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.
Anon Grad Student
11 years ago
“The Daily Nous guy said hi to me!”
p
11 years ago
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.
Grad Sockpuppet
11 years ago
“I applied to a research/teaching postdoc. They said they got 1800 applications.”
Anon Grad Student
11 years ago
The real action is on yik yak this year.
Rob
11 years ago
“That is identical to that” can be uttered falsely.
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.”
PGOAT
11 years ago
Fuck you, we’re not competing. Let’s go shopping.
Kanon
11 years ago
“There’s sexy sick and then there’s poopy sick.”
p
11 years ago
It somehow feels small
Paul Henne
11 years ago
“How is philosophy even possible?”
Dani
11 years ago
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” (in the elevator lobby at 9am)
Anon
11 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.
p
11 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.
“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.
It’s clear at this point that the star of this conference is Galen Strawson’s awesome hair.
Dani
11 years ago
“Don’t lose my Kant!”
“Contrary to reality, it is a fact.”
p
11 years ago
Nobody persuaded anybody about anything. But wine was good, and some of the un-falsifiable statements and theories were quite beautiful.
Young Feminist
11 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.
No, actually, I don’t.
“Your logic is so out of control.” — overheard on the way to the Pacific, at the gate for the flight from Chicago to Vancouver.
It’s not raining in Vancouver and it’s quite nice outside. I say we make this a peripatetic conference.
“Thought experiments are really cheap. That’s why we pay philosophers to make them.”
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.
“The Daily Nous guy said hi to me!”
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.
“I applied to a research/teaching postdoc. They said they got 1800 applications.”
The real action is on yik yak this year.
“That is identical to that” can be uttered falsely.
does anybody have any weed ?
Yes.
More, please. I miss the Pacific.
Felonius: Wrong thread, man. This is ‘Overheard at the Pacific’.
“Hey, say something you-like. I want to post it on the Daily Nous ‘Overheard at the Pacific’ thread.”
In the interest of honesty, I may have said that one while talking to myself.
“What do you work on?”
“Teaching.”
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.”
Fuck you, we’re not competing. Let’s go shopping.
“There’s sexy sick and then there’s poopy sick.”
It somehow feels small
“How is philosophy even possible?”
“There’s no such thing as critical thinking” (in the elevator lobby at 9am)
“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.
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.
“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.
“If you put this on Daily Nous I’ll kill you.”
It’s clear at this point that the star of this conference is Galen Strawson’s awesome hair.
“Don’t lose my Kant!”
“Contrary to reality, it is a fact.”
Nobody persuaded anybody about anything. But wine was good, and some of the un-falsifiable statements and theories were quite beautiful.
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.
Insofar as I can understand [philosopher’s name redacted]’s view, it is totally unintelligible.
“Shhhh, that’s that Justin guy from Daily Nous”
“I’m a consequentialist, I would kill everyone in here if I had to”
Susan Brison was really, really spectacular.
“Embrace your destiny as an ancestor-god to the hedonic singularity!” ~ Neil Sinhababu
This wasn’t so much overheard as simply heard.
2 guys in the lobby: “That is the most ridiculous project idea I have ever heard. But sure, I have ten minutes…”