Dan Demetriou
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Dan Demetriou
@DanDemetriou
Professor of Philosophy at WVU's Washington Center. Working on sex ethics, nationalism, migration. 🇺🇸 flyoverphilosophy.substack.com
Joined June 2014
Replying to @KILLTOPARTYHonestly these are genes that need to be passed on. Loves monogamy so much you want twice as much, and have the resources (material and mental) to pull it off.- One of the top living philosophers, Michael Huemer, just self-published this introduction to philosophy book to keep it cheap: $15 paperback, $0 if you have Kindle unlimited. Highly recommended.
- Replying to @RichardHananiaThey're not leaving cuz their societies are trad but because they're poor and unstable. If the west was more trad they'd like it better. And as far as our never becoming trad again, hard times may well return us to basic success strategies.
- Anti-mass-migrationist do discuss brain drain. But as others point out, the very capable are often wasted in such places. And increasingly are in the West, too. They need to be congregated together. See this book.
- Replying to @ElizabethHaighxThis attempt to start a witch-hunt against Cofnas is a non-story. He is well-known not just for his smarts and courage, but also his transparency. He has engaged all the mobs patiently and publicly. Cambridge was wise to diversify their intellectual community by hiring him.
- Replying to @SaladBarFan"Must be 6' to get on this ride." The ride:
- Joseph Porter's (@jjosephporter) excellent 2025 Midwest Philosophy Colloquium talk introducing the political philosophy of Curtis Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin) to academics. youtu.be/TNm1rNvT4F4?si…
- Replying to @kunley_drukpaAny smart migrant would want to be part of a very small diaspora. Unless you planned to be endogamous with your old ethnicity, or to take over, and in both cases you should be expelled.
- I teach sex ethics and noticed that more and more of my male students were worried about being creepy, and this was affecting their willingness to approach young women they were interested in. Turns out the literature on sexual creepiness is still very small and rudimentary. I
- Replying to @KirkegaardEmilWe just had a DEI training (packaged as professional development) that leaned exclusively on a 2019 study. Here was the key slide.
- Replying to @AydinPaladinI'm on the right, but it doesn't seem to me the responses show what you say they do. Does some non-sentient moss on a distant planet matter to me? Yes: if I had to choose between its preservation and its destruction, I choose its preservation, all else being equal, every time.
- Replying to @BrandonWarmkeWTF Brandon? I miss the old Brandon. Who is this and what have you done with Brandon?! It's not too late to take this down, Brandon.
