"One of the most paralyzing myths of our day is that new technologies, such as automation or artificial intelligence, cannot be controlled." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Brussels wildlife.

Takes a few reads to grasp what this headline is saying. The federal government is impeding assistance to hungry Americans. Hunger as domestic policy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

🔥 hot of the virtual press. Available #openAccess @thebsp.org.uk #JBSP.

On 7 November I'll give my inaugural lecture as Professor of Practical Philosophy with a thematic focus on the politics of socio-technical systems. If you can't make it to Maastricht there is a live feed. @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Next article in our special issue on #phenomenology and #ChinesePhilosophy has dropped! @thebsp.org.uk #JBSP

Visiting Fellowships in Applied #Phenomenology Up to four junior fellowships are available for early career researchers working in applied or interdisciplinary phenomenology for a one-month stay at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/10/26/v...

#JBSP Online: ‘Articulating #Heidegger’s Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Method’ – Álvaro Ledesma Albornoz (Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ) Out now a new article for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/10/24/j... JBSP editor: Darian Meacham

💯% Agree! Come join us.

Finally, the phone company putting some respect on my name!

The first article from our upcoming issue on Phenomenology and Chinese Philosophy published online first. #ChinesePhilosophy #Phenomenology #JBSP @thebsp.org.uk

Happy to see this published. @fratava.bsky.social and I can't seem to leave Jan Patočka alone. "Philosophy as a European way of life and the role of the European intellectual in the age of technical reason." www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Believe the hype. @hypestudies.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many [email protected].

Going, going, gone. Leaving Greece and back to Brussels. Another wonderful summer, basking in the beautiful generosity of North Evia.

Lizard life in the dog days of Greek summer.

Probably the best Ramen in the world. #Hakodate #Hokkaido

What is this amazing thing? @andreasdeblock.bsky.social

I still sing the #12 song to myself on a regular basis.

Justice prevails in Belgium. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Once again, if you aren't reading @teenvogue.com you should be...

In case you hadn't noticed... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Lille, My Love, charcuterie et chantilly.

The institutions are not holding. They cannot hold on their own. They require that the people who hold them consent to the balance and limitations of power, not actively seek to undermine it. Despite the hopes of many, the USA is not exceptional in this regard. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

A part of Harvard University in exile. Signs of the transition away from the rule of law? "Returning Kennedy School students can finish their Harvard degrees at the University of Toronto, where the students may be based if they’re unable to enter the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Absolute disgrace. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide...

Nothing impresses more than the current European leadership's inexhaustible capacity to humiliate themselves so as to retain the right to be Trump's vassal... www.ft.com/content/ce9e...

#JBSP Online: The Kantian Echoes of #Fink’s Idea of a Constructive #Phenomenology and “the Fundamental Problem of the Relationship of the ‘Given’ to the ‘Ungiven’” – Veronica Cibotaru Out now – and OPEN ACCESS www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/06/21/j... #philosophy #BSP #Kant JBSP ed: @posteurope.bsky.social

#JBSP Online: ‘What is Consciousness a Negation of? Jan Patočka’s Contribution to the Existentialism Controversy’ – Jakub Čapek (Charles University) Out now – and OPEN ACCESS www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/06/20/j... #phenomenology #philosophy #BSP #Patočka JBSP editor-in-chief: @posteurope.bsky.social

Amazing @livingcolour.com show in Eindhoven tonight. 35 years ago, they were the first band I saw live. They still got it.

The rectors of the universities in the Netherlands have issued this statement in defence of academic freedom. I look forward to the subsequent focus and investment in the humanities that is the logical consequence of this statement. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/stateme...

What is social #justice? Where do the boundaries of #scientific expertise lie? @tullioviola.bsky.social dives into the thought-provoking questions tackled in the first course of the BA in Arts and Culture. Discover how #philosophy meets contemporary #culture in this unique programme👁️✨

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

The US Air Force needs donations? When I was a kid I had a t-shirt that said something like: one day schools will have enough money and the air force will have to have a bake sale to buy a bomber. I guess we're part way there. Only instead of selling cookies, it's bribes from foreign countries.

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement. This is also happening in EU. We need 2B vigilant in our defense of freedom of expression and human rights. Condemning genocide and starvation as a weapon is not supporting terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Once upon a time in Brussels www.brusselstimes.com/1576835/brus...

Once upon a time in Brussels www.brusselstimes.com/1576835/brus...

Love the evening spring light in Brussels.

If you don't listen to this you'll be missing something huuuuuuge! Believe the Hype! @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Saying that something "raises ethical concerns" instead of concerns about war crimes or concerns about indiscriminate killing of civilians is a political choice. Nearly everything raises "ethical concerns" and the level of generality risks or intends obfuscation. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/t...

When we run workshops like this, we often come to similar conclusions. More creativity, arts, criticality, values...in a word more humanities. And yet at the level of policy and agenda setting the response is exactly the opposite. Gut the humanities. Why? www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/rethink...

Recently discussed this question in a workshop on Higher Ed in the age of (not yet existing) very good AI. A group of philosophers, engineers, mathematicians, and economists came to the same conclusions. We then asked, why do policy makers at all levels do the opposite?

Tech's dominance makes people flock to the sciences. But companies are finding that their workers haven't learnt to think for themselves. It's the arts and humanities that give people the skills to govern tech in creative and beneficial ways. #AIEthics www.ft.com/content/c9dc...

🌐Is the internet still a space of freedom? Who makes the rules online—and whose values are behind them? What does online freedom actually mean for us? @mariellew.bsky.social explores these questions through her research and in the Bachelor’s programme Digital Society🤖

Pure joy when your Greek neighbours bring you a giant plate of kokoretsi on Easter.

PhD position on the practical, societal, ethical and legal dimensions of automation in agriculture. @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social | @maastrichtu.bsky.social. You will work with the excellent @danishanley.bsky.social and a great team of philosophers, engineers and social scientists. #academicjobs

Thinking about what the automation of agriculture might mean in practice? Come work with me and @posteurope.bsky.social !! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Feel free to reach out with questions. Closing date May 4th. Please share widely!

Researcher on the spot! 💭 “Why is it so hard for Europeans to remember colonialism and see themselves as perpetrators?” Dr Aline Sierp gives a quick take on this complex question. 👀 Curious? This topic also comes up in the Master’s Programme Arts and Culture

Check out this great new initiative from my colleagues Darryl Cressman and @masssimons.bsky.social - Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology. bsky.app/profile/hpts... | @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social | @ccmmody.bsky.social | @rafdebont.bsky.social | @sallywyatt.bsky.social

One Greek version of history.