My book, The Philosophy of Erving Goffman, is officially under contract with the Routledge Philosopher Series. This is the first book on Goffman for analytic philosophers, by an analytic philosopher. I'm excited to proselytize Goffman to a new crowd.

Excited to talk tomorrow at University of Chicago about its own renegade son, Erving Goffman. Come for the scholarship, stay for the cringey examples.

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. as possible and for that reason is pathetic." DUDE. (Also, he might be right about us.) 3/3.

. write says about perception, thought, the brain, language culture, a new methodology, or novel social forces, the veil can be lifted. That sort of line, of course, gives as much a role to the writer and his writings. 2/3.

Goffman on philosophical skepticism is the most brutal thing I've ever read about my field: "There is a venerable tradition in philosophy that argues that what the reader assumes to be real is but a shadow, and that by attending to what the. 1/3.

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My main complaint is that the current vogue discourages us from asking a lot of other interesting questions about the social world. A phenomenon shouldn't be worthy of study only only insofar as and because it's distributed in an injustice way!.

Can we declare a field wide moratorium on anything called "X Injustice"? Yes, social rights and privileges are often distributed in unjust ways, news at 11.

I'm excited that my paper, "Non-Epistemic Deniability," is now forthcoming in MIND. In it, I offer an analysis of implausible deniability--a kind of deniability that someone can have even when it's perfectly and completely obvious what she did. More:

(This is actually a published edition. No idea what the original looked like.).

Absolutely horrified to report that Goffman's dissertation used the MIT-style 2 column handout.

I wrote about the function of seemingly silly social norms, and why we are sometimes morally obligated to conform to them.

I'm really excited that my paper, "The Structure of Open Secrets," is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Review.

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New post! I wrote about social media addiction and our refusal to embrace our nature as performers:

Tomorrow at 10 am at MIT! Come for the philosophy of language, stay for the free bagels.