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Some philosophers would rather create a whole journal to enable bigotry and marginalization than take accountability for the ways their "research" has made life immeasurably worse for marginalized people across demographics. Yes, I am talking about the Journal of Controversial Ideas.

Just out: a very helpful Philosophy Compass piece on the metaethics of normative vagueness by Kaj Zeller, a philosophy PhD student at University of Leeds (@leedsprhs.bsky.social). Available as open access! #PhilSky compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Struggling to work out what would need to be true for the first sentence to be

England going to steal this one like it’s a priceless African artifact

We just ran a branch meeting to pass a strike motion that attracted 707 members!!! I meant whaaaat?! And we passed the six amendments, and the motion itself in half an hour! WTF! And we had time for a discussion to close!!!! Boss chairing by yours truly and Michael Flexer. @exeterucu.bsky.social

Everyone acting like it wouldn't be funny if DR Congo knocked out England is lying to themselves, which is a sin by the way.

The elusive panafrican hattrick

Co-ordinating all my summer travel plans to England matches so I can catch the periods when the uk’s travel infrastructure is actually working

I'm currently aiming for an office on campus which has shelves that are completely empty of books, except for Huddleston and Pullum's Grammar of the English Language

Seriously: if philosophers are going to debate any and all Controversial Ideas, we should be debating whether taking part in an official government attack on a vulnerable minority--knowing that it is motivated by animus against that minority--should be considered a crime against humanity.

"What drives these cuts is not financial necessity [...]. What drives these cuts is strategy and executive choice – the judgment of university leaders that HASS subjects can be (almost) as successful with 25% fewer staff."

Omg philosophers: Thomas cites Alex Byrne in his anti-trans rant. Clear evidence of how much damage shitty philosophy can do.

I've read the whole Deepmind Philosopher article now, and this is just straightforward ethics-washing of Google's Ai research. Couple of weird things www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Well, well, well www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

On a related note and as someone with absolutely no conflicts of interest to report in this matter: if you are in a hiring position, please consider employing a philosopher with actual expertise in AI/ML.

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lovely to see coverage of the wee robot bastards that says absolutely nothing about the people who've been defacing them with luddite slogans www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've got myself in a pickle. I've picked up calling Irish language 'Gaeilge' in a paper, and I'm now trying to work out how far the 'call the language the name the speakers use' line goes. I'm English, so is it fair to keep it to only minority languages that the *English* have oppressed??

Come hang out with me in two weeks’ time and chat all things ignorance and agnotology!

Those of us with long memories will remember that Exeter closed philosophy down once before only to have to rebuild it again.

Looks like Durham's philosophy exam chair has resigned (from their exam role) in protest at the Uni's handling of AI essays www.palatinate.org.uk/philosophy-e...

Genuinely a bit spooked for the Vienna Forum for analytic philosophy

The Minions speak the Language of Thought (LOT).

we've started referring to applying suncream as "getting slimed up" and let me tell you it's not making it more appealing

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

But what about the good things about climate catastrophe??

"Bigger questions about the desirability of the technology as such, or about alternative solutions to the problems it is meant to address, are no longer part of the picture." dailynous.com/2026/06/16/w...

Quick someone tell the philosophers about LOCKSS AND CLOCKSS

Nationalise the seaside

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

I've got a student who has got very into the philosophy of technology who is looking at getting into technology ethics via a masters. What/where (in terms of masters) should I be recommending to them?

Texas A&M banned philosopher and tenured Prof. Martin Peterson from teaching Plato under its “gender ideology” restrictions. He resigned. On June 24, I’ll be in conversation with Peterson about censorship, philosophy and why Plato scares Texas so much. www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

New Ibrahim Maalouf is very good www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNM...

Does this seem an acceptable sentence? 'Let's I get the paint and you get the sheets'

Event tip: The Vienna Circle Institute will hold a conference in memoriam of the 90th anniversary of Moritz Schlick's assassination on June 22. wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

I.e., because LLMs are correctly described as doing one thing (imitating conversations from the training set, predicting the next word) they can't correctly be described as doing anything else (understanding). compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ted Chiang confirmed fictionalist about AI speech www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Ai is leading to new and exciting kinds of scabbing www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...

this is what they want to take from us

Confirmed by the Argus (local newspaper surprisingly not part of Reach plc) www.theargus.co.uk/news/2619191...

Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?

And Hove

I always appreciate artists who leave the top right-hand corner clear, in case people want to use their work as an OUP handbook cover and have the names be nicely legible

We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist

Cool idea I’m nicking from a workshop this week - think about interference with personal technology in terms of republican freedom from arbitrary interference