Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social

Join me in boycotting the Biennale. No to the normalization of rogue countries (and that includes not just Russia and Israel, but the US as well.) www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

I stepped in in defense of Pope Leo on X, formerly known as Twitter (how could I not?), and this is what I woke up to. Fortunately he already took it down.

🔷 Program Committee SMS 2026. Chair: C. Calosi. Members: E. Adlam, S. Baron, E. Casetta, S. Dulani, S. Fletcher, F. Guala, S. Leonelli, L. Letrêtre, L. Lorenzetti, C. Mariani, R. Michels, M. Miller, U. Meyer, M. Nathan, A. Ney, V. Seifert, A. Torza, J. Wilson. See you in Toronto! 🚀

If you too are worried about the unsettled future of Greenland, I have a new paper for you.

Paper alert:

Under His eye.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... I have known Judge Mark Wolff through my wife, to whom he has long been a friend and mentor. He is also the guy who kindly agreed to officiate our wedding in 2012—just the three of us in his office overlooking Boston Harbor.

LMU Munich Metaphysics Colloquium David Papineau (Kings College London) 'Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation' 22.10.2025, 16:00 to 18:00, in Ludwigstraße 31, Room 021

🚨 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics December 15-16, 2025 Program & abstracts now available at the link below. Save the date! philevents.org/event/show/1...

** Deadline: September 15 **👇

Coming up: 8th Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics.

Last Call for Abstracts 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics Submission deadline: 15th September Info: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Is the Principle of Sufficient Reason just a useful heuristic? (Grounding intensifies.)

American society in the 21st century is a dystopia. But why is it so? ...

My 2 cent: humans might end up looking for meaning in some of the old places. Religion, which has been gradually pushed to the margins of our post-Enlightment society, might make a comeback—not only because it is comforting, but also because it is typically set aside as a result of education. 1/3

📌Framed Moments Workshop: Quantum Indeterminacy 3-5 July, 2025

The impossibility of grieving publicly in the face of a secret can be a harrowing experience. These are the premises, which I thought were interesting and introduced in a most compelling way. Full review: letterboxd.com/torschau/fil...

After a workshop on essence, nothing like a FINE coffee.

CFA: 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics December 15-16, 2025 University of Parma (Italy) Invited Speakers: Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Catharine Diehl (Leiden University) Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona) Submission guidelines 👇

Coming up:

In or around Lisbon over the next couple of days? Come say hi! Updated schedule: sites.google.com/view/indeter...

A Frankenstein of old (analog) and new (digital) footage, narratively too thin to not be tedious, and with too much show-don't-tell for non-Chinese viewers to pick up on the trail of cultural references, other than a few obvious ones. Read more: boxd.it/9JtXu5

Everybody gangsta until the neighbor knocks on the door. Honor to the people of Iraq.

I got an invitation to contribute to the Journal of Atmospheric Science Research. Too bad I only deal in the supra-celestial.

When I was a kid, the future sounded badass, like HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey. But, to my outmost dismay, even Siri has started uptalking.

EU law and philosophy. h/t @gonigonipipironi.bsky.social

And here's another upcoming workshop on indeterminacy, this time in St Andrews. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

Cool workshop on indeterminacy coming up in Lisbon, organized by Robert Michels. sites.google.com/view/indeter...

I'm old enough to remember when the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival used to be the place to showcase daring and unusual work, mostly by young directors. Read more: boxd.it/9zo5Sd

Another Metaphysics Cambridge Element is out! Phil Corkum on "Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics", freely available until 7th May. Also, this is the 30th title in the series. Just two more commissioned titles coming out before I'll conclude my term as the editor. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Metaphysicians: spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, Guest Editor Jonathan Tallant, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...

Website of the Lisbon-based project on Indeterminacy in Science, spearheaded by Robert Michels, is up and running

🚨 CFP

The next Society for the Metaphysics of Science conference will take place in Lugano, Switzerland, June 30 – July 2: socmetsci.org/2025 As program chair, I’m currently looking for commentators for the papers, as well as session chairs. Please contact me if you are a scholar and would be interested.

Michael Raven will be giving a talk in Parma soon. If you're around, you know the drill.

Time to relocate the APA meetings to Europe? (So I may actually end up going?)

Including a Special Issue on the Epistemology of Metaphysics.

A terminal ill man becomes a cross-dresser in order to cheat Death. Limits of empathy in his small Russian village are tested, as friends and family turn on him, and he becomes everyone's punching bag. Read more: boxd.it/994DoH

Other than Ruffalo’s strongman character, essentially an impersonation of Trump, everything about this film should fall into oblivion. Read more: boxd.it/98ruu9

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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.