Feed the birds - five years a bag.... BBC News - Sign threatens five‑year jail term for feeding birds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Giving the keynote on Defending Psychiatric Diagnoses at the Swedish Congress of Psychiatry. You know the drill by now, psychiatric diagnoses as not reflecting real people but that is alight because they are idealised and abstract models, and modelling is great in science. #psychiatry #philsci

As part of #BPF2026, I'll be speaking online at @triphilosophy.bsky.social - 1pm, Tuesday 17 March. Following #IWD, come and find out how we can fight back against misogyny's growing use of various digital representations against women! #philsky #philosophymatters All are welcome! Zoom link below

Is it bad manners to send book proposal to more than one publisher at once?

I'm not much liking the 21st century, so I'm escaping to the 19th century and reading Middlemarch

I have proofed 4 pages. Stopping now before I start to make things worse.

Submissions are open for @triphilosophy.bsky.social's 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. If you have written book that meets the criteria, please ask your publisher to nominate it. If you work in publishing, please nominate your favourite eligible books.

I have just finished reading Wedekind's Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening). It's certainly different....

I feel seen...

Thinking about LLM companions/friends and Nozick's experience machine. Seems like lots of people do choose the experience machine. #philsky

I'm co-running a weekly online reading group on trans philosophy. We're now meeting Thursdays, 16:00-17:00 UK time. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please drop me a message :) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

What are people's views on revealing that one reviewed a paper post publication? Bad etiquette? Fine? I sometimes want to approach authors whose papers I really liked, but not sure it's the done thing. #academicsky

You've lost that loving feeling, ooh-ooh that loving feeling...

Very interesting talk by @annelijefferson.bsky.social tonight at the Aristotelian Society! Learnt a lot about blame #philsky

Join us online for this workshop on AI psychosis & the relationship between hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts. With lived experience experts, philosophers of psychiatry & of technology, psychologists & mental health researchers www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/heari... #philpsy #philsky

Join us for the Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge) 🗓️ Friday 13 March 2026 3pm - 5pm 📍 In-Person, LSE Campus Abstract: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... #Philosophy #Medicine #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @ox.ac.uk

Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky

I'll be talking about what blame is good for, functionalist explanation and consequentialist justifications in London next Monday. Come along if you're in town! #philsky

I've read Wuthering Heights twice over the years but still don't really know whether I like it. I think fundamentally I'm a bit too prosaic and unromantic for the strong passions portrayed. And it's one of those books with a severe shortage of likeable characters. But might give it another go.

Hear, hear!

I used to have a Philosophy &AI feed, but that seems to have vanished? @keithwilson.eu were you hosting that?

I'm pretty neutral between England and Wales, but would have enjoyed this game more if it had been more evenly balanced. #6nations

'The fate of Ophelia' really hasn't got anything to do with Ophelia, does it?

On my way to Liverpool to talk about blame. Very excited, never been to Liverpool before, despite living in UK so long. No time for a trip to Anfield, though.

Now out in Synthese! 😊 "Reframing the free will debate: the universe is not deterministic", with Henry Potter and George Ellis rdcu.be/e2hIh

Research leave started Monday. Older son: Are you on research leave now? Me: Yes Him: And, have you started writing your book? Guess I won't have to worry about accountability.... #academicsky

Rereading Cummins' Functional Analysis - Oldie but Goldie #philsky www.jstor.org/stable/2024640

Call for abstracts for this great looking conference from the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC). salzburgethics.com/emrc-confere... Deadline for abstracts March 15th! #philsky #philosophy

We've made it through January but all we've got to show for it is February.

I don't really like baklava. Sweet, sticky but not really my thing.

I'm working on a paper and I think I'm out of my depth here. Argh.

Spite first, knowledge second

It's very embarrassing, but even though I've sung music by both of them, I still struggle to keep my Händel and my Haydn apart. Maybe I should just remember Händel has the bigger wig.

January impressions

I think one of the reasons nobody has ever asked me to review a book for NDPR is that I'm simply not mean enough...

Hard to call who is showing worse taste in their choice of cuddle partner here.

The 100th Joint Session Call for Papers is closing soon. Get your abstracts in by Sunday! DEADLINE: 1 February 2026. www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se...

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

I'm officially done thinking for the week.

Lady, have I got news for you.

I'm the closing section of a paper I'm writing and getting a bit preachy.

He was pushed before he jumped 😊 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't often agree with Badenoch, but she's on the money here: 'Speaking minutes before he took to the stage, Badenoch said it was a "good day" for the Conservatives and Jenrick was "now Nigel Farage's problem".' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shame is what’s known as a de-motivating emotion. Unlike anger or fear, it makes people take fewer actions when they experience it Employ it judiciously and against enemies, not friends

Am I the only one who feels there's a certain irony here?

Come along on Monday for the first Proceedings of 2026! We've got Lewis Ross from LSE 'Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony & Dividing Labour' 📍Woburn Suite, Senate House ⏰ 18.15 19 January 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/lewis-ross/