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Epistemologist postdoc at the Extreme Beliefs Group at VU Amsterdam I know about Virtues, Wittgenstein, Extremism, Philosophy of Psychology & Conceptual Engineering
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submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It’s over infinitists and foundationalists, the steel industry is going to bat for coherentism to accelerate to full circularity.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

My theoretical philosophy brain: What's the political equivalent of having been raised in a monochrome environment and never having seen the colour red?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Did you ever wonder what electromagnetism is? We all know about current and fields, but this is too abstract. At least they it was for me. Well, it's like a vortex in water, but with a bunch of ball bearings in between. From the start: Nancy Nersessian wrote a wonderful book!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Given that indoctrination now is policy-relevant, my excellent colleague Chris Ranalli just published the book to go with it.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

If you're still on the fence about getting it, there are now two great discussions of the book by Giorgio Volpe (doi.org/10.1007/s442...) and by Allan Hazlett (doi.org/10.1007/s442...) as part of a Symposium at the Asian Journal of Philosphy. There'll be a reply at some point.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

My Cambridge Element on Irrationality is out, and open access for a month! In it I discuss akrasia, conspiracy beliefs, self-deception, delusion, and implicit bias. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

thinking of founding the Pascal’s wager optimal religion: so generic that any kind of faith will count, but lack of faith meaning eternal damnation. It would immediately capture all the new rationalists and effective altruists

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure you've all already read my book , given that the digital version is open access. This should have convinced you that you actually need a hard copy. Well luckily, it's coming out as paperback, for an a bit more civil price than the hard cover! (also there seems to be a sale)

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

And one Naomi Klein

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

@sconinxphil.bsky.social Is here now!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Me at Newman House, summoning the spirit of Wittgenstein to duke it out with John Henry Newman regarding quasi-fideism.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Publication day! My latest paper is (finally) out. Here, I introduce a multidimensional framework to taxonomise different states of minimal awareness across sleep and wakefulness. And with this, all the material from my PhD is published :) philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

We all know about the debates around akrasia as a state, but is anybody contemporarily defending weakness of will as a character flaw/trait? #philsky

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

xphi-Europe 2025 conference t.co/WHQDnIlgT2

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Newman has a theory of faith as being based on unjustifiable assent. He offers a solution how to deal with heresy, but it doesn't deal with fundamentalism as a kind of morally bad assent. This problem extends to ordinary assent, raising the question how we recognise morally bad fundamental beliefs.

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