I'll be in Warwick at the end of June for their yearly continental philosophy graduate conference, this year with the theme 'Tracing Genealogy'. The submission deadline is May 6th, so there's still time to send in your paper 😊 warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...

On my way to Groningen for a PhD defense! Back to the good old times of working on the train 😀 (I *hope* I still have the required concentration skills...) It's been almost 8 years since I moved to VU Amsterdam, but Groningen, and the Philosophy Faculty in particular, still feels like 'home' 😊

We shouldn't be calling chatbot mistakes "hallucinations", "bullshit", or preferably by any other mental metaphor. Here's why by @reginafabry.bsky.social and me: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm now officially a member of ACEPS, the African Institute for Epistemology & Phil. Science at UoJ 🥳 Under Veli Mitova's leadership, ACEPS is doing great things for epistemology & phil. science in terms of challenging Eurocentric & colonial legacies in these areas: www.uj.ac.za/faculties/hu...

Nancy Fraser on Habermas. Fraser is IMO one of the most insightful critica of Habermas, and this piece reflects on her intellectual debt as well as disagreements with him. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Very cool new paper out by my colleagues @loehrgui.bsky.social and @sconinxphil.bsky.social ! A foundational paper for the NWO-funded project on technological niche disruptions (TEND) that we kicked off earlier this year. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great guest post at @dailynous.com (Full disclosure: one of the authors is a former student whom I admire greatly.) One of the many ways in which academia systematically excludes people from the Global South is by hosting prestigious events only in rich countries-> dailynous.com/2026/03/10/h...

And next week I'm in Helsinki, for a PhD defense and to give this talk 👇

My first time in Singapore, very much looking forward!

📣 CFP for a topical collection containing selected papers from the *EPSA25* conference: philsci.eu/page-1075762 #philsci

My colleague Tamara Dobler is organizing this very cool workshop on the semantics-pragmatics distinction, taking place at VU Amsterdam on June 25-26. (It is possible to register as a participant by sending Tamara an email.) My talk will be on joint work with @celinehenne.bsky.social

Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.

Chatting with a colleague today, we came up with a neologism (maybe it already exists): PHILOTAINMENT, i.e., philosophical entertainment (or entertaining philosophy). Some examples of philotainment that comes to mind: the series 'The Good Place', maybe 'The Matrix', Slavoj Žižek. Other examples?

Just in time for Xmas 😀 My paper on the absence of sustained discussion of power relations in R. Brandom's inferentialism is out! "Who Gets to Play? Power in the Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons". Abstract 👇 journals.openedition.org/ejpap/5366

How do mathematical proofs really develop? This #OpenAccess chapter revisits Lakatos’ proofs and refutations, showing how dialogue, challenge, and cooperation shape mathematical practice and why his ideas still matter today. bit.ly/4ai5Ojo#OpenAccess@cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #booksky

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Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

Does anyone have institutional access to this awesome-looking volume? My library doesn't have it, and I want to consult two of the chapters (the one on Anna Julia Cooper and the one on Jane Addams). Any help would be gratefully received 😊 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

"Perhaps this is behind the burgeoning genre of opinion pieces in which a rightwing man complains that women don’t want to date him. Often enough, he is an avowed libertarian, leaving it a mystery why he does not simply accept the workings of the free market." 🤣 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Indeed! What also happens is that the masters move on to something *else* that they claim is mysterious & requires ingenuity (now that their previous skills have been democratized by automation), so as to reaffirm their superiority. It's a recurrent phenomenon with novel disruptive technologies.

That delicious feeling of marking a truly outstanding exam ✨ I've been teaching this course (History of Analytic Philosophy, 2nd year BA) for 6 years; I've had some great students before, but this one is simply off the charts! This student is a true philosophical talent 🤩 #happyteachertoday

Met volle overtuiging net op @lucstultiens.bsky.social gestemd! Luc is heel actief geweest om het onderwijs te beschermen tegen de absurde bezuinigingen van het vorige kabinet, die ook steun kregen van oppositiepartijen zoals het CDA. Hop naar een kabinet dat Nederland niet dommer wil maken!

Een best realistische coalitie (nog geen meerderheid maar kan nog zo ver komen) die goed voor de rechtsstaat zou zijn: CDA, GL/PvdA, D66, Volt en CU.

Congrats @davidludwig.bsky.social and @charbelelhani.bsky.social 🥳 it’s an amazing book that should be widely read!

