Brighton. Fun. First time for a while. Here for Sussex Uni/RIP philosophy of medicine symposium.

🩺 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...

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

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

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/...

Fun conference in London this weekend—"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/...

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 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

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

New paper out in Synthese—a 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...

FFS I get back from the pub 10 mins late and Spurs are 2-0 down at home to Fulham

Sunset on the Blackwater Estuary

Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but young’uns should probably all be given a copy of @davidpapineau.bsky.social ’s Philosophical Devices. global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

And this. Cognitive dissonance can no longer be regarded as established. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today‘s new episode: French skepticism around the time of Descartes, with a focus on Mothe le Vayer: historyofphilosophy.net/french-skept... #philsky #philosophy #podcast #skepticism

Symposium on Concepts at the Interface: Author’s Reply to Commentaries Brains Blog Symposium on Concepts at the Interface Author’s Reply to Commentaries Nicholas SheaInstitute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of [email protected] Reply to Sarah Fisher Turning to…

Barbara Montero on machine consciousness, appearing in the New York Times today: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

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

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.

Today's new episode: Cartesian Science! From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine. www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc... #hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts

Avocets on the Blackwater Estuary this morning

I spent an hour with the excellent Brad Carr exploring issues where philosophy and sports overlap www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZW...

Katy Papineau talks about the thinking behind her painting www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2X...

I had a lot of fun exploring the insidious influence of dualist ideas with @evanmcgloughlin.bsky.social Watch on Youtube Now: youtu.be/x0mjQmmzfCk

We're still hiring—Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ599/l...

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

Good spot for a picnic. Three Castle Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork

I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️ Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻

Australia all out 209. Kagiso Rabada gets five-for-20. Reminded me of Michael Holding at the Oval 1976. We’ll now see if this is a flat track or not.

South Africa did well at Lords this morning but the Aussies are fighting back at 146 for 4

[Book] The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction Jeremy Butterfield arxiv.org/abs/2505.23639

We are hiring—a 12-month post in Political Philosophy www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/115285-...

Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Anybody watching Eurovision? Will there be singing?

Sign up for a week's painting in the French Pyrénées. Katy Papineau will be running a residential course on "Atmospheric Colour in Figurative Painting" at Clos Mirabel this November 1-8 atelier.clos-mirabel.com/painting-hol...

I'm the last speaker this evening @iai.tv talking about consciousness, animal welfare and artificial people iai.tv/live

I'll be online on Tuesday arguing that consciousness is a red herring if you're worried about the welfare of animals and artificial agents iai.tv/live/iai-liv...

Join us for this year’s May conference on Responsible AI, the first of our “Summer of AI” events, May 19-20.

This was a lot of fun 😁

It's real! The JCS special issue on possible forms of introspection edited by @keithfrankish.bsky.social and myself in 2023 has just been republished as a book: The Landscape of Introspection. Check it out here: www.imprint.co.uk/product/land...

Very happy that my paper on generic memory has just been published (open access). #philosophy #philsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What did Mary know? Latest @newstatesman.com article featuring @davidpapineau.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

In episode 132, I talk with Dr. David Papineau (@davidpapineau.bsky.social) about naturalism, mind-brain dualism, and #Consciousness. #Philosophy youtu.be/AMtjWKE__YY

Why don’t hotels give you toothpaste? Makes no sense.