Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

This is a public service announcement. The BJA has published a brand new issue. That is all. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

🎉 What a lovely way to celebrate my first day at Exeter! This fun conversation with Jim Baxter @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social about a paper my now-colleague @joelkrueger.com and I wrote on AI Gossip is now up! In the podcast we discuss how AI systems might engage in gossip-like behaviour 🙊

Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments you’d *have* to believe him about light? Kirsten Walsh, Tom Roberts and I use 4E cognition to suggest an answer. Anachronism? You be the judge… (also i’m real proud of this paper) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #philsci

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...

🚨Project 🚨My project “Human Genomics without Racism” kicks off during #ISHPSSB25. Join us for the Symposium “Values, Bias, and Controversies” on Monday 21, 14:30. #philsky #popgen #evosky #STS #biological #HPbio hugera.org

Everyone stop, this is important

Many of these examples came together in our new chapter on Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances (@tomroberts.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com)! Thanks so much for the inspiration ❤️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Brilliant statement from the Society for Women in Philosophy - a model response to recent events. "SWIP UK membership, in line with our recognitions and aims, has for many years been open to trans women and to other trans and/or non-binary people [...] this will not change under any circumstances"

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

In this open access 🔓 article, Panos Paris breathes new life into a view of beauty that has fallen on hard times, despite holding sway for millennia. doi.org/10.1093/aest...

In this advance article, Tom Roberts argues that appreciators can suffer aesthetic injustice when excluded from aesthetic goods more fully available to others.

We're hiring! Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data). Deadline for applications: 17th April 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML775/l... #philsky #philmind #cogsci #philsci

This is just to say I have read the Yemen strike plans that were in the group chat and which you were probably saving for those with appropriate security clearance Forgive me they were delicious so strategic and so secret

Great colloquium talk this evening by the inimitable Ian Kidd. #miseries #misanthropy #meaninglessness #mortality

One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)

🚨TALK 🚨 Is AI Ethics futile? Why effective ethical interventions on AI are hard to obtain? Join us later today at Egenis for this talk by my amazing colleague Tyler Brunet (Exeter). 15:30-17:00 GMT. Link below: www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #AI #Philsky #philsci

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27! Please share widely! #STS #philsky jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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

Haggis, cheese, and mango-chutney toastie = second greatest chieftain of the puddin’ race.

New article in the BJA! (With special thanks to Lucy Osler, Joel Krueger, and Gareth Roberts) academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...

"Each of us, when we philosophise, become the means by which the Universe, after billions of years, wakes to itself, momentarily contemplating itself in doubt and amazement."

We are opening a tenure track position. Feel free to contact me if you have any query. philjobs.org/job/show/28514 #philjobs

Are statements that break the fourth wall a type of fictional or are a type of metafictional statement? Why not synthesize the two? doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

New paper alert! Here's Sam Wilkinson and me on psychiatric classification, forthcoming in Synthese: philpapers.org/rec/ROBSAC-4

Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language involves being able to understand sentences that have never been said before"

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

What does an investigation of a painting’s details and mysteries have to do with Hume’s racism?

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP! Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice

I wanted to post a nice intro to my work. But I have just finished a paper on narrative railroading, am scrambling to write a chapter on lonely objects, co-authoring something on anorexia, and dreaming of a book about relating to one’s body as a ‘you’. Plus invasive thoughts about AI. 🫠

Tareeq has written brilliantly about these issues here blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat... and here academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...