C Thi Nguyen

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Philosophy professor. I write about games, trust, art, and porn. My new book is on games as the art of agency: . He/him.

Salt Lake City, UT
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2015.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    1. kol 2019.

    Our NYT op-ed sez: food porn is looking at pics of food for instant pleasure, while avoiding the work and the calories. Moral outrage porn is reading about moral outrage for instant gratification, while avoiding the call to action, and real moral nuance.

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  2. prije 2 sata

    And I eventually said: "I think full-dress marching is bullshit for the marchers, and porn for the viewers. So I think sometimes you are forced to engage in bullshit in order to make porn." A student in the front row muttered, "Holy SHIT that is cool." And this is why I teach.

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  3. prije 2 sata

    And we all kind of stared at it for a while. And a student said, "So is bullshit and porn the same? Because, like, full-dress marching is military bullshit, but it's also kind of military porn." And this was a question I'd never heard before.

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  4. prije 2 sata

    So I wrote on the board: X-bullshit = engaging in activity X while not caring about the usual goal of X. X-porn = engaging with representations of X for immediate gratification while avoiding the usual costs and consequences of actually engaging with X.

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  5. prije 2 sata

    So I suggested a generalization: that bullshit is engaging in an activity while not caring for that activity's usual goal. And then I realized, right there in front of my students, how similar (influenced by?) Bekka and my "Moral Outrage Porn" paper was to "On Bullshit".

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  6. prije 2 sata

    Also I was pushing on Frankfurt's conclusion: that bullshit is not caring about the truth. I wanted to generalize it, based on his own example: that spit-and-polish military stuff is bullshit, because it doesn't serve the usual military purpose.

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  7. prije 2 sata

    It's a total delight for introducing students to the methods of conceptual analysis. They have tons of robust shared intuitions, and the class turned into the dream-class: where they didn't realize what a rich concept they were already using, and we unearthed it. Pure ecstasy.

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    A high point: one theory that Frankfurt floats is that bullshit is always sloppy. As the class quickly figures out: pretentious food is meticulously crafted, and bullshit precisely because it is *too* meticulously crafted.

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  9. prije 2 sata

    Just had a lifetime peak teaching experience with my first trial go at putting Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" in my intro ethics class. Students are first laughing at the fact that we're analyzing "bullshit", and then laughing at how astonishingly profound the conversation goes.

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  10. proslijedio/la je Tweet
    prije 9 sati

    I am delighted to report that C. Thi Nguyen is joining our faculty. He starts in Philosophy at University of Utah on July 1 2020.

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    4. velj

    I've started writing an Ethics column for ! My first piece is up today, concerning epidemic, racism, and P.F. Strawson.

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  12. 4. velj

    Our newborn is crying. My spouse and I both have our hands full. Our toddler stares at his baby brother, thinks intensely, and then rummages in the cupboard and brings a flask. "Here baby! This will make you happy and not sad!" This is what he has learned from us, apparently.

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  13. 2. velj

    Just realized that the “it’s easy to make fun of a kink unless it’s a kink you have” principle applies equally well to sports and games.

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    2. velj

    "Did you hear that SCHOOL 1 is trying to steal NAME from SCHOOL 2? It'll really boost their strengths in AREA given that they've already got HOT SHOT and NEWCOMER and move them up in the ranks to be competive for grad students again." - the same academics that make fun of sports

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  15. 24. sij

    This is Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, with the vocals tuned a half step out of key. It makes me physically nauseous. Like, caught between spasmodic delightful giggling and the feeling that all my pores are cringing in pain. I love it.

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    20. sij

    The slogan “All dogs are good dogs” is in fact disrespectful to dogs. To truly give dogs the respect they deserve we must acknowledge that, as complicated beings, some dogs are amazing while others have shit personalities. In this essay I will

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    18. sij

    Inspired by , I don't flip people off when I'm driving. I just give them a thumbs down. It's funny if they try to thumbs-down you back.

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    18. sij

    Do you teach aesthetics at the intro level? (I'm writing new material designed for teaching aesthetics in the 100s. Your responses, comments, retweets, are much appreciated!)

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    13. sij

    BREAKING: Right-wing judge rules for right-wing litigant on Wisconsin voter purge, orders 200k+ voters removed ASAP, holds Democratic members of WI Elections Commission in contempt, fines them $250/day till purge is complete. Help Dems re-register voters!

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  20. 12. sij

    Writing is like brandy. It takes ten years of work to make it go down easy.

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    11. sij

    Unsurprisingly, the Author Meets Critics session for 's book on games has been absurdly fun so far

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