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David Spurrett
@doctorspurt.bsky.social
Philosopher, working on evolution of mechanisms of action selection, and their variously situated subversion. https://davidspurrett.com/
I have sometimes recommended accept without revisions as a reviewer. I can't remember any as author...
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Good to hear it. 👏
January 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
No, I don't. (Same goes for "Get Out", etc.) But they may be trying to optimise something other than rigor.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Full disclosure - I'm pretty sure I laughed a lot more than anyone else in the cinema at "One Battle After Another".
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
It was regularly hilarious, but also often scary and thrilling. The category itself is an oddity. ("Get Out" was nominated in the same category, BTW. Looking at a list, I see that "The Apartment" won it in 1960, and "The Graduate" in '67. All had humour, none 'merely' comedy...)
January 12, 2026 at 10:47 AM
This is why philosophers get paid so much.
January 11, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Thank you - I wasn't aware of that!
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Those conversations were so useful to me too! You'll hopefully see some of the impact of them in the discussion of interests in my final chapter.
January 10, 2026 at 8:58 AM
I agree.
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I'm no expert but my understanding is his political thought is largely in other texts. He was political editor of 'Les Temps Modernes' for c7 years, regular political essays, and the books 'Humanism and Terror' and 'Adventures of the Dialectic'. (He was just the first example that came to mind.)
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I'm in no way disagreeing with the (absolutely correct) point that switching to selling harassment, hate and child porn is not an improvement, but a move to monetize. (Or the one made elsewhere that harassing women out of public forums is a feature not a bug.)
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I'm guessing part of the plan is to be able to throw individual subscribers under the bus on a case by case basis if there are charges and lawsuits. (Hence the move to a 'users own their prompts and the outputs responding to them' TOS.) If I'm right, then maybe platform-premium user conflict looms?
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
e.g. Merleau-Ponty was seriously politically engaged, and (inter alia) argued phenomenologically against authoritarianism. But the textbook Merleau-Ponty of the 4E canon is often curiously apolitical. I like the idea that translational work enlarges discussion by including more colleagues. /6-fin
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Not only that, it is sometimes *ahead* of the canon it was outside. Liao and Brinner describe the 'translational' work as "expressing insights from one in the language
familiar to the other." This can include being less procrustean about important founding texts and thinkers. /5
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
feminists on the effects of restrictive clothing, and asked myself something like 'how does this related to embodied cognitive science' as though some further step was needed. Then I switched to realising/accepting that the work (already) WAS embodied cogsci, just outside the canon. /4
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
... sense that it expresses insights from people centrally concerned with cognition, yet outside cogsci (notably feminists, critical race theorists, disability theorists...). I wrestled with this myself for a while, often with the question posed in an unhelpful way. For example, I read early ... /3
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM