.@jehsmith is quite wrong about the attitude philosophers have towards public work, they HATE it generally and it counts against your career. But he is also wrong about why academic parents tweet the same things non-academic parents tweet about (it’s because they’re parents!).
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He’s also wrong about fun, and I’m sure he is anti-cookies as well. I still enjoy reading him because he is incredibly cantankerous and smart. But yeah his takes can be a a bit Martian like (the comment about parents being an example). He is outside the sociology of the field.
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Thanks Jason, I do admire in you some of the traits I lack. Some corrections: I love families (not least my own!). What I don't love is mass surveillance and the new 'job creep' that places us amidst our colleagues, ...
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... and subjects us to their judgments about whether we have the correct sociology or not, every time we tweet or post. I'm aware that non-academics are enticed into sharing their intimate lives with data hoarders as much as academics are, but the fact that my concerns about...
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... how this works are generalizable beyond the small group that interests me here doesn't mean that they don't legitimately apply to that small group. As for whether I'm in the sociology of the field (the only part of your comments here that, I confess, hurt a bit)...
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... I would say that, if I am not, then this only demonstrates how the field's exclusionary mechanisms work. "He sounds a bit like a Martian? He must not be one of us." I would like to see a philosophy field where, at least sometimes, sounding like a Martian serves as...
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... incentive to listen more closely, not to marshal sociology in order to process the apparent foreignness of what is being said.
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I don’t spend much time around philosophers. And maybe your comments are more responding to philosophy in Europe than in the US. But here the view that contributions to public philosophy help rather than hurt one’s chances within the field sounds far off the mark.
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And listen to who more closely? Listen to you? You don’t represent a constituency. You are unique. And you aren’t marginalized, you are fantastically successful and admired.
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The field’s exclusionary mechanisms have worked against you because you were early on prominently doing public philosophy.
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