I was sold the idea that academic philosophers were adults with a love of ideas but it actually is more like high school, where you've got to be popular with mates. I was not good at that back in high school, so I should have probably chosen a different path afterwards

“Nonostante sia ormai una figura di riferimento internazionale […] riesce ad essere affabile, simpatico e alla mano. Qualità che, del resto, caratterizzano solo le persone davvero centrate, risolte e profondamente competenti” www.econopoly.ilsole24ore.com/2025/03/17/s...

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Pirri caput mundi

The end of meritocracy, episode umpteenth youtu.be/GxrsyzYubiI?...

Yet another piece of hard-hitting journalism youtu.be/W1b4tNxdjLk?...

Interdisciplinarity anyone? youtube.com/shorts/wvpjn...

Ridiculous www.mobilitasostenibile.it/bufera-byd-l...

The Coalition government indeed youtu.be/gjWPZfyipq8?... HT: @nojusticemtg.bsky.social

Italy’s problems youtu.be/MSjCTokQU0s?...

I have said this before but since people are talking again about it I will say this again: the Digital Services Act and the EU campaign to 'Stop Hate' are worrying to me for freedom of speech in the EU. I do not see many other voices in academia similarly worried, though

🤯 youtu.be/tSWyNgXeyqA?...

“a lower income tax rate would have been of much more help back then than a lower wealth tax” www.ft.com/content/7ec2...

Signal boost: CFP - Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion (Feb Ghent, 2026) clades.prd.ugent.be/en/call-cont...

Academic (post-)analytic philosophy is like the wild West but behind a facade of tight and well thought-out rules

AGI will be close only when commenting on PDFs will have track revisions like in Word

The most important living Italian

“This is REM, and this is what we do”. 20 years ago, I was in Hyde Park youtu.be/lqFh373GPM8?...

Possibly interesting for @manolomartinez.net among others

Reasonable, no? peaceagreementukraine.wordpress.com

www.msn.com/es-es/dinero... #publicidadoperiodismo

"Con l’attacco di Israele all’Iran sarà finalmente chiaro a tutti che la storiella della difesa dello Stato aggredito dallo Stato aggressore era solo una gigantesca balla, buona per mettere all’angolo la Russia per l’invasione in Ucraina." Edoardo Montolli

This kind of stuff comes to mind whenever I hear of academic projects trying to figure out and combat “anti-scientific behaviour” youtu.be/27qUyMuYZJw?...

British aesthetics :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ50...

Tomorrow 2PM CEST at the Linguistic Justice Society webinar: Prof. Anna Drożdżowicz (philosophy, University of Inland Norway) will present her paper "Conversation and Control". The webinar is open to all, but registration is required: forms.gle/GEC3DbEcmrgu.... Looking forward to seeing you there!

Just signed with Zoltán Somhegyi (eds) a deal with Brill Publishing on our Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics, which covers topics from aesthetics and virtue to martial arts / safety / myths etc, with e.g. Saumya Suyal, Mateusz Salwa, Noora Korpelainen and Rodrigo Duarte. In print fall 2025!

I had a blast there! 🙏🙏

"Technology education ... is a branch of the humanities"

I signed schcommnetwork.com/a-manifesto-...

REMINDER 🔥 APSC ONLINE SEMINAR — Next Session June 4th, 2025 | 5pm (CEST) | 4pm (BST) | 11am (EDT) | 10am (CDT) Lindsay Brainard (Univ. of Alabama): “Artistic Creativity as Aesthetic Inquiry" Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/88590923866 More info: www.aps-creativity.com