The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

In class today I discussed the Abilene Paradox but in my (very good) Texan drawl, and I can tell you that my students were NOT PREPARED FOR IT. (If they came to office hours, they'd know I have a cowboy hat, and a TX license plate hanging on my wall.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene...

I get that a lot of philosophers find Lewis's modal realism implausible, but I don't get why it is a distinctively implausible view

Hi Bluesky! Suppose I was feeling brave and wanted to learn about how we/kids develop event cognitive capacities. Where should I start?

WAIT THEY CAN DRESS UP THE ZAMBONIS WHY DONT ALL THE TEAMS DO THIS

Officially published! The three of us agreed to start writing this book together almost exactly three years ago, and I'm delighted that it's available. #MathSky link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

[making my autism everyone else's problem] let's introduce a logic requirement

The publisher-introduced errors to my "On the hyperintensionality of relevant logics and some of their rivals" have been corrected and the new version has been posted at the Synthese website. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sorry to be a stuck record, but "graham youre a heidegger scholar" at least deserves to be an honourable mention

far too many people on this site just cannot handle Baby's First Use/Mention Distinction. try to actually understand before flipping tf out

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

"Consensus" only ever works in one direction, and that direction favors cars and parking.

Where else are the kids gonna learn about S4.2

To to experts in TCS and especially Boolean function theory -- is this obvious? Is this useful for anything? Context: this came out of asking Claude to train a binary-valued MLP in spectral space (Walsh-Fourier decomposition per layer, not for the whole network)

awoke from uneasy sleep to find myself transformed into a feature not a bug

A new issue of the AJL is available ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/index

It's what he would have wanted

Booping the Daily red panda

Why do people think the Turing test is abt machine intelligence? It’s clearly about OUR ability to discern/tell the difference given ONLY output/behavior concerning discreet tasks. Two completely different things. If you think otherwise, you didn’t read that paper correctly. #AIethics #philtech

Realising I haven't advertised this here—I'm hiring! Walter Dean and I have a project on measuring the strength of mathematical theorems used in philosophy, and we're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO344/r...

Is there a good omnibus tracker about how states and hospitals have rolled back gender affirming care for minors since 2025? I read news here and there but I'm really hoping for something like a table with dates and specific interventions that have been discontinued.

This is Bruegger. He learned a highly advanced new trick, demonstrating excellent use of both free will and spatulas. 13/10 (TT: maddmaddmad)

Philosophers, specifically philosophy of language nerds: Are there any clear examples of successfully defined or explicated concepts in the humanities? Every example I can think of (e.g., square, planet, watt) are from the sciences

I feel like every British small town murder mystery series takes place in a seaside town. I know they're an island country, but surely SOME small inland towns are also full of secrets and murder.

Question for teaching philosophers: what texts do you teach that get your undergraduate students most excited?

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

Anyone have any favorite examples of plausibly valid arguments in philosophy articles? I mean arguments presented in prose, rather than listed out in a numbered list.

If I ask you whether your uni library has a book in your area of philosophy on the shelf from the past 5 years from one of the most significant publishers (you choose), do you think (a) certaintly, (b) probably, (c) flip a coin, (d) probably not, or (e) almost certainly not?

I'm very sad to have learned today that Joe Halpern passed away. Joe was a giant who knew no scientific boundaries. He loved science with a contagious, child-like enthusiasm. He was wonderful and I'm so grateful that I got to learn from him. Thank you Joe 🙏 www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

Gearing up for an exciting evening of reviewing page proofs

I'm very excited to be Planet Money's guest when they come to Pittsburgh! Stop by if you're in our (and Mr. Roger's) neighborhood.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...: the starry heavens above me and the microplastics within me.

So, umm, any others who teach history of philosophy and who do in-class exams have ideas on how to do that? I mean, I know I can test for received interpretations from the textbook, which they should have some awareness of. But to me, that's not quite the real interest of the class. Advice welcome

Yep, came here to say this. Zero marginal cost of distribution isn't zero marginal cost of production. And ESPECIALLY not zero marginal cost of consumption: many academics NEED word limits (even though they won't admit it).

1. Introduction to Syntactic Theory (HPSG) 2. Sociolinguistics 3. Computability Theory 4. Japanese history 5. Linguistic Semantics

My book on relevant logics will be available mid-2026

My book’s page now has the cover image

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

I often hear, in my line of work, that large language models have surpassed the capabilities of “mere stochastic parrots.” Yet few are willing to attribute to them anything like “understanding.” What, in your view, is the best recent appraisal of the limitations of LLMs?

#PhilSky: Looking for recs of good recent work on epistemology and technology: the risks of AI, deepfakes, epistemic problems with recommender algorithms, etc. This is for an upper division course, so ideally stuff that is big picture and teachable. Self-recommendations welcome :)

philosopher of language going down an undetached rabbit parts hole

My forthcoming book now has a webpage at the publisher www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

Does anyone have a good intuition for why Q (Robinson Arithmetic) doesn't prove Lob's Theorem?

The updated SEP entry on #Hyperintensionality is online! As the topic has exploded in recent years, might be Daniel and I haven't managed to mention YOUR stuff. Don't be upset: rest assured we've mentioned something intensionally equivalent to that. 😎 plato.stanford.edu/entries/hype...

It's World #Logic Day and this year, too, I plan to make valid inferences all day, while ignoring what I'm talking about and whether what I say is true. 🙂 www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...

Today is officially my first day starting my new job as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. I'm super excited to be here - the city is lovely, everyone at university so welcoming and friendly and the logic group is amazing! 😍