After Seville, I continue my short philosophy-themed trip in Southern Spain with a talk on hedged assertion in the beatiful Granada. Looking forward to this!

In Sevilla for the Congress of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy! Pretty as usual, and characteristically hot for a late September day.

The First Valence Asymmeries Conference will take place on 19 & 20 March 2026 at UPF in Barcelona. Speakers: Hans Alves, Frédérique de Vignemont, Saif Mohammad, Pascale Willemsen. CFP submission deadline: 13 October!

👋 NEWS! 🚨 Senior member Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social , Maria de Maeztu postdoc @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social , has just published a new article – congratulations! 🧠✨ ➡️“Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion” 📖 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do). philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6

Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project. If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives' Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal? philevents.org/event/show/1...

New experimental conceptual engineering paper! Does the name you give to novel ideas affect people's understanding of those ideas? Yes, but only certain kinds of names and less so when the idea is explicitly defined. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #xphi #philsky

Very excited to announce the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference, March 19th-20th 2026, at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, the first major event in my Valence Asymmetries ERC Advanced Grant (GA n° 101142133). Deadline for submissions: 30 September. philevents.org/event/show/1...

🎉 We’ve reached 1K followers! Thank you for being part of our growing community 💙 ✨ Stay tuned to learn more about BIAP and the amazing researchers behind it.🧠 👋Check out our website biap.ub.edu and our outreach & dissemination blog openphilosophy.blog to see what we’ve been up to!

Job at Liverpool to cover Laura Gow and my teaching during our AHRC grant. It is for 3 years and 0.65 FTE. Please do get in touch if you have any questions about it. Deadline is 27th June. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK247/l...

We're hiring at Umeå. The position is full professor - but don't be intimidated by the professor title - you don't have to be fancy to apply. I'd say anyone with a potentially tenureable CV has a shot (obviously fanciness is a bonus). Area is pretty open. For details see ad below:

Pequeña mención mía en este artículo en el País sobre la mente en blanco elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

We are inviting applications for a fully funded 4 year PhD position in semantics and pragmatics, as part of my ERC project "Valence Asymmetries", at University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Application deadline: 25 April 2025

📣📣The XXII TIF Research Workshop will take place on April 3-4 at @upf.edu ! A forum to showcase the brilliant work of the new generation of philosophers, organized by Daphne Bernués & Pol Herrero from @logos-group.bsky.social #TIF2025 #Philosophy Program here: tallinfil.wordpress.com/programa/

📢 SAVE THE DATE! BIAP Conference: Perceptual Evidence and its Role for Belief 📅 When: April 7–9, 2025 📌 Where: University of Barcelona (Seminari de Filosofia), C/ Montalegre 8, 08001, BCN (in-person only) 🔗 Info: t.ly/aJQ8K ✨Everybody is welcome! @logos-group.bsky.social @aphil.bsky.social

🔥 Exciting News! 🔥 📣 Check this out!! 👇👇👇 BIAP PhD students at the UB will be attending this course! 🎓

📢 📆SAVE THE DATE! ✨Join us for a BIAP 3-day conference! 🧠Perceptual Evidence and its Role for Belief 📅 07 – 09 April 2025 📍 University of Barcelona (in-person only) 🔗Info: biap.ub.edu/calendar/bia... #Philosophyofmind #Epistemology @aphil.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

A great and challenging paper by @dariomortini.bsky.social identifying a “folk conceptual gap between the subject matter of these experimental studies and the conceptual repertoire we can reasonably expect lay people to possess" — a (supposed) gap that applies to my earlier work. go.shr.lc/41naOx1

👏NEWS: a new paper is out by our senior member Dario Mortini @ub.edu! 🎉 📄 Epistemic Justification and the Folk Conceptual Gap Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social ky.social 🔗 t.ly/Eb10P Huge congratulations, Dario! 👏 #Philosophy #Epistemology @logos-group.bsky.social @aphil.bsky.social

This paper is a real treat to read. I have always thought that writing philosophy is very, very hard. It feels reassuring when people who are very good at it find it hard too.

