Ellie Anderson
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College | Co-host of @Overthink_pod . Phenomenology/poststructuralism, hermeneutic labor, feminist philosophy of love
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Open-access and hot off the press, "Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships between Women and Men" is now *officially published* in Hypatia
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What is happening on mental health TikTok
at some point we're gonna have to deal with these """adhd influencers""" before things get even weirder than this because.... the amount of likes and positive comments this has.... like tiktok is making people SICK!
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I will never be over this example from a 1990s Logic textbook
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Being a woman philosopher with some YouTube videos is so fun ☠️
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The translators of the Cambridge edition of Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre really put it all out there
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The Callard piece speaks to a bad tendency among philosophers to do ontology in a non-interdisciplinary way. Much of what she treats as the mystery of love is historically specific, and has been very helpfully analyzed by sociologists, feminist historians, and psychologists
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Hegel on phrenology is by far the most metal section of The Phenomenology of Spirit
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Serving
Maybe we need more photos of female philosophers with Hume... Throwback to that time I went running with him. He couldn't really keep up but we still had fun.
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I've been hearing the term 'lived experience' a lot lately in online discourse and among my students. Curious about its rise, I used the Google n-gram tracker and have some thoughts on its results, as a philosophy professor:
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Academics who've written books: any advice for a first-timer, or things you wish you'd done differently?
I'm currently filled with half-baked ideas but they're quite disorganized and I feel like I can't see the forest for the trees!
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Heard a great story about Derrida giving a lecture in Dublin from Richard Kearney last night. Derrida showed up to an audience of thousands of people with a giant stack of papers. “What is that?” Kearney asked. “It’s my talk!” Derrida said. Kearney took the stack from him…
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While teaching remotely in 2021, I shot a bunch of 10-minute lectures on continental philosophers. I've been posting them to YouTube via our
@overthink_pod
channel, and will be making more this year!
You can watch and subscribe (!) here:
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I remain bemused by analytic philosophy's pretensions to logical rigor when half the arguments I read depend on an appeal to intuition. "Intuitively, X seems right, therefore Y"
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I really don’t understand how it’s controversial for someone who has published peer-reviewed papers in philosophy and teaches philosophy to be called a philosopher. I’m not saying only ppl with such credentials can refer to themselves as such, but certainly those of us who do can
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If I write one philosophy paper and teach a philosophy course am I a philosopher? It’s kinda cringe to call yourself one.
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5 novels I recommend for those interested in philosophy:
1. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
2. The Trial, Franz Kafka
3. Middlemarch, George Eliot
4. Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
5. Swan’s Way, Marcel Proust
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Just discovered that Derrida wrote “you talk rubbish” (tu débloques) in the margin of his copy of Agamben’s The Time that Remains, so Derrida was well ahead of the rest of us on this one.
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Bergson was so popular with the girlies that it damaged his rep among the philosophy bros
Remembering this 2019 essay
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You’ve heard of emotional labor, but I argue in a new paper that there’s a distinct form of care labor that is expected of women in intimate relationships with men: hermeneutic labor. It’s forthcoming in Hypatia, but you can read it online now!
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My mailman, scanning 5 packages with individual used books on my doorstep, after having dropped off who knows how many over the years: "You must have a job where you need a lot of books."
Me: yes, that's right
Him: "There's another lady like you. She needs a lot of books"
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The most surprising thing about re-reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception is how boring it is
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In my new paper “A Phenomenological Approach to Sexual Consent,” I offer an alternative account that I hope renders the complexity of sexual encounters than dominant approaches in philosophy.
Just out from Feminist Philosophy Quarterly and avail here:
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Just danced a little around my apt because the article I worked on for ages was accepted to Feminist Philosophy Quarterly :)
In "A Phenomenological Approach to Sexual Consent," I argue against contractual approaches in favor of an embodied notion of consent as feeling-with
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One of the things that inspired me to study philosophy as a teenager was low-key this 2004 Vanity Fair interview Viggo Mortensen gave at the height of his Lord of the Rings fame in which he quotes Kant. I've wondered a lot since whether he actually read Kant, let alone seriously
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Yes, but also when I did this at 20 years old with Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil it almost ended the friendship
a life hack is that you can make a book club with just two people. you can pick a book and read it with a friend and have a long chat about it after. no one can stop you
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Women philosophers are told we're too young to know stuff
until we're assumed too old to be relevant
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Today is my birthday, so the girlies know I’m reading Hegel and making pancakes 💅
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Convey complex ideas in a simple manner and they’ll accuse you of oversimplification; convey complex ideas in a complex manner and they’ll accuse you of obscurantism
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Writing a book so far has been 9 months of feeling like I have no good ideas while patiently reading a ton & writing some stuff in a disorganized doc, having a few intense feelings of insight, then organizing my doc and realizing there's 50k words of an actually maybe good theory
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Me: I want my book to be juicily written even though it's academic
*starts book with quote* The self is a relation that relates to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation’s relating itself to itself
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@jh_swanson
“Modern-day issues such as disability and pregnancy”
No one was disabled or pregnant prior to critical race theory
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Love it when men on the internet start a sentence with “the thing you got to realize, Ellie”
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Sartre: the man who saw freedom in nothingness
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saying “there’s no way you’re delivering all that” (Derrida had recently given a 6-hour talk that everyone but his two translators left before the end). Derrida protested, but then delivered a completely off-the-cuff lecture in 40 minutes that was his clearest ever.
