You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.

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PhD Job Advertisement: The Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia) invites applications for a Research Assistant position (PhD track) within project TIPPS, for six years, circa €1400 net per month euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/378085

Author's copy just arrived. What a beautiful book! 😍

💥Fabian Hundertmark just joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab as a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project at the University of Valencia. 🎉Welcome, Fabian! 🔗https://philpeople.org/profiles/fabian-hundertmark

Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Great talk by @quillkukla.bsky.social on Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics #gap.12

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB. Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇 🙃A RT is always appreciated!

CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...

I am delighted to present my new website (created by my brother Christian, many thanks to him): fhundertmark.net

The Diamond OAJ ournal @phimisci.bsky.social received metrics for the first time. Sure metrics are not the whole story, but its amazing to see them directly behind Philosophy of Science, and ahead of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science SJR Value! Lets keep pushing OA Philosophy! #philsky

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

Je suis doyen,mais je suis surtout prof,d'où la grande satisfaction de voir paraître cet article avec ancien étudiant! Dussault,A.C.&Bouchard,F.,(2025)“Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology”,Philosophy,Theory,and Practice in Biology 17(1): 4 journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...

Zumindest hält Klöckner ihr Wahlversprechen

Q&A with @jelliedsours.bsky.social, Lara Calabrese, @lalumera.bsky.social and @matthewbroome.bsky.social at the #INPP.

@matthewbroome.bsky.social chairing at #INPP in Leibzig

I'm happy and proud to be joining @vlc-lab.bsky.social in September! I'm even already on the website! vlclab.blogs.uv.es/senior-membe...

🌞Good morning! 🐸The programme and abstracts for the Workshop on Animal Communication are now available at the following link: 🔗https://decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-animal-communication/ 😀One retweet?

Hier unser Starterpack mit allen Abgeordneten, die derzeit auf BlueSky sind! 🦋🚩 go.bsky.app/25ajniL

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions. philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

The one and only Hilary Putnam on why he became earlier a commie and later a social-democrat

Check out this new paper! @moody-philosopher.bsky.social argues that low mood has a dual function, representing pessimistic expectations and motivating reduced engagement to minimize potential losses.

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...

Maël Lemoine's Cambridge Element on "Philosophy of Physiology" is free to download for one month

My Cambridge Element on Irrationality is out, and open access for a month! In it I discuss akrasia, conspiracy beliefs, self-deception, delusion, and implicit bias. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Here Hanzhe Dong and I respond to a recent discussion of selectionists vs goal-contribution accounts of teleofunctions: philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/13/r...

Hanzhe Dong & @gualtiero.bsky.social respond to @jroloff.bsky.social, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, and my critique of GCA, defending it as foundational for biological functions. They address normativity, incidental effects, and novel traits. Read their response: philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/13/r...

Do we need to rethink biological functions? In Part 2, @jroloff.bsky.social, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, and I highlight key problems of Dong and @gualtiero.bsky.social's goal-contribution account and propose a new blueprint account. Once again, we argue: Selection is inescapable! Read more:

“Do we need to rethink biological functions?” With @jroloff.bsky.social & @frabellazzi.bsky.social, I respond to Dong & @gualtiero.bsky.social’s critique of the selected effects theory. We argue: Selection is inescapable! Part 1 now on @philosophyofbrains.com: philosophyofbrains.com/2024/12/10/s...

Join us this week for a discussion of the last Mindcraft post about biological functions! We have a commentary from Hundertmark, Roloff, and Bellazzi, followed by a response from Piccinini and Dong!

2 things can be true: 1. Syrians are overjoyed & rightly celebrating the fall of a half-century-long brutal, psychotic dictatorship, & hoping to see their homes again. 2. It is not safe or responsible for European countries of sanctuary to talk now of repatration or ending asylum for Syrians.

Friday 20th December, 2pm! @ldanon.bsky.social and @susanamonso.com will give a talk about their fresh paper. PhilEvents (in English): philevents.org/event/show/1...

Today there is the Functions in Philosophy Network reading group! We are discussing Okasha’s paper “Function in the light of frequency dependent selection” (Australasian Phil Review, 6:4). Get in touch if you want to attend 🤓 #philsky #functions

Check out my new paper on self-diagnosis and autonomy in Philosophical Psychology: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had a fantastic time recording this episode for the #DissenterYT and talking about all my favourite things from functions to kinds and biochemical molecules - wrapping it up with education as empowerment! 💪 #philsky Spotify: bit.ly/495Ia6L Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-No...

My 2013 book, Between Perception and Action is now freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Postdoc position in philosophy of biology with Matteo Mossio in Paris. Deadline for appl. 4 December.

I have put together a starter pack of philosophers working on or with biological functions go.bsky.app/KW2mXWe Please let me know if I missed anyone. ☺️ #philpsy, #philsci, #philosophy, #philsky

here is a starter pack for academics working on #philosophy of #psychiatry. please tell me who I’m missing🤔. thanks and cheers🥳. go.bsky.app/GaNgDHt

I have a new paper on delusion which I'm very pleased to see published today, and open access too. I argue that monothematic delusions are best understood as beliefs formed in tricky (read: Millikanian abNormal) conditions, rather than as malfunctions of belief. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re launching a special issue on “Philosophy of Neuromorphic AI” in the journal Philosophy of AI! 🧠✨ 📅 Deadline for submissions: August 2025. For details, check our page: t.co/Fj8vj1beLj! #PhilosophyOfAI #NeuromorphicAI @Gualtiero.bsky.social

Hey #philsky give a follow to @emas-b.bsky.social, who is a force of nature! Expert in belief, imagination, delusion and bias, and head of research for philosophy at Birmingham. Her handbook on philosophy of delusion is out now! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

New publication in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy: „What are Causal Bases of Dispositions?“ with María Ferreira Ruiz. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CEW4S...

We are delighted to announce our workshop "Philosophy of Psychiatry," which will take place on May 28th and 29th (at Bielefeld University and via Zoom). More infos here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

More from the latest issue: Putting History Back into Mechanisms —Justin Garson Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

Looking forward to participating in this workshop on Philosophy of Psychiatry at the University of Bielefeld: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

And here is my humble contribution to the recently published book symposium on the wonderful book "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" by @annelijefferson.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P3G9V...

Work with me on philosophical aspects of sensory engineering (DFG/AHRC-Project SENSOR) at the Centre for Philosophy of AI Research in Erlangen: philjobs.org/job/show/26098