It was accepted a little while ago, but my new paper in Episteme is finally out! It’s about two topics I’ve never written on before: epistemic justification and experimental epistemology. I hope I will be able to explore them more in the future.

We lament the passing of our dear friend and colleague Francesc Perenya. Francesc was a member of LOGOS for many, many years. His commitment as a colleague and teacher, enriched the group’s life and helped LOGOS prosper. We are indebted to him and grateful for all the years we shared.

This week: LOGOS Seminar 19 February 2025 | 15:00 | Seminari de Filosofia UB Karl Bergman (Uppsala / U. Barcelona) www.ub.edu/grc_logos/se...

New paper! Conceptual engineers like to say that changing words or concepts will solve some ethical or societal issue, but then they can't deliver the goods. To fix this, conceptual engineers need to abandon the armchair methods they currently rely upon. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣Call for papers for the 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference 📆20 & 21 October 2025 Open to all graduate students! 👇👇👇 🔗https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/14th-arche-graduate-conference-call-for-papers/

My Element on the metaphysics of gender is available to download for free until 25 February!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

APhil alumnus @mkortabarria.bsky.social, and PhD student at LOGOS and @biap.bsky.social in Barcelona, latest paper! Congratulations, Markel! 👏👏👏

Ending the year with another open access publication – this one is about the relations between self-knowledge, anti-luck conditions and understanding of propositions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pretty (Pre) Alps.

Returning to Wolf Hall Season 2, I once again marvel at Mark Rylance’s magnetic Thomas Cromwell. Isn’t he the platonic form of a smooth operator? Hillary Mantel was a genius and I share her fascination with self made intelligent people who know exactly what buttons to press and when.

My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Historically, abstract selection has also been very beginner-friendly, so don't be afraid to submit something. In the spirit of the subfield's supportiveness, I'm happy to offer advice to any newbies to empirical philosophy who are interested in submitting an abstract. Just DM me.

The 2025 Euro #Xphi conference has just been announced for July 10-12 at University of East Anglia. The subfield is very friendly and supportive, and so I highly recommend the conference, especially if you are just starting out your empirical journey x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi202... #philsky

Bases published for the 3-year postdocs Beatriu de Pinós for people having at least two years of experience outside Spain. If you would like apply with us at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social please write to me. Info about the project INACT and our interests here: www.upf.edu/web/inact/

Yesterday we had the pleasure of listening to Tim Williamson's public lecture at the Ateneu Barcelonès, co-organized with @biap.bsky.social BIAP. This is the excellent video made by Alex for the @filoescola.bsky.social, in Catalan

With Dario Mortini in a talk about assertion:

At some point in the recent past, I thought a journal information system was redundant as they already had my info, so didn't need to be filled out seriously.

Over the summer, @adrianaalsa.bsky.social and myself put together a blueprint for a reading group or course on Feminist Philosophy of Mind. We put a lot of our energy into this project, and now I can proudly say it's up on the DRL website! diversityreadinglist.org/blueprints/#...

I submitted something to a journal today...

This kicks off today and I'm pretty excited!

This applied epistemology bibliography looks really good, it might be helpful for some people here on Bluesky

If you ask people a philosophical question, you won’t find that they all give the same answer. You’ll find different people giving different answers. Why is that? In this paper (in press at Ergo), I argue for a new answer to this traditional question

22 degrees in Dundee in mid-September? If this is a joke, it's not funny... 😱

I had a good time presenting at the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge conference in Glasgow! Although now I may need a whole week to recover from three days of (excellent!) epistemology talks 😴

Cute wild mushrooms in Tentsmuir (Fife, Scotland)

The Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) has a new blog! You can read a variety of short, accessible pieces on topics of philosophical relevance. Link below 👇

Brat summer is over for me (I'm back to my drafts 🤯)