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Imagine thinking this is a cute dynamic for a long-term partnership
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Philosophers love to say “We’re beyond the continental/analytic divide” when what they mean is that another Princeton PhD got an AOS Continental Philosophy job
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seen. I used to think the Marquis de Sade was the most maligned thinker in history. But it’s well and truly you!” *general applause*
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I absolutely love philosophy and think that academic philosophy has much intrinsic merit and much to offer the public. But I do worry that it’s perhaps the only discipline in which you can get away with leaping over entire subfields in order to make a point you tout as original
@rubyalseikhan
@AgnesCallard
@nrduford
@QuillRKukla
@jichikawa
@ManonGarciaFR
@calebdward
Cool--is there an engagement with the robust contemporary literature on this topic in that longer version?
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You: phenomenology is the what it is like of experience
Husserl: phenomenology is the general doctrine of essences, in which the science of the essence of cognition finds its place
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“Merleau-Ponty teaches me to hope again.”
- Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student, volume 2, describing fall 1926
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New Feminist Philosophy archive is live--a huge labor of love full of fantastic resources, including direct links to interesting things in Hypatia's archives.
Thanks to philosophers Marilyn Frye, Alison Jaggar, Sandra Harding, Ann Garry, and Matthew Smithdeal for creating this
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At the Boston Phenomenology Circle last month, I was blown away by Andreas Elpidorou's fascinating research on boredom. Elpidorou offered a rigorous phenomenology of boredom as the state in which our cognitive engagement doesn't match up with the situation, either because
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Kearney’s window-washer was in the audience, having borrowed some books by Derrida. Derrida called on him first in Q&A. “Mr. Derrida,” he said. “I tried reading your books and couldn’t understand a damn word. But what you’ve delivered today is the most spectacular thing I’ve ever
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Reading the Žižek article now and honestly the most shocking thing to me is how frequently he uses the word “youngsters”
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I am sorry to report that writing an encyclopedia article is even more boring than reading an encyclopedia article
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Derrida and Lacan first met while Lacan was holding a plate of coleslaw at an awkward conference reception. Lacan immediately went on a rant about how Écrits, which was soon to be published, was too large for a single volume. He worried the bookbinding glue wouldn’t hold
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Phenomenology is when you write a paper disputing Sartre and Levinas's accounts of nausea a week after you had the stomach flu
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Huge pub day congrats to my friend and collaborator
@Urfavfilosopher
, whose book Why It’s OK to Not Be Monogamous is out today! Can’t wait to read it, and to teach it in my Love and Friendship class
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I say this as a philosopher of love who believes our discipline has a LOT to bring to these discussions, but also that the ontology of love cannot be ignorant to history and material conditions. I've learned so much from other disciplines about this.
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"A book of philosophy should be in part a very particular species of detective novel, in part a kind of science fiction."
- Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
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Help, the false binary in this headline is undoing decades of work from those of us disabusing undergrads from the assumption that social constructs aren’t empirically real
From
@WSJopinion
: Are sex categories in humans empirically real, immutable and binary, or are they mere “social constructs”? The question has public-policy implications, writes
@SwipeWright
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Kierkegaard on the difference between Hegel's career and his own
"How does he happen to become the great philosopher-author of seventeen volumes. Well, he probably had a pretty good head on his shoulders, was very industrious, and then he became B.A., M.A., and later professor—
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I also thought the article was more interesting than some of the takes I'm seeing on here, so I don't mean to just dunk on it. But any social psychologist could give an explanation of the end of the 'honeymoon phase' she presents as intrinsically mysterious
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Attended a philosophy talk today in which a senior scholar talked about how our society is moving from words to images because we’re all using memejos now
Did he mean memes or emojis
Or both
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These were the books 🥰 (2 arrived from the same Goodwill)
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Non-academics: wow, you have the whole summer off?
Me the whole summer:
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Delighted to announce that I've been invited to join the editorial board of Continental Philosophy Review!
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It's wild to me how different social media platforms so clearly track gender stereotypes. We made a video recommending 5 Feminist Philosophy Books and the comments are like "Feminism is a cancer" on YouTube and "Go OFF girlboss prof" on TikTok
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Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
- Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
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Still thinking about the guy who told me yesterday that my Hermeneutic Labor article has changed his marriage for the better 😭
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How is analytic philosophy about zombies both incredibly boring and capable of producing absolute bangers like this
"We are not just simple zombies, but zimboes,
and zimboes, unlike insects and even most mammals, do find sex sexy, and do wonder about why pain has to hurt."
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Jean-Paul Sartre called and said you can never experience someone as an object and subject at the same time
Simone de Beauvoir called back and said yes you can and please stop being gross
This from David Baddiel reads like he has to stop himself from fantasising about every attractive woman he meets?
“I am actually listening to her as well”. Some confession. To be clear most men can park this stuff!
