it's actually really interesting me that no one who goes on about reaching people through social media has even tried to engage on tiktok or instagram.

Googling are toe prints unique like finger prints: “There are a few famous cases in which criminals have been caught by using toeprints. The first was at a Scottish bakery in 1952 when a safe-cracker was identified by the footprints he left in flour.”

[at dinner with Tony the Tiger] "Tony, can you say grace?" "Yes, but it takes me a bit longer than everyone else".

One of the best features of a language is failures of compositionality

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Don't forget to add this white text to all your publications.

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.

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.

New paper on what it is to ask a question. TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question. philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

Yes, LLM development is remarkably isolated from other fields. I have long been saying that this is a multidisciplinary problem and that insights into how language models work will be found outside of machine learning. Lots of obvious things they are missing.

If it turns out we’ve been getting these weird confabulating models because no one read Kenny Easwaran or Kevin Dorst on how to score categorical attitudes for accuracy, it might be formal epistemology’s greatest win.

“It surely seems bizarre to think that there is one privileged three-year period in a typical life of 70 or 80 years in which it is appropriate to gain the benefits” of higher education. Fantastic proposals by @wiglet1981.bsky.social on a revolution we need in universities!

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky (Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

There’s something very touching about people bringing potted plants and cut flowers to Alan Turing’s memorial in Manchester.

Some news that I can finally share! From February 2026 I'll be on an ERC Starting Grant focused on refugee-inclusive/refugee-led methods in political philosophy and debates on displacement justice. You can read about other funded projects here: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

If anyone wants to go in on a seven story tall picnic, let me know.

I’m in Manchester for a panel on Ethics in Academia at MANCEPT. Link to the talk in comments. My hotel is in the old Free Trade Hall, the site of Dylan’s ‘Royal Albert Hall’ bootleg, which features ‘Judas!’. It’s called that because they thought it was recorded at the Albert Hall across the road.

I’m in Manchester for a panel on Ethics in Academia at MANCEPT. Link to the talk in comments. My hotel is in the old Free Trade Hall, the site of Dylan’s ‘Royal Albert Hall’ bootleg, which features ‘Judas!’. It’s called that because they thought it was recorded at the Albert Hall across the road.

For anyone attending MANCEPT 2025 this week, I'll be delivering my talk on ideological scientism at 16:30 today, as part of the "Integrating Politics and Philosophy of Science from Below" workshop. You can also hear grumble at length about the "Science & Values" paradigm :)

A genuinely wonderful guest post by @birchlse.bsky.social on the tension between liberalism and animal rights, and what sort of social order might be called for if one were to take the suffering of animals with all due moral significance it deserves. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-t...

I've just seen something described as "mellow dramatic", which sounds like an Aristotelian mean to aspire to if ever I heard one

"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar

National beach day! Here’s the sea wall and beach in Blackpool from bank holiday weekend.

Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans. We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot. jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it! #birds

Just maybe the finest view of a rainbow I've ever had, coming back on the train for the last leg of my journey from @ecpr.bsky.social #ecpr2026 with @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @edmundhandby.bsky.social @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social @felixbender.bsky.social @uguraytac.bsky.social @apoama.bsky.social

If you see something (horses), say something (horse)

Index Joke! “Lakatos’ assistant, Bellamy, was not amused and decided to play an 'anti-Paul' joke on Feyerabend in the index entry for 'rhetoric,' which directs readers to pages 1–309.” www.miskatonic.org/2025/08/20/f... #PhilSci

Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread

Last month we celebrated Professor @jowolff.bsky.social’s remarkable career with The Public Philosopher — a day of engaging discussions on themes central to his work. Missed it? Watch the full lectures here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQZ...

This is Pungo. He is glad you found a new favorite hobby, but please don't forget about his favorite hobby. 13/10 (IG: ksmith.clay)

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

Lots of great new papers in Phil Imprint, but as a longtime fan of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, I really loved this one

22 new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @thisishannahkim.bsky.social, @catsaintcroix.bsky.social, @wiglet1981.bsky.social & @jweisber.bsky.social, @dellsen.bsky.social, @bartstreumer.bsky.social, and @aworsnip.bsky.social. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/

Scruffles looking majestic against the detritus of human habitation

new neighbourhood kitten—strong on purrs, strong on attitude

Loadbearing tweet

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

In her early philosophy IM holds up Eliot as a literary exemplar.

There are a couple of passages in Middlemarch that are nice instances of the phenomenon Iris Murdoch illustrates with the M and D example in The Idea of Perfection, where we change our evaluation of something or someone by bringing them under different evaluative concepts.

new neighbourhood kitten—strong on purrs, strong on attitude

I just want to find out about GL, man

This is like the scene in Legally Blonde where Vivian tells Elle it’s a costume party, but it isn’t

Once more, I am spending my time correcting proofs (adding publisher locations for those who wonder what city the University of Chicago might be found in).

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

Complete Class Theorem