Sam Berstler
@sam_berstler
assistant professor @MITphilosophy | studies conversation | writing a book on philosophy of erving goffman | blog: http://everydaydrama.substack.com
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. tapendlebury.com/events
If anyone else interested in philosophy of language is still lurking in this cesspool, here you go: philevents.org/event/show/132…
This is a fantastic paper, and a fantastic thread! Lots of ideas here for philosophers of language---Richard and Kyle bring deep knowledge of the history and philosophy of science to bear on how we should understand language today. These are exciting times!
Language Models learn a lot about language, much more than we expected, without much built-in structure. This matters for linguistics and opens up enormous opportunities. So should we just throw out linguistics? No! Quite the opposite: we need theory and structure.
As a high school student in New Jersey, Shreya Mogulothu took an MITx course from @MITphilosophy. That experience led her to enroll at MIT. Read more about her learning journey with @mit and what sparked her curiosity bit.ly/4aixhiA
“Open secrecy norms are often moral disasters,” according to new research from @MITphilosophy professor @sam_berstler. Learn more about why open secrets are a big problem: news.mit.edu/2024/why-open-… #mitshass #mit #Philosophy
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: drive.google.com/file/d/1BAyzIH…
I wrote about the function of seemingly silly social norms, and why we are sometimes morally obligated to conform to them. everydaydrama.substack.com/p/are-we-brave…
I'm really excited that my paper, "The Structure of Open Secrets," is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Review. philpapers.org/rec/BERTSO-68
New post! I wrote about social media addiction and our refusal to embrace our nature as performers: everydaydrama.substack.com/p/the-collapsi…
Tomorrow at 10 am at MIT! Come for the philosophy of language, stay for the free bagels.
Come to MIT on the morning of September 16 to hear some great talks! Registration: forms.gle/cyWV8i4UcYSizX…