Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf

Video of a talk I gave at USC's Information Science Institute. It's meant to give an opinionated overview of the developments in the philosophy of causation over the past 30 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt...

Next was a thought-provoking talk by @dmitrigallow.bsky.social on recent developments in the philosophy of causation at the USC Information Sciences Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt... (3/6)

This paper, offering two game-theoretic arguments against Uniqueness in epistemology, is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. #philsky brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts...

Just submitted the completed manuscript of The Book of Infinity to MIT Press. Hoping for the best! #BookOfInfinity

youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?... A nice video on John Norton's dome

Budget shortfalls are a real issue and they need to be addressed with cuts somewhere. I do hope my erstwhile colleague Ann Cudd considered taking a pay cut herself before hanging actual philosophers out to dry. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/12...

I really wish Americans could get as excited about improving our laws as they get about vigilante justice

Incredible video on rainbows from Veritasium www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...

My paper "instrumental divergence" is now available online: rdcu.be/dDXHR (If you want a typo-free version, you can go to philpapers.org/rec/GALIDB)

How am I just learning about this amazing paper?

FEW 2024 is going to be held in Australia, at the ANU. Submit! sites.google.com/view/few-202...

Big if true

Here's video of a talk I gave on AI x-risk in Hong Kong last month. youtu.be/caj2DVOufYw?...

I just downloaded the latest pre-release build of Quarto, and this bug I posted just a few weeks ago has been fixed. Quarto really could be the tool that gives people all the power of LaTeX they need without the steep learning curve. github.com/quarto-dev/q...

Nice line from the famous mathematician Hilbert

Been laughing at this for days. Orca Mosh pit.

Academia is such a crazy place. Somehow I'm both unemployed and so busy that I'm working over Thanksgiving break.

After a white house screening of The Hudsucker Proxy, President Biden committed $16 billion for hulahoop research. The president explained the initiative, "You know. For kids."

Today I learned that part of ACU's internal justification for eliminating Dianoia was that none of us could teach logic, lol

That ‘falsifiability’ is not regarded by contemporary philosophers as the demarcation line between science and pseudoscience.

The latest revision of my SEP entry on accuracy-first epistemology / epistemic utility theory is now published! This is a complete rewrite that expands the scope of the entry a lot, trying to take in much of the amazing work that’s been done in the past five years.

"Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian-American biochemist who shares half of the prize, was shabbily treated by Penn, which refused to offer her a permanent position, demoted her, and paid her a derisory salary while she carried out her world-changing research." unherd.com/thepost/acad...

Dianoia PhD candidate Danny Wardle's new essay at Jacobin

Join us for the final Dianoia Annual Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy, given this year by Christian Berry! If you can't join in person, you can register to attend over Zoom at tinyurl.com/DASSP23