My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨

I finally got around to reading this paper from Antonio Damasio and Jacques Singer and it amazing. It's so clear about why "affect" is likely the basis for consciousness and why AI and LLMs are way off track for building consciousness. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

🔍Psychologist Steven C. Hayes argues that our global crises stem from outdated ways of thinking that shape how we see and act in the world. 🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/from-paradigms-to-purposes-why-the-real-paradigm-shift-is-evolution-on-purpose #Psychology #Culture #Evolution #History

If anyone is teaching the mind-body problem at undergraduate or masters level, then I recommend this overview :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/7fjwb5k3...

Absolute death cult. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

I dunno. But it's fascinating to consider.

Very important! If you support the #AssistedDyingBill and are frustrated with the Lords running down the clock, thereby subverting the democratic will of the elected chamber... The most important thing you can do right now is sign this parliamentary petition. Sign! 👇 humanists.uk/2026/02/06/p...

Hopefully the kind of disaster that pushes us to a Green Party future with @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚 🚦 Green for going forward to a brighter future.

The Vileness Was Never Hidden. Subrena Smith's powerful reflections on Trump. subrena.substack.com/p/the-vilene...

Yep, our superpower is our flexibility to cooperate AND compete. I like the nod to Elinor Ostrom at the end of this essay but David Sloan Wilson and @prosocialworld.bsky.social have taken her work much farther in studying how we create conditions to cooperate. aeon.co/essays/we-co...

The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined. That level of inequality is totally unsustainable. A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.

My more benign half refused to believe this screen snapshot was real. But it checks out. So as usual, whatever is left of my benign view of US folks with "conservative" leanings has been falsified. Nazis. Period.

What a surprise. knock me down with a feather.

Sam Harris and I dissect the Trump phenomenon and sadly conclude...yes, it's fascism. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...

Literally every song with an autotuned voice. Get some skills modern singers.

DOE officials should hang their heads in shame. www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

David Brooks spells out in his farewell article exactly why I turned to philosophy after years of work in engineering and then business. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

AF

I just discovered : @bookblasts.bsky.social I think everyone should follow them. What a great idea.

My newspaper column, just out, on the ongoing suppression of the intelligence services’ security assessment… PLEASE SHARE WIDELY www.edp24.co.uk/news/2581162... #climate #biodiversity #news

Recorded a new episode substack.com/home/post/p-...

Let's talk about who funds Reform. Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been. Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform. Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?

Anthropic's new 'constitution' for Claude marks a new low in wacky and soppy thinking from Silicon Valley. In case you hadn't realised how weird it has all got, read this: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Whoa!

Great to see my friend, Dave, sign a contract for his first book on philosophy & aliens. Congrats!

#3!

The Gadfly at Columbia University just published an interview on the idea of coöperism: an alternative to both capitalism and socialism that builds a society of cooperatives and mutuals from the bottom up. Thanks to Yunah Kwon for a great conversation! Here: www.thegadflymagazine.org/home-1/colle...

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I can highly recommend learning with Paul and ProSocial.

New post: walterveit.substack.com/p/panpsychis...

What. A. Night. Hope is here - it's all of us! 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk 📷 - Laura-Louise Fairley

Hate to see Labour collapsing but wow what an opportunity for the Greens to make headway. Go Green! 💚 🚦

When I worked for the FBI, there was so much pride to be there. It was cool to exit HQ every day and see tourists posing for pictures in front of the building. Now those feelings are all gone. What a disaster for justice and fighting crime. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With new UK consultations open on air quality and domestic #woodburning, I am resharing an article I wrote for The Conversation on wood-smoke, PM2.5 and the limits of current regulation. theconversation.com/wood-burning... #publichealth #airquality #cleanairnight

This is now definitively a national security threat: let’s treat it like one. Prof Emeritus Rupert Read. Director of the Climate Majority Project. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... Without paywall: archive.ph/ZMs9y#select... climatemajorityproject.com PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

I love this work from Rebecca. It dovetails perfect with my evolutionary philosophy, which grounds morality in the survival and thriving of life. We are a dual inheritance species governed by genes AND culture. Mattering is a way of finding genetic and/or cultural thriving.

Just an amazing and inspiring keynote from Fish Stark, Executive Director of the @americanhumanist.bsky.social. If you need a lift, set aside some time and go to 3:54:36 and check it out. Makes me proud to be a Humanist. www.youtube.com/live/c40joAX...

Nice article in latest newsletter from @ffrf.org.web.brid.gy. "To acknowledge the limits of science or to feel a deep connection to nature is entirely consistent with atheism. And it doesn’t suggest that one is spiritual." www.freethoughttoday.com/free/alfie-k...

Yep. Classic Soviet propaganda tactic to accuse the other side of what you are doing.

Hear hear! Great to see someone put panpsychism in its proper place.

Congratulations to Anil!

Now available in video format: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swpx...

I heartily agree with this. Subjective experience is private precisely because of physicalism — we can’t occupy the minds of others because we don’t occupy their bodies. That makes the science of consciousness hard and limited. It doesn’t make qualia nonexistent.

“The history of the 20th was dominated by struggle against totalitarian systems of state power,” I wrote in Fast Food Nation. “The 21st will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail corporate power.” I got it half-right. We now have to struggle against both. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

This is a stunning warning against what we’re seeing today. It’s like MAGA took this 1943 pamphlet and used it as their playbook. Who reads this and thinks, yeah, fascism sounds great! MAGA fascists, apparently.

Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost: Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election." In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o... This is a very thin argument. "Local skepticism" or "disciplined trust" are meaningless without defining why we trust science. Read @naomioreskes.bsky.social book on this. My forthcoming paper on knowledge will take it even further. www.evphil.com/blog/draft-o...

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