David Papineau
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King's College London. Working on mind, metaphysics, and science. davidpapineau.co.uk
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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)
4 days ago
Weâre hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit:
https://bit.ly/3R94V58
Closing Date: 9th June 2026
#WeAreSTS
#Science
#Historyofscience
#Globalscience
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Peter Adamson
5 days ago
Podcast co-author Chike Jeffers (
@chikej.bsky.social
) alerted me that the most recent
#HoPWaG
on the philosophy of the French garden is the 750th episode overall, counting all series!
historyofphilosophy.net
Thanks to everyone who has listened along the way.
#podcast
#philsky
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Sérgio Farias de Souza Filho
5 days ago
Hello all!
@davidpapineau.bsky.social
will give us a talk Thursady 6pm (GMT+1)/2pm (BRT) on norms of knowledge. YouTube Link below. See you there!
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Kicking off this Richard Brown extravaganza in a couple of hours along with Alex Keifer and Matthias Michel (0800 EST 1300 London time)
onemorebrown.com/2026/04/09/b...
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Brownapalooza 2026 -the Consciousness Live! 100th episode Extravaganza Spectacular -May 14 2026
In celebration of the 100th episode of Consciousness Live! I am hosting a series of author-meets-reader sessions on my recent book Consciousness as Representing Oneâs Mind (OUP 2025). All sesâŠ
https://onemorebrown.com/2026/04/09/brownapalooza-2026-the-consciousness-live-100th-episode-extravaganza-spectacular-may-14-2006/
9 days ago
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Tim Crane
13 days ago
Look what Péter Magyar did yesterday
youtu.be/JA6pBlqMATI?...
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Hungaryâs Parliament Hears Roma Hymn For First Time As Magyar Keeps Promise To Roma Children | APT
YouTube video by APT
https://youtu.be/JA6pBlqMATI?is=pL8grlT-MVFrcRQC
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Great film by Phil Halper about philosophers and neuroscientists defending physicalism (including N Block, K Friston, A Seth, F Jackson)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAd...
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Consciousness: Philosophers & Neuroscientists Defend Physicalism
YouTube video by Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAdtfRFI3M
14 days ago
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Why WE should press the blue button:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Why thinking as a team is more important than ever
The rationality of collective thought, not individual reasoning, is fundamental to addressing modern crises.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2020/09/why-thinking-as-a-team-is-more-important-than-ever
14 days ago
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Eric Schwitzgebel
15 days ago
From an article yesterday in
@theatlantic.com
. I agree with Schwitzgebel!
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James Openshaw
25 days ago
Pleased to announce this is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I first presented it in 2024, and thanks to many conversations I'm happy with how it turned out. Grateful to the guest editors and reviewers for their input too!
philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL
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James Openshaw, Generalised remembering - PhilPapers
Recollections of our personal past are often impressionistic, not so much for lack of detail but for a certain generality of subject matter. If youâve made a journey many times, you ...
https://philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL
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I do not think that word means what you think it means
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I do not think that word means what you think it means
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Coppelia, "Latin Luncheonette" at 14th and 7th, never closes, two mixologists on duty
28 days ago
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James Openshaw
about 1 month ago
Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with
@whcsung.bsky.social
- we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.
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Tim Crane
about 2 months ago
Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in
@thetls.bsky.social
@michaelpollan.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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The philosophy of consciousness
When Tim Crane talks of âthe lunatic fringe of panpsychismâ (in his review of A World Appears: A journey into consciousness by Michael Pollan, March 20), we who are on or beyond the fringe chuckle and...
https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/letters-to-the-editor/letters-to-the-editor-april-3-2026
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Lisa Bortolotti
about 2 months ago
Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association!
#philosophymatters
#philsky
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Edouard Machery
3 months ago
free download for 2 weeks
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Temporal Cognition in Animals
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Temporal Cognition in Animals
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/temporal-cognition-in-animals/2999F69C764D7A20E91F6111E5BD9641
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Cameron Buckner
3 months ago
Julia Haas in Nature:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling
We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1133299/google-deepmind-wants-to-know-if-chatbots-are-just-virtue-signaling/
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In Dortmund, workshop on NaĂŻve Realism, Guiliana Martina first up this morning, talking about Seeing Features
3 months ago
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Giulia Martina
3 months ago
First up
@davidpapineau.bsky.social
on scientific kinds and kinds of sense experience.
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Brighton. Fun. First time for a while. Here for Sussex Uni/RIP philosophy of medicine symposium.
4 months ago
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
4 months ago
đ©ș How does
#philosophy
inform practice and research in
#medicine
? Free TRIP-funded workshop, run by the Philosophy Department at Sussex. With
@davidpapineau.bsky.social
Sarah Sawyer,
@robynrwaller.bsky.social
@drjastockdale.bsky.social
and more. Book here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/philosophy-d...
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Nino Kadic
4 months ago
Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff.
#philsky
@walterveit.bsky.social
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Is panpsychism pseudophilosophy?
A response to Walter Veit
https://mindmonads.substack.com/p/is-panpsychism-pseudophilosophy
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Robyn Waller
4 months ago
Join us for another great Sussex Philosophy Society panel in Brighton! Open to academics and public alike. Registration required (free event).
@sussex.ac.uk
@triphilosophy.bsky.social
@davidpapineau.bsky.social
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
#philosophy
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The Irish Times
5 months ago
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Scrabble season: I hope you will play a little over the holidays
There are two different kinds of game being played on the worldâs Scrabble boards. Which will you play?
