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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 14d

disliking Descartes is a character flaw

David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes I regret choosing academia, but then other times I listen to my non-academic wife go "mhm, right" on a work call for 90 minutes straight and realize I made the right choice.

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Sep 8

Spam e-mails are getting way too advanced and personally tailored. I just received a message boasting "a new theory of aether." I nearly short-circuited as my early modern brain had to resist clicking the attached .exe file poorly disguised as a .pdf

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Jul 30

Would love to read it when it's ready/if you're up for sharing!

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm currently working on a paper on the physics of error in Spinoza. Wonder if there's overlap with what you're working on...?

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bug 🪲 @goblinbugs.bsky.social · Jul 15

why does bluey always make me cry wtf

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you're interested in (i) what Spinoza thought about the (non-existent, but representationally informative) "bottom" of the mereological ladder or (ii) some subtle mistakes in a couple of famous 20th-century French interpretations of Spinoza, give the paper a glance!

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Jul 10

Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @axdouglas.bsky.social and @asalgadoborge.bsky.social for extremely helpful comments!
doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies | Philosophy | Cambridge Core

Spinoza’s Simplest Bodies - Volume 100 Issue 1

doi.org

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Jul 8

I need to have a kid so that I have a socially respectable reason to watch Bluey.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Jun 27

this A. I. model trained exclusively on dvd copies of A. I. Artificial Intelligence produced a pixel perfect copy of A. I. Artificial Intelligence on dvd

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 19

It’s out today! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · Jun 6

Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia

#birds #nature

A small bird with a glossy black head and shimmering purple and blue feathers sits alertly on a slender branch.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · May 19

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · May 4

strong hint of grape in this one

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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · Apr 29

'm very happy to finally be able to announce the programme for the conference 'Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections.' To register, please use the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I look forward to meeting you all in May!

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 24

Check out this excellent mode of God or Nature.

Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Apr 24

White-fronted chats in for a drink on a hot afternoon.
Arid Lands, Port Augusta.

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 22

Since publishing my first paper, predatory journals have frequently sent me emails. These have always been addressed to "Dr." Harmon, even before I finished my PhD. Since passing my viva, nothing about their epistemic position has changed, but they're now getting it right. Gettier strikes again.

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 21

Kind of insane that there's no comic book supervillain whose origin story involves madness brought on by frustration with train wifi.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 18

Available open access:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

God as Moral Anti-Exemplar in Spinoza - Topoi

This paper addresses the question of whether Spinoza subscribes to moral exemplarism, defined as any moral theory including the idea that it is morally good, right, virtuous, praiseworthy, or obligato...

link.springer.com

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 17

Theme song for me and the rest of the diabetics.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 16

Def Leppard releases “Pour Some Sugar On Me” as a single 37 years ago today.

It wasn’t expected to be a hit, said Phil Collen, but “strippers in Florida — God’s honest truth — started requesting it, because it was a great song to strip to, to dance to .. It took off from there. The album went #1.”

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Good morning Bluesky !

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 12

please excuse me for the next six months while my entire personality becomes this album

nickstefan.bsky.social @nickstefan.bsky.social · Apr 11

music.apple.com/at/album/sab... Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE- alternative- 2025 #new #musiknick

„SABLE, fABLE“ von Bon Iver bei Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 13 Titel

music.apple.com

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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · Apr 10

Dr Saloni de Souza (Bath Spa) delivered a fantastic keynote lecture at our annual Conference in Cambridge last week: "Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy" 👇

#philsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVc...

Saloni de Souza, 'Mixing Up the Medicine: Garcia de Orta on the Problems with Eurocentric Philosophy

YouTube video by British Society for the History of Philosophy

www.youtube.com

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Just Mike @justmike.bsky.social · Apr 9

If R2 is short for R2D2, and Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Anakin, then Luke is short for a stormtrooper.

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David Harmon @1part-harmony.bsky.social · Apr 9

"easy peasy" goes so hard

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