Kevin
@kevintemple.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD. I teach adults at University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Research: how about political-economic philosophy of mind
Started reading but got confused about who was cold blooded
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Started reading but got confused about who was cold blooded
Quasi-Brandom answer: carefully tracking all the commitments conversation partners make (or seem to make), given what they say; exposing untenable commitments; and pushing toward clarity if there’s ambiguity or contradiction.
Also: an appetite for such a philosophic approach to *any* topic.
Also: an appetite for such a philosophic approach to *any* topic.
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Quasi-Brandom answer: carefully tracking all the commitments conversation partners make (or seem to make), given what they say; exposing untenable commitments; and pushing toward clarity if there’s ambiguity or contradiction.
Also: an appetite for such a philosophic approach to *any* topic.
Also: an appetite for such a philosophic approach to *any* topic.
Pretty sure this is how Eleusinian mystery cult started
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Pretty sure this is how Eleusinian mystery cult started
Money has been, in important ways, a military technology since city-states first minted their own coins 2,600 years ago.
January 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Money has been, in important ways, a military technology since city-states first minted their own coins 2,600 years ago.
Top image: a cross glows behind the city as a plane departs.
Bottom image: they burned Toronto down?
Bottom image: they burned Toronto down?
December 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Top image: a cross glows behind the city as a plane departs.
Bottom image: they burned Toronto down?
Bottom image: they burned Toronto down?
The only compelling explanation I’ve seen is this one: publicseminar.org/2017/10/ador...
Adorno’s Uncanny Analysis of Trump’s Authoritarian Personality - Public Seminar
This article ntegrations the text of one of four presentations delivered at the roundtable entitled “Reading Adorno’s Fascist Propaganda Essay in...Read More
publicseminar.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The only compelling explanation I’ve seen is this one: publicseminar.org/2017/10/ador...
I recommend Gardner’s guide to the first critique. The intro essays in Cambridge Kant editions are great. Also wonderful are Bennett’s Early Modern Texts, which “translate” Kant and others into plain language, making them much easier to read. www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/kant
EMT - Immanuel Kant
A selection of philosophy texts by philosophers of the early modern period, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought....
www.earlymoderntexts.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I recommend Gardner’s guide to the first critique. The intro essays in Cambridge Kant editions are great. Also wonderful are Bennett’s Early Modern Texts, which “translate” Kant and others into plain language, making them much easier to read. www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/kant
Is this the ‘speed of the solar system finding messing up other stuff’ thing?
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Is this the ‘speed of the solar system finding messing up other stuff’ thing?
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
then again, i just asked an LLM whether "Gwar is WWF Sun Ra" and it got it and was pretty into it, so who knows
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
then again, i just asked an LLM whether "Gwar is WWF Sun Ra" and it got it and was pretty into it, so who knows
I’ve started wondering if there has every been any such thing as “domain-general” intelligence.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’ve started wondering if there has every been any such thing as “domain-general” intelligence.
Clock time is a form of oppression.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Clock time is a form of oppression.
I’d grant some room to the inventing part. Helicopters are *insane* contraptions. Flying cars need to be designed for dumb-dumbery. So there’s a tech problem. But yeah social organization is huge and tech alone won’t solve it
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’d grant some room to the inventing part. Helicopters are *insane* contraptions. Flying cars need to be designed for dumb-dumbery. So there’s a tech problem. But yeah social organization is huge and tech alone won’t solve it
Helicopters would count as flying cars if very few people had drivers licenses, and driving cars was exclusively an occupation, and there were super strict rules about where cars could go, etc.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Helicopters would count as flying cars if very few people had drivers licenses, and driving cars was exclusively an occupation, and there were super strict rules about where cars could go, etc.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
What people mean by “flying cars” is exactly the situation we have with cars today, but flying.
Good points. I think this shift often lines up with another good one, from observing a spectacle to actually participating in the carnival.
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good points. I think this shift often lines up with another good one, from observing a spectacle to actually participating in the carnival.
Reposted by Kevin
psychoanalysis is currently being vindicated at levels previously never, ever seen
October 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
psychoanalysis is currently being vindicated at levels previously never, ever seen
Psyched to read this—thank you!
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Psyched to read this—thank you!
This is something I want to read and write about. What other places do you have in mind?
October 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is something I want to read and write about. What other places do you have in mind?