Jake Wojtowicz
@jakewojtowicz.bsky.social
Philosopher of regret, sport, sometimes both.
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(Tweets represent only my own opinion)
Portrait by http://instagram.com/vanessa.brassey
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Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan | Alfred Archer, Jake Wojtowicz | Taylo
This book offers readers a pitch-side view of the ethics of fandom. Its accessible six chapters are aimed both at true sports fans whose conscience may be
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Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan is now available open access! You can still buy a physical copy, if you'd like, but now you can download it for free (permanently)!
Love it when an author writes a really clear letter alongside their R&R resubmission. Conversely: please do not write really shit letters.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Love it when an author writes a really clear letter alongside their R&R resubmission. Conversely: please do not write really shit letters.
Need a Christmas gift for the sports fan in your life? A mere $20 (and probably cheap in pounds, too)!
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Why It's OK to Be a Sports Fan
This book offers readers a pitch-side view of the ethics of fandom. Its accessible six chapters are aimed both at true sports fans whose conscience may be occasionally piqued by their pastime, and at ...
www.routledge.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Need a Christmas gift for the sports fan in your life? A mere $20 (and probably cheap in pounds, too)!
www.routledge.com/Why-Its-OK-t...
www.routledge.com/Why-Its-OK-t...
Is there any good philosophy stuff about why AI is bad (or even good) in the humanities classroom and beyond? I'm teaching an entirely asynchronous intro to philosophy class next year, and I'm fed up of the AI crap in student assignments, so I want to address it intellectually.
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Is there any good philosophy stuff about why AI is bad (or even good) in the humanities classroom and beyond? I'm teaching an entirely asynchronous intro to philosophy class next year, and I'm fed up of the AI crap in student assignments, so I want to address it intellectually.
I have received a single-paragraph email with the following forms of emphasis:
Brown text, bold, bigger, underlined.
Bold (x2).
Bold, bigger, underlined, italic.
Underlined.
Red, bold, italic.
Red.
Bigger, bold.
Painful to try to understand what is important here!
Brown text, bold, bigger, underlined.
Bold (x2).
Bold, bigger, underlined, italic.
Underlined.
Red, bold, italic.
Red.
Bigger, bold.
Painful to try to understand what is important here!
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have received a single-paragraph email with the following forms of emphasis:
Brown text, bold, bigger, underlined.
Bold (x2).
Bold, bigger, underlined, italic.
Underlined.
Red, bold, italic.
Red.
Bigger, bold.
Painful to try to understand what is important here!
Brown text, bold, bigger, underlined.
Bold (x2).
Bold, bigger, underlined, italic.
Underlined.
Red, bold, italic.
Red.
Bigger, bold.
Painful to try to understand what is important here!
As a reminder, the traditional gift to the philosopher in your life on World Philosophy Day is cash
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As a reminder, the traditional gift to the philosopher in your life on World Philosophy Day is cash
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my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
August 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
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My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…
a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters
ALT: a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
Someone needs to create a guide to Wilson books as Christmas presents. The Outsider for your mad uncle. The Names Heard Long Ago for my wife who speaks some Hungarian, etc.
Not long now till Christmas.
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
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Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Someone needs to create a guide to Wilson books as Christmas presents. The Outsider for your mad uncle. The Names Heard Long Ago for my wife who speaks some Hungarian, etc.
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Not long now till Christmas.
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Not long now till Christmas.
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
Imagine the joy on their faces if they open a biography of the Charltons on Christmas morning…
www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Brothers...
Watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary. I'm planning to watch as a partisan.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary. I'm planning to watch as a partisan.
Excellent discovery yesterday that FIFA 26 (or whatever it's called) is on sale *and* I had enough blood money to buy it.*
*This is what I call the gift cards I get when I give blood.
*This is what I call the gift cards I get when I give blood.
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Excellent discovery yesterday that FIFA 26 (or whatever it's called) is on sale *and* I had enough blood money to buy it.*
*This is what I call the gift cards I get when I give blood.
*This is what I call the gift cards I get when I give blood.
Impressed by this Frenchman's 28 hour days.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Impressed by this Frenchman's 28 hour days.
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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What does it mean to be a member of a fan community, and why does this matter? Preprint up on PhilPapers:
philpapers.org/rec/WOJFAC
philpapers.org/rec/WOJFAC
Jake Wojtowicz, Fandom and Community - PhilPapers
This is preprint version of a chapter forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Sports Ethics, Thomas Søbirk Petersen, Sebastian Holmen, Jesper Ryberg (eds). New York, Oxford University press This chapter...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What does it mean to be a member of a fan community, and why does this matter? Preprint up on PhilPapers:
philpapers.org/rec/WOJFAC
philpapers.org/rec/WOJFAC
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Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...
May 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists
Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course.
www.london.edu/executive-ed...
www.london.edu/executive-ed...
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course.
www.london.edu/executive-ed...
www.london.edu/executive-ed...
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I am an avid sports jersey collector. What is the favorite jersey in YOUR collection? Please include pic!
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I am an avid sports jersey collector. What is the favorite jersey in YOUR collection? Please include pic!
Vertical queueing at the market is a disgrace. Bring back civility.
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Vertical queueing at the market is a disgrace. Bring back civility.
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So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
A little odd to be in an anthology next to Barack Obama. I'm sure he feels honoured.
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A little odd to be in an anthology next to Barack Obama. I'm sure he feels honoured.
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
I see two big differences between this and sportswashing:
1. We *love* and also root for sports teams, tournaments have a historical mythos about them. I don't think that quite translates.
2. Video games are way more interactive.
Interested to hear more.
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1. We *love* and also root for sports teams, tournaments have a historical mythos about them. I don't think that quite translates.
2. Video games are way more interactive.
Interested to hear more.
theconversation.com/what-saudi-a...
What Saudi Arabia’s role in the Electronic Arts buyout tells us about image, power and ‘game-washing’
The video game company is being acquired for a record-breaking US$55 billion. Despite being named ‘The Worst Company in America’, why is it so in-demand?
theconversation.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I see two big differences between this and sportswashing:
1. We *love* and also root for sports teams, tournaments have a historical mythos about them. I don't think that quite translates.
2. Video games are way more interactive.
Interested to hear more.
theconversation.com/what-saudi-a...
1. We *love* and also root for sports teams, tournaments have a historical mythos about them. I don't think that quite translates.
2. Video games are way more interactive.
Interested to hear more.
theconversation.com/what-saudi-a...
Another classic at Daily Nous. Someone does point out that this first comment was likely a joke..
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Another classic at Daily Nous. Someone does point out that this first comment was likely a joke..
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My review of Paddy McQueen's excellent "Regret" is out in Ethics
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McQueen, Paddy. Regret. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. $95.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1
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September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My review of Paddy McQueen's excellent "Regret" is out in Ethics
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...