my whole brain constructs strawmen equipotentially or my strawmen are the exclusive products of the strawman module in my temporoparietal junction
September 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
either my whole brain constructs strawmen equipotentially or my strawmen are the exclusive products of the strawman module in my temporoparietal junction
this new preprint features what will (to my knowledge) be the first discussion of the mental life of ex utah jazz lunk greg ostertag in a polish journal devoted to the intersection of philosophy and semiotics
get deep in some weeds with @kposlajko.bsky.social and I: philpapers.org/rec/CURBAR
Devin Sanchez Curry, Beliefs are real(ly for social animals) - PhilPapers
In Unreal Beliefs, Krzysztof Poslajko argues that socially constructed beliefs exist but are not real. In this commentary, I argue that the grounds for taking socially constructed beliefs to exist are...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
this new preprint features what will (to my knowledge) be the first discussion of the mental life of ex utah jazz lunk greg ostertag in a polish journal devoted to the intersection of philosophy and semiotics
get deep in some weeds with @kposlajko.bsky.social and I: philpapers.org/rec/CURBAR
Devin Sanchez Curry, Beliefs are real(ly for social animals) - PhilPapers
In Unreal Beliefs, Krzysztof Poslajko argues that socially constructed beliefs exist but are not real. In this commentary, I argue that the grounds for taking socially constructed beliefs to exist are...
philpapers.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
get deep in some weeds with @kposlajko.bsky.social and I: philpapers.org/rec/CURBAR
my daughters have never known an uncle without a podcast
August 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
my daughters have never known an uncle without a podcast
July 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
Kenneth Black, Common Ground, Conditionals, and _Ceteris Paribus_ Pragmatics - PhilArchive
In conversation, we make use of shared information in order to communicate. But what shared information? In theorising about conversation, it’s popular to allot a privileged position to a single body ...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
"Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity.
philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2
philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2
Devin Sanchez Curry, Nonfiction stories about minds - PhilPapers
According to mental fictionalists, folk psychological ascriptions of mental states are a kind of storytelling that does not commit ascribers to the existence of mental states. Interpretivists about th...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity.
philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2
philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2
fifty-three of my dad's students, friends, relatives, and ardent admirers helped put this festschrift together: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dckc
June 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
fifty-three of my dad's students, friends, relatives, and ardent admirers helped put this festschrift together: www.devinsanchezcurry.com/dckc
Reposted by Devin Curry
Excited about today's new #HoPWaG episode, in which I interview Gary Hatfield about the argument of Descartes' Meditations! We discuss his reasons for writing it, the cogito, the proofs for God, and the Cartesian circle.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me...
#philsky #descartes #meditations
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me...
#philsky #descartes #meditations
May 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excited about today's new #HoPWaG episode, in which I interview Gary Hatfield about the argument of Descartes' Meditations! We discuss his reasons for writing it, the cogito, the proofs for God, and the Cartesian circle.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me...
#philsky #descartes #meditations
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-me...
#philsky #descartes #meditations
strus should've gone in for a knowledge norm of showing up to work instead
May 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
strus should've gone in for a knowledge norm of showing up to work instead