Andy Peet
@andypeet.bsky.social
Philosophy lecturer at Umeå University. Views those of a fleeting timeslice of myself.
I also like climbing:
https://www.instagram.com/andy.p33t?igsh=MWFsMXJ6cjAxaHdrbw==
https://27crags.com/climbers/andrewpe/ascents
I also like climbing:
https://www.instagram.com/andy.p33t?igsh=MWFsMXJ6cjAxaHdrbw==
https://27crags.com/climbers/andrewpe/ascents
Unfortunately I am not "the academy" though.
June 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Unfortunately I am not "the academy" though.
I'd maybe take his opinions on Marx and Hegel seriously. Not so much his views on this history and sociology of analytic philosophy....
June 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I'd maybe take his opinions on Marx and Hegel seriously. Not so much his views on this history and sociology of analytic philosophy....
I hadn't heard of this guy until people started dunking on him. Is he relevant in any way? Or is he just one step up from the species of random hack blogger that spends their time complaining about their quantum mechanical theory of the meaning of life not being taken seriously by the academy?
June 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I hadn't heard of this guy until people started dunking on him. Is he relevant in any way? Or is he just one step up from the species of random hack blogger that spends their time complaining about their quantum mechanical theory of the meaning of life not being taken seriously by the academy?
Here you go: I teach a lot of adults who have already got their first degrees and are in it because they are interested in the subject. They are often brilliant, super engaged, and insightful.
May 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Here you go: I teach a lot of adults who have already got their first degrees and are in it because they are interested in the subject. They are often brilliant, super engaged, and insightful.
I don't like this as a diagnosis of why some papers seem grad-studenty (not that I have a better diagnosis). But it is great writing advice independently of that.
May 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I don't like this as a diagnosis of why some papers seem grad-studenty (not that I have a better diagnosis). But it is great writing advice independently of that.
I'm here! Yea basically it would be great for us if someone super senior applied. But super senior people often don't want to relocate to the far north of Sweden - so I wanted to emphasize that non-senior people have a shot too. Otherwise it may go to an internal candidate (maybe me, who knows).
May 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm here! Yea basically it would be great for us if someone super senior applied. But super senior people often don't want to relocate to the far north of Sweden - so I wanted to emphasize that non-senior people have a shot too. Otherwise it may go to an internal candidate (maybe me, who knows).
Yea I'm currently dealing with rotator cuff (subscapularis) tendonitis, elbow tendonitis, and multiple finger injuries. Maybe there is a good reason that playgrounds are mainly designed just for kids.
May 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yea I'm currently dealing with rotator cuff (subscapularis) tendonitis, elbow tendonitis, and multiple finger injuries. Maybe there is a good reason that playgrounds are mainly designed just for kids.
They are called bouldering gyms. I know of one that even has a slide.
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They are called bouldering gyms. I know of one that even has a slide.
He's also telling us to go outside and meet people which, if anything, is even more of an affront to our existence.
May 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
He's also telling us to go outside and meet people which, if anything, is even more of an affront to our existence.
Having said this i do think there are clear examples of books published with academic presses that would have been better with a commercial editor. Katherine Hawley's trust book comes to mind. There are many genres of academic monograph with different aims...
April 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Having said this i do think there are clear examples of books published with academic presses that would have been better with a commercial editor. Katherine Hawley's trust book comes to mind. There are many genres of academic monograph with different aims...
I dunno, the point of an academic monograph is to really develop a big idea in a lot of detail. Stanley's stuff is fun to read, but it doesn't always do what an academic monograph should. I can't see a trade press publishing e.g. Making it Explicit or the Origins of Objectivity...
April 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I dunno, the point of an academic monograph is to really develop a big idea in a lot of detail. Stanley's stuff is fun to read, but it doesn't always do what an academic monograph should. I can't see a trade press publishing e.g. Making it Explicit or the Origins of Objectivity...
Looking forward to the new cottage industry of unpacking Trump 2.0's new and creative misuses of language. Had a lot of fun reading the Trump 1.0 literature.
April 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Looking forward to the new cottage industry of unpacking Trump 2.0's new and creative misuses of language. Had a lot of fun reading the Trump 1.0 literature.
That's reasonably close to Russell's analysis. But Russell's analysis is controversial in part because it seems weird to say that sentences exhibiting presupposition failure are true or false rather than lacking truth value.
April 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
That's reasonably close to Russell's analysis. But Russell's analysis is controversial in part because it seems weird to say that sentences exhibiting presupposition failure are true or false rather than lacking truth value.
p: "the grass outside is green" intuitively contains q: "there is grass outside". Suppose there is just tarmac outside. q is falsified. But p exhibits presupposition failure. It is not falsified, just lacks truth value. So q can't be part of p since for that every falsifier of q must falsify p.
April 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
p: "the grass outside is green" intuitively contains q: "there is grass outside". Suppose there is just tarmac outside. q is falsified. But p exhibits presupposition failure. It is not falsified, just lacks truth value. So q can't be part of p since for that every falsifier of q must falsify p.
Maybe we should write more books. Get big ideas out there and develop them thoroughly at the same time...
April 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Maybe we should write more books. Get big ideas out there and develop them thoroughly at the same time...
If the philosophical discussion centres on stylised vignettes with cutsey names, which it often does, then knowledge of the subject is reliability indicated by knowledge of stylized vignettes with cutsey names.
April 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If the philosophical discussion centres on stylised vignettes with cutsey names, which it often does, then knowledge of the subject is reliability indicated by knowledge of stylized vignettes with cutsey names.
Less spicy: The main marker of cultural insiderness in analytical philosophy is... knowledge of the subject.
April 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Less spicy: The main marker of cultural insiderness in analytical philosophy is... knowledge of the subject.
Yea, also I think early career there is pressure to make every idea work which leads to a lot of well polished turds. With job security comes the ability to be pickier about the ideas one works on. That has been my experience at least.
March 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yea, also I think early career there is pressure to make every idea work which leads to a lot of well polished turds. With job security comes the ability to be pickier about the ideas one works on. That has been my experience at least.