Twitter Roundup: Philosophy

The best philosophy tweets I’ve seen in the past week or so

Hello scintillating sunny-side friends :)

Today’s post is going to be a collection of my favourite philosophy tweets so let’s go and get traumatised by academia again!! Today’s post is also evidence that I’ve finally learned how to embed tweets properly with Substack (see previous post for evidence of this failure). A lot of these are context-dependent, so if you just want to read about an amazing female philosopher, you can just skip to the bottom.

Sam @samgraver

If there's one thing I lack, it's conviction about any goddamn thing besides hollow academic questions

Lucia 🐢 @lucia_cardelli

You all need to shut the fuck up about deleuze

Marcos Gonsalez @MarcosSGonsalez

theory/philosophy in academy has always been tied to whiteness & coloniality. theory/philosophy has been done elsewhere in other modes by nonwhite peoples. They’re equally as citable & we don’t have to move through white thinkers to theorize our world—I know, what a concept!

🌱baldheaded bitch🌱 @phocault

everyone always asks if i understand hegel, but no one asks hegel if he understands me :/

Thomas J. Breed @TJBreed

Kant: Unless we derive the categories from a common source "metaphysics is mere rhapsody in which no one knows whether he has enough or whether... something is still wanting" Also Kant: *very Ralph Wiggum voice* There are 12 forms of judgement because 12 is my favourite number!

Jordan L. Perkins @jordanlperkins

I've never wanted to get really into Nietzsche, because I don't like any of the people who are really into Nietzsche

Existential Comics @existentialcoms

We must imagine Sisyphus as starting a podcast.

Espi👽🦑🛸 @Pranzadia

@AmneMachin Karl Marx never got a blue checkmark on twitter, what does he know?

Michael Bench-Capon @MikeBenchCapon

If panspychism is false then how does memory foam work

Joe Simons @joejps84

@AmneMachin Hume: The world? Cancelled Causation? Cancelled. The self? Three guesses

Amelia Horgan @joan0fsnark

that’s a lot of plateaus, are you sure

Florence Bacus 🏳️‍🌈 @morallawwithin

you can't have knowledge of things in themselves. Grow up

Thomas J. Breed @TJBreed

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the same function that gives unity to the different representations in a judgment also gives unity to the mere synthesis of different representations in an intuition.

Revolver Volcelot @costaggini

socrates: i only know that i know nothing me: whoa that's pretty wise socrates: no what i mean is that im actually dumb as shit me: ? socrates: *eats toothpaste straight from the tube* me: socrates: *writes for politico*

wintgenstein @drilosophers

vampire workday @imbobswaget

what tier of depression is thinking grad school will really turn your life around

This thread isn’t very funny or anything, but I thought it was great to read; don’t dull your shine for anyone because male tenured professors will literally wear the worst Giordano polo tees or some nonsense and the bar can’t be lower, it physically cannot:

Leah Richier @CallMeRichier

I recently read a thread about young women in academia & what they should wear to be professional. Why, oh why, were the proposed solutions: - don't wear colorful clothing - don't wear "too much" makeup - don't wear "flashy" jewelry My advice: Don't dull your shine for ANYONE.

Finally, here is a link to Dr. Robin Zheng’s research which I’ve included because there are free philosophical articles that you can look into if you’re interested in reading philosophical perspectives concerning important issues like gender dynamics within academia and personal ethics vis-a-vis structural injustice. I know that plenty of philosophers do incredible work like this, but I thought of her while compiling this because I first met her when we organised some conference and she was the guest of honour for it, and she was such an incredible inspiration and was so kind and thoughtful in her speech that I still remember her even though we’ve met a grand total of two times. She also mentioned that she tries to make these papers accessible to the general public, so that nobody has to pay a ludicrous sum just to access them. Philosophy frequently gets a bad reputation for dealing with problems that are so obscure and which appear to have little relevance on the lives of other people in society, but these articles have very tangible and consequential implications for contemporary society and ardently press the question of how we can live ethically in the here and now.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Love,

Julia :)