On the one hand, this toothache is awful and it is keeping me up all night. On the other hand, it is quite interesting (and slightly pain distracting) to introspect it whilst thinking about transparency and representationalism, and illusionism etc. Who says philosophy is useless?

He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.

How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

The park behind the building on the right was also just as full! Fascism cannot take Minnesota anymore than the darkness can cover the North Star. The darker it is, the brighter we’ll shine

Actually it's worse -- they're looking for people based on skin color and then, only once they've found them, trying to determine if they can charge them with violating the law. They targeted Somali-Americans and stopped people on the street to ask "where are the Asians?" It's pure racism.

Two questions: 1: Why isn't New Zealand leading the world with tidal energy production? 2: If we aren't can we get some of these, eh? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_g...

It's taken a few years, but I've finally framed and hung the painting I did of Mary Midgley shortly after her death. Now, she can stare over my shoulder when I'm in an online meeting or seminar, judging people who start on any bullshit.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be inside the mischievous mind of a crafty corvid like a raven or a crow? Philosophers Drs Dr Heather Browning (Veit) and Dr. Walter Veit have pondered this question of consciousness too. Get inside their mind in this piece for The Conversation UK 🔗 rdg.ac/3SRoEnk

Don’t forget to leave water out for animals and to blame fossil fuel companies. #heatwave #bushfires #Exxon #Shell #BP #SaudiAramco #Woodside #Santos

Just realised I went back to work half a week too early today. 🤦‍♂️ (Not sure how I managed it, but somehow I got confused about the end date of the rec leave I asked for.) Oh well, at least I can return to watching the cricket now...

Had a great time looking around the Auckland Art Gallery today. I worked here for a couple of years as a gallery assistant post art school and pre studying philosophy. A lot of the artworks here feel like old friends as I spent so many hours staring at them back then.

My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live. plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...

My book *Knowing What It Is Like* is 1 year old today! 🎂A couple of highlights from its first year out in the world: #philsky

If I've done my sums right, the book is available to pre-order on Tuesday, and Tuesday is also the final day of Routledge's 'Black Friday' sale which means everything is 25% off. So if anyone was thinking about pre-ordering, Tuesday might be a good day for it.

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske... #podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy

Mark Schroeder has joined BlueSky #philsky

Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy #philsky blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Raquel Krempel junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...

The Call for Papers for the 2026 Formal Epistemology Workshop is up now! Come join us in June in beautiful Boulder! Deadline for submission: January 15. Please spread far and wide!

Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm happy to report that I've been promoted to Associate Professor! A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.

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.