Today at Arché

I’ll be in Rotterdam next week for a workshop on ‘The Wisdom, and Madness, of Crowds: Group Beliefs, Echo Chambers and Collective Identities’. Looking forward to two fantastic days with a great lineup of speakers. www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ev... #philsky

New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social to discuss his book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. Really fun and valuable chat on a topic quite relevant to our current void. Enjoy!

I wrote a short commentary on a recent publication by Eliana Mary Horn about the use of VR to promote prosocial behaviour. In a nutshell, I wonder how to prevent some epistemic mistakes when using VR to better understand marginalised perspectives. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

I'm very happy this paper (A Semantic Vacuity Theory of Truth) came out: doi.org/10.1093/mind...

On May 28–29, my partner-in-crime Juanma Poyatos and I will join an outstanding line-up of philosophers, including M. Gilbert, J. Kallestrup, F. Broncano-Berrocal, @lschwengerer.bsky.social, K. Berndt, L. Voorbergen, and M. Cabral, among others, at ‘The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds’ workshop.

It's THE knowledge conference of 2026! @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeconference.at

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ

My talk for Project EPIC on so-called 'Medical Gaslighting' and the first-person is now up on their website (scroll down to 'archived seminars from 2024). This is also doubling as my audition tape for sponsorship by Monster Ultra.

Philosophers! Come to my two day workshop - it's online and free and features OUTSTANDING speakers! dm me if you'd like to register to attend, or email me at aloysiusaquinas.ventham[at]salzburg.ac.at. More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy #ethics

My article “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy” (co-written with Nir Eisikovits) is forthcoming in the journal AI and Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/TURPTP-4

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

🚨Postdoc-Stelle Theoretische Philosophie, 3+3 Jahre, an der Universität des Saarlandes (4 SWS Lehre) 📅Deadline: 05.02.2026 Wir sind ein sehr nettes (kleines, aber feines 💅) Institut und suchen Verstärkung. Gerne Re-post, danke! #philsky

This semester I am teaching a course about technocracy and its discontents. It will be a mix of theory (what is technocracy, why do we have it) and case studies. Ideas for reading suggestions? They need to be relatively accessible, and make a good basis for discussion.

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

I still don't have a physical copy, but the book seems to be out electronically for those who have access through their libraries - it's available through the Edinburgh uni library already, for instance

Short post about the concept of epistemic domination out today on the APA blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/11/o... #philsky

Amazing news! I got the funding for a 6-year (3+3) DFG Emmy Noether-research group on 'Gender: Language & Metaphysics'. 🎉🎉 Stay tuned for GLAMorous PhD-positions in feminist philosophy of language and metaphysics. More info coming soon.

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

New book contract signed! #philsky

As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:

Traveling to Greece tomorrow for this: politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2... Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.

NOW ONLINE! What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day! Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast. In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories. Check it out on Spotify buff.ly/YPz92HY Apple buff.ly/uy9DJsl YouTube buff.ly/RRhw4jg

New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal... #philsky

New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal... #philsky

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':