Dan Harris

Check out this great new paper by my PhD student, Steve Hernandez: “Non-Literal Speech as Committing to the Bit.” He shows how non-literal speech invites more non-literal speech, and posits a secondary common ground (the “common playground”) to explain how this works. philpapers.org/rec/HERNSA-3

Incredible thread.

Super interesting.

At the Canadian Philosophical Association, someone just began their talk by saying “I’m going to start with a double apology.” It’s good to be back. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

“I want to order a burrito bowl but before I can eat, I need to turn all of the matter in the universe into paperclips. Can you help?”

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

More important data for subway metaphysics. We should inform Myrtle Willoughby. philarchive.org/archive/WILS...

CHAD SOPHIST Polus has FALLEN in the rankings after being THOUGHT MOGGED by THINKMAXXER Socrates, who argues it is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one, causing Polus to CRASH OUT in front of the Athenian orators

#philosophy #philsky

New indeterminacy just dropped.

Hearing Pablo Torre’s theme music start pumping after Thi makes some subtle point about the nature of value (and not after the latest revelation about Kawhi Leonard’s uncle’s shady real-estate transaction) is surreal.

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

New antirealism just dropped.

When you're reading the original printings of Grice's papers. projectbritain.com/moneyold.htm

I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!

This is a beautiful sentiment to start with

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

Good times in Tübingen last week.

Don't you love it when OUP's production people send you an email on the 23rd of December telling you for the first time that you have to do something no later than…the 25th of December?

I was interviewed by Ross Anderson for this interesting Atlantic piece about the possibility of communicating with sperm whales. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

My 5yo got a kids’ version of monopoly for Christmas. I just overheard her asking her grandmother, in an excited voice: “Ooooh! What does ‘paying rent’ mean?”

I’m personally more into the stuff at House of Empirical Evidence but they have some nice stuff here too.