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/12/28/scrabble-season-i-hope-you-will-play-a-little-over-the-holidays/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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I am talking first thing tomorrow at our conference on "Physics and the Self", Institute of Philosophy, Senate House, London. You can still sign up for online attendance here:
forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/physics-self-interdisciplinary-perspectives?fbclid=IwY2xjawOo9ERleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBMYmdzclRKR21sUDY2Z3FEc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlm5xsG3c7aIrI7Vmzs4b2ERBlDCuwR2bxLx12XhlJSL90WCRJVFCMfYO-Ec_aem_-4nKOwk-Ayli8__WD7WFzQ
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Fun conference in London this weekendâ"Physics and the Self". Institute of Philosophy, Senate House. You can sign up for online attendance here:
forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/physics-self-interdisciplinary-perspectives
5 months ago
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Adam Bienkov
5 months ago
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to ÂŁ10 billion with a central estimate of -ÂŁ5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Will Lowe
6 months ago
A gentle summary of the last twenty-odd years of Pearl-style causal inference with DAGs, perhaps most helpful if you're just arriving from old-school philosophy of causation. I like this genre. And if you do too, I can also recommend Weinberger et al.'s forthcoming piece in BJPS 1/2
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New paper out in Syntheseâa metaphysical theory of causation designed to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Causal inference and the metaphysics of causation - Synthese
The techniques of causal inference are widely used throughout the non-experimental sciences to derive causal conclusions from probabilistic premises. This poses a philosophical question. What in the n...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05268-0
6 months ago
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FFS I get back from the pub 10 mins late and Spurs are 2-0 down at home to Fulham
6 months ago
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Sunset on the Blackwater Estuary
6 months ago
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Ehud
6 months ago
Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but youngâuns should probably all be given a copy of
@davidpapineau.bsky.social
âs Philosophical Devices.
global.oup.com/ukhe/product...
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Neil Levy
6 months ago
And this. Cognitive dissonance can no longer be regarded as established.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, BjĂžrn SĂŠtrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka...
According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231213375
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Brian D. Earp, PhD
6 months ago
Wow - debunking âWhen Prophesy Failsâ - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Peter Adamson
6 months ago
Todayâs new episode: French skepticism around the time of Descartes, with a focus on Mothe le Vayer:
historyofphilosophy.net/french-skept...
#philsky
#philosophy
#podcast
#skepticism
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480. Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism | History of Philosophy without any gaps
https://historyofphilosophy.net/french-skepticism-17th-century
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Brains
6 months ago
Symposium on Concepts at the Interface: Authorâs Reply to Commentaries Brains Blog Symposium on Concepts at the Interface Authorâs Reply to Commentaries Nicholas SheaInstitute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of
[email protected]
Reply to Sarah Fisher Turning toâŠ
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Symposium on Concepts at the Interface: Authorâs Reply to Commentaries
Brains Blog Symposium on Concepts at the Interface Authorâs Reply to Commentaries Nicholas SheaInstitute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of
[email protected]
Reply to Sarah Fisher Turning to Sarah Fisherâs helpful commentary, she raises a challenging question about concepts in LLMs. I was very pleased to have a chance to discuss this with her in the CLEA online symposium about the book a couple of months ago.
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2025/11/14/symposium-on-concepts-at-the-interface-authors-reply-to-commentaries-2.aspx?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Joel David Hamkins
7 months ago
Barbara Montero on machine consciousness, appearing in the New York Times today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/opinion/ai-conscious-technology.html
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Barry C Smith
7 months ago
Awaken your senses at Coal Drops Yard with this mini exhibition as part of the Club Curling experience at Kings Cross. A huge thanks to our friends and partners
@ip-sas.bsky.social
for helping us create these multisensory experiences
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Chris Bertram
7 months ago
The BBC headline with "migrants" is already terrible and plays into the far-right narrative. And the solution to asylum-seekers being exploited by criminals is to allow them to contribute by working legally rather than making them survive on a pittance.
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Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally
Undercover reporters were told how easy it was to make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o
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Peter Adamson
7 months ago
Today's new episode: Cartesian Science! From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartesâ impact on science, especially medicine.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...
#hopwag
#philsky
#descartes
#historyofscience
#podcasts
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Avocets on the Blackwater Estuary this morning
7 months ago
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I spent an hour with the excellent Brad Carr exploring issues where philosophy and sports overlap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZW...
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David Papineau: Philosophy in Sports, Genetics, Ethics, Formula One | Brad Carr Podcast Episode 134
YouTube video by Brad Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZWbfqbcIo
7 months ago
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Katy Papineau talks about the thinking behind her painting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2X...
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Katy Papineau - In The Studio
YouTube video by Talking With Creatives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2XvmVT110
7 months ago
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I had a lot of fun exploring the insidious influence of dualist ideas with
@evanmcgloughlin.bsky.social
Watch on Youtube Now:
youtu.be/x0mjQmmzfCk
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Meet the Philosopher of Mind Proving that Consciousness is Physical!
YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder
https://youtu.be/x0mjQmmzfCk
7 months ago
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We're still hiringâLecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ599/l...
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy (E&R) at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy (E&R) on jobs.ac.uk!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ599/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-ancient-philosophy-eandr
8 months ago
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Peter Adamson
9 months ago
We're back from summer break! In today's new
#podcast
Ariane Schneck joins me to discuss the correspondence between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes, focusing on the mind-body problem and the passions.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-el...
#philsky
#descartes
#mindbodyproblem
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Good spot for a picnic. Three Castle Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork
9 months ago
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Tim Crane
9 months ago
I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the
@britishacademy.bsky.social
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...
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Mellor, Hugh, 1938-2020
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/22/mellor-hugh-1938-2020/
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Weâre hiringâone year post in Ethicsâurgentâdeadline this time next week
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...
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Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-lecturer-in-ethics-education-aep
9 months ago
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