Sam Berstler

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Sam Berstler

Sam Berstler

@sam_berstler

assistant professor @MITphilosophy | studies conversation | writing a book on philosophy of erving goffman | blog: https://t.co/ys1teZYpGG

Cambridge, Massachusetts Katılım Temmuz 2022
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Sam Berstler
Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
My book, The Philosophy of Erving Goffman, is officially under contract with the Routledge Philosopher Series. This is the first book on Goffman for analytic philosophers, by an analytic philosopher. I'm excited to proselytize Goffman to a new crowd.
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
Excited to talk tomorrow at University of Chicago about its own renegade son, Erving Goffman. Come for the scholarship, stay for the cringey examples. tapendlebury.com/events
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Michael Hannon
Michael Hannon@m_j_hannon·
@emichaelson2 At first, I read this as "lurking in this cesspool [of philosophy of language]".
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
@haicinnamon @xphilosopher For so many reasons. (There are also good theories that male dominance of an industry/field is interpreted as a prestige marker. I've read theories that biology's academic and prestige dropped when it was flooded with women. So that's another dynamic.)
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Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher·
The discipline of philosophy is not experiencing the kind of catastrophic collapse one finds for more prototypical humanities disciplines (English, history, classics, etc.) Question: What specific features of philosophy are making it fare better than these other disciplines?
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Harvey Lederman
Harvey Lederman@LedermanHarvey·
This is a fantastic paper, and a fantastic thread! Lots of ideas here for philosophers of language---Richard and Kyle bring deep knowledge of the history and philosophy of science to bear on how we should understand language today. These are exciting times!
Richard Futrell@rljfutrell

Language Models learn a lot about language, much more than we expected, without much built-in structure. This matters for linguistics and opens up enormous opportunities. So should we just throw out linguistics? No! Quite the opposite: we need theory and structure.

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MITx Courses
MITx Courses@MITxCourses·
As a high school student in New Jersey, Shreya Mogulothu took an MITx course from @MITphilosophy. That experience led her to enroll at MIT. Read more about her learning journey with @mit and what sparked her curiosity bit.ly/4aixhiA
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
@shineforawhile I think he's making the more banal point that many professional philosophers are actually motivated by egomania (which is true).
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
Goffman on philosophical skepticism is the most brutal thing I've ever read about my field: "There is a venerable tradition in philosophy that argues that what the reader assumes to be real is but a shadow, and that by attending to what the... 1/3
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
...as possible and for that reason is pathetic." DUDE. (Also, he might be right about us.) 3/3
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
...write says about perception, thought, the brain, language culture, a new methodology, or novel social forces, the veil can be lifted. That sort of line, of course, gives as much a role to the writer and his writings... 2/3
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Sam Berstler
Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
My main complaint is that the current vogue discourages us from asking a lot of other interesting questions about the social world. A phenomenon shouldn't be worthy of study only only insofar as and because it's distributed in an injustice way!
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
Can we declare a field wide moratorium on anything called "X Injustice"? Yes, social rights and privileges are often distributed in unjust ways, news at 11.
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
@LedermanHarvey There are definitely some phenomenal stylists in analytic philosophy! But I suspect the journal system often incentivizes clunky prose.
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Harvey Lederman
Harvey Lederman@LedermanHarvey·
Hot take: A lot of philosophical writing is actually pretty great. More stylish than the sciences, clearer and more efficient and than literary non-fiction.
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Sam Berstler@sam_berstler·
I'm excited that my paper, "Non-Epistemic Deniability," is now forthcoming in MIND. In it, I offer an analysis of implausible deniability--a kind of deniability that someone can have even when it's perfectly and completely obvious what she did. More: drive.google.com/file/d/1BAyzIH…
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