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Philosopher at the University of Exeter (Perception, Emotion, Cognition; Aesthetics; AI).
Three AHRC PhD Scholarships available for Humanities subjects at Exeter, including Philosophy! February deadline, see link for details:
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PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter
Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRCâs disciplines for cand...
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=5722
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Chris Newfield
22 days ago
If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you!
isrf.org/blog/labours...
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Faber Books
about 2 months ago
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. Deathbots. AI is now fulfilling new roles for millions of us every single day. How are these new 'relationships' changing how we view technology - and each other? Love Machines by James Muldoon is the first book on AI companions. Out January:
linktr.ee/lovemachinesbook
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Lucy Osler
2 months ago
Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me,
@lopezcantero.bsky.social
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@bexmillar.bsky.social
Weâll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis đ¤ đ¤đ¤
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British Journal of Aesthetics
3 months ago
This is a public service announcement. The BJA has published a brand new issue. That is all.
academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
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Lucy Osler
3 months ago
đ 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 đ
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Adrian Currie
3 months ago
Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments youâd *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 iâm real proud of this paper)
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/738238
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Moose Allain
4 months ago
Nietzsche abhors a vacuum
www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...
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Celso Neto
4 months ago
đ¨Project đ¨My project âHuman Genomics without Racismâ kicks off during
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. Join us for the Symposium âValues, Bias, and Controversiesâ on Monday 21, 14:30.
#philsky
#popgen
#evosky
#STS
#biological
#HPbio
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Home - HUGERA
The Human Genomics without Racism (HUGERA) project brings together geneticists, philosophers, and social scientists to create tools for an ethically sound science of human variation. Latest News
https://hugera.org/
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Luke Steuber
5 months ago
Everyone stop, this is important
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Lucy Osler
5 months ago
Many of these examples came together in our new chapter on Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances (
@tomroberts.bsky.social
and
@joelkrueger.com
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www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Ruth Pearce
7 months ago
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"
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Otto English
7 months ago
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
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British Journal of Aesthetics
7 months ago
In this open access đ article, Panos Paris breathes new life into a view of beauty that has fallen on hard times, despite holding sway for millennia.
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British Journal of Aesthetics
8 months ago
In this advance article, Tom Roberts argues that appreciators can suffer aesthetic injustice when excluded from aesthetic goods more fully available to others.
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Adam Toon
8 months ago
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
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Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research) at University of Exeter
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academ...
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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
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Great colloquium talk this evening by the inimitable Ian Kidd.
#miseries
#misanthropy
#meaninglessness
#mortality
9 months ago
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Glen O'Hara
10 months ago
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)
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Celso Neto
10 months ago
đ¨TALK đ¨ 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
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Details | University of Exeter
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=14501
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Celso Neto
10 months ago
đ¨JOB ALERT đ¨ 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
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Aidan McGlynn
10 months ago
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
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We Can Make an Impact.
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY
https://chng.it/yNmM4kFmLM
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Moose Allain
10 months ago
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Haggis, cheese, and mango-chutney toastie = second greatest chieftain of the puddinâ race.
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New article in the BJA! (With special thanks to Lucy Osler, Joel Krueger, and Gareth Roberts)
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Voice, Rhyme, and Aesthetic Injustice
Abstract. Some lines of poetry rhyme to certain readers and not to others because of how their words are pronounced in different accents. And because the a
https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aesthj/ayae051/7972661?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=bjaesthetics&utm_medium=email
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Justin Weinberg
10 months ago
"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."
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A Love Letter to Philosophy - Daily Nous
âPhilosophical enquiry makes the entire planet better than it would otherwise be. It helps constitute the awesomeness of Earth. Philosophy needs no further excuse.â So writes Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riv...
https://dailynous.com/2025/01/21/a-love-letter-to-philosophy/
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Andrea Raimondi
10 months ago
We are opening a tenure track position. Feel free to contact me if you have any query.
philjobs.org/job/show/28514
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant or Associate Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
An international database of jobs for philosophers
https://philjobs.org/job/show/28514
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British Journal of Aesthetics
11 months ago
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...
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Anna Mazzola
11 months ago
Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.
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Moose Allain
12 months ago
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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New paper alert! Here's Sam Wilkinson and me on psychiatric classification, forthcoming in Synthese:
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Tom Roberts & Sam Wilkinson, Status and Constitution in Psychiatric Classification - PhilPapers
Debates surrounding the nature of mental disorder have tended to divide into an objectivist camp that takes psychiatric classification to be a value-free scientific matter, and a normativist camp that...
https://philpapers.org/rec/ROBSAC-4
about 1 year ago
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Gretchen McCulloch
about 1 year ago
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"
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Paul Kelleher
about 1 year ago
November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.
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Justin Weinberg
about 1 year ago
What does an investigation of a paintingâs details and mysteries have to do with Humeâs racism?
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The Painting Commissioned to Respond to Humeâs Racism - Daily Nous
âIn 1753⌠David Hume had published a revised version of one of his celebrated essays, on âNational Charactersâ. In a lengthy new footnote, he asserted that ânegroesâ were in every way ânaturally infer...
https://dailynous.com/2024/11/15/painting-commissioned-respond-humes-racism/
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Fintan Mallory
about 1 year ago
You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And youâd be right.
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions
about 1 year ago
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
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Lucy Osler
about 1 year ago
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 oneâs body as a âyouâ. Plus invasive thoughts about AI. đŤ
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Tareeq has written brilliantly about these issues here
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
and here
academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
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Drill Music and Epistemic Injustice
What are the legitimate ways of interpreting a musicianâs work and words? This might seem like an abstract philosophical question, but it isnât. This question matters because sometimes music is useâŚ
https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/drill-music-and-epistemic-injustice/
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