David Harmon

It's a weird one, in which I develop a view that I don't myself accept, but a fun one too! Conway's monism is quite puzzling.

I'm happy to share (on Anne Conway's 394th birthday, by coincidence) that my paper, "Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole," has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy doi.org/10.25894/jmp.2…

If you're interested in (i) what Spinoza thought about the (non-existent, but representationally informative) "bottom" of the mereological ladder or (ii) some subtle mistakes in a couple of famous 20th-century French interpretations of Spinoza, give the paper a glance!

Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @asalgadoborge and @alexxdouglas for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S00318…

@saditious @noetic_emetic damn right!

@noetic_emetic @1part_harmony There's only one, and it's in principle sufficient

oh you’re a rationalist ? name every reason

@Emiliarative Thank you!

@1part_harmony Congratulations!!

Defense: ✅ PhD acquired

@gstv_rz Thank you!

@1part_harmony OMG congratulations! 🎉🍾

That's my cue. Gonna go ahead and start tweeting about Star Wars and 17th-century metaphysics for 4 likes in a new venue. If that's your jam, find me at 1part-harmony.bsky.social

@alexxdouglas Thanks Alex!

Congratulations to David on a wonderful dissertation! Now let’s see what the examiners think…

@laurenamdouglas Thanks very much Lauren!

@1part_harmony Yes!!! Congratulations, David!! The best feeling ever. I’ve heard wonderful things about your thesis! Wishing you all the best for the viva when it comes around x

Submission: ✅ Defense: 🤞 (TBD)

After spending the past four years closely dissecting certain features of Cartesian physics, today I have arrived at the tentative conclusion that Descartes *may* have gotten a few things very badly wrong.

imagine you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any figurines. bro where are your figurines

normalize taking a day off work because you haven't emotionally recovered from your Lord of the Rings marathon yesterday

@DeutscheBot @sillynous My wife enjoyed building the LEGO succulent collection (pictured in the back) so much that this year I decided to add the Millennium Falcon to the mix.