Two telegrams to Karl Popper

Q.89. Which philosopher wrote: ‘If someone has mastered one subject, it usually has made him a complete amateur in most other subjects; but people judge just the reverse ..”

Q.88 “We really live in a great time for thinking, with Einstein, Freud and Wittgenstein all alive, and all in Germany or Austria, those foes of civilization,” said which philosopher?

Parfit and Buddhism. tricycle.org/article/dere...

Don't worry - nobody's paying you that much attention. The latest Social Science Bites is with Tom Gilovich, covering, among other things, The Spotlight Effect.

Hilarious. The reggae version of Wittgenstein’s Poker!

The Blue Corridor at Eton has pictures of famous alumni - like these 4

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on this date in 1889. For our episode back in 2007, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Zoe Corneli, to look beyond the philosopher at #Wittgenstein the man with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, co-author of "Wittgenstein's Poker." youtu.be/j0Ze4lFwc9o?... #PhilSky

Just finished the audiobook of @davidedmonds100.bsky.social's biography of Derek Parfit. Very much enjoyed it, both for the personal angle and the accessible summaries of various philosophical debates. I guess now I have to add "Wittgenstein's Poker" to my list, because that one also sounds great.

"Which piece of social science research has most inspired or influenced you?" Host @davidedmonds100.bsky.social asks this question to every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast. Hear @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social and more answer: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/whos...

Q.87. Which philosopher wrote, "If I have a philosophy of life, it is to keep living until I drop. "

The Philosophy Bites podcast has now had over 50 million unique episode downloads!

Looking forward to speaking about public philosophy this evening with my Philosophy Bites co-podcaster ⁦‪@DavidEdmonds100‬⁩ 7.30pm London #GoodPhilosophyMatters 2026 - British Philosophical Association bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma...

Latest Philosophy Bites philosophybites.com @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social on Lottocracy

A series of events today to promote philosophy - at Senate House bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma... I'll be in conversation with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

The conversation turned to the applicants for a chair at Oxford. Sir Peter [Strawson] groaned about one applicant: “Do I really have to read his boring book?” he asked; to which Sir Freddie [Ayer] replied: “I don’t see why, he didn’t even go to a proper school.” Anecdote from S.Haack (RIP)

Dutch interview!

Tomorrow (8 Mar) at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/5v3kZzk

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

The latest Philosophy Bites on Decolonising India philosophybites.com/podcast/taru...

The latest Social Science Bites on Common Knowledge and a puzzle about spinach. www.socialsciencespace.com/about-social...

Next week, 8 Mar at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/5v3kZzk

If you’re in Oxford this weekend, don’t miss this free event in the Philosophy in the Bookshop series I run @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

Finishing reading @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the Vienna Circle: “At some stage two FBI men visited him at his home. To show that he was no Russian spy, [Philipp] Frank went to his bookshelf, took out a copy of Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism,

Otto Neurath should be much better known. "May I say one word about phraseology...please do not speak of ‘experiment’, it is the very life of people at stake...and using some people as experimental material for other people is against my feelings. Let us call it a social venture. That is better."

The latest Social Science Bites - on Indian democracy with LSE anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee

On Holocaust Memorial Day: how attempts to understand the Holocaust created social psychology www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

“For heaven’s sake, a logician should not be asked to write a history or an autobiography, unless he is a genius like Russell.” Fair point Carnap, fair point..

35 years later and still not explained

Tomorrow (21 Jan) at 7:00pm GMT, Stony Words hosts @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for a book talk on Death in a Shallow Pond! Hear about the fascinating history of Effective Altruism from it's inceptive thought experiment and how it changed the way we understand poverty. Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS

Listen: @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, speaks with @xavierbonilla.bsky.social for Converging Dialogues about the importance of thought experiments, philosopher Peter Singer, the effective altruism movement, and more:

"I just think that I’m not a morally exemplary person." G.A. Cohen. One from the Philosophy Bites archive philosophybites.com/podcast/g-a-...

Next week, 21 Jan at 7:00pm GMT, Stony Words hosts @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for a book talk on Death in a Shallow Pond! Hear about the fascinating history of Effective Altruism from it's inceptive thought experiment and how it changed the way we understand poverty. Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS

Farage is about the only one in our year who doesn’t recall him being a racist and fascist. I’m worried about his memory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the German word for going to the library to look up a book that you subsequently discover you already own?

I think 25 cents of every ticket sold in games in which he features should go directly into Kevin Durant's bank account www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basket... (niche joke)

Left wallet + credit cards on London bus this morning, and didn’t even know it was missing. The bus driver has just dropped it off at my house! I thought this sort of thing only happened in the movies. Thank you bus driver Dorota... @tflbot.bsky.social

This is what I told Farage’s biographer quite a few years ago. Now corroborated by more than 30 others

According to Farage all 34 of us are lying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The latest Social Science Bites, with psychologist @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social, It's on empathy and AI. Such a privilege to chat to all these leading social scientists.

Post Anschluss the Nazis forced Jews to list their assets. Here are the Wittgenstein musical instruments from the house in the Argentinierstrasse Palais

Africana philosophy. The latest Philosophy Bites. Only 7.5 minutes if you play at double speed!

The Kinder of the Kinder have produced another philosophy book. Well done @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social It's very good.

We’re thrilled to share that seven PUP titles earned a spot on @newyorker.com's Best Books of the Year list! 🎉 Learn more about these featured titles: press.princeton.edu/books?search...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Farage demands apology from Kemi Badenoch www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... P.Kyle www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... MPs www.gbnews.com/politics/nig... from the BBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/fara... I join with others in demanding an apology from Farage

The New Yorker has (rightly!) listed Death in a Shallow Pond - the subject of my discussion with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social on the latest Ethics Untangled episode - as one of the best books of 2025. www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Shallow Pond is on Ethics Untangled. Thanks to Jim Baxter and the Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds @princetonupress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

I was at school with Nigel Farage, this is what I heard

Nigel Farage called it the Belsen Bus. 31 contemporaries have now corroborated stories about his deep bigotry. Richard Tice thinks we're all lying observer.co.uk/news/nationa...