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Folks who’ve read Rödl: I can only bring one for an extended research trip. I haven’t read him before and am working on self-relation from a phenomenological perspective. Which one should I bring?
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Because Socrates famously was part of a human trafficking ring
Andrew Tate and Socrates
In ancient Greece they feared the impact Socrates was having on the youth and so they accused him of corrupting their minds.
He was put on trial and executed.
The focus of the establishment is to control the minds of the youth because they will be the…
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Fascinating article by Alison Gopnik, 10/10 recommend (much more interesting than the title indicates)
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2016 was the year I completed my PhD, got my first academic job, and for some reason was NEVER not participating in the neck ribbon microtrend
U don’t know someone till Uve seen what their vibe was in 2016
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This was me as an undergrad
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Babe we all die alone because the nonrelational character of death individualizes Dasein down to itself 💁♀️
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Settling into Copenhagen for the next few months ❤️ excited to start as a visiting scholar at the Center for Subjectivity Research this week!
(And there may be some
@overthink_pod
research in this stack 😉)
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Why is it so much easier said than done to "be yourself"? Maybe because...you don't have a true self?
In our latest Overthink episode, on AUTHENTICITY, we discuss why existential authenticity is not the same as "genuineness" and I go down a deep Heidegger rabbit hole
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True story my high school crush, just at the moment when he finally seemed on the edge of reciprocating my feelings, went to Thomas Aquinas College and became a priest 😒
This is from Thomas Aquinas College in California. This is what a serious undergraduate education looks like.
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Dear affect theorists who love Spinoza,
You love reason.
I am sorry if this is upsetting.
Dear Atheists Who Love Spinoza,
You love theology.
I am sorry if this is upsetting.
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Grades are in, sabbatical has begun, and I’m heading to the mountains for a weeklong silent retreat so I’ll be taking a little break here 👋🏼
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Somehow, the YouTube comment comparing me to Sartre's waiter was even more irksome than the routinely BS comments we receive about my appearance and presentation
Bro I'm a published existentialism scholar, don't try to out-Sartre me
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Looking forward to getting into
@Helenreflects
’s new book, Wonderstruck! She was a phenomenal
@overthink_pod
guest awhile back (check out our Science Fiction episode 💙) and I admire her lucid way of writing and thinking
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The weirdos have entered the chat
women trying to be funny fills me with more genocidal rage than any history fact or crime statistic
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Exciting new volume about global translations and reception of Beauvoir’s The Second Sex!
My article is on how the English translations fail to register Beauvoir’s critique of marriage and vision of authentic love
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Now, what's interesting to me about this use is that phenomenology and existentialism are all about understanding how lived experience is historically, socially, and culturally *situated* in ways that are often opaque to us. Lived experience is a starting point for interpretation
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Emails from strangers after yesterday's WaPo article discussing my work on hermeneutic labor:
Woman: WOW this validated my entire existence!!!! This concept is game-changing for me!
Man: Here's a paper I wrote on hermeneutics that might be of interest to you
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Finalizing the spring syllabus for Philosophy of Gender today. What are your favorite readings on this topic?
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The academic urge to bring a hard copy of the Collected Works of Aristotle on a three-month research trip for a project that is in no way about Aristotle
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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job.
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I've heard a lot of advice for writers to write every day, but this really doesn't work for everyone. I could never be a writer who writes daily: even though I write to find out what I know or believe, getting to that point requires first taking in and digesting ideas
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Solidarity
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.
I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.
This video provided to us by an
#Emory
PHD student. You can hear him in this video.
@ATLNewsFirst
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William James on the classic stages of a theory's career:
1. The theory is attacked as absurd
2. The theory is admitted to be true, but trivial
3. The theory is seen to be so important that its opponents claim they discovered it
Which theories follow this pattern (or not)?
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Looking forward to presenting at the Boston Phenomenology Circle next weekend!
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The hot take I’m currently developing is that objectification is a basic part of how we perceive and relate to others and is morally neutral. Same goes for self-objectification.
Follows up on
@calebdward
and my recent paper, “The Moral Significance of Being an Erotic Object”
There is nothing politically useful about continuing to interpret “objectification” as shorthand for “dehumanizing” when it’s always a more textured, two-sided dynamic than The Discourse wants to acknowledge
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Good mail day from
@Bookshop_Org
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of these new works from two of my favorite living philosophers,
@evantthompson
and Shaun Gallagher!
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Being the only philosopher contributing to an interdisciplinary special issue is making me realize just how accurate the stereotypes that philosophers are a) more critical b) worse writers than others in the humanities are 😑
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You know those moments that you cringe over for months, if not years?
I just remembered a conversation I had in the elevator at a conference with a senior philosopher who'd just had a scholar session celebrating his work. I asked how his "memorial session" had gone 💀
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What’s the bad translation of a work of a work of philosophy that you find most annoying?
Mine is Lingis’s translation of Totality and Infinity (the only translation into English) and I DREAM about doing a new translation of it later in life
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Tomorrow I’ll be presenting new work for the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love. It’s free and open to the public online! The talk brings together my work on hermeneutic labor and sexual ethics ❤️
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