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.

What do philosophers do on a Friday night? They are judges at Philosothon 2025! So many bright young people engaging in a community of inquiry to advance solutions for society’s thorniest problems! #philsky #edusky

Here's an interview with me for the "Always Choose Orange" podcast about the creative process behind making the podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgb3...

Another new Element, from the metaphysics series: Reduction, Emergence and the Metaphysics in Science by Carl Gillett. Free till 4 March! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Tomorrow! Livestream: pitt.zoom.us/j/93433720100

Just recorded the first podcast episode on René Descartes! It will air on March 30. Followed by a whole bunch of episodes, on his physics, skepticism, the immediate reception of the Meditations, his correspondence with Elizabeth, his ethics, etc. Mind you, I still have to write all of these!

That should be very good. Carl is a great philosopher.

The winners of the 2024 Popper Prize are...

We are hiring. Two posts. One theoretical . . . www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/107905-...

I have a paper out in Philosophical Studies. It addresses a common (and old) objection to illusionism about phenomenal consciousness philpapers.org/rec/KAMDCA-2 1/x

The Times today has an article about my local The Pineapple (because our Prime Minister likes to drink there). That's me in the checked jacket at the bar. Isn't it a coincidence I should be there when they took the shot?

“Plus a letter from Huw Price” – what more could one want? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check out this new paper: @jroloff.bsky.social argues that Millikan’s relational, adapted, and derived proper functions are essential for explaining novel contents and ontogenetic traits, countering Garson and @davidpapineau.bsky.social’s criticisms. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

The time has come! We finally start coverage of early modern philosophy (17-18th centuries) on the #HoPWaG podcast, beginning with an episode on the concept of "Enlightenment." www.historyofphilosophy.net/introduction... #philsky #earlymodern #podcasts #enlightenment

Next up on Consciousness Live! J. Kevin O'Regan -Feb 25 at 2 pm youtube.com/live/vs5HJTs...

Summer school on panpsychism in Zagreb...sounds like heaven! panpsychism.ifzg.hr

First call now open to present at this summer school in July—I'll be there, along with heddahasselmorch.com and (online) @philipgoff.bsky.social panpsychism.ifzg.hr