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JDKBrown
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Hinterland philosopher.
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December 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Are you thinking straight-up academic journal, or academic/popular hybrid (eg, Aeon Mag)?

For the former: Hypatia and Synthese would both be good. Maybe Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Journal of the APA.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Next semester, I'm posting my syllabus on the LMS--we're required to--but everything else is getting photocopied and handed out in class.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Dogtooth is the winner of this category for me.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Outside of philosophy, I'm mosty a fiction person; but the one bit of non-fiction that's really stuck with me is Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris. It's an utterly lovely collection of essays on a life of reading.
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Imo most SLACs have lost or given up the comparative advantages they had over bigger schools:
- you don't really get more attention from a professor if they have a 4/3 load. Because all the time they "save" from a lower research load is going to other students.
- upper level classes aren't smaller
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
That’s absolutely gorgeous.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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To be clear, my own view, for what it's worth, is that people should be supported to do whatever works best for them and the kid, taking into account all relevant considerations, not just some studies that don't take into account the realities of people's lives.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Byrne and Gorin are notorious trans-phobes.
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Ah, you just haven’t read enough Alex Byrne.
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
That whole essay is beautiful.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM