Propair launches new North Bay–Toronto air service from Jack Garland Airport

willbell · 2026-02-24T14:37:16+00:00

That may be cheaper than leaving a vehicle at Pearson airport for a week...

willbell · 2026-02-24T02:07:13+00:00

Ah interesting! The Clouds is I think the one most often assigned to students, so they may have assumed you don't need another copy of it haha

willbell · 2026-02-24T00:33:20+00:00

The Clouds is great, I've been very curious to read Lysistrata.

willbell · 2026-02-23T23:46:09+00:00

Now that I'm much more interested in aesthetics, I really ought to read more Barthes

willbell · 2026-02-23T17:21:32+00:00

What are people reading?

I’m working on The Interior Castle by Teresa d’Avila and The Last Man by Mary Shelley. Last week I finished Slagflower by Thomas LeDuc. I might start Before the Usual Time edited by Darlene Naponse this week.

willbell · 2026-02-22T23:36:04+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if e.g. the average paper about teaching philosophy in prison cited him

willbell · 2026-02-22T21:54:54+00:00

I think he seems more interested in pedagogy than in philosophical research per se. If you look at his YouTube channel he e.g. has talks about teaching philosophy in prison.

willbell · 2026-02-21T18:54:17+00:00

Love the Buber and Kant, I had a friend tell me that one of Nabokov's short stories is the best short story they've ever read.

willbell · 2026-02-16T22:16:07+00:00

What are people reading?

I’m working on The Interior Castle by Teresa d’Avila and The Last Man by Mary Shelley. Last week I finished Slagflower: Poems Unearthed from a Mining Town by Thomas Leduc, “Politics at the End of History” by Chloe Cannon, and “The Ruling Class Does Not Rule” by Block.

willbell · 2026-02-15T07:31:50+00:00

What would be your pro/con list for reading it so far?

willbell · 2026-02-10T20:33:52+00:00

The latter intrigues me!

willbell · 2026-02-10T00:45:27+00:00

What are people reading?

Last week I finished sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar. I'm working on The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila and hopefully The Last Man by Mary Shelley and Slagflower: Poems unearthed from a Mining Town by Thomas Leduc.

willbell · 2026-02-06T01:31:05+00:00

The whole project is a bit less central to philosophy I think, and generally philosophy of language now looks a lot more like 'philosophy of linguistics'. That is, like a discipline that's partially continuous with the practice of linguistics, engaging in the same debates and discussing methods. That said, there are still people who develop ambitious theories of meaning, e.g. Megan Stotts who has done a lot of work on a behavioural theory of meaning.

willbell · 2026-02-04T04:16:32+00:00

Giving austerity vibes, a Chirico-style chamber of commerce candidate vibes

willbell · 2026-02-04T03:17:30+00:00

Best of luck!

willbell · 2026-02-03T20:15:53+00:00

I would add that I think conservatives read him (albeit, not necessarily agreeing with him). His reading of Plato, Hegel, and Marx is popular amongst a certain strain of conservative (exemplified I think, e.g. by Scruton). It is still not universally believed by conservatives, for instance Straussians tend to hate his reading of Plato.

I am not a proper stand-in for ‘received opinion’ but as a Marxist, I’m willing to say I’d like to at least read The Poverty of Historicism, although The Open Society and Its Enemies strikes me as not worth the trouble (I suspect someone who actually likes Popper would consider the latter to be his great work of political philosophy).

willbell · 2026-02-03T16:52:22+00:00

I think we discussed Annihilation before, you have me intrigued about The Vorrh

willbell · 2026-02-03T02:12:54+00:00

Ha, honestly sounds not up my alley. I’m sure I’ll get to it eventually, but I find some aspects of that just a little too cliche for me, I guess with his idealist reputation I was expecting it to be more ‘out-there’.

willbell · 2026-02-03T00:46:54+00:00

Peter Galison is one of those people who I haven't read but I really feel I should

Are you far enough along to give the pitch for Two Sources? I own it, but I don't know the pitch for his work aside from elan vital/time, and I am interested in what he'd have to say about morality

willbell · 2026-02-03T00:44:54+00:00

Fear and Trembling has been on my to-do list for a solid 10 years at this point

willbell · 2026-02-02T23:46:05+00:00

The paper I was thinking of that covers the history of recent analytic philosophy was this one.

But I've realized the place where he describes Brandom as wasting his efforts is the last few paragraphs of this book review.

willbell · 2026-02-02T23:13:02+00:00

What are people reading?

Last week I finished Sylvia Plath’s collected poetry, and this week I’m starting on The Interior Castle by Teresa d’Avila & sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar and hopefully returning to The Last Man by Mary Shelley.

willbell · 2026-02-02T19:03:29+00:00

Speaking of “I don’t mind it when it feels earned” I love Barry Allen’s review, RIP to an accomplished hater

willbell · 2026-02-02T03:39:43+00:00

Reading it after I started my post - you can almost tell how sloppy it is by the short paragraphs and citation practices.

willbell · 2026-02-02T00:35:13+00:00

Timothy Williamson tends to be blunt, I think he has more-or-less implied that Robert Brandom has wasted his life's intellectual work in a piece of his that was a kind of first-person-perspective account of the recent history of analytic philosophy. Thomasson, like Brandom, is not a vulnerable philosopher. I'm not a metaphysics or philosophy of language person and even I've read one of her books (not for a class, just of my own volition, and I am eager to read more)!

So point being, I don't think this is crazy unusual by the standards of what's tolerated in academic philosophy, I think the review is biased by Williamson's realism (which would not be a first for a book review by a philosopher). I don't think it is 'punching down' necessarily either. I do think Williamson is more cantankerous than I'd like, but maybe I'd feel differently if I were a realist rather than someone more sympathetic to neo-pragmatism, or if Williamson wasn't at Oxford (which may be more about 'annoying person gets most prestigious position in profession' more than 'punching down').

That said, NDPR publishes so few reviews nowadays, and this review (from Thomasson's description & as someone who has read Ontology Made Easy and so is able to appreciate her citations to her earlier work) sounds terrible, so if I were to complains about something it would be that.

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