At the gate, in my eagerness to overhear conversations by potential philosophers, I have learned that the Linguistic Society of America and the Shakespeare Association of America are both meeting in Vancouver this weekend.Report
Apparently, experimental philosophers are about to announce an important discovery. In other news, some well-known philosophers decided not to get drunk this time and even refrain from talking trash about other well-known or less-known philosophers and remind everybody around that they should not do it either.Report
Grad Sockpuppet
7 years ago
“I applied to a research/teaching postdoc. They said they got 1800 applications.”Report
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” (in the elevator lobby at 9am)Report
Anon
7 years ago
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” – that is certainly true in the sense that there’s no such thing as uncritical thinking to contrast it to.Report
p
7 years ago
I miss the band from San Francisco that played during the reception. That band was great and watching philosophers imitate dancing while they played is the only thing that remained in my mind from the whole conference.Report
“Say ‘no’ to arguments that are tall, skinny, sparse, and tidy. Say ‘yes’ to arguments that are short, stocky, and tangled.” — Nancy Cartwright at her Dewey Lecture.Report
Nobody persuaded anybody about anything. But wine was good, and some of the un-falsifiable statements and theories were quite beautiful.Report
Young Feminist
7 years ago
This isn’t really an “overheard” so much as a “completely wowed” – Susan Brison spoke at the book symposium on MacKinnon’s ‘Toward a Feminist Theory of the State’ (25 years on). It was the most moved I have ever been at a philosophy event. Tears were cried (by many, not just me). Thanks to Lori Watson for organizing the event, to Catharine MacKinnon for asking us to consider what would happen if we could all share our own autobiographies of assault, and to Susan Brison for bravely reminding us why philosophy matters.Report
Sergio Tenenbaum
7 years ago
Insofar as I can understand [philosopher’s name redacted]’s view, it is totally unintelligible.Report
No, actually, I don’t.Report
“Your logic is so out of control.” — overheard on the way to the Pacific, at the gate for the flight from Chicago to Vancouver.Report
It’s not raining in Vancouver and it’s quite nice outside. I say we make this a peripatetic conference.Report
“Thought experiments are really cheap. That’s why we pay philosophers to make them.”Report
At the gate, in my eagerness to overhear conversations by potential philosophers, I have learned that the Linguistic Society of America and the Shakespeare Association of America are both meeting in Vancouver this weekend.Report
“The Daily Nous guy said hi to me!”Report
Apparently, experimental philosophers are about to announce an important discovery. In other news, some well-known philosophers decided not to get drunk this time and even refrain from talking trash about other well-known or less-known philosophers and remind everybody around that they should not do it either.Report
“I applied to a research/teaching postdoc. They said they got 1800 applications.”Report
The real action is on yik yak this year.Report
“That is identical to that” can be uttered falsely.Report
does anybody have any weed ?Report
Yes.Report
More, please. I miss the Pacific.Report
Felonius: Wrong thread, man. This is ‘Overheard at the Pacific’.Report
“Hey, say something you-like. I want to post it on the Daily Nous ‘Overheard at the Pacific’ thread.”Report
In the interest of honesty, I may have said that one while talking to myself.Report
“What do you work on?”
“Teaching.”Report
Two guys talking about teaching feminism: ” A lot of those people have drank the post-modern Kool-Aid, so you know, they can’t write.”Report
Fuck you, we’re not competing. Let’s go shopping.Report
“There’s sexy sick and then there’s poopy sick.”Report
It somehow feels smallReport
“How is philosophy even possible?”Report
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” (in the elevator lobby at 9am)Report
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” – that is certainly true in the sense that there’s no such thing as uncritical thinking to contrast it to.Report
I miss the band from San Francisco that played during the reception. That band was great and watching philosophers imitate dancing while they played is the only thing that remained in my mind from the whole conference.Report
“Say ‘no’ to arguments that are tall, skinny, sparse, and tidy. Say ‘yes’ to arguments that are short, stocky, and tangled.” — Nancy Cartwright at her Dewey Lecture.Report
“If you put this on Daily Nous I’ll kill you.”Report
It’s clear at this point that the star of this conference is Galen Strawson’s awesome hair.Report
“Don’t lose my Kant!”
“Contrary to reality, it is a fact.”Report
Nobody persuaded anybody about anything. But wine was good, and some of the un-falsifiable statements and theories were quite beautiful.Report
This isn’t really an “overheard” so much as a “completely wowed” – Susan Brison spoke at the book symposium on MacKinnon’s ‘Toward a Feminist Theory of the State’ (25 years on). It was the most moved I have ever been at a philosophy event. Tears were cried (by many, not just me). Thanks to Lori Watson for organizing the event, to Catharine MacKinnon for asking us to consider what would happen if we could all share our own autobiographies of assault, and to Susan Brison for bravely reminding us why philosophy matters.Report
Insofar as I can understand [philosopher’s name redacted]’s view, it is totally unintelligible.Report
“Shhhh, that’s that Justin guy from Daily Nous”Report
“I’m a consequentialist, I would kill everyone in here if I had to”Report
Susan Brison was really, really spectacular.Report
“Embrace your destiny as an ancestor-god to the hedonic singularity!” ~ Neil Sinhababu
This wasn’t so much overheard as simply heard.Report
2 guys in the lobby: “That is the most ridiculous project idea I have ever heard. But sure, I have ten minutes…”Report