Declan O&#x27;Gara

if any of you sickos want to read my full thesis for some reason its now publicly available era.ed.ac.uk/server/api/c...

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if you spot a spelling mistake, for the love of god keep it to yourself

Literally looked at one page at random and spotted 2

ended a tuesday therapy session by saying ‘have a nice weekend’ so i’m going to have to start the next session by talking through my embarrassment

15 Aug

in the room of the philosophers (ignore the tank top it was 36°)

14 Aug

do you think he knows this is where caesar was assassinated

14 Aug

braved the 38° heat to visit the forum and palatine hill this morning

13 Aug

managed to get attico tickets to the collosseum, which ironically are difficult to come by even though these would’ve been the worst seats for the spectators

@emilyherring.bsky.social

13 Aug

for anyone else who goes they’re not expensive, you just have to buy them exactly 30 days (to the hour) before you want to go

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Emily Herring

13 Aug

I wrote about how strange it is that we think so little of our senses of taste and smell, and about two novelists and a philosopher who do a great job of rectifying this wellreadherring.substack.com/p/perfume-bu...

wellreadherring.substack.comPerfume, Butter, and the Philosophy of Taste and SmellThis article was originally published in The New World magazine on August 13, 2025.

12 Aug

with the lads

11 Aug

i came to rome for 1 litre beers and 1 litre beers only

10 Aug

first time flying tomorrow since becoming a doctor, hope they have some kind of mid-air moral dilemma they need help with

31 July

my experience on blue sky is that i only see the subskeets and never the original skeet

30 July

Yesterday I passed my viva with no corrections - I’m gonna be a doctor!

8 July

is the lore behind count binface that it’s a mask and he has a giant head or that the bin *is* his actual head

18 June

we’ve arrived for FrankMeta

18 June

how does one even pack for this

31 May

the idea that listening to a word doesn’t count as processing it is quite a take

Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted)@tylerfromtheinternet.com

I don't care how long we've been mutuals if you pull this shit I will block you

30 May

league title doesn’t even really count now

28 May

be right back just gonna teach these nurses about the problems with quasi realism

27 May

marking these exams won’t kill me (it already has)

link.springer.comDefensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail - Philosophical StudiesDebunking arguments in metaethics are generally viewed as arguments against moral realism. In this paper, I distinguish these kinds of arguments, which I label offensive debunking arguments, from defe...

21 May

My paper ‘Defensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail’ is now out open access in phil studies! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Cat Saint-Croix

@catsaintcroix.bsky.social

15 May

📣🎉 New paper! "Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology", forthcoming in Phil Studies! Epistemic deference has gotten a bad rap in standpoint epistemology lately, but that's a bad take. Here's why. philpapers.org/rec/SAIZAE

philpapers.orgCatharine Saint-Croix, Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology - PhilPapersThe Advantage Thesis is the centerpiece of standpoint epistemology. According to this thesis, standpoint occupants—those who bear a particular sort of epistemically fruitful relationship to marginaliz...

14 May

is this a good time for me to start skeeting about politics

14 May

my hot take is that wes streeting should not be prime minister

rdcu.beOn Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory

12 May

My paper ‘On Blackburn’s Response to Mackie’s Moral Error Theory’ is now out open access in Philosophia! rdcu.be/fihkE

9 May

excellent opening paragraph it has to be said

7 May

make sure you get out there and (support your local error theorist submitting his thesis today)

@kathrynnave.eurosky.social

6 May

i reckon if you’re at the point where you’ve come up with a scale for this you’ve probably gone wrong somewhere

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Alan Dershowitz on Epstein & Ghislaine: "There was no sex trafficking ring...They said he’s a pedophile because he had sex with a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old. That would mean he was a pedophile in Florida, but not in England." He then says Epstein's a "3 or 4" on a scale of 10 for sex offenders.

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Kate Nave

6 May

Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May! With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-...

6 May

Final proof read before I submit

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Hane

@hane.bsky.social

tandfonline.comCanonic counterpoint as a philosophical practice: mind, meaning, and metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque musical compositionIn an essay entitled “Schopenhauer’s Flute and Descartes’s Lute” (2024), Helen De Cruz asks: “what can musical practice tell us about philosophy?” The present paper offers an answer to this questio...

my paper "Canonic Counterpoint as a Philosophical Practice: Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics in Renaissance and Baroque Musical Composition", is now published in Philosophical Psychology! this particular paper means a lot to me for a couple of reasons ... (1/4) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@amiethomasson.bsky.social

4 May

this is an excellent ‘got to finish my phd’ album

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Amie Thomasson

4 May

Here is my latest paper. Thanks to St. Andrews, it's open access. I hope some people find it of interest. Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language - Thomasson - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comMetaethics and the Functions of Moral LanguageMetaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still...

30 Apr

is this too on the nose

just peeped that I've spelled judgement wrong 170 times in my thesis

stupid American word processor ruining my evening

thank god for control F

28 Apr

trying to get the springer proof editor to work feels a lot like how it looks to operate the tardis

28 Apr

literally the second before i was going to submit it removed all my edits 🙃

@ersatzdoctor.bsky.social

28 Apr

actual footage of me trying to change ‘practices’ to ‘practice’

Declan O'Gara@declanogara.bsky.social

trying to get the springer proof editor to work feels a lot like how it looks to operate the tardis

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Ersatz Doctor

27 Apr

Physicalists when they hear the zombie argument:

27 Apr

I've only ever had very quick review times from journals so the reverse gamblers fallacy suggests the next one will take 5 years

27 Apr

Pleased to say my paper ‘Defensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail’ is now forthcoming in Phil Studies!

26 Apr

our office building may be falling apart but the view at this time of day is quite something

@jonmackenzie.bsky.social

26 Apr

no one else in the office on a Sunday? these guys don't know about thesismaxing

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Jon Mackenzie

23 Apr

Some news: I've written a book about how football has evolved over the last fifteen years or so. It's called The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola haunts modern football tactics. It's out in August and you can pre-order it right now from this link: geni.us/TheSpectreOf...

21 Apr

everyone has 9 days to make it in