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aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
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I'm going to promote my recent book once more bc if not me, then who? #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #socialepistemology www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Dark forest strike them

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Philosophy of math in shambles. Platonists falling on geometric forms to end it all. Constructivists bending the knee to Roko’s Mathmatist.

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New Fractal Architect track - it's lovely, as all his stuff is

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A vital and timely book, On Truth in Politics makes an original case for why democracy cannot survive without truth. Out now. Learn more and order your copy: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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How did I manage to produce two children with even less chill than me?

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The handbook is up on google books and other such places, so if you've been waiting to search your name to see if it appears, now's your time

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📣New #ProjectEPIC blog post! 📣 Today's post comes from @geneickers.bsky.social who summarises their recent book "Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others" in application to healthcare: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/04/scri... #epistemicinjustice

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Disney still haven't gotten back to me about my live-action Ratatouille idea

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Helensburgh

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The handbook is up on google books and other such places, so if you've been waiting to search your name to see if it appears, now's your time

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The Goodfellas playbook for how to run immigration for an entire nation

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No time for losers

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Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

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Well I guess this means I can say I've been "on" University Challenge...

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📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

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Timeline time-out

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Might change my book title to 'Tractatus Epistemico-Injusticus'

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I want my kids to grow up to be their own people, but also it's very important that they're Björk fans or I'll feel like a failure

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I'll speaking, alongside other wonderful colleagues and friends of EPIC, at this online conference on 'The Language of Psychotherapy'. May 8th and 9th 😊 In my view, genuinely an intriguing line-up of titles. For more info & registration: the-therapeutic-game.webnode.page/conference/

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This is a wild read. (Background - I was Lee's internal examiner for his PhD, but I haven't heard anything of him since he dropped out of academic several years ago)

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We're thrilled to have collaborated with Frankie Vale and the @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social team on this project - download, read and share the publication below ✨

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There's at least four towers

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Callecat's Symbiosis project has been going for a year now, and it's resulted in some of the best music during that period - including this complete delight from Simos Tagias

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The BSA invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral award in aesthetics, to the value of £30,000 per annum with up to £3,000 additional geographical allowance, to start in the Autumn term 2025.

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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Some Edinburgh pubs

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Here's a nice write up about Keith's Work www.heraldscotland.com/news/2508602...

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Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

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Painted in 1943, Ruskin Spear's highly atmospheric: 'Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift,' was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) as part of the ‘Recording Britain’ scheme sponsored by the Pilgrim Trust during WW2.

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