We are excited to start sharing some of the speakers taking part in the UFAW Centenary Conference 2026. Among them are two of this year's UFAW award recipients. We look forward to sharing more speakers and programme highlights in the coming weeks. 🔗 https://ow.ly/305Q50YYZCP #SciFAW100

After taking a year-long course, I've officially become a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 😊

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Does anyone have access to this paper? brill.com/view/journal...

New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper: Veit, W. (2026). Valence, Mirror Self-Recognition, and the Gradualist Evolution of Consciousness. Philosophia. doi.org/10.1007/s114...

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New paper alert! Schuck-Paim C, Alonso WJ, Hartcher K, Chiang C, Pereira PA, Veit W, Mendl M, Nicol CJ and Lecorps B (2026) The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals. Front. Anim. Sci. doi.org/10.3389/fani...

New paper: Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2026). Two Kinds of Conceptual Engineering. Croatian Journal of Philosophy. 25(73), 99-119. doi.org/10.52685/cjp...

Wrote a new blog post on my academic family tree: walterveit.substack.com/p/my-academi...

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Come to Oxford to see me give a public lecture on shrimp and the evolution of consciousness on the 11th of March! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-armour...

Made an appearance on one of youtube's largest philosophy channels. Joe Folley's Unsolicited Advice. Give it a watch! youtu.be/o1Fusxds1Lk?...

I wrote a new essay responding to Eric Schwitzgebel: Is Diversity Intrinsically Valuable? If you can provide me with better arguments for the existence of intrinsic values I'd be happy to be convinced. walterveit.substack.com/p/is-diversi...

New blog post continuing my discussion with Philip Goff: walterveit.substack.com/p/why-the-ce...

New essay! "Will Science Ever Explain Consciousness? It already has" walterveit.substack.com/p/will-scien...

I wrote an essay responding to Philip Goff's recent anti-science meme. Hopefully successful in clarifying the relationship between science and philosophy, and perhaps even changing the minds of some philosophers. walterveit.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...

Bought some traditional kvass with live cultures. Partly because of potential health benefits. But mostly because of nostalgia about summers in Latvia.

Philosophy friends! New essay/blog: let me know your thoughts walterveit.substack.com/p/a-flaw-of-...

Now available as a written up essay walterveit.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

New video essay on nihilism! walterveit.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

Gave an interview to Tommy Blanchard walterveit.substack.com/p/consciousn... (a clip below)

I'll be presenting at this conference on animals and philosophy in Reading in May. You can register to attend for free at the link below!

I am pleased to announce that I am organizing the annual Ratio conference of our department this year on the topic of animals and philosophy. walterveit.substack.com/p/ratio-annu...

So excited to see this recommendation coming from the Animal Sentience Committee, really hoping it leads to some real change in decapod protection www.gov.uk/government/p...

New open access paper! Veit, W. Is consciousness required for AI welfare?. Asian J. Philos. 5, 18 (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s442...

New video essay - link in first comment

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

Now available in essay format - link below!

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

🔪"Philosophers should not be able to refute moral nihilism by merely asserting that they find the position psychologically hard to adopt and potentially dangerous... We thus hope that the insult ‘moral nihilist’ can be reclaimed similar to terms such as ‘atheist’ and ‘queer’"

Philosophy friends - I've written a case for why you should become a nihilist to create a better world. Please let me know your thoughts! walterveit.substack.com/p/why-effect...

Is consciousness unique to humans and animals, or does it permeate all of reality even down to an atomic level? University of Reading philosopher Dr. Walter Veit has some strong reservations about the idea of 'panpsychism' Read his thoughts on the topic in our latest blog post: rdg.ac/4bbSptC

My daily blog continues (and it's pretty fun so far)! :) walterveit.substack.com/p/is-panpsyc...

Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

I wrote a new essay on the end of analytic philosophy walterveit.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

My most controversial essay yet open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

New blog post! open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff. #philsky @walterveit.bsky.social

I wrote about a small essay about metaphilosophy open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Just posted some more reflections on panpsychism and the state of philosophy. walterveit.substack.com/p/minds-all-...

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