👋Check this out from our senior member Jahel Queralt! 🌟 elpais.com/opinion/2025...

BIAP's next Public Lecture takes place next month at the Ateneu Barcelonès! Check it out!

🤩 We had a great welcome session to the APhil students of the cohort of 2025-26 with Lisa Herzog's inaugural lecture in political epistemology and addressed questions of citizen's knowledge and trust in experts, followed by a reception ☕ 🍪🧆 We wish our students all the best for the academic year! 🙌

🎙️ BIAP conference Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda, organized by Andrei Bespalov (UPF) and me (UB). 12-13 Feb 2026 This is an event of María de Maeztu Grant awarded to BIAP as a Unit of Excellence. @sommalliance.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social Stay tuned! 📡 👋 biap.ub.edu/calendar/bia...

🧐Els dies 23 i 24 d’octubre tindran lloc les II Jornades de Recerca en Filosofia, a la Facultat de Filosofia de la Universitat de València. 👉Podeu consultar el programa en el següent enllaç: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/ii-jor...

Es con gran tristeza que supimos de la notica del fallecimiento de Juan José Acero. Doctor en Filosofía por la UB (1975), Profesor de las UB y UdG. Su trabajo trató de temas de la filosofía del lenguaje, de la mente y la evolución de la filosofía analítica del siglo XX. @ub.edu @biap.bsky.social

🚨 Don’t miss it! 👋 Tomorrow! Join us for APhil’s Inaugural Lecture and Welcome Session for the 2025–26 cohort with Prof. Lisa Herzog! 👇👇👇 aphil.ub.edu/news/inaugur...

👋📢 UPCOMING BIAP Outreach Event in Barcelona! Join us for an inspiring evening with Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen) presenting: 🎙️ “La salvación del trabajo” 🗓️ 21 October 🕖 19:00 📍 Goethe-Institut Barcelona 🔗 t.ly/YVkua Organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Barcelona.

“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:

My paper "Disagreement about contested slurs" is now out in the Asian Journal of Philosophy. The title merges 2 of the main problems I've been working on for the past 10 years: disagreement and slurs. Here it is! @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣And we're off to the races with our reading group on hybrid representations. 🏁 www.ub.edu/grc_logos/re... @logos-group.bsky.social @biap.bsky.social

Yesterday was the first BIAP Research Festival #BIAPFest, which took place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Here are some pics from afternoon sessions @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @ccj-udg.bsky.social

Our senior member Manuel García-Carpintero gave a keynote talk at the SEFA conference in Seville. Congratulations!! 🎉 👇👇👇 eventos.us.es/124755/detai...

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

Linocut by #printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt

I'm delighted that this is finally out, and my paper is in such good company! ☺️ huge thanks to Manuel Gustavo Isaac, Steffen Koch, and Kevin Sharp for all their work with this incredible project 🙏 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Taliban have imposed a nationwide internet ban in Afghanistan, so that women can't have access to the internet and to online education. SIM cards are also out of system

Amazing 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9wE...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Philosophy job seekers: there is a 6-year postdoc in philosophy of language coming up at the University of Vienna. See advertisement here: philjobs.org/job/show/29670

@anneapplebaum2000 on the current moment of political violence: For the first time, “we have a social-media system that encourages the most outrageous, the most extreme statements, and then rewards them financially.” #TAF25 Watch here: bit.ly/46lDaLT

The autumn conference season is about to start I'll be in Italy as a keynote in the San Raffaele School of Philosophy, this year on Varieties of Atmospheres. Across Philosophy and History of Art www.unisr.it/en/ricerca/p...

I miss a world where progress is achieved by argument and reasoning www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true...

Here's the announcement of the prize: solofici.org/resolucion-d...

Her thesis, "The Problem of Expert Appraisal: Metacognition and the Rationality of “Thinking for Yourself", was supervised by Thomas Sturm. You can read it here diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handl... 👏👏👏

📣 Congrats to Cathlene Centeno (APhil 2023–24) for winning 1st prize 🥇 for the Best Master’s Thesis from the Spanish Society for Logic & Philosophy of Science 👩‍🎓 #Philosophy #Logic Many APhil teaching professors are active members of BIAP! 🌟

At first when teaching about 9/11, Amy Zegart struggled to bring logical analysis and historical perspective to her lessons. Now she struggles to put the emotion back in for a generation of students with no memory of the day, Zegart wrote in 2021.

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto creates delicate fabric orbs which can be worn #WomensArt

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I have edited one of the "good" ones. It's free for authors because the Faculty in Lisbon puts up the money (from Portuguese tax payers taxes). I'm not clear that Portuguese tax payers should take up the burden? Thought is also open access, and what it charges IS to pay the manager's salary.

Workshop coming up sites.google.com/view/andress...

Portugal’s government declared a day of national mourning on Thursday, a day after a Lisbon funicular that is a popular tourist attraction crashed and killed 17 people.

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This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity

⚡ August 15th — while #Trump and Putin are meeting in Alaska, we are driving this car to the Zaporizhzhia Oblast to help Ukrainian soldiers and medics. #Russia has included #Zaporizhzhia in its “constitution,” claiming it as #Russian territory — but of course, Ukrainians are not going to retreat.

❓ What Is Propaganda? Find out the answer in our podcast episode: 🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/... Support the UkraineWorld team on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.

It is quite trendy to change what words mean for one's purposes, nice meaning perversions, as I call them.

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“For news organizations, the issue isn’t responsibility, but survival. Autocratic leaders don’t want evidence-based journalism of any kind to exist at all: They want to shape reality, to decide themselves what is true and false.” — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

not just America

Quite enjoyed this. Have overlapped with Dan in a couple of workshops in recent years, happy to hear him in one of my favourite podcasts.

Rant. People in academia who have a public persona as nice, conscientious, fair, devoted to the profession, etc, but who can't even be bothered to reply to an invitation to review a paper: I can see you.

Definitely worth a read: Our colleague at @biap.bsky.social, Jahel Queralt, has written on the dangers of lack of diversity in ideas and arguments in academia.

The debate "Propaganda: Shaping narratives in times of war" that was organized by the @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social project in Vienna is now available as an episode of the podcast Ukraine World. I was honoured to participate. @biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social

I think that framing current problems in terms of misinformation is misguided, precisely because the dangers of - let's call it what it is, propaganda - are not that people falsely believe something (which they think is true), not even that a majority of people have a false belief.