Jordan Davis
@madsadgladfly.bsky.social
Lover of all things philosophy, but pragmatism, conceptual engineering, metaethics most of all
I didn’t realize you went to CSU and had Tropman! Her grad seminar (if you can really call it a seminar) was great.
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I didn’t realize you went to CSU and had Tropman! Her grad seminar (if you can really call it a seminar) was great.
I’m sorry. I will remember you.
May 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’m sorry. I will remember you.
NOW you tell me! I’ll never have a chance to find out for myself!
April 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
NOW you tell me! I’ll never have a chance to find out for myself!
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Community self defense, tenant organizing, mutual aid, mask blocs, cop watching, start/join a jail support project, organize/participate in political education, + more is needed. Look out for one another. Just don't get wrapped up in the liberal outrage & despair machine.
Not sure where to start?👇
Not sure where to start?👇
January 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Community self defense, tenant organizing, mutual aid, mask blocs, cop watching, start/join a jail support project, organize/participate in political education, + more is needed. Look out for one another. Just don't get wrapped up in the liberal outrage & despair machine.
Not sure where to start?👇
Not sure where to start?👇
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Iris Murdoch’s view of love as a practice, which several contemporary scholars such as Lesley Jamieson, Katrien Schaubroeck and Lotte Spreeuwenberg, might be useful here?
philpapers.org/rec/SPRLAA
philpapers.org/rec/SPRLAA
Lotte Spreeuwenberg, ‘Love’ as a Practice: Looking at Real People - PhilPapers
This ameliorative project of love investigates how we can improve how we use the concept ‘love’, formulating better and worse forms of loving. It compares two contemporary analytic philosophers who ha...
philpapers.org
January 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Iris Murdoch’s view of love as a practice, which several contemporary scholars such as Lesley Jamieson, Katrien Schaubroeck and Lotte Spreeuwenberg, might be useful here?
philpapers.org/rec/SPRLAA
philpapers.org/rec/SPRLAA
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At the beginning of section 5 of this paper, there’s a fairly extensive list of different things philosophers have called love
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finite love
It seems like a problem to say that love can be merited – its value is located in its transcendence of comparative judgments. However, we commonly make judgments about who is and is not worth lovin...
www.tandfonline.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
At the beginning of section 5 of this paper, there’s a fairly extensive list of different things philosophers have called love
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Abramson & Leite, "Love as a Reactive Emotion" (reactive to ppl's relationship-enabling virtues). I think it's at least partly right, not sure about wholly right www.jstor.org/stable/23012...
LOVE AS A REACTIVE EMOTION on JSTOR
Kate Abramson, Adam Leite, LOVE AS A REACTIVE EMOTION, The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 61, No. 245 (October 2011), pp. 673-699
www.jstor.org
January 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Abramson & Leite, "Love as a Reactive Emotion" (reactive to ppl's relationship-enabling virtues). I think it's at least partly right, not sure about wholly right www.jstor.org/stable/23012...
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Eleonore Stump has a paper/talk I enjoyed where she discusses Thomas Aquinas’ account where love involves desire for the beloved’s good and union (difficult to define) with the beloved.
www.jstor.org/stable/27645...
www.jstor.org/stable/27645...
Love, by All Accounts on JSTOR
Eleonore Stump, Love, by All Accounts, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Nov., 2006), pp. 25-43
www.jstor.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Eleonore Stump has a paper/talk I enjoyed where she discusses Thomas Aquinas’ account where love involves desire for the beloved’s good and union (difficult to define) with the beloved.
www.jstor.org/stable/27645...
www.jstor.org/stable/27645...
I’m thinking about taking a swing at it
January 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’m thinking about taking a swing at it