Great interview with Carlos Montemayor about his new book. The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment.

Great interview with Carlos Montemayor, author of ‘Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment’. Timely topic!

Great piece!

Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!

One year of Herald of a Restless World. I’m still amazed by the response and so grateful to everyone who’s joined me in exploring Bergson’s life and philosophy

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...

Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Many congratulations to @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Hasok Chang on their election as Fellows of the British Academy. Major recognition for philosophy of science!

End of the day, @jowolff.bsky.social asked to sum up and reflect at The Public Philosopher, the conference in his honour at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. Brilliant talk about his academic and public career, “It’s more important as a philosopher that people understand what you say”

Videos of two keynote lectures from the BSHP Annual Conference 2025 are now available on our website! The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below. bshp.org.uk/events/video...

EVENT! Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy 17 July 2025 @UoNHumanities Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @thebshp.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social #philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley

Ahead of the Joint Session, The Supplementary Volume has been published and will be available to read open access, free of charge from now through to the end of the conference. You can access the full volume here: academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky #philosophy

Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom. www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

"These whales have so much to teach us and that we are still just scratching the surface of their lives and behavior." The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17

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

Great to see BBC spotlighting these fab philosophy videos created by @SAPERE_P4C and narrated by Stephen Fry. Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies. #philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2

Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...

Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

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When we advised the UK government about 🐙🦑🦀🦞🦐 sentience in 2021, we also highlighted the worst welfare risks they face and what it would take to address them. Not much has changed yet, so we've published an updated review (open access) with all the latest evidence: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A fantastic read from @participha.bsky.social Ezequiel di Paolo and @beckety.bsky.social on participatory sensemaking open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Information and data will never deliver creativity — Life, information, and the search for meaning New piece over at @iai.tv In which I quote Colwyn Trevarthen and David Bowie. iai.tv/articles/inf...

I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

A final photograph from our walk around Borough at the weekend - the plaque commemorating Wittgenstein’s work as a drugs porter and ointment maker at Guy’s Hospital during WWII.

For, as Wittgenstein might have said, it is only when we understand the meaning of a given segment of discourse, by seeing how it is embedded in a given form of life, that we are in a position to decide what kind of truth, and what kind of value, is to be found there. Nice piece by John Cottingham.

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

2025. A new approach for better understanding animal consciousness phys.org/news/2025-02...

@kristinandrews.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and @jeffsebo.bsky.social ! Much gratitude as ever for your work, insight, focus, and commitment--now more than ever. This is a terrific piece at @science.org.

@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

Bonobos are quick to help a person who doesn’t know what they know, a sign that they are able to deduce the mental states of others. www.newscientist.com/article/2466...

Whale song has some of the structure of human languages-I got to talk about this exciting new study out of the @ellengarland.bsky.social lab in Science Magazine. www.science.org/content/arti...

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

Cardiff Philosophy is a place of excellent research and teaching. Please sign and share, #PhilSky

I really enjoyed chatting with @profdolske.bsky.social and @rudysalo.bsky.social on their fabulous podcast @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social

Let's talk about ethics. Thank you @csandis.bsky.social for joining @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social We discuss action, non-action, motive vs intention, and the role of moral theory. #philsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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Really interesting piece by @philipcball.bsky.social, on the surprisingly early origins (apparently) of the Last Universal Common Ancestor www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Curious Red Fox Lucky photographer! #photography by Litur Lopatin

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

José M. Muñoz, Javier Bernacer, Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, "Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence," www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible www.resilience.org/stories/2025...