We’re 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

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

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!

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...

Look what Péter Magyar did yesterday youtu.be/JA6pBlqMATI?...

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...

Why WE should press the blue button: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

From an article yesterday in @theatlantic.com. I agree with Schwitzgebel!

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

I do not think that word means what you think it means

I do not think that word means what you think it means

Coppelia, "Latin Luncheonette" at 14th and 7th, never closes, two mixologists on duty

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.

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...

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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Julia Haas in Nature: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...

In Dortmund, workshop on Naïve Realism, Guiliana Martina first up this morning, talking about Seeing Features

First up @davidpapineau.bsky.social on scientific kinds and kinds of sense experience.

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-...