Joseph M. Forte
@drjmf.bsky.social
Philosophy prof, Specialist on Plato’s afterlife myths teaching a variety of intro ethics courses, author of Moral Issues and Movies…an ethics textbook published by Kendall Hunt, admin of FB group “Philosophy Books”
Proud to report I’ll be starting this academic year with a promotion to Associate Professor
(non-TT, like all FT hires at my institution in the past 8 years or so)
(non-TT, like all FT hires at my institution in the past 8 years or so)
August 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Proud to report I’ll be starting this academic year with a promotion to Associate Professor
(non-TT, like all FT hires at my institution in the past 8 years or so)
(non-TT, like all FT hires at my institution in the past 8 years or so)
Loved returning to @tcddublin.bsky.social last week after 22yrs for many reasons, but their “wild” spaces stand out. I bet they’re great for reducing greenhouse emissions and also helping pollinator populations. Would love to see more of that on US campuses. #environment #highered #Ireland
August 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Loved returning to @tcddublin.bsky.social last week after 22yrs for many reasons, but their “wild” spaces stand out. I bet they’re great for reducing greenhouse emissions and also helping pollinator populations. Would love to see more of that on US campuses. #environment #highered #Ireland
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E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...
The rise of the English major: BlackRock COO wants to recruit liberal arts analysts that 'have nothing to do with finance or technology'
As AI rises, so does the demand for critical thinkers.
fortune.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...
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80 professional and state-based medical associations with a shared statement.
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
80 professional and state-based medical associations with a shared statement.
Interesting and hopeful, Provides insight into why my Republican leaning district in Maine keeps rejecting the MAGAs who want to slash and burn public education
Across party lines, voters overwhelmingly support a strong federal role in education generally and in research and development (R&D) specifically.
Additional findings from the poll can be found here: media.the-learning-agency.com/wp-content/u...
Additional findings from the poll can be found here: media.the-learning-agency.com/wp-content/u...
June 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Interesting and hopeful, Provides insight into why my Republican leaning district in Maine keeps rejecting the MAGAs who want to slash and burn public education
My NYT ballot for the best films of the 21st Century. I’m sure I forgot a few great ones!
June 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My NYT ballot for the best films of the 21st Century. I’m sure I forgot a few great ones!
Some of the most important projects of the Enlightenment are still very much works in progress: 1. One man’s whims can still throw entire nations into turmoil w/o having his power sufficiently checked. …
June 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Some of the most important projects of the Enlightenment are still very much works in progress: 1. One man’s whims can still throw entire nations into turmoil w/o having his power sufficiently checked. …
Don’t watch the press conference. That’s what he wants.
June 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Don’t watch the press conference. That’s what he wants.
www.nokings.org#map
#nokings
Find a protest near you today, fellow Americans. Let’s be on the right side of history—we know those in power here aren’t.
#nokings
Find a protest near you today, fellow Americans. Let’s be on the right side of history—we know those in power here aren’t.
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
www.nokings.org#map
#nokings
Find a protest near you today, fellow Americans. Let’s be on the right side of history—we know those in power here aren’t.
#nokings
Find a protest near you today, fellow Americans. Let’s be on the right side of history—we know those in power here aren’t.
Excited to announce that my friend Jeff Buechner and I are under contract with Springer for our co-edited book in progress titled Informal Logic and Critical Thinking in Practice: The American Philosophical Association AILACT Sessions 2019-2025. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky
June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Excited to announce that my friend Jeff Buechner and I are under contract with Springer for our co-edited book in progress titled Informal Logic and Critical Thinking in Practice: The American Philosophical Association AILACT Sessions 2019-2025. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky
I’m as anti-MAGA as they come, but the part of this that involves levying more taxes from institutions with huge endowments appeals to me. If non-profit universities want to conduct themselves like for-profit businesses, there should be a tax on that. I disagree with the religious exemption though
Several small, liberal arts colleges would be hit with huge tax increases from Trump’s endowment tax, sometimes increasing by 10 to 15 times their current rate. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
These Small Colleges Would Be Hit Hard By Trump’s New Endowment Tax
Proposed increases in endowment taxes will affect not only wealthy universities like Harvard, Yale & Princeton. Several small colleges could face huge tax increases too.
www.forbes.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I’m as anti-MAGA as they come, but the part of this that involves levying more taxes from institutions with huge endowments appeals to me. If non-profit universities want to conduct themselves like for-profit businesses, there should be a tax on that. I disagree with the religious exemption though
Wow, after reading this, I’m very interested in Mary Midgley! Well worth the read! #philosophy #philsky #academicsky #ethics
Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social public philosophy blog!
#marymidgley #philsky
#marymidgley #philsky
Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy
Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...
blog.apaonline.org
May 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Wow, after reading this, I’m very interested in Mary Midgley! Well worth the read! #philosophy #philsky #academicsky #ethics
Was pretty cool to come across this NYT article featuring a research project my good friend Francis Fallon has been a big part of.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s...
#philosophy #philosophers #philsky #academicsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s...
#philosophy #philosophers #philsky #academicsky
Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating.
What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Was pretty cool to come across this NYT article featuring a research project my good friend Francis Fallon has been a big part of.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s...
#philosophy #philosophers #philsky #academicsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s...
