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Simply awful news. Her and her work reached and touched a lot of people. Her family are in my thoughts - what a devastating loss for them.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared. Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There's a common pattern where the early works in a new format are stunning, then it slows down, and people say "oh they got the low hanging fruit" - but I think that's a bad metaphor. It's more that magic happens when people are free to innovate format and content at the same time...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sympathetic to first-personal facts so I was interested to read this paper by Christian List about them academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...; at first I was leaning towards rejecting "one world", as does he, but now I've realized that gets you things interacting with their non-worldmates so idk

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Analytic/Continental divide officially over.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Le Monde has a livestream of the national philosophy exam 😆 commentator "can we say that these exam questions are difficult this year?" ; expert "no, they are perfectly doable". The breaking news is that RAWLS makes its first appearance in the history of the exam LETSGO

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

It's strange that about 95% of novels are completely humourless. It's like there's an anticorrelation between the ability to create rich fictional worlds and the ability to not take them extremely seriously, which is why anomalies like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are so treasured.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I found this really interesting AND it reminded me that one of my long term goals in life (ok medium term goals) is to write a paper applying Arthur Lewis to Kuhnian history/philosophy of science cos I do think there is a there.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

At what point will the convenience of tech be outweighed by the need to habitually check anything you look at is real.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

As @dsquareddigest.bsky.social has often said, a parrot trained to squawk “don’t start a war!” would have a better record of sound advice over the past quarter-century than nearly all of our pundits and academic specialists in IR, conflict, security etc etc

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This was interesting and clarifying for me in that it helped me realise that my own guess would be - we will see convergence on moral understandings and even practices but the causal explanation for this will be somewhat discrediting or debunking. eschwitz.substack.com/p/does-the-a...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

🧠🐘🤖 Are animals sentient? And what about artificial intelligence? Our new #LSEPhilosophy video series highlights the various philosophical topics our researchers are exploring. 👉 Featuring @birchlse.bsky.social, Ali Boyle, and Kate Vredenburgh www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1v...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

An exciting week of philosophy coming up @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ! June 10-11 (hybrid): artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com June 12-13: workshop with @birchlse.bsky.social on The Edge of Sentience incl many talks by ECR! www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/... @wanjawiese.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Further reminder, these people were just as smart, as creative and innovative, as we are phys.org/news/2025-06...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Here is an open-minded and balanced overview from Vox of the current AI consciousness debates, in which I land a few points. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is Duccio from 13th century on display at Siena and the Rise of Painting exhibition in National Gallery. A group of artists pushed the constraints of the Byzantine genre of icons, paving the way for renaissance style, before being cut short by a plague. Go see it!

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

All Souls College, University of Oxford is advertising a senior academic position in philosophy. Closing date: 19 September 2025. #PhilJobs, #Philosophy, @jowolff.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social www.asc.ox.ac.uk/senior-resea...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

philosophy is the ethos that we should judge all positions in their strongest, most defensible forms, except relativism, which we should judge based on the views of undergrads

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Bees have such dramatic lives. This one got snared by a single thread of spider silk, just visible in the bottom left. But one thread is not enough, and it was able to break free and fly off.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Here's another one for the "why philosophy doesn't really need a Journal of Controversial Ideas" collection. philpapers.org/rec/CRUBBI

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

New piece just out - Who benefits? Are smartphones parasites? theconversation.com/your-smartph...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The bees at this time of year seem incredibly excited and fast, as though they've never tasted nectar before (and maybe some of them haven't).

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

yep we do this all the time

submitted 20 days ago • 26 comments

bringing the full might of analytic philosophy of language to bear on the interpretation of this envelope

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Rip MacIntyre. This post is my most serious engagement with his thought. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

We may not have the direct attacks on universities a la Trump, but the disinterest in addressing the HE funding crisis and anti-immigration impact on international students have same effects. Part dismissal of those jobs as worthwhile (which is super concerning), part ignorance of the sector value?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this symposium - starting soon!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments