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Nat Hansen
@nathansen.bsky.social
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Philosopher at the University of Reading (UK) working on new wave ordinary language philosophy, experimental semantics and pragmatics, and some aesthetics.
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · 27d
I haven't read this yet, but there might be some relevant stuff on "oh" in here:

academic.oup.com/book/45560
The Grammar of Interactives
Abstract. The concern of the book is with identifying a domain of discourse processing referred to as ‘interactive grammar’. The book rests on the analysis
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 27d
amazing review essay alert! a pleasure to read, to edit, to work with @nathansen.bsky.social ✨
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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 27d
"But what about works that demand more than a 'relaxed distribution of focus,' work that we want to give more of ourselves to?" Nat Hansen (@nathansen.bsky.social) reviews two recent books on art amidst our crisis of attention
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Disordered Attention
Two recent books offer practical recommendations for how we should attend to art amidst the crisis of attention. After Y2K, when the world failed to end, the art historian T.J. Clark spent six mont…
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · 27d
Thank you Farah, it was great working with you on this!
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · 27d
I wrote about two recent books that offer advice on how to pay attention to art in the midst of *gestures broadly at everything*

Thanks to the awesome editors at the
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for their interest in this piece, they’re great to work with!
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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 27d
"But what about works that demand more than a 'relaxed distribution of focus,' work that we want to give more of ourselves to?" Nat Hansen (@nathansen.bsky.social) reviews two recent books on art amidst our crisis of attention
mid-theory.com/2025/09/11/d...
Disordered Attention
Two recent books offer practical recommendations for how we should attend to art amidst the crisis of attention. After Y2K, when the world failed to end, the art historian T.J. Clark spent six mont…
mid-theory.com
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · Sep 8
Yes, I think there have been more and more good subdiscipline open access journals. They are all worth taking seriously!!

A partial list:
liao.shen-yi.org/openaccess/

I've also tried to, individually, submit more to these journals.
Open Access Journals (That I Like)
A partial list of 'platinum' or 'diamond' open access journals in or near philosophy
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Sep 7
Really enjoyed this essay J.D.! Goodreads should hire you guys to make data viz for readers—it'd be appealing to have graphs like this on profile pages
Figure from the paper: Figure 9. Another self-identified eclectic reader, who “love[s] reading just about anything.” The chart represents the number of books she read in each of 10 time segments (2010-2021), with colors indicating their distribution across major genres. Figure from the paper: A self-identified eclectic reader, who “loves any kind of books.” The chart represents the actual number of books she read in each of ten time segments (2011-2021), with colors indicating their distribution across major genre clusters.
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Sep 7
Yeah I think "epistemic backchannel" is hers, but "backchannel" is from linguistics/conversational analysis
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Sep 7
There's also this forthcoming paper: philpapers.org/rec/NAGCKA

But I thought you were identifying a way that "oh" used by the speaker may differ from the audience use of "oh" to signal novelty in the backchannel.
Jennifer Nagel, Common Knowledge and its Limits - PhilPapers
What is common knowledge? According to the dominant iterative model, a group of people commonly knows that p if and only if they each individually know that p, and they furthermore ...
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Sep 4
A lot of work to be done around here! I’ve been trying to write a little section of this big thing I’m working on on the various roles of the discourse marker “you know”
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Sep 4
Oh, do you know Jennifer Nagel's work on the role of "oh" in the "epistemic backchannel"? (I know you're talking about a speaker use of the term, but it might be a place to start)
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Kind of what the book I’m working on is about
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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · Aug 29
Can you imagine how powerful J.L. Austin would have been if he had access to an LLM?
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J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · Aug 22
Really excited to see this piece come out! Studying eclectic readers has been a fascinating and extremely rewarding challenge. We wound up operationalizing both genre and eclecticism in ways that (classic DH stuff here) point to the limits of both concepts.

culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 12
This is the best thing on bluesky, thank you for posting these slices of California
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 8
Max de Gaynesford has a book on poetry (philpapers.org/rec/DEGTRI-2)
Maximilian De Gaynesford, The Rift In The Lute: Attuning Poetry and Philosophy - PhilPapers
What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and ...
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 7
Great to see that this is out!
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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · Aug 6
1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.
Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally
The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...
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Uehiro Oxford Institute @uehiro.ox.ac.uk · Jul 30
We're delighted to welcome @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social to the position of Senior Researcher in Moral Psychology and Design Bioethics, at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
Read more about Kathryn here: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ka...

#morality #emergingtech #ethics #welcome
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 2
I tried to comment on the serious part not the joke part but it’s late where I am
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Aug 2
I could be wrong, but I think the finding is more about cultural variation in responses to Gödel-"style" cases than about Gödel himself, since the replication finds cultural differences also with the "super dog race" example from li et al (2018) designed to be useable with kid participants
Screenshot from the article: "First, with respect to the replication of the six earlier tests on proper names, significant cross-cultural differences were successfully replicated in the conditions using the original MMNS (2004) vignette and that of Li et al. (2018). Using the terminology common in experimental semantics, Chinese-speaking participants showed a tendency to endorse the descriptivist view, whereas British participants favored the causal-historical view." The super dog race example from Li et al. (2018): We constructed stories similar to the original Gödel case about topics that are more appropriate for young children. A simplified version of one critical story is given below: Super Dog Race Long ago, there was a race called the Super Dog Race. Max, Pickles and Blaze participated in the race. Max crossed the finish line first, winning the race, but he got too excited and ran all the way to the North Pole. Pickles crossed the finish line second. He stopped and watched Max run away. The race announcer mistakenly thought that Pickles won the race. He told every newspaper in the world that Pickles won. He also told them that another dog, Blaze, ran very fast despite his short legs. Since then, everyone learned that Pickles won the race. They don’t know anything else about Pickles. Tom and Emily learned at school that Pickles won the Super Dog Race. This is the only thing they know about the dog race and Pickles. They don’t know anything about Max. That night, their dad asked: Do you know who won the Super Dog Race? Tom replied: Blaze was the dog that won the Super Dog Race. Emily said: Pickles was the dog that won the Super Dog Race.
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Jul 30
Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/ap...
Appel à propositions/Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS
Appel à propositions/Call for papers for an International Centennial Conference : Stanley Cavell at 100 (Paris, Rome, Boston, 2026)
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Jul 29
At Chicago we had epistemic metaphysics
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jul 28
This is how the book opens:
1. Epistemic Everything Everywhere All at Once A recent pattern in academic philosophy over the past 20 or so years has involved relentlessly adding the word ‘epistemic’ in front of almost every other word. Examples include: epistemic infringement; epistemic apprenticeships; epistemic oppression; epistemic failure; epistemic vices; epistemic atonement; epistemic weaponry; epistemic injustice; epistemic phariseeism; epistemic slurs; the epistemic apocalypse; epistemic health; epistemic inoculation; epistemic complicity; epistemic dehumanisation; epistemic appropriation; epistemic trespassing; epistemic violence; epistemic rights; epistemic death; epistemic exploitation; epistemic redlining; epistemic reparations; epistemic sanity; the epistemic IKEA effect; epistemic apathy; epistemic shamelessness; epistemic utopia; and epistemic exhaustion. This trend shows no sign of slowing down; on the contrary, it can seem like we’re only a short distance along an exponential curve, with new additions to the list almost every week.
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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · Jul 26
Great shots!
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California Landscapes @calandscapebot.bsky.social · Jul 24
Limedyke 1, Trinity County, CA
🗺40.5249, -123.4169 🧭356° ⛰4678 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16660
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · Jul 14
I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...
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