Excellent piece by @timcrane.bsky.social on @schuringa.bsky.social ’s book ‘A Social History of Analytic Philosophy’. My own views on what the book does well and where it is less successful very much align with Tim’s assessment here.

How can science free itself from colonial legacies embedded in its practices? This is the central question driving a new project by Professor Catarina Dutilh Novaes, who joins NIAS in the first semester of 26–27 as the Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellow. @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social bit.ly/4mXW0O7

✨Exciting news! ✨ Next year I'll be the Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellow at NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study), to work on a project on colonialism in scientific practices. nias.knaw.nl/news/reckoni...

Great day! 🥂 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

wellicht ook iets waar de politicologen van @stukroodvlees.bsky.social aandacht aan kunnen besteden? ping @hakhverdian.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social

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...

It’s BlueSky official now 😄 I’m the incoming president of the European Philosophy Science Association, EPSA @epsaphilsci.bsky.social Wish me luck 😅

Today at the Urbino Summer School in #Epistemology @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social raises some objections to the #epistemicinjustice framework #philsky

I just sent off the final typescript of my book 'Reason and Power in Argumentation' to the publisher 🥳 Weird feelings, it's a bit like sending a kid off from home when they go live by themselves 😀 I did what I could to 'raise' this 'baby', and now it will have to fend for itself out in the world 😆

✨ PhD position available ✨ @loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇 Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Here's @lisabortolotti.com 's summary of the exciting workshop conspiracy theory and story telling that took place at the University of Birmingham in June, including my talk on conspiratorial beliefs and conspiracy fantasies.

@cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social presenting on "A Dialogical Account of Diagrams in Mathematical Proofs" at #Principia2025.

Introduction to the Collection ‘Social Epistemology of Argumentation’ by @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social

✨Paging the members of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) @epsaphilsci.bsky.social! ✨ The elections for Steering Committee members are now open, and I'm running for president 😊 Do make sure to vote if you're a member, lots of excellent candidates! philsci.eu/Elections2025

New paper of mine just published, in a volume commemorating Lakatos' centenary. In the paper, I explain how 'Proofs & Refutations' inspired my dialogical account of deduction, but also the differences between Lakatos' account and mine #OpenAccess #philsci #philsky link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Dilan Yesilgöz: "Internationaal hebben we afgesproken dat het verketteren van zionisme gelijk staat aan Jodenhaat." 😳 Wie is 'we' hier? Hoezo, 'afgesproken'?! Echt absurd, dit, zelfs voor Yesilgöz... nos.nl/artikel/2573...

Huge congrats 🥳 Ingrid's research on limitarism is IMO one of the most important philosophical results in recent times. Such a simple idea, and yet the painstaking work that Ingrid has been doing on it is much needed, given how much resistance there is to something that should be common sense!

Friendship with Helen De Cruz (1978-2025). I wrote a little about Helen here. An attempt to remember them.

Congrats to Mazviita Chirimuuta 🥳 Richly deserved, it's truly an outstanding book!

The workshop "Conceptual Dogmatism: Epistemology and Ethics of Consciousness Raising" takes place today and tomorrow! Speakers include: @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social, Rachel Fraser, Hannah Ginsborg, David Plunkett, Julian Ratcliffe, and Tuomo Tiisala. More info:

My paper 'Diagrams as joint epistemic actions: A dialogical account of diagrams in mathematical proofs' is now online #OpenAccess at the Journal of Mathematical Behavior. Abstract 👇 It was fun to 'meet' again my old friends Prover and Skeptic 😀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hot tip: the whole Twin Peaks series is streaming on Mubi now 🤩 I've never been able to re-watch it after watching it when it first came out back in the 1990s. Exciting times!

Great workshop in Birmingham yesterday! Now back home, but not for long as next week I have Vienna and Munich on the program 😅

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net) Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 11am - 12.20pm Central US Time (i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom All welcome! No background knowledge required."

Het kabinet is weg, nu de onderwijsbezuinigingen nog. Het is de hoogste tijd om te versterken wat door dit kabinet is afgebroken. Daarom dienen we vandaag met onze bondgenoten een wetswijziging in om de €1,6 miljard aan onderwijsbezuinigingen volledig van tafel te krijgen.

Including some cool philosophical projects, among others by Adam Carter (Glasgow) and Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam) 🥳