Recalling her own experience both as a child & as a parent, Margaret Mead offers an inclusive alternative to the narrow Santa Claus myth, inviting parents to use the commercial Western holiday as an opportunity to introduce kids to different folkloric traditions & value systems x.com/brainpicking...

The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...

Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy? Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness: Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna

For those of you planning a (well earned) long break over the next 2 weeks, bear in mind that the deadline for submitting a paper for the 2026 ECPR General Conference (Krakow in September) is Jan 9th. Please share with anyone you think might miss this! ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social

They're not "waiting to return to the surface," they're waiting for the planet to be blasted into pebbles to that they can reach another star-system #panspermia #intraterrestrials #aeonophiles https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.

Articles including references to nonexistent research material are themselves being cited in other papers — effectively laundering their erroneous citations. The more these false citations are repeated, the more the illusion of their authenticity is reinforced. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man” Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky

Education should get a lot more bolshy about tech that undermines actual education. I'm not sure it will all be gone in 3 years because it's embarrassing - unless we actively call it out as antithetical to having an educated future generation.

Grammarly is now an enemy of education "Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating." Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

First woman to receive an academic PhD? Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678. She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered

🎉Warmest congratulations to Dr Jessie Munton on the publication of her book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention (OUP) 📘 @jessiemunton.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy

Just like pamphleting gave a platform to a certain kind of political theory nerd in the 18th & 19th C., which subsequently put those people in positions to shape the most important events in modern history, New Media is putting new kinds of people into very powerful situations x.com/robkhenderso...

Every major improvement in human wellbeing, from rising life expectancy to declining famine, has its roots in technological advance rather than moral evolution or political reform. iai.tv/articles/tec... #technology #wellbeing #PhilosophySky #philsky

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky

Finally submitted the revised edition of this 🥳. Very excited to get on with choosing a new cover.

Latest papers: Antti Kauppinen raises doubts about the notion that we can only rationally sustain resolute commitments and a sense of purpose if we devote ourselves to something in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Out soon: *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*, co-edited by me, @atoosakz.bsky.social & John Zerilli. Out on Jan 21, but preview already available on Google books: books.google.de/books?id=beK... #aiethics

Goodbye to the Age of the Book An era of enlightenment is coming to an end. What comes next? x.com/thefp/status... #books #enlightenment #postliterate #PhilosophySky #philsky

Materialists claim there is only physical material: Thought, experience, and consciousness become illusory. Idealists argue there is only consciousness reality is an illusion. Dualists hold that both the self & the world exist, but the connection between the two is mysterious iai.tv/video/the-se...

New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso. www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom... #philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast

Miserere mei | Gregorio Allegri | New College Choir, Oxford youtu.be/rs5bc_P1kKo?... #music #classic

Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle review – a philosopher’s guide to enlightenment Can we experience something bigger than ourselves in the midst of busy, humdrum lives? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #enlightenment #PhilosophySky #philsky

A team of scholars present readings of Socrates, extracted from the historical context of Plato’s dialogues, covering elenchus, irony, ignorance, definitions, pedagogy, friendship, politics and the daemon. Preview: https://bit.ly/3MpN73j Learn more: https://bit.ly/4a7Blo3 #philsky

How are the limits of knowledge understood in Peirce’s philosophy? In a recent 📃, Kristine Grigoryan & Felipe Morales Carbonell examine Peirce’s stance toward the knowability thesis—viz. that every truth is, in principle, knowable—and Fitch’s paradox 👇 www.pdcnet.org/resphilosoph... #philsky #HPS

Chimpanzees can remember the faces of friends and family for years, and sometimes even decades, according to research from 2023. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4iPbuUd

When did analytic philosophy begin? Answer: 1879, the year Frege’s Begriffsschrift was published. But how did Frege, a math professor whose studies originally focused on geometry, do it? Is it true that “Frege created logic and analytic philosophy out of nothing”? dailynous.com/2025/12/12/f...

Editors at a Springer Nature logic journal resign and launch new open-access journal, Philosophical Logic.

Watch A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris’ Film About the Life & Work of Stephen Hawking www.openculture.com/2012/01/cele... #Hawking #physics #life #science #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Professor Naomi Eilan discuses the role of communication in her account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential link between second person awareness and ethics. Watch the full lecture here: youtu.be/g6JakfE7HqU

I’m excited to announce the release of my latest article, published in Logos & Episteme. I defend Wittgenstein’s private language argument from Scott Soams' accusations of ambiguity and collapse. #Philosophymatters #Philosophy #PhilosophyPapers #PhilSky #PhDSky #Wittgenstien #PrivateLanguage

On Abraham Lincoln's 216th birthday, it's worth listening to this important warning he gave us back in 1838. Does any of this sound familiar to you? www.youtube.com/shorts/s2WcV...

"In 14 short, lucid chapters, their new book offers a framework and examples designed to activate the agency most people don’t realise they have." @theconversation.com reviews Somebody Should Do Something. @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1975 film Mirror is a work of tremendous beauty and powerful nostalgia, but also a deeply confusing movie, full of dreams and memories, presented out of chronological order, and in several different styles. youtu.be/LXinQ_zdPu0?... #Tarkovsky #Mirror #film #art #philsky

New article with Jessica Morley, Claudio Novelli, and David Watson on "What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing? On the Stochastic Nature and Abductive Appearance of Large Language Models" OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Example 3459812 of …. why education cannot be outcomes-based

"...a mystical, Platonic quest in which form and style respond to philosophical propositions, and the truth of human experience is to be found in movement, conversation and laughter." #Woolf

Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682. National Gallery London

Postdoc: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is offering 3-year postdoc for a Historian of Life Sciences at its Center for Humanities & the History of Modern Biology. #HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️ www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...

📣 Call for Applications! Conference: Reason in Perception @uni-graz.at from 7-8 May 2026. We invite you to submit an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words by January 31, 2026 ▶ More info at our events page #philsky #CallForPapers #Philosophy #Perception #PhilosophyOfMind

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

This is from @michaelpollan.bsky.social new book, A World Appears. It’s a superb book on the scientific search for the explanation of consciousness. Here he is talking to neuroscientist Kingson Man, who describes a psychedelic trip