Gavin Foster🦧
@gibbonitathought
Philosophy PhD student @ Purdue University. Animal cognition, theory of mind, norm psychology, and Kant (sorry). Affiliate at the Social and Cognitive Origins Group (JHU). SSHRC Doctoral Scholar & Dean’s Graduate Fellow. 🔗 gavinrfoster.com
I really want to start playing EverQuest Legacy but I have comps and I know I have no time
He looks at you like this across the table at the conference dinner Is he flirting?
"Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people. Used to control people instead of to free them" Cover of the first issue of People's Computer Company. October 1972.
How I feel trying to understand what the hell Galen Strawson is saying half the time.
One of the greatest British exports is Time Team, a show where a group of archaeologists bully a random field in Shropshire or something for three days until it admits there used to be a Roman villa there.
Three different people sent me this gif for my birthday And I'm not complaining
CO3 is by far my favorite conference. Literally zero people who aren't interested in hearing you talk about monkey theory of mind. It was great to catch up with all my friends from Hopkins and also to make plenty of new ones!
Kant says: stop reading novels!!!! God forbid you come to remember the characters of fantasy novels when you could instead have memorized 53 new maxims to will and therefore be an even better person.
Obviously saddened we didn't get gold. But the moment of holding up Gaudreau's jersey and seeing his parents in the stands -- made it all worth the loss. I saw the USA team also brought out Gaudreau's kids on the ice for the team photo. Wonderful.
Finished my readings for this week, and now it's time to play the greatest point and click adventure game (besides Myst and Riven) while drinking a couple of PBRs.
My fellow grad students do not know about Cow Tools, and I find this deeply disturbing. Even worse, when I try to explain how important it is, they simply stare at me blankly, as though Cow Tools is NOT a significant cultural moment.