#philosophy #philosophers #philsky #academicsky
Was nice to finally hold the physical copy of this one in my hands. Tough to get in the US, even for those involved in producing it! Now available through ILL thanks to my good friends at Rivier University’s Regina Library
#philosophy #academicsky
#philosophy #academicsky
April 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Was nice to finally hold the physical copy of this one in my hands. Tough to get in the US, even for those involved in producing it! Now available through ILL thanks to my good friends at Rivier University’s Regina Library
#philosophy #academicsky
#philosophy #academicsky
Public lecture happening at St. John's University soon:
"On AI Personhood Without Sentience"
Paper co-authored by Seth Lazar (ANU) and Ned Howells-Whitaker (Pittsburgh)
Queens Campus Th April 24 D’Angelo Center, Rm 206 1:50 p.m.
More info? call 718-990-6378
#philosophy #academicsky #AI
"On AI Personhood Without Sentience"
Paper co-authored by Seth Lazar (ANU) and Ned Howells-Whitaker (Pittsburgh)
Queens Campus Th April 24 D’Angelo Center, Rm 206 1:50 p.m.
More info? call 718-990-6378
#philosophy #academicsky #AI
Seth Lazar
Homepage of Seth Lazar, philosopher at the Australian National University, working on the normative philosophy of computing.
sethlazar.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Public lecture happening at St. John's University soon:
"On AI Personhood Without Sentience"
Paper co-authored by Seth Lazar (ANU) and Ned Howells-Whitaker (Pittsburgh)
Queens Campus Th April 24 D’Angelo Center, Rm 206 1:50 p.m.
More info? call 718-990-6378
#philosophy #academicsky #AI
"On AI Personhood Without Sentience"
Paper co-authored by Seth Lazar (ANU) and Ned Howells-Whitaker (Pittsburgh)
Queens Campus Th April 24 D’Angelo Center, Rm 206 1:50 p.m.
More info? call 718-990-6378
#philosophy #academicsky #AI
AI verbal diarrhea generator: Shat GPT
March 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
AI verbal diarrhea generator: Shat GPT
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So what’s happening right now in simple terms?
All those messed up dangerous people, haters of empathy, practitioners of cruelty = they are giving themselves official government badges and all the power that comes with it.
All those messed up dangerous people, haters of empathy, practitioners of cruelty = they are giving themselves official government badges and all the power that comes with it.
March 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
So what’s happening right now in simple terms?
All those messed up dangerous people, haters of empathy, practitioners of cruelty = they are giving themselves official government badges and all the power that comes with it.
All those messed up dangerous people, haters of empathy, practitioners of cruelty = they are giving themselves official government badges and all the power that comes with it.
Here comes the end of the American republic and the beginning of the dictatorship: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Opinion | If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What?
Judges are constrained in their ability to make the president obey their orders.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Here comes the end of the American republic and the beginning of the dictatorship: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Compelling take against one size fits all teaching as well as manufactured scarcity, despite much of it being unrelatable to those of us who don’t teach at elite institutions (which is most of us).
“Much of the effort of the schools and the external examining system is to find ways of rejecting the majority of students at various points in the education system and to discover the talented few who are to be given advanced educational opportunities.” [Bloom, 1968] #AcademicSky
"Students taught using mastery learning techniques, [educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom] discovered, outperformed students trained in conventional one-size-fits-all classrooms by 400 percent."
March 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Compelling take against one size fits all teaching as well as manufactured scarcity, despite much of it being unrelatable to those of us who don’t teach at elite institutions (which is most of us).
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Time is closing in on the first federal election of 2025
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March 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Time is closing in on the first federal election of 2025
Josh Weil is the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress in the special election for Florida's 6th District.
🦋REPOSTS APPRECIATED🦋
Please support his campaign @joshweil.bsky.social
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#DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
Josh Weil is the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress in the special election for Florida's 6th District.
🦋REPOSTS APPRECIATED🦋
Please support his campaign @joshweil.bsky.social
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#DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
Trying unsuccessfully to get more info about the links between the NY Yankees and Project 2025. Also LLBean and the latter. Ive been a big fan of these 2 institutions for a long time, but will disown them if they’ve aligned themselves with MAGA in any way. Can anyone help?
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Trying unsuccessfully to get more info about the links between the NY Yankees and Project 2025. Also LLBean and the latter. Ive been a big fan of these 2 institutions for a long time, but will disown them if they’ve aligned themselves with MAGA in any way. Can anyone help?
RIP John Sallis, who taught me so much about Heraclitus, Plato, Monet, Nietzsche, and Heidegger during my MA studies at Boston College. Such an excellent lecturer and writer. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
RIP John Sallis, who taught me so much about Heraclitus, Plato, Monet, Nietzsche, and Heidegger during my MA studies at Boston College. Such an excellent lecturer and writer. #philosophy #philsky #academicsky
I get the sense from many of my colleagues here on #academicsky that the problems US universities are facing due to the current admin are worse than this article suggests: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
Interested in your thoughts.
Interested in your thoughts.
Trump’s Orders Could Drain Millions From Universities, but Few Protest Openly
Efforts by the administration to cut diversity efforts and foreign aid have upended campuses. But many university leaders seem wary of provoking a president who has glorified retribution.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I get the sense from many of my colleagues here on #academicsky that the problems US universities are facing due to the current admin are worse than this article suggests: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
Interested in your thoughts.
Interested in your thoughts.
Signed!
Tax the super-rich to pay for climate action, please sign/share.
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/tax...
@greenpeace.org.nz
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/tax...
@greenpeace.org.nz
PETITION: Tax the super rich
Urge governments to tax the super-rich and fund a green and just future
action.greenpeace.org.nz
January 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Signed!