How the Strip Club is a Constellation & other poems
I think this man is sending me texts tonight because he wants to have sex
but I’m tired, plus I ignored him earlier and I do
want to say no and I do
want to tell you that this guy wants to fuck me,
right now, while you’re doing whatever in your
apartment or at a party, and I am just reading
silk and silent words marching like ghosts in bed
waiting for a text from you talking about how
this afternoon we saw each other
By Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin.
X-phi is here to stay
The fact that we have inconsistent intuitions gives empirical evidence for revisionism. If people really give different answers to “is free will compatible with determinism” and “is determinism compatible with free will,” then that’s an argument for saying that what we should think about free will conflicts with at least some of what we do think about free will. When you hear a solution to the compatibility question, you shouldn’t expect everything to feel like “ah, mystery solved, that all makes sense.” You should expect to still feel deeply puzzled, even if you have the right solution. I think that there are great non-experimental arguments that lead to revisionism, but I also think that experimental philosophy can also give evidence for revisionism. So if you dismiss experimental philosophy from the outset, you’re going to miss considerations that speak directly to the original philosophical questions.
Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Chris Weigel.