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Short videos promoting the philosophy anthology Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny: Mind Blowing Philosophical Ideas. Preorder here: https://a.co/d/...
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Honestly? Objectively? Starting the semester teaching from the anthology I assembled and I am so darn excited! And proud! a.co/d/1uJrUHl
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January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Honestly? Objectively? Starting the semester teaching from the anthology I assembled and I am so darn excited! And proud! a.co/d/1uJrUHl
Yo: So nothing is something—some thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: But nothing is, well, nothing—no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: So nothing is some thing and no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: That’s a contradiction.
Mu: Correct.
Graham Priest,
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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Mu: Correct.
Yo: But nothing is, well, nothing—no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: So nothing is some thing and no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: That’s a contradiction.
Mu: Correct.
Graham Priest,
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Yo: So nothing is something—some thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: But nothing is, well, nothing—no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: So nothing is some thing and no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: That’s a contradiction.
Mu: Correct.
Graham Priest,
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
link in bio
Mu: Correct.
Yo: But nothing is, well, nothing—no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: So nothing is some thing and no thing.
Mu: Correct.
Yo: That’s a contradiction.
Mu: Correct.
Graham Priest,
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"While the experience machine thought experiment is often presented as decisive proof that people value reality over pleasure... this conclusion is far from obvious."
Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"While the experience machine thought experiment is often presented as decisive proof that people value reality over pleasure... this conclusion is far from obvious."
Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"Conservatively, we could tell thousands of skeptical stories totally consistent with your experiences...there is no good reason to prefer the theory we traditionally accept."
Cliff Sosis
The World Is Almost Certainly Not the Way It Seems
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Cliff Sosis
The World Is Almost Certainly Not the Way It Seems
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January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Conservatively, we could tell thousands of skeptical stories totally consistent with your experiences...there is no good reason to prefer the theory we traditionally accept."
Cliff Sosis
The World Is Almost Certainly Not the Way It Seems
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Cliff Sosis
The World Is Almost Certainly Not the Way It Seems
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“For eternalists, the full extent of our own lives is just as real as the moment you are experiencing now. This places a responsibility on us to make the most of our lives, to do good, to spread happiness, to relieve suffering, to live a good life...
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
“For eternalists, the full extent of our own lives is just as real as the moment you are experiencing now. This places a responsibility on us to make the most of our lives, to do good, to spread happiness, to relieve suffering, to live a good life...
Was explaining flux and conservation of mass energy to son, we were pushing salt around a piece of black construction paper with paint brushes...making designs with the salt, talking about trees and planets, impermanence and permanence...and he made this..
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Was explaining flux and conservation of mass energy to son, we were pushing salt around a piece of black construction paper with paint brushes...making designs with the salt, talking about trees and planets, impermanence and permanence...and he made this..
"[T]he self is like the chants of a phony doctor—Phut! Svaha!
... The chants have no causal efficacy. The healing is brought about by the use of certain medicinal herbs; the rest is just drama!"
Monima Chadha,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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... The chants have no causal efficacy. The healing is brought about by the use of certain medicinal herbs; the rest is just drama!"
Monima Chadha,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"[T]he self is like the chants of a phony doctor—Phut! Svaha!
... The chants have no causal efficacy. The healing is brought about by the use of certain medicinal herbs; the rest is just drama!"
Monima Chadha,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
a.co/d/48gPCXi
... The chants have no causal efficacy. The healing is brought about by the use of certain medicinal herbs; the rest is just drama!"
Monima Chadha,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
a.co/d/48gPCXi
"Your consciousness isn’t a private, nonphysical world that you know immediately and infallibly. It is a complex physical response occurring within you that you mistake for a private, nonphysical world."
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Your consciousness isn’t a private, nonphysical world that you know immediately and infallibly. It is a complex physical response occurring within you that you mistake for a private, nonphysical world."
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
"There is consciousness in rocks."
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"There is consciousness in rocks."
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Just did a briefy survey of recent philjobs listings and they are pitiful reflection of the state of the discipline. Don't see a single job ad with a lazy/weirdo AOS or even AOC! Sad, sad state of affairs.
December 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just did a briefy survey of recent philjobs listings and they are pitiful reflection of the state of the discipline. Don't see a single job ad with a lazy/weirdo AOS or even AOC! Sad, sad state of affairs.
"Will people in the future look back at us and think of us in the same way we now think of those who thought diseases were due to an imbalance of humors or those who thought the Sun revolved around the Earth?"
Angela Potochnik and Dana Tulodziecki,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Angela Potochnik and Dana Tulodziecki,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Will people in the future look back at us and think of us in the same way we now think of those who thought diseases were due to an imbalance of humors or those who thought the Sun revolved around the Earth?"
Angela Potochnik and Dana Tulodziecki,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Angela Potochnik and Dana Tulodziecki,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
"Yes, conscious and intelligent robots will indeed one day walk the earth."
Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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December 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Yes, conscious and intelligent robots will indeed one day walk the earth."
Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Matan? No, me! 96 or 97. Trailer. Ceiling collapsing. Terrified of never escaping poverty. Good times, good times...
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Matan? No, me! 96 or 97. Trailer. Ceiling collapsing. Terrified of never escaping poverty. Good times, good times...
“When the doctor says, ‘Look, it’s a boy,’ he is not reporting the fact that the child is a boy; he is creating the fact that the child is a boy.”
- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“When the doctor says, ‘Look, it’s a boy,’ he is not reporting the fact that the child is a boy; he is creating the fact that the child is a boy.”
- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"Anything can be art."
- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Anything can be art."
- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"It’s perfectly fine not to do your own research. There’s nothing wrong with letting others do your thinking for you. In fact, it is the insistence on thinking for yourself that is intellectually defective and dangerous."
- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"It’s perfectly fine not to do your own research. There’s nothing wrong with letting others do your thinking for you. In fact, it is the insistence on thinking for yourself that is intellectually defective and dangerous."
- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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“The idea that an objective person puts aside their opinions, interests, and emotions and considers nothing but the evidence is wrong.”
- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“The idea that an objective person puts aside their opinions, interests, and emotions and considers nothing but the evidence is wrong.”
- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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“Mattering is not a matter of fact.”
- Victor Moberger
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Victor Moberger
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Mattering is not a matter of fact.”
- Victor Moberger
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
link in bio
- Victor Moberger
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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