Clayton Littlejohn
@cmlittlejohn.bsky.social
Melbourne based philosopher. Dianoia RIP. Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. Epistemology and ethics. #philsky #melbourne #democrats It ain't easy being blue
I agree, but seems good!
Seems bad!
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I agree, but seems good!
All those free speech warriors must felt the warm fuzzies when the President accused a journalist of "insubordination" for asking a question he didn't like
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
All those free speech warriors must felt the warm fuzzies when the President accused a journalist of "insubordination" for asking a question he didn't like
Fwiw, based on a true story. Rented a unit in Queensland from #airbnb and discovered it was infested. In QLD, it's not legal to rent infested properties out, but of course Air BNB tries to find ways to skirt this and just give discounts unless the owner agrees to a refund. But of course owner won't.
A good test case for the internalism-externalism debate. You get a holiday rental and discover it’s infested with cockroaches. Bad for the vibes. Owner offers a discount. Renter asks, should owners profit from renting properties that they shouldn’t have rented in the first place?
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Fwiw, based on a true story. Rented a unit in Queensland from #airbnb and discovered it was infested. In QLD, it's not legal to rent infested properties out, but of course Air BNB tries to find ways to skirt this and just give discounts unless the owner agrees to a refund. But of course owner won't.
An upside of finding yourself single is that Nous and PPR will be open for submissions soon
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
An upside of finding yourself single is that Nous and PPR will be open for submissions soon
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If that is all this person did, it is not a crime—and what we are witnessing is an illegal attack on an American citizen by a lawless band of armed Trump agents
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If that is all this person did, it is not a crime—and what we are witnessing is an illegal attack on an American citizen by a lawless band of armed Trump agents
A good test case for the internalism-externalism debate. You get a holiday rental and discover it’s infested with cockroaches. Bad for the vibes. Owner offers a discount. Renter asks, should owners profit from renting properties that they shouldn’t have rented in the first place?
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A good test case for the internalism-externalism debate. You get a holiday rental and discover it’s infested with cockroaches. Bad for the vibes. Owner offers a discount. Renter asks, should owners profit from renting properties that they shouldn’t have rented in the first place?
Do Australians “go to the fishos“ for fish and chips?
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Do Australians “go to the fishos“ for fish and chips?
"Reviews Completed"
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Reviews Completed"
Here’s my review of qld. Went for a swim in the outdoor pool. Put my shoes on to get in the elevator. Keep getting little pinches like there’s a splinter in my shoe. Remove foot. Find a big ass cockroach in my shoe was bighting my foot. Dumped it out, smashed it, want to come home.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Here’s my review of qld. Went for a swim in the outdoor pool. Put my shoes on to get in the elevator. Keep getting little pinches like there’s a splinter in my shoe. Remove foot. Find a big ass cockroach in my shoe was bighting my foot. Dumped it out, smashed it, want to come home.
As I ask the driver to head to non-existent Surfer’s Cove, reminded of the time I went away for a romantic weekend getaway in a failing relationship to stay in picturesque Snuggler’s Cove … only to discover that it was in picturesque Separation Creek
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
As I ask the driver to head to non-existent Surfer’s Cove, reminded of the time I went away for a romantic weekend getaway in a failing relationship to stay in picturesque Snuggler’s Cove … only to discover that it was in picturesque Separation Creek
They not like us
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
They not like us
My modest proposal is that executives in universities have to survive an annual confidence vote. We’ve surely past the point where the burden of proof has shifted.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
My modest proposal is that executives in universities have to survive an annual confidence vote. We’ve surely past the point where the burden of proof has shifted.
When they go tollens, we go ponens
(Yes, surprised that they’re going with minimising the wrong rather than running away from the wrongdoer)
(Yes, surprised that they’re going with minimising the wrong rather than running away from the wrongdoer)
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When they go tollens, we go ponens
(Yes, surprised that they’re going with minimising the wrong rather than running away from the wrongdoer)
(Yes, surprised that they’re going with minimising the wrong rather than running away from the wrongdoer)
It's going to be wild to see how opinions about piss Christ guy are going to evolve in the days to come.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It's going to be wild to see how opinions about piss Christ guy are going to evolve in the days to come.
This is an actually interesting phenomenon, seeing possible future evidence you know in advance won't be exonerating as a reason to enter into a suspension like state when you really can already know what you're hoping to know now.
Please don’t do this, America. Please don’t act like the Trump-Epstein emails we saw today were our first glimpse of something.
Don’t buy the narrative that these emails are useful because they *hint* at misconduct. We *know* there was misconduct.
You can read a fully sourced book on it for free:
Don’t buy the narrative that these emails are useful because they *hint* at misconduct. We *know* there was misconduct.
You can read a fully sourced book on it for free:
{Book 1} Proof of Devilry: The Crimes of Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein
The available evidence places Trump, Epstein, and Maxwell at the heart of a multistate and multinational child sex-, sex- and human-trafficking ring whose discovery could change the course of history.
sethabramson.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is an actually interesting phenomenon, seeing possible future evidence you know in advance won't be exonerating as a reason to enter into a suspension like state when you really can already know what you're hoping to know now.
Americans consume 200,000 tons of craisins each year, but I can't get any of them to start using 'creason' to talk about our credences about reasons. And it hurts.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Americans consume 200,000 tons of craisins each year, but I can't get any of them to start using 'creason' to talk about our credences about reasons. And it hurts.
Local news. Ages ago had a long chat with Mark Irving about contracts (then read his great book on the topic). Super sharp, kind, and supportive. I'd been wondering what he's up to. Apparently it's teaching people not to send barristers threatening emails!
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911012...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911012...
Ex-union boss allegedly threatened admin via emails
Threatening and offensive emails allegedly sent by the former boss of the embattled construction union to its administrator...
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Local news. Ages ago had a long chat with Mark Irving about contracts (then read his great book on the topic). Super sharp, kind, and supportive. I'd been wondering what he's up to. Apparently it's teaching people not to send barristers threatening emails!
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911012...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911012...
Reposted by Clayton Littlejohn
Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
Do we think this real? Or is it true but not really real? Hegelian marries/frustrates physicist
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Do we think this real? Or is it true but not really real? Hegelian marries/frustrates physicist
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Cut it out.
HOPE IS A DECISION
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Cut it out.
A little paper on whether awareness of facts differs from factual knowledge (if that interests you; if it doesn't, fair enough). Includes a little twist on the fake barn cases and should annoy all the right philosophers of perception.
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
Clayton Littlejohn, Could factual awareness be anything but knowledge? - PhilPapers
In this paper, I discuss Silva's work on factual awareness. He argues that factual awareness can help us acquire knowledge. This position is appealing to many of us who think of ...
philpapers.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A little paper on whether awareness of facts differs from factual knowledge (if that interests you; if it doesn't, fair enough). Includes a little twist on the fake barn cases and should annoy all the right philosophers of perception.
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
philpapers.org/rec/LITCFA-2
Does anyone know what the reference format for SEP is? They give examples but not a name. If you're using something like Zotero to manage references, it would be quite easy to get the formatting right if we knew what they used. I'm manually switching periods to commas and there are thousands.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Does anyone know what the reference format for SEP is? They give examples but not a name. If you're using something like Zotero to manage references, it would be quite easy to get the formatting right if we knew what they used. I'm manually switching periods to commas and there are thousands.
I've not been following the more technical discussions of the miners puzzle, but I'm really enjoying this discussion by Jennifer Carr on the subjective 'ought'.
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
Jennifer Rose Carr, Subjective Ought - PhilPapers
The subjective deontic "ought" generates counterexamples to classical inference rules like modus ponens. It also conflicts with the orthodox view about modals and conditionals in natural language sema...
philpapers.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I've not been following the more technical discussions of the miners puzzle, but I'm really enjoying this discussion by Jennifer Carr on the subjective 'ought'.
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
philpapers.org/rec/CARSO-5
Odd request. Need a copy of the faculty lists from the 2021 Gourmet Report. Existing links broken. The draft faculty list from 19 August 2021 or 18 September 2021 would be incredible. Feel like someone has a draft in dropbox or an email to the editors somewhere.
leiterreports.com/2021/08/21/d...
leiterreports.com/2021/08/21/d...
Draft faculty lists for UK, Canadian, and Australasian departments for 2021 PGR
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has now shared with me the draft faculty lists for Anglophone departments outside the U.S. for the 2021 PGR, on whi…
leiterreports.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Odd request. Need a copy of the faculty lists from the 2021 Gourmet Report. Existing links broken. The draft faculty list from 19 August 2021 or 18 September 2021 would be incredible. Feel like someone has a draft in dropbox or an email to the editors somewhere.
leiterreports.com/2021/08/21/d...
leiterreports.com/2021/08/21/d...