New paper ‘What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?’ now published in Marine Policy with my excellent co-authors @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars — preprint available philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26719/

Gerry Dunne and I have just had our new paper, "Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap", published online by the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have a short reply to M. Giulia Napolitano's nice paper on conspiracy theories and propaganda out today: #philsky

I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

New paper by @hadeelnaeem.bsky.social on the complexity of pain experiences, and how this makes the use of AI pain-detection technologies liable to generate epistemic injustice. Pain experiences/reports is definitely one of the things I'd like to look at more closely, post-book.

I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

🥁🥳🍾It’s finally out! 📣💃🏻🎉 Needless to say, it’s on a very relevant and timely topic 😉, featuring contributions from EXPERTS in epistemology and philosophy of science.

Exciting news: today marks the official launch of my ERC Advanced Grant, KNOW-HOW. I’ll soon be advertising the first of several postdoctoral positions. The initial post — a 24-month postdoc based at Cogito—will begin in Spring 2026. 👉 ⁦https://www.knowhow-research.com⁩ Lots more to come—stay tuned!

For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do). philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6

New open access paper on collective self-knowledge: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

New open access paper on collective self-knowledge: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

New paper in AI & Society on why we should be worried about persuasive AI technologies even if you are, like me, sceptical that we are about to enter a world of AI "hyper-persuasion". philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2

Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...

New paper on what it is to ask a question. TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question. philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Now with page numbers! #philsky

I have a new paper accepted in Grazer Phil Studies, you can find the accepted draft here: philpapers.org/rec/TANIIT-5 This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... This got published in the early view section of Analytic Philosophy. It took two years, but finally it's out, and I'm pretty happy with it. No OA because IUSS Pavia doesn't have agreements in place now, but drop me a line if you need a published copy.

#philski #philmind My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu

Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025. More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1... Please share with others who might be interested :)

Call for Game Developers! Join the Truth, Lies & Democracy 2025 game jam (Sept 26–28, Vienna) to create interactive video games addressing a big challenge for democracies today — disinformation. Apply by Aug 15 👉 More info:

This is how the book opens:

I'm delighted to be able to announce that Crispin Wright, myself, and others at Stirling/Edinburgh have been awarded a Research Collaboration Grant by @royalsoced.bsky.social for a project called 'Responsible Trusting Without Prejudice':

For my birthday, a short piece out on one of my favorite topics: style and persuasion, with a gratuitous dig at astrology queers and so-called rationalists. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

In case you missed it: a new paper by @lschwengerer.bsky.social - “How can members of large, complex groups know the group’s attitudes?” is out now in Synthese! Read it here:

I did the thing you are never supposed to do. I wrote a (rough draft of a) textbook: Theories of Rational Decision It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well. raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...

We're hiring! Do you have a knack for comms & public engagement? We'd love to hear from you: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-C... @weareceu.bsky.social

I think I caught a cold at the conference on Monday. Feeling terrible and the heat is killing me. :/

Here is the advert for a postdoc at Liverpool for a project I'm involved in. Please share it with anyone who you think might be interested in applying. A brief project description is below. tinyurl.com/4f7vw7ra

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick, part II: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

🚨 We are very pleased to invite you to our upcoming GRADUATE CONFERENCE: 🗓️ Dates: July 3–5, 2025 📍 Venue: Lecture Hall 3D, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG) University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7, 3rd Floor, 1010 Vienna For more infos, please take a look at our website (link in bio!) 💻

New paper arguing that sometimes rational persuasion is a bad thing. It's available open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open access paper on how the members of large organisations can know the organisation's goals and attitudes: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philosophy #PhilSky

New open access paper on how the members of large organisations can know the organisation's goals and attitudes: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philosophy #PhilSky

#philsky #philmind My paper "Fictional mind extend for real" is finally out in Philosophical Psychology www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SYIXD...

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

I'm involved in this exciting new project. There will be 2 postdocs, one in Liverpool and one in Luxembourg. The Liverpool ad will be posted soonish. The Luxembourg one is here: recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...

The second part of my 'Open for Debate' blog contribution was released yesterday. This one is a quick overview of some disadvantages of the virtue approach. -> blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

New open access paper on using tools (or other people) to gain self-knowledge: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My paper on Frege and Sense Variation with @jadamcarter.bsky.social is now out. Synopsis: sense variation is tolerable when---relative to the background beliefs of speaker and audience---the thoughts of speaker and hearer share entailments. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019. bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

New open access paper on using tools (or other people) to gain self-knowledge: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The launch for my book on scripts is happening in two weeks. I’m very happy and honored to have @doktorhu.bsky.social and @quillkukla.bsky.social give comments. It’s hybrid. Do come (academic or not)! :)

New paper on The Ethics and Epistemology of Persuasion in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy! I've been working on this one for a few years now and glad to finally see it out. philpapers.org/rec/MCKTEA-3

I wrote two posts for the Open for Debate blog about intellectual virtues and the Internet. The first one is out today! Thank you to @ale1808.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity. #philosophy #philsky @uni-graz.at @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social

"What's Happening? Philosophy Events in Austria" is a new platform showcasing philosophy happening all across Austria! Are you organizing a philosophy event? Just fill out our submission form, and we’ll add it to the calendar. www.philevents.at

Call for papers for a CONFERENCE on Assertion and Chatbots/LLMs @ University of Graz in June. Keynotes: Mark Alfano, JF. Bonnefon, Ophelia Deroy, Edouard Machery, B. Malle, S. Nagel. Please share! Deadline May 18. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Unless I'm missing something, it seems like the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, is now published online - so if you or your institution has access to Oxford Academic you'll be able to read and download all the chapters: