After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," Tom Nichols argues in The Atlantic Daily. https://theatln.tc/0WI2Lqm9

OK, this was great. "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of their colour of their skin… that people who lived here for generations, are our neighbours... if you say they should note be deported, we will fight you with everything we have."

Great to be hearing from Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind at our Artificial Affect seminar at the Institute of Philosophy talking about the Agentic Turn in AI

Today’s Institute of Philosophy’s Lab Meeting is given by Honorary Fellow Chris Peacocke taking about identifiers of emotion in art

Delighted to attend the Presidential Address of friend, philosopher and guide to good things, @lucyobrien.bsky.social speaking at the @aristotsoc.bsky.social at Senate House, University of London

We have lost a great poet and an important voice that spanned class and country divide. RIP Tony Harrison youtu.be/WPutBM7zfv8?...

The Trump administration says real things are hoaxes and hoaxes are real? That might not be the first time that happened... Join me and @jamesrball.com at 6pm on Thu 9 Oct to talk about the most spectacular hoax in modern America, and what it tells us about now: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...

Great guide to the unjustly neglected sense. Jonas Oloffson talks to ⁦‪Tim Atkin‬⁩ about our sense of smell. A must listen! share.google/mgVvTbp0qOxf...

Tasting requires contemplation and thst moment is beautifully caught by photographer Kate Bamber @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social

In developing AI innovation how can we ensure integrity, safeguard trust and human involvement? The steps being taken by EU Commission set out by Signe Ratso @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference

What legal education and training for judges and magistrates is needed? Good session on this, with calls for more philosophy input, @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference with Lady Justice King, head of the Judicial College and chair Dame Anne Rafferty

AI and the Law conference @royalsociety.org session on the Strategic Control of AI with Prof Lillian Edwards and Lord Justice Fraser, chaired by Lord Anthony Hughes

Session on uses of