The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Throwback to the best carved pumpkin I ever carved. Happy Halloween!

I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.

Stoked to see that the ARC Discovery Project on which I am lead CI got funded!! 🎉My awesome co-CIs are Richard Skarbez (LTU), Mary Walker (LTU), Margot Strohminger (ACU), and Tim Bayne (Monash). We have exciting plans incl international collaborations, a conference, a post-doc, and a public event.

Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...

A haunted house for academics consisting of nothing but darkness and a cruel sounding voice repeating every beltting reviewer 2 comment you ever received on a paper.

The Indispensability of Intuitions Published online by Cambridge University Press Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025 #philsky #pistemology

I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out! I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references. justice-everywhere.org/education/ll... #PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek

Looking forward to giving this talk later this week for the philosophers at the Uni of Melbourne on virtual reality and 'what it is like' knowledge. philpeople.org/news/item/ev...

I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.

Finally the Tawny has won!! Such an awesome bird. We've been lucky to have Tawnys in the little park outside our apt building for years now (sometimes getting to watch two parents and two chicks right from our balcony). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you know an awesome person who might not have seen that we are running a search at Georgetown, could you please pass this along. (I know every philosopher who is on the job market looks at PhilJobs constantly. But maybe you know someone who isn't on the job market but who would like to be at GU)

And the Oscar goes to...the theory of definite descriptions! variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Looking forward to giving this talk at Monash tomorrow. There's an online option for anyone interested in attending remotely. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Switched channels and found that Descartes is on Hard Quiz! 😯 #philsky

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

It's that one day of the year when I watch an AFL game and try to make sense of what is going on.

Some striking heads and patterns from the NGV's wonderful Kimono exhibition. (Thanks to that weird game they play here for giving us a public holiday today.)

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

On a whim I decided to go into my Uni's *physical* library just to browse the philosophy shelves with no plan, and to grab a few titles that caught my eye. It was like stepping back in time in a very good way.

Thank god (and Dave Chalmers and David Bourget) for philpapers!! Long may its funding model be sustainable.

Just deleted my account (after 15 years) after being horrified to hear of the new terms of service and of reports (from people I trust) of academia dot edu creating podcasts from people's works without consent and sending automatic emails to people in one's profession without consent. Outrageous!

Tenure track philosophy job in Canada Western University’s Department of Philosophy seeks to hire a Asst Professor with an area of specialization in one or more of metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, broadly construed). The anticipated start date is July 1, 2026 www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

It’s hard to convince non-cultists that a decision by a company on content was based purely on the free market & internal standards when the president began a campaign to suppress the content in July & the govt then repeatedly threatened to crush the company if they don’t comply.

The autotext generator for one of my video lectures changed "the mind supervenes on the brain" to "the mind supervillains on the brain". tbf the latter is a much more interesting hypothesis.

Adam Zeman's response to a quartet of letters regarding his brilliant review of aphantasia research. As he says, wonderful how much energy this young field has right now. Hats off to Adam himself for lighting the spark!

Spare a thought (or better yet a quale) for all the people out there having non-lived experiences.

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

I miss the old brand #CDC

Something to think about for all those philosophers who dismiss the value of counting grains of sand/rice :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=472J...

Could we all agree not to talk about AI for just one day? Just one day is all I ask.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

I'm happy to share that my paper "Self-Inflicted Epistemic Injustice" has been published online in Inquiry. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0020...

A petition to repeal the Job-Ready Graduates Policy is now available. Please sign and share widely. Our communities need humanities graduates. openpetition.org/!zjmdn #highered #auspol #petition #history #AcademicSky

“That any Australian government should seek to make getting a humanities degree more difficult is upsetting … but the idea that a Labor government would do nothing at all to right this wrong is utterly mystifying,” Winton said. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

’Consciousness is the taste of a lemon, the blueness of the sky’ This approach to defining consciousness is intuitively compelling, but how exactly does it work? And what kind of insight into consciousness might it deliver?

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.

We're hiring! Do you have a knack for comms & public engagement? We'd love to hear from you: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-C... @weareceu.bsky.social

Isn’it great when science confirms what you have always believed? 😉 #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

Catching the river ferry is a fun way to travel to the opening of the AAP @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

So, a man who arrived in the US. from Castro's Cuba in 1966--the year the Supremes recorded "You Can't Hurry Love" and that Astroturf debuted--is now dead in an ICE deportation camp. newrepublic.com/article/1974...

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Friendship with Helen De Cruz (1978-2025). I wrote a little about Helen here. An attempt to remember them.