if i say "folk psychology" do normal people know what that is
does this get the gist across
one of the things I have learned from the anti-trans backlash is that philosophers absolutely do not have a clear idea of the kinds of questions our methods can address (notably not empirical ones)
stock has an article where she argues for gender identity conversion therapy on the basis of conceptual analysis about what "conversion therapy" is. in her aristotelian society talk she did conceptual analysis for a conclusion about STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
and other philosophers are not like "this methodology absolutely cannot do these things"! which seems disciplinarily not great! feels like academic disciplines should have solid understanding of like, what its methods can do
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I am looking for the syntax textbook I used as an undergrad. I think the cover was beige and it was enormous and boring. does that sound familiar to anyone
Big boring beige
I think the title involved a specific theory? But I don’t know any syntax theories
This is a particular metamoral stance about what constitutes “acceptable” grounds for pushing a strong judgment, treated as an objective fact 😜😜
They felt too many participants were choosing the “unacceptable” justification so they “solved” this by more firmly baking their metamoral position into the study questions 😜😜😜😜
Grading isn’t fun but easily the worst thing about the end of the term is hearing people talk about their baffling students who almost certainly have uncontrolled ADHD
Not starting a task bc of dysfunctional executive control from the inside feels like... just not doing it! It’s not like beep beep neurological problem, you... just do not do the thing you absolutely need to do, while telling yourself you’re about to, and about to, and about to
I didn’t talk to any of my professors when this was happening to me, because I (probably correctly) felt like I would have to explain myself, and I literally had nothing to say. Was I supposed to go in like “I have not finished the paper, because I just am not working on it”
remember in the 90s when the big evangelical thing was making sure kids were ready to die in school shootings for god, didn’t see things going downhill from there