Sean T. Murphy
@seantmurphyy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Thinking about German philosophy, aesthetics, understanding (ourselves & other people), and modernism.
Jack, I have a question as someone whose other major sports love is professional hockey. Why in football are managers so reluctant to make GK changes at half the way an NHL coach will yank a poorly performing goalie? I’d really love a piece on this. GV should be benched.
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Jack, I have a question as someone whose other major sports love is professional hockey. Why in football are managers so reluctant to make GK changes at half the way an NHL coach will yank a poorly performing goalie? I’d really love a piece on this. GV should be benched.
That’s a lot of desk copies! Congrats David :)
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
That’s a lot of desk copies! Congrats David :)
You brought so much positive energy and deep knowledge to the panel! It was a treat presenting with you
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
You brought so much positive energy and deep knowledge to the panel! It was a treat presenting with you
My morning routine is ruined. Classes cancelled.
October 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My morning routine is ruined. Classes cancelled.
Meanwhile, Strawson is off deducing the affective structure and emotional contours of interpersonal life from the atmosphere of an Oxford seminar room. Don’t get me going…
September 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Meanwhile, Strawson is off deducing the affective structure and emotional contours of interpersonal life from the atmosphere of an Oxford seminar room. Don’t get me going…
My grad school work routine. Print 5 articles on some new exciting debate. Read the first half of 1 at the coffeeshop. Head to the pub. Never look at them again.
September 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
My grad school work routine. Print 5 articles on some new exciting debate. Read the first half of 1 at the coffeeshop. Head to the pub. Never look at them again.
The way she cultivates a sense and feeling of a very particular place in these stories—inland FL with its muggy mysteries and dark side—is so excellent
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The way she cultivates a sense and feeling of a very particular place in these stories—inland FL with its muggy mysteries and dark side—is so excellent
The anti-plane commitment is to be admired
July 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The anti-plane commitment is to be admired
Idk—Kant just strikes me like the kind of guy that documented everything, all ‘evacuations’
July 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Idk—Kant just strikes me like the kind of guy that documented everything, all ‘evacuations’
Obviously they’re talking about bowel movements, right?
July 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Obviously they’re talking about bowel movements, right?
People pay a lot of money for falsehoods - Adorno (probably)
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
People pay a lot of money for falsehoods - Adorno (probably)
Wow—hardcore and Schopenhauer brought together! Sick
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Wow—hardcore and Schopenhauer brought together! Sick
Philosophy and French (and Art History) were already eliminated from where I work 🙃
July 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Philosophy and French (and Art History) were already eliminated from where I work 🙃
Frankfurt, On the Necessity of Ideals (to problematize the distinction between freedom and autonomy); Benson ‘Free Agency and Self-Worth’ or Calhoun, ‘Losing one’s Self’ (to highlight threats to agential control, like depression, demotivation, gaslighting, etc).
June 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Frankfurt, On the Necessity of Ideals (to problematize the distinction between freedom and autonomy); Benson ‘Free Agency and Self-Worth’ or Calhoun, ‘Losing one’s Self’ (to highlight threats to agential control, like depression, demotivation, gaslighting, etc).
As someone thinking a lot about the way we can seem to share thoughts, feelings, existential dispensations, hunches with our favorite artists — something we have a sense of when it seems an artwork is about us, when it ‘gets’ us—I can’t wait to check this volume out.
June 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As someone thinking a lot about the way we can seem to share thoughts, feelings, existential dispensations, hunches with our favorite artists — something we have a sense of when it seems an artwork is about us, when it ‘gets’ us—I can’t wait to check this volume out.