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David Harmon

@1part_harmony

Associate Lecture in Early Modern Philosophy, University of St Andrews || Spinoza, Conway, and Motion ⚪ he/him/his

 Dundee, Scotland
Joined April 2015
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Expect a talk with lots of variety (qualitatively speaking). Come for the metaphysics, stay for the mechanics.
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Very happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Expansive Necessitarianism," has been published open access in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Turns out when you have a wild metaphysics, as Spinoza does, you also get a pretty wild ontology.
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Link here: doi.org/10.1080/09608788.202…
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I'm happy to share (on Anne Conway's 394th birthday, by coincidence) that my paper, "Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole," has been published in the Journal of Modern Philosophy doi.org/10.25894/jmp.2548

Priority Monism in Anne Conway: Mediation through the Whole

There are passages of Conway’s Principles that treat all of creation as one integrated substance, but others that treat creation as constituted by indefinitely many substances. Recent work attempts...

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It's a weird one, in which I develop a view that I don't myself accept, but a fun one too! Conway's monism is quite puzzling.
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Happy to share that my paper, "Spinoza's Simplest Bodies" has been published open access in Philosophy. Very grateful to @asalgadoborge and @alexxdouglas for extremely helpful comments! doi.org/10.1017/S00318191250…
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If you're interested in (i) what Spinoza thought about the (non-existent, but representationally informative) "bottom" of the mereological ladder or (ii) some subtle mistakes in a couple of famous 20th-century French interpretations of Spinoza, give the paper a glance!
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Defense: ✅ PhD acquired
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Submission: ✅ Defense: 🤞 (TBD)
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That's my cue. Gonna go ahead and start tweeting about Star Wars and 17th-century metaphysics for 4 likes in a new venue. If that's your jam, find me at 1part-harmony.bsky.social
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Submission: ✅ Defense: 🤞 (TBD) – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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After spending the past four years closely dissecting certain features of Cartesian physics, today I have arrived at the tentative conclusion that Descartes *may* have gotten a few things very badly wrong.
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imagine you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any figurines. bro where are your figurines
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normalize taking a day off work because you haven't emotionally recovered from your Lord of the Rings marathon yesterday
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Replying to @plzbepatient
The lottery is only legal because the government uses it to catch time travelers.
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No, I think it’s really important to maintain a separation between discomfort and harm.
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how it feels to open the final chocolate on christmas eve and take back the counter-space from the oppressive advent calendar ((i have a very small kitchen))
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i've decided to grade student essays the same way elon quote-tweets: "wow" "concerning" "the poor deserve to suffer under the weight of tax systems that give undue breaks to the ultra-rich" "interesting"
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