I think if your commencement speech doesn't have at least some of the quality and theming of "This is Water" then you didn't really know what you were doing: web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFW...

Basically a long, popular version of this:
web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Cha...

As always, one must read the David Foster Wallace essay: web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFW...

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Here is a thing I find so inspiring that I read it in its entirety once a year. It's a commencement address given by David Foster Wallace in 2005, about deliberately CHOOSING how we create meaning from experience. Every page is a keeper.

@mickeybiz.bsky.social

web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFW...

https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/HenrichetalCulturalSpeciesCognitivePhenotypes2022.pdf

brains are computers because what is technically a "computer" is so wide-ranging
web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Aeo...

here’s where it came from (a little wonky)

web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Mor...

Dan Dennett spent decades repeatedly laying out beautiful, crystal clear arguments for illusionism (see e.g. web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Den...), and overwhelmingly, the responses weren't "why of course!", or "you're wrong and here's why", but mostly just versions of "man you just don't *get* it".

Don't let Philip fool you; you're right to not trust intuitions about qualia. web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Den...

(4/4) Thanks to colleagues Associate Professor DrKelly Dickson & Associate Professor @dylankneale.bsky.social and in particular @lionelopenshaw.bsky.social. Looking forward to whatever 2025 brings!
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Mostly though I'm excited to have gotten an extended discussion of George Costanza into a philosophy journal

web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Ber...

That’s why y’all mfers lost lmao, “uhhhh actually it’s reading” shut up web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFW...

web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFW... também gosto bastante do david foster wallace falando disso apesar de um pouco grosseiro kkkkkkkkkk

This from Aeon says you’re right about this too. web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/Wes...