It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY

New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything

As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.

My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...

"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation

This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals: "The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy

Inspired by the success of the 'strictest headteacher in Britain' I am henceforth committing myself to becoming Britain's meanest postdoc

Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519... If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi... @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social

🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

📢 New paper forthcoming in PPR on the connection between trust and risk philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

📢 New paper forthcoming in PPR on the connection between trust and risk philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

📝 New paper forthcoming in Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/WOOTES I argue that when others change their minds, that can give you a reason to change yours, too. I changed my mind a lot in the process of writing this---and if the paper's right, hopefully for the better!

I very much appreciate that PhilJobs allows you to search for philosophy jobs by world region, including specifically in Antarctica. Nothing going at the moment, but keeping an eye on it just in case.

"joe rogan" is indistinguishable from an incompetent medieval lord with internet access. bro's fief is in shambles i promise you

🏔️ Brad is lost in the wilderness—but doesn’t know there’s a town nearby. Was he forced to stay put? In our #CogSci2025 paper, we show that judgments of what’s possible—and whether someone had to act—depend on what agents know. 📰 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ Matt Mandelkern & @jsphillips.bsky.social

My grandmother used to always share old Irish proverbs with us. One that stuck with me through the years was "Tá sé ceart go leor ‘eipiste’ a chur os comhair ainmfhocail", which roughly translates to "It's totally fine to put 'epistemic' in front of nouns. Like really, don't worry about it at all."

Workshop at Aberdeen on 27th May

Reviewers, I double dare you to accept my papers

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Zuck: the average American has three friends

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.

Five years since lockdown began in the UK and the centre of Edinburgh became a ghost town

this is next week!

Well, this got a bigger reaction than I was expecting - thanks! The paper is 'Epistemic Objectification in Pornography', and it'll be published open-access in The Philosophical Quarterly at some point. In the meantime, there's a short, accessible version of the main ideas in this (2019!) blog post:

if i lived in the 1800s and making dinner meant spending every waking hour baking bread and plucking a chicken or whatever and then my husband sat down and said "let's thank god for this meal" i think i'd poison him

It's shrovin' time.

☀️📚🧐 We're hosting a summer school! Join us from 27 July to 2 August to discuss a wide range of topics, from analytic philosophy to health ethics, social epistemology to the ethics of AI. The deadline for applications is March 28th. Further details:

Roses are red Violets are blue Unfortunately, your manuscript submitted to us on 04.07.23 is still under review

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Late to the party but I miss seeing what everyone in philosophy, psych, etc. is thinking about! Social epistemologists, cognitive scientists, and other co-conspirators: What's one project you're working on that you're excited about? 🤓

I started a Political Epistemology substack, and I decided to begin with an uncontroversial topic. I currently have 3 followers, but I welcome more!

I taught ChatGPT jazz scat last night. Then I had it test it on me. You have no idea what's coming. No idea.

Excited to be giving two (2!) talks in Helsinki this week. One on risk and epistemic modals at this workshop tomorrow and another on trust, risk and vulnerability to the philosophy department on Thursday.

Just tried to search 'epistemic modals' but my phone autocorrected to 'epistemic moussaka' and I'm not absolutely certain there's no mileage in it

Why did Gettier do all that stuff about the coins when he could have just had someone farting while someone else made a convincing fart noise?

My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!

Sandwich discourse is the Adrian Chilesification of British politics

Fave fiction book of 2024: Martin MacInness - 'In Ascension' Fave nonfiction: Brian Merchant - 'Blood in the Machine' Fave movie: 'Anora' Fave musician: Auntie Flo

took me a little while but it must be this sentimentalgarbage.substack.com/p/the-though... which would have most def been shared by @coreenanne.bsky.social !

Just a friendly reminder to those of you about to begin posting A Christmas Carol content over the next two weeks: please stop normalising having YOUR BOSS show up UNINVITED to your house on CHRISTMAS DAY

'like Kant in a clown suit' is exactly the vibe I have been going for

Happy to share the news that I have joined the philosophy department at the University of Aberdeen this week as a postdoc on the AHRC-funded Digital Knowledge project