Pete Bornschein
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Philosopher, dog lover, movie buff, coffee guzzler, and ice cream abuser. I will retweet things I agree with, disagree with, or have no opinion about.
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Are Cultural Explanations for Racial Disparities Racist? (Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Research)
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@deonteleologist
@lastpositivist
@realchrisrufo
On the one hand, I can’t shake the idea that he’s being misleading if he simply says, “I have a Masters from Harvard.” On the other hand, it’s technically true, and if it’s true that he’s publicly talked about his experience at HES, I’m not sure how much of a gotcha this is.
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It has this excellent essay by
@Docstockk
. I know a lot of people will refuse to read it because the author is allegedly evil. But even evil people can make sound arguments.
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Why is it when someone says, "Feminism should be a movement for women as women," the reply is often, "So you're saying feminism should just be a movement for middle class white women?" It's like someone saying, "2+2=4" and hearing back, "So you're saying 2+2=5?".
@aytchellesse
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Continuing to read chapters from this excellent anthology edited by
@ProfAliceS
and
@selina_todd
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@salltweets
My understanding is that this question began to be obsessed over by academic feminists in the latter half of the 20th century, and they were pretty much entirely women.
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@salltweets
I’m not sure what reality you’re referring to, but if you mean that women are adult human females, or that women’s rights are being threatened by some entitled men, I agree.
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@aytchellesse
And if what the provost is saying about
@UniMelb
's "resolute commitment" to academic freedom is true, what's up with the "LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Action Plan"???
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Finally got around to reading this excellent book by
@hannahsbee
. I recommend it to anyone, even if they aren’t interested in trans issues. Lots of complex moral themes come up in the book that generalize beyond gender medicine.
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“Whereas humans have dealt with the physical, biological, and psychological worlds for as long as we’ve existed on this planet, not so the modern economic world. Thus, biological evolution hasn’t equipped us for it, and culture hasn’t either - not unless we’ve studied economics.”
The Worst Economists in the World
Laypeople's intuitions about economics are systematically misguided
My latest post on S*bstack!
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@JennMJacksonPhD
@Tyler_A_Harper
What Kendi says about racism is, at best, excessively vague. But he definitely does NOT say racism is just about your thoughts.
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@aytchellesse
“Ludicrous hyperbole” - yeah, like ludicrous hyperbole on steroids plus cocaine.
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@byrne_a
@jk_rowling
@SexMattersOrg
@Docstockk
@aytchellesse
Does Butler think
@aytchellesse
is British?
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@DrVicFielding
@fcqv
@aytchellesse
On your view, is someone a woman in virtue of identifying as a woman? On your view, does every trans woman, by definition, identify as a woman? Finally, is your view that it’s bigoted to exclude trans women from women’s spaces because it involves denying how they self-identify?
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@aytchellesse
I don’t care about the price (I’ll just have to buy cheaper ice cream), but I don’t like that Americans have to wait another three months until they can get a copy! I thought the US had enough clout to ensure stuff like this didn’t happen. I’m writing to the White House!
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@aytchellesse
is one of the most open-minded, intellectually honest, intellectually charitable, and intellectually curious academics I personally know. If she gets the
@Docstockk
treatment at
@UniMelb
, that will be a profound tragedy.
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@DazzleSarah2023
I wasn’t surprised that the neo-Nazi accusations against
@MoiraDeemingMP
,
@angijones
, and
@aytchellesse
took off in certain corners of social media. But that mainstream institutions lent any credibility to these accusations still shocks me.
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Folks should check out this brand new piece by
@pschofie79
. I think it will turn out be revolutionary.
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@aytchellesse
Based on polls I’ve seen of American, British, and Swedish attitudes, legal sex self-ID is more popular among women than men.
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Trans Typologies: A Brief History
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@genspect
@R3snbleSciety
I knew it!
There are so many absurd elements to this, I’m almost inclined to think “she” is trying to show how ridiculous the law in Spain is.
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I'm waiting for when the American Philosophical Association starts doing this:
"Before the conference started, attendees were informed that a quiet room would be provided with bean bags and a soothing environment, in case anyone was triggered or overwhelmed."
At its conference, the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health did not present as a healthcare professionals’ organisation using its expertise for advocacy; it presented as an advocacy organisation using its healthcare credentials for ideology.
#GenderClinics
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Perhaps organizations where missteps can have serious consequences (like at a pediatric clinic) really shouldn’t feel like families. 🤷♂️🤔
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There are so many absurd elements to this, I’m almost inclined to think “she” is trying to show how ridiculous the law in Spain is.
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Recently read these two pairs of books by Cordelia Fine,
@hoovlet
, Michelle Alexander, and
@Rafa_Mangual
. It’s humbling being a non-expert in a subject and reading two well-researched books drawing different conclusions with respect to said subject.
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An Argument Against Welfare Rights (out in the latest issue of Reason Papers)
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One thing the book will force anyone to reconsider is the extent to which an organization feeling like a “family” is a good thing. I suspect most people would instantaneously say it is a good thing.
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I finished this book. I can say with absolute confidence that I do not possess the concept of a “gender category” if, by that, one means whatever Briggs and George mean by it. Therefore, I have no beliefs about who is or is not a member of what gender category (in their sense).
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Anyway, the paper is worth checking out, if one hasn't already.
@TomasBogardus
@byrne_a
@aytchellesse
@MollyTheGardner
@GorinMoti
@sophie_r_allen
@mary_leng
@AncaGheaus
@voice_sam
@colwight
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@Docstockk
@OUPAcademic
Also, the quality of much mainstream philosophy of gender that gets published puts the lie to the idea that what happened to Alex was just run-of-the-mill quality control.
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@aytchellesse
That is a great photo! It belongs in something like Time magazine’s “The Twenty-First Century Through Photos.”
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I just watched this movie for the first time (embarrassed to admit). Julian Sands being in the news (sadly) was one catalyst (the other being that I’m trying to see all the BFI’s top 100 British films). I thought it was great! If you haven’t seen it, you should.
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However, that sense of feeling like a family can prevent people within an organization from raising legitimate concerns about things going on in that organization. This appears to have been a problem at GIDS.
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Hats off to
@byrne_a
and
@TomasBogardus
for their patience. They take Florence Ashley’s work more seriously than I think Ashley does.
🧶 Florence Ashley’s (
@ButNotTheCity
) ‘What is it like to have a gender identity?’ is the most remarkable paper in Mind since Russell’s ‘On denoting’ in 1905.
@TomasBogardus
and I have some criticisms. Ours is the only philosophy paper to end: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Just finished this book. It’s often cited as part of “the literature.” (
@aytchellesse
and
@byrne_a
know what I’m talking about 😊) I didn’t think it was very good. Chock-full of all the fallacies, contradictions, and ambiguities that are the hallmarks of 70s/80s Postmodernism.
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@aytchellesse
This is why critical thinking needs to be taught in every high school. It’s easy for students to understand why guilt by association is a fallacy when it’s patiently explained by a teacher.
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@AndyMasley
The best pro argument I’ve heard is that the money that comes with legacy admissions is part of the pool of money colleges and universities use to fund scholarships for poorer, but high-performing students.
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“I am, however, saying that the category of reasonable moral and political beliefs—and therefore the range of reasonable disagreements about political matters—is much bigger than affect polarization would suggest.” -
@aytchellesse
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@cremieuxrecueil
The rhetorical maneuvers Shackel identifies are, unfortunately, beginning to appear in analytic philosophy, most notably in work on gender.
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Never getting a straight answer about what it is is part of what makes gender so magical! 🪄🪄🪄
Good luck figuring out what exactly gender is based on this video. A children's educational video that actually reduces the viewer's knowledge.
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I remember a friend my sophomore year of college telling me that what she was learning in her gender studies classes was that it was more important “who is saying it” than “what is being said.” My immediate response was, “So you’re being taught how to reason fallaciously?!?”
I'm grateful that my graduate education actually taught me how to do politics, so that i can see how thin, cowardly, and regressive this line is.
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Something I ask myself often these days after reading a philosophy article I didn’t understand: Am I illiterate or a huge piece of shit?
Mostly I wrote the Slate article to open up a conversation. Let’s see how that’s going . . .
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My very awesome friend and I each ordered this, and we’re going to read it together. I’m pro-surrogacy; she’s anti-surrogacy. She hopes I will see the error of my foolish ways. We shall see…We shall see.
My book with Christine Straehle's finally out! Where I argue that surrogacy agreements are a failed - and impermissible - attempt to transfer the moral right to parent.
#surrogacy
#ReproRights
#technology
#Parents
#parenting
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Per the will of the Australian people, I just watched this. I might show it to my students. “See what can happen when you commit the gambler’s fallacy? You can end up stranded with a bunch of creeps in the Australian Outback!” Then they’ll put their phones down and pay attention.
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@aytchellesse
I just can’t get over the fact that it’s legal in Australia for public universities to investigate their faculty for rallies they attended or their social media posts.
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These are my colleagues Zoe and Boomer. Boomer once jumped on me to lick my face, and I almost cracked my head open on concrete. It would have been a glorious way to die, just a bit too *soon* for my tastes.
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@TomasBogardus
“The only real difference is who provides sperm and who provides the egg.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that was the hard-line division between male and female.
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At first, I thought I was looking at fried chicken.
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Caught a chicken crossing the road! (FYI, I was driving 3mph on a dirt road, on a Saturday morning. I don’t normally record videos while I’m driving!)
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I think I'm going to have to use this example in one of my classes.
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@CrazyFenaker
@some_soaper
@amy_likes_owls
@AP
If you’re copying another author’s words verbatim, you need to put that in quotation marks, or a block quote, and include a citation. It does not matter how well known the author is. If you do not do this, you are plagiarizing.
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@aytchellesse
Like, what is it that a “butch lesbian with a penis” was assigned at birth that is incongruent with his identity?
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Presumably,
@Anthrofuentes
knows people are going to accuse him of being a hypocrite. It would be nice to know what his response is to that accusation.
A very prominent Academic/Intellectual organization (not my Uni) rejected a major integrative and highly interdisciplinary/diverse voices project on Gender/Sex because “it is not the right time for this/Too hot of a topic.” Fear and ignorance are powerful and anti-intellectual.
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@aytchellesse
@Quillette
@LeeForWomen
So in what sense would Lee be guilty of gender identity discrimination?
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This type of stuff coming from a Harvard doctoral student is making American higher ed look really bad right now.
Adding quotation marks around the sentence seems silly because it’s not worth repeating somebody else’s words just to communicate that idea. If you already cited the source, I would argue it’s not necessary to rephrase this simply to be different.
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@GhaffariSafari
@aytchellesse
That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be movements that are focused on ending other forms of oppression. And it doesn’t mean a person can’t be involved in several such movements in addition to being involved in the feminist movement.
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@DavinaQueeen
@Chris_English_1
It’s not based on the idea that trans women are inherently a threat any more than it’s based on the idea that cis men are inherently a threat. The safeguarding rationale just assumes the there are *enough* biological males who are threatening to exclude them.
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@GorinMoti
@elizamondegreen
@WHO
Doesn’t Ashley argue that clinical benefits are entirely irrelevant when it comes to gender-related meds and surgeries, even for minors? If so, why is she being consulted by the World *Health* Organization?
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@aytchellesse
@byrne_a
Beyond just knowing now what’s in a book that’s frequently cited by authors I wish to engage with, not really.
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Somehow I feel like if I were to go around telling black men to check their black male privilege that would not end well for me. 😂😂😂
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According to a certain theorist, "...gender identity is distinct from gender expression. There are some trans women who not only self-identify as lesbians but also identify as *butch* lesbians, expressing themselves in highly masculine ways."
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“How can you talk about scholarly standards when people’s rights to exist are on the line?!” 👈 The “argument” I suspect
@byrne_a
and
@Docstockk
will be hearing endlessly.
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As anyone who’s seen my handwriting knows, America has had this problem for decades.
America's fight to save handwriting from extinction as IQs begin to fall for first time ever and teachers warn some 20-year-olds can't sign checks anymore
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The only solution to what
@aytchellesse
is describing is for people to be less afraid of looking like assholes. And if you think about it, only an asshole will think you’re an asshole for asking critical questions.
a glaring flaw in identity politics academia: when you are of the group, and express that you are highly distressed by all but your own viewpoint, no one can ask you critical questions without looking like an asshole. it is ideological insulation via emotional manipulation.
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@clairlemon
Huh, I always thought the song Tourette's was about how every country should have ranked-choice voting.
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@GorinMoti
When people claiming water isn’t wet become powerful within our institutions of knowledge production, it unfortunately becomes necessary to do studies demonstrating that water is wet.
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I recall how frustrated I was when a neighbor falsely accused me of not having picked up after my dog. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must feel to be consistently vilified, like
@Docstockk
, for views YOU DON’T ACTUALLY HOLD.
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@babybeginner
I’m personally fine sharing a restroom or changing room with a trans man, if by “trans man” we mean someone who is, strictly speaking, female, but almost anyone would take to be male.
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@aytchellesse
Wait a minute, are these “anti-vilification” laws something that could be used to prosecute women for gender-critical speech?
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The ability to distinguish between a claim and the person making that claim is essential for thinking critically. Yet there are people with PhDs, some who even teach(!), who appear to lack this ability or choose not to exercise it. 😬
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@aytchellesse
@radfemtrad
@timurkuran
Definitely - it’s one of my favorite books. Joshi argues that a person has an imperfect duty to speak their mind. If a person simply conforms to popular opinion, they are not doing their part to maintain “the health of the epistemic commons.”
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The Australian shepherd: a quintessential American invention.
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