What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
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Creating interviews with philosophers & editor of Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny. Order on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/9YRT8DL
Previous question misunderstood! Which philosopher living or dead has views that are or were most clearly the product of that philosopher's motivated reasoning?
January 31, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Previous question misunderstood! Which philosopher living or dead has views that are or were most clearly the product of that philosopher's motivated reasoning?
Which philosophers views are clearly most distorted by motivated reasoning?
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Which philosophers views are clearly most distorted by motivated reasoning?
Teaching this one in this class this week. So far, dynamite, student driven conversations. Good stuff.
We treat private ownership as sacred — as if it is natural and moral. Philosopher Christine Sypnowich argues that’s a mistake. Read her chapter “Your Property Isn’t Really Yours” in Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny!
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Teaching this one in this class this week. So far, dynamite, student driven conversations. Good stuff.
Silence treated like implicit acceptance of oppression. Permission to oppress! Resistance to oppression used to justify more oppression. What should we do? Vote. We can identify these people, hold them accountable for their crimes, dismantle the institutions that empower them.✌️
January 25, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Silence treated like implicit acceptance of oppression. Permission to oppress! Resistance to oppression used to justify more oppression. What should we do? Vote. We can identify these people, hold them accountable for their crimes, dismantle the institutions that empower them.✌️
After teaching a couple Phil 101 classes using the anthology, things are going even better than I imagined. Great presentations, student-driven conversations. First chapter, chosen by students, was “Lying Is Always Wrong.” Exciting start to the semester! youtu.be/JWw-RVk8UtE?...
Lying Is Always Wrong
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January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
After teaching a couple Phil 101 classes using the anthology, things are going even better than I imagined. Great presentations, student-driven conversations. First chapter, chosen by students, was “Lying Is Always Wrong.” Exciting start to the semester! youtu.be/JWw-RVk8UtE?...
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“If it doesn't rouse you from your dogmatic slumbers, you must be deeply asleep. It will inspire you to rethink the reasons behind your implicit 'common sense' assumptions about ethics and the nature of reality.”
- Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside, USA
- Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside, USA
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Honestly? Objectively? Starting the semester teaching from the anthology I assembled and I am so darn excited! And proud! a.co/d/1uJrUHl
Amazon.com: Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny: Mind-Blowing Philosophical Ideas: 9781032763842: Sosis, Cliff: Books
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January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Honestly? Objectively? Starting the semester teaching from the anthology I assembled and I am so darn excited! And proud! a.co/d/1uJrUHl
"While the experience machine thought experiment is often presented as decisive proof that people value reality over pleasure... this conclusion is far from obvious."
Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"While the experience machine thought experiment is often presented as decisive proof that people value reality over pleasure... this conclusion is far from obvious."
Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
a.co/d/j1UTFL5
Felipe De Brigard
"Reality Doesn't Matter"
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
a.co/d/j1UTFL5
“For eternalists, the full extent of our own lives is just as real as the moment you are experiencing now. This places a responsibility on us to make the most of our lives, to do good, to spread happiness, to relieve suffering, to live a good life...
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
“For eternalists, the full extent of our own lives is just as real as the moment you are experiencing now. This places a responsibility on us to make the most of our lives, to do good, to spread happiness, to relieve suffering, to live a good life...
Was explaining flux and conservation of mass energy to son, we were pushing salt around a piece of black construction paper with paint brushes...making designs with the salt, talking about trees and planets, impermanence and permanence...and he made this..
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Was explaining flux and conservation of mass energy to son, we were pushing salt around a piece of black construction paper with paint brushes...making designs with the salt, talking about trees and planets, impermanence and permanence...and he made this..
"Your consciousness isn’t a private, nonphysical world that you know immediately and infallibly. It is a complex physical response occurring within you that you mistake for a private, nonphysical world."
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Your consciousness isn’t a private, nonphysical world that you know immediately and infallibly. It is a complex physical response occurring within you that you mistake for a private, nonphysical world."
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Keith Frankish,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
"There is consciousness in rocks."
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"There is consciousness in rocks."
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
Luke Roelofs,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
"Yes, conscious and intelligent robots will indeed one day walk the earth."
Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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December 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Yes, conscious and intelligent robots will indeed one day walk the earth."
Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Pete Mandik,
Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny
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Matan? No, me! 96 or 97. Trailer. Ceiling collapsing. Terrified of never escaping poverty. Good times, good times...
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Matan? No, me! 96 or 97. Trailer. Ceiling collapsing. Terrified of never escaping poverty. Good times, good times...
“When the doctor says, ‘Look, it’s a boy,’ he is not reporting the fact that the child is a boy; he is creating the fact that the child is a boy.”
- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“When the doctor says, ‘Look, it’s a boy,’ he is not reporting the fact that the child is a boy; he is creating the fact that the child is a boy.”
- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Kevin Richardson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"Anything can be art."
- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Anything can be art."
- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Alex King
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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"It’s perfectly fine not to do your own research. There’s nothing wrong with letting others do your thinking for you. In fact, it is the insistence on thinking for yourself that is intellectually defective and dangerous."
- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"It’s perfectly fine not to do your own research. There’s nothing wrong with letting others do your thinking for you. In fact, it is the insistence on thinking for yourself that is intellectually defective and dangerous."
- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Jonathan Matheson
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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“The idea that an objective person puts aside their opinions, interests, and emotions and considers nothing but the evidence is wrong.”
- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“The idea that an objective person puts aside their opinions, interests, and emotions and considers nothing but the evidence is wrong.”
- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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- Louise Antony
Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
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