What Will It Be Like To Be An Academic in Ten Years? #philsky #academia #highered #philosophy #education

What Will It Be Like To Be An Academic in Ten Years? #philsky #academia #highered #philosophy #education

I feel like we need philosophers speaking up: What is the moral imperative in a time like now? How much time and effort do we spend on righting wrongs? How do we conceptualize what is happening? What are our responsibilities? What does it look like to be a moral citizen in such times?

Boosting this live tweeting of the excellent Emily Adlai’s new book to #philsci #philsky #quantum – thanks @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social for this public service! :)

Rise of the Incompetents #ai #philsky #academia #highered #future

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal & logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the J of the American Philosophical Assoc. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity & open-mindedness theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philsky

Rise of the Incompetents #ai #philsky #academia #highered #future

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide: Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough. #philsky #philosophy #genocide #academia

Conscious Attention as Agency #philsky #philosophy #consciousness #agency

Paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis, preprint here: philpapers.org/archive/BERS...

What's the moral difference between eating meat and eating people? In this paper from 1978, Cora Diamond explores the issues. As one of the 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking, we've made it available to download for free (click Save PDF): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philosophy #ethics

Mary Midgley was born OTD in 1919. “Philosophy, like speaking prose, is something we have to do all our lives, well or badly, whether we notice it or not.” “Animals are not machines…. Actually only machines are machines.” 🌱🐋🦫🦋🧪 #philsky #philsci

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide: Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough. #philsky #philosophy #genocide #academia

Panpsychism, Bergson, and renovating our concepts of the environment (it's made of processes rather than objects) – my interview with Wahida Khandker is up at @iai.tv now. iai.tv/video/organi... #philsky #environment

OKAY, I'm lecturing Descartes next wk. Do you have a favourite fun fact/tidbit about Descartes? If I get a few nice ones, I might make a quiz about it. (mine is how much he slept, and that he didn't like waking before midday--no wonder he's always meditating in a dressing gown etc) #philosophy

shankskaurin.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/f... Sharing some #Profession and #MilitaryEthics resources including some outlets who are now failing the community.

A new paper by Jed Forman on forgetting and personhood in Tsongkhapa. I haven’t read it yet, but Jed is a kickass philosopher and I expect it to be wicked interesting. Forgetting Oneself: Tsongkhapa and Severance philpapers.org/archive/FORF...

Conscious Attention as Agency #philsky #philosophy #consciousness #agency

Sacrificing Humans for Insects and AI: A Critical Review of Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience, Jeff Sebo, The Moral Circle, and Webb Keane, Animals, Robots, Gods By: Eric Schwitzgebel and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong #philsky #philosophy #ethics #consciousness

Review of The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: A Philosophical Odyssey, by Robert Kane (via Taylor Cyr) #philosophy #philsky #freewill

I’m cited in the Washington Post. In the “style” section, which is unexpected www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

As part of my commitment to corrupting the youth*, it's open access. *anyone younger than me. doi.org/10.1080/0269...

Artificial intelligence tools have transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates relation btw AI tool usage & critical thinking skills... focusing on cognitive offloading as mediating factor www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

And we are live! "Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain" A.S. Barwich, S.J. Firestein, M. R. Dietrich European Journal of Neuroscience Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #NeuroSky #neuro #neuroscience #philsci #hps #sts

New Philosophy Books 📣 #philsky fivebooks.com/best-books/n...

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

"The Aztecs, by contrast, thought that practical reason was best exercised in groups – and one finds evidence for this everywhere, from the merchant rites, to the choice of school for children, to the decisions of the king himself." #philsky

Life on the slippery Earth Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect #philsky#philosophy

The Right’s Arguments Against “Free Stuff” Don’t Make Sense #philsky

Review of The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: A Philosophical Odyssey, by Robert Kane (via Taylor Cyr) #philosophy #philsky #freewill

Sacrificing Humans for Insects and AI: A Critical Review of Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience, Jeff Sebo, The Moral Circle, and Webb Keane, Animals, Robots, Gods By: Eric Schwitzgebel and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong #philsky #philosophy #ethics #consciousness

Our brains do not just passively perceive the world—they construct it. Research shows that imagined and real experiences can produce strikingly similar neural activity, raising deep questions about the nature of reality itself. iai.tv/articles/the... #perception #imagination #reality #philsky

Life on the slippery Earth Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect #philsky#philosophy

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Building Nurses' Resilience, Moral Injury, Disrupting the Biospecimen 'Treasure Trove', Avoiding 4 Fair Allocation Fallacies, Reconsidering the Use of Race, Sex, and Age, Dignity-Based Practice, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

The Right’s Arguments Against “Free Stuff” Don’t Make Sense #philsky

Defining "Artificial Intelligence" #philsky #artificialintelligence #AI #philosophy

This ain’t my area but interesting article. #philsky newrepublic.com/article/1992...

Defining "Artificial Intelligence" #philsky #artificialintelligence #AI #philosophy

Today, Jordie graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and I couldn't be prouder. As a step-parent, maintaining a relationship years after things end with the other parent can be challenging. Fortunately, Jordan and I have remained close, and it’s been a joy watching him mature.

Samir was in town last week! It was great to catch up and hang out for a few hours. It fills my cup any time I get 1-1 real life FT with my closest philosophy friends. Samir and I have been friends for over 10 years now and I don’t get to see him often but when I do it’s always refreshing. #philsky

Arguments, Conclusions, and the Policies of Religious Academic Journals

We Are a Part of Infinity: A neuroscientist uncovers Albert Einstein’s little known spiritual journey #philsky #physics #religion #philosophy #einstein

Samir was in town last week! It was great to catch up and hang out for a few hours. It fills my cup any time I get 1-1 real life FT with my closest philosophy friends. Samir and I have been friends for over 10 years now and I don’t get to see him often but when I do it’s always refreshing. #philsky

Today, Jordie graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and I couldn't be prouder. As a step-parent, maintaining a relationship years after things end with the other parent can be challenging. Fortunately, Jordan and I have remained close, and it’s been a joy watching him mature.

Arguments, Conclusions, and the Policies of Religious Academic Journals

Shovelling Smoke? The Experience of Being a Philosopher on an Educational Research Training Programme #philsky #philosophy #education #research #scholarship onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CfP: Betweonum: Brooklyn–Prague Forum for Philosophy of Art "Resisting Divides: Contemporary Philosophy of Art" www.flu.cas.cz/cz/vedecka-a... #philsky

We Are a Part of Infinity: A neuroscientist uncovers Albert Einstein’s little known spiritual journey #philsky #physics #religion #philosophy #einstein

Shovelling Smoke? The Experience of Being a Philosopher on an Educational Research Training Programme #philsky #philosophy #education #research #scholarship onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Picturing Panpsychism: New Approaches to the Combination Problem #philsky #philmind #pansychism #philosophy