Taylor Cyr
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy @SamfordU and co-host of the podcast @thefreewillshow —Research: free will, moral responsibility, death, and time travel
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When your dog reads Kant and learns to give the moral law to himself:
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As an assignment in my courses this fall, I asked students to make memes related to course content. Here’s a thread with my 10 favorites.
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My favorite part of Plato’s Republic is when Thrasymachus produces “a quantity of sweat that was a wonder to behold”
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I bet John Stuart Mill would have abandoned his view about higher pleasures if he had been able to try Doritos
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Me when my mom asks what I do at work on days that I don’t teach:
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Someone: what do you do for work?
Philosopher: I’m a mereologist
Someone: oh, will there be a storm this weekend?
Philosopher: no, at most some simples arranged storm-wise
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When you read one SEP entry only to realize you need to read five more:
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Philososphers: *debate for millennia whether free will is compatible with determinism*
Merriam-Webster: free will is the “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention”
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I earned a PhD in philosophy but what I am most proud of is that I can finally say “epiphenomenalism” without botching it.
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I can’t wait to stand around and try to figure out where to get lunch.
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Just because you’re vaccinated doesn’t mean you can derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’.
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Me when I, a PhD in philosophy, can’t answer all of my 3-year-old’s “why?” questions:
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Them: it’s the holidays—can you talk about something besides philosophy?
Me:
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Not meant to be a criticism of either argument, but this is definitely how they look 😅
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As an assignment in my intro-level courses this spring, I asked students to make philosophy memes related to course content. Here’s a thread with my 10 favorites.
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@Helenreflects
If philosophy paper, inexcusable. Otherwise, we philosophers just have to admit that we’ve lost this war.
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This is something philosophers need to get over. It’s not even clear why we tend to think that only one of these is the correct usage. Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk
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Reasons I show The Matrix in Intro to Philosophy:
1. Allusions to Plato’s allegory
2. Background for mind/body problem
3. Introduces all areas of philosophy: epistemology (simulation skepticism), metaphysics (free will), and value theory (hedonism)
4. Keanu Reeves’s acting
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Today my sister labored and delivered a baby while wearing a mask, so it’s hard for me to take seriously people complaining about wearing them grocery shopping.
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I have a covid joke but since most of you are vaccinated you’re a lot less likely to get it.
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Philosophers considering whether to give up a view that no one else accepts:
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I am pleased to announce that my paper "The Inescapability of Moral Luck" has been accepted for publication in Thought!
In case you're interested, my penultimate draft is available here:
And here it is on PhilPapers too:
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Reading philosophy is as exciting as flying high-speed planes, and even more fun than watching Top Gun: Maverick.
#philosophymemes
#philosophy
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#maverick
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#topgunmemes
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Analytics when they read continental and continentals when they read analytic:
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I think determinism is true but I don’t feel too strongly about it. I guess you could say I’m a casual determinist.
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Real conversation that just happened:
Me to 3yo: who’s your favorite philosopher?
@MarciaCyr
(whispering): say dada
3yo: nooo, Socrates!
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As an assignment in my Intro to Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Logic courses this spring, I asked students to make memes related to course content. Here’s a thread with my 10 favorites.
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Me: *says something about how I work on free will*
3yo: I have free will
Me: oh, you think you have free will?
3yo: yeah, I have one hundred of them
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Philosophers who like science fiction! I have a student looking for relatively recent novels and short stories about the dangers of allowing technology to run out of control and/or to control us. Think Black Mirror. Anything come to mind?
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Everyone’s a philosopher. Some are better at doing philosophy than others.
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someone: so, do you have free will?
me: that is a violation of my HIPPA RIGHTS
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