Karl Schafer

Someone should invent a microblogging site where sarcasm is possible

Asking Claude to rank Kant scholars just to feel something

WRONG. Bodies that Matter is foundational for the Orange Catholic Bible. This is canon.

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

I know you all love Descartes, but if you ever find yourself in an evil demon scenario, do *not* try to reason your way out of it. Trust me on this one.

It's a claim about the transmission of ideas, although exactly how self-conscious it is will vary a lot, I think.

Yes, here (as is often true) Deleuze is more perceptive than most!

I would go further. Hume's *actual influence* on postmodernism (and existentialism, etc) is radically underestimated by the standard narrative. The often subterranean impact of Hume's philosophy is a secret thread running through much of (so called) "continental philosophy".

You say that *now* (I’ll be watching)

lol i guess they knew what they were doing!

tell me you don't work in the same office as me without telling me much?

happy comically small royalty statement from academic publisher season to all who celebrate

Automatic admit for a PhD in analytic philosophy

Sense making module? You mean reason?

I don’t even like reading this tweet!

Yes In My Front Bathroom

The system works.

yeah, someone should try smoking

In a series of unrelated interviews, extended mind theorists from around the world repeatedly claimed to meet at a location they called "the hill"...

"politics is the art of could've been worse"

Powerful new statement on MN from GOP Vermont Governor Phil Scott (1/3):

“Enough…it’s not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their God-given and constitutional rights to protest their government. At best, these federal immigration operations ...

Not all middle-aged married men with an active social life are well socialized 🙏

Seeing this here is like a warm bath.

Karl Schafer, Realizing Reason in Feeling: Smithian Sympathy as the Schema of the Kantian Moral Law - PhilPapers Smith’s influence on Kant’s philosophy was once viewed as marginal, but it is now well-established that central aspects of Kant’s moral and political philosophy were significantly influenced by his ex...

Here I argue that Smith's conception of sympathy was ideally suited to bridge the gap between reason and sentiment in Kant's moral psychology.

In a slogan: Smithian sympathy gave Kant the key for "schematizing" the moral law on the level of feeling and imagination.

philpapers.org/rec/SCHRRI-7

As if Derrida would know unicode

Oh hell no.

I don’t want to be one of “those guys”, but please don’t talk about my wife like that.

Interesting resonances in Koselleck here with the Anscombean critique of a focus on "plans" or "intentions" in the philosophy of action.

But also an interesting rejoinder to the common assumption in metaethics that the authority of morality is best established by moral realism (vs. constructivism).

"Since the future of modern history opens itself as the unknown, it becomes plannable–indeed it must be planned. And with each new plan a fresh degree of uncertainty is introduced, since it presupposes a lack of experience. The self-proclaimed authority of 'history' grows with its constructibility."

It feels so good to have a couple hazy IPAs, make a few dumb posts, and then quickly delete every last one.