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Ellie Anderson

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Ellie Anderson

@ellieanderphd

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College | Co-host of @Overthink_pod. Phenomenology/poststructuralism, hermeneutic labor, feminist philosophy of love

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined April 2019

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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Nov 26, 2025
Hi! I’m not spending much time on this platform lately, as I’ve moved to Substack. I’m doing full video lecture courses, including one at the moment on the philosophy of love and friendship, and more. If you want to learn more, this post explains the work I do there
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Oct 5, 2023
What is happening on mental health TikTok
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joanie
@laracroftbarbie
Oct 4, 2023
at some point we're gonna have to deal with these """adhd influencers""" before things get even weirder than this because.... the amount of likes and positive comments this has.... like tiktok is making people SICK!
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Jan 3, 2023
I will never be over this example from a 1990s Logic textbook
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
May 23, 2024
Me too, and as a feminist scholar I have a whole syllabus of things to read if people are interested in learning more about what has led to this crisis and how we might possibly start to work our way out of it. Here are my suggestions--any ones you'd add?
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Aug 8, 2022
Being a woman philosopher with some YouTube videos is so fun ☠️
Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
May 23, 2024
Replying to @zarathustra5150
Sounds like someone needs to read some of these books
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Aug 27, 2022
Happy birthday to Hegel
Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
May 23, 2024
Replying to @ellieanderphd
This is what I teach in my interdisciplinary first-year seminar "Women in Love" at Pomona College, which is about the epidemic of women's dissatisfaction with heterosexual romantic relationships: 1. Eva Illouz, Women in Love 2. Mari Ruti, Penis Envy 3. Carmen Maria Machado, Her
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Aug 31, 2022
First day of my seventh year as a professor 🤯
Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
May 8, 2023
The translators of the Cambridge edition of Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre really put it all out there
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Mar 7, 2023
The Callard piece speaks to a bad tendency among philosophers to do ontology in a non-interdisciplinary way. Much of what she treats as the mystery of love is historically specific, and has been very helpfully analyzed by sociologists, feminist historians, and psychologists
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Aug 22, 2022
Hegel on phrenology is by far the most metal section of The Phenomenology of Spirit
Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
Sep 7, 2023
The email subject line was "Go girl"
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Ellie Anderson
@ellieanderphd
May 15, 2024
Oh, to be a male philosopher in 1947
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