Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293

We're still hiring—Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ599/l...

Probably the most reliable sign that someone has used ChatGPT is the occurrence of the word 'delve'

My very general advice is to avoid large cities if you are on a low (or increasingly on a median) income. The big cities must provide heaps of social and affordable housing if they want to have an army of low income workers servicing their hospitality venues, care institutions, or retail outlets.

There you go www.furche.at/feuilleton/p...

My thoughts: LLMs are very useful for a limited range of use cases. They are deceptively marketed and only apparently useful in the majority of applications in which they are currently deployed. In many of these applications, they are apt to have catastrophic negative repercussions.

Look who came with

The autotext generator for one of my video lectures changed "the mind supervenes on the brain" to "the mind supervillains on the brain". tbf the latter is a much more interesting hypothesis.

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

Latest news in mental fictionalism! Three more excellent contributions to our special issue of Philosophical Psychology. First: Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas' hybrid view of beliefs: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @timcrane.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

This map shows the top 3 languages taught in Australian schools by state or territory. Indonesian is very popular because it is relatively easy to learn (and because it's an increasingly important trading partner). HT @geodatarankings

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...

Lesser Ury was a German Impressionist painter well known for his depictions of figures in Berlin's darkened interiors and reflections of street lights on rainy streets as well as his depictions of the Brandenburg countryside. This is from 1920.

How many times can BBC Radio 3 play 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine' in a week? @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social

Pretty devastating review of predictable guff from N Clegg

Watch now: @timcrane.bsky.social, @ruchowdh.bsky.social, @commissionerhr.coe.int and Philipp Blom discuss democracy in the digital age at this year's European Forum Alpbach 👇 buff.ly/cfmsMMi #EFA25 @weareceu.bsky.social

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

I like Vaughan Williams but the setting of 'The Cloud Capp'd Towers' exemplifies the general rule that the best poetry is diminished by being set to music

FACTCHECK: No, North Sea gas is not "four times cleaner" than LNG imports After Kemi Badenoch pledged to extract every last drop from the North Sea, we've been engulfed by waves of long-dead zombie factoids. "Four times cleaner" is one of the silliest. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

And we're off! Our conference Ryle on Knowledge, Sense, and Method at @weareceu.bsky.social starts today. Here's @timcrane.bsky.social with the conference opener 👇

Physician Giovanni Agostino della Torre & his well-bearded son Niccolo, 1515, by Lorenzo Lotto. Unusual father & adult son portrait -- nice.

Probably many academics are familiar with PURE, the Elsevier-owned research database and interface. Many universities now use it to present their research. But for my subject at least (and I suspect a lot of humanities) it needs a lot of hand-editing to get the right information. 1/2

Her grandmother really looks like Lea. @leaypi.bsky.social

Applications are invited for the post of temporary 48-month Postdoctoral Research Associate within #UCD School of #Philosophy. Further details, along with a link to apply, may be found at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilJobs #PhilSky #MoralPhilosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #BMoral #IrishResearch

I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Neue brisante Details zur Pilnacek-Smartwatch: Am 17. Juni 2024 verweigerte das LKA St. Pölten der WKStA die Herausgabe der Daten der Smartwatch. Eine Woche später passierte etwas. Erst danach bekam die WKStA ihre Kopie. zackzack.at/2025/08/26/p...

My office at the Alpbach Forum today. #efa2025

Schrödinger’s grave, Alpbach, Tirol #efa2025

And here is Hermann Hauser, confidently proclaiming that 'superintelligence' will be with us in about 10 years #efa2025

2/2 Titian by himself in the 1550s. Igoring you = ignoring the mirror, not self-absorbed, but a thinker in-about the world. Rough paint for those great gold chains, the shirt, the hands. The hands!

Died (alas!) on this day in 1576: Tiziano Vecellio, aka Titian. Truly the prince of painters. Here with his brush & gold chain, 1562.

The Austrian President, Alexander van der Bellen, addresses a meeting at Alpbach 2025 #efa2025 He is a terrific speaker

Excited to be on the way to the European Forum Alpbach, to talk about knowledge in crisis #efa2025 @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social

You don't say!

Distressingly uncritical explanation of this junk

Random note: the term "metacognition" is typically attributed to John Flavell (1976). As I just found out, this is not true. It was likely first coined by Lila Gleitman et al (1972), as seen in this beautiful quote:

'Parkland,' (c1950) was painted by the Australian artist Jeffrey Smart when he was touring Europe after studying under Fernand Léger at the Académie Montmartre in Paris. He lived in London for two years with fellow artists Jacqueline Hick and Michael Shannon.

Two excellent pieces of advice #Vienna

Andrew Saint | 1946-2025

Exciting workshops coming up @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Check out CfP & join us! Part of research-oriented seminars we are teaching on work by @heddamorch.bsky.social and @susanamonso.com. @timcrane.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social @richardmoore.bsky.social @marriah.bsky.social @lukeroelofs.bsky.social

Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile, 1891 #johnsingersargent #impressionism

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

Correction! I mistyped this and was out by a million. Should have been 49 million not 48! Current unique download figure now 49,410,184 and rising….

I read this the wrong way: ‘I am made of 100% recycled pet’

A favourite memorial from @exetercathedral.bsky.social. Born Nutcombe Quicke in 1727 he attended Cambridge University & in 1753 married Anne, daughter of the Bishop of Exeter. He became Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral & in 1792 changed his name to Nutcombe Nutcombe to receive an inheritance.

Portrait of a boy, possibly his son Antonio, by Agostino Carracci.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

My children persuaded me to watch K-pop Demon Hunters. I will never get those 100 minutes back. It made the Minecraft movie look like the Marriage of Figaro

A great beer but which marketing genius came up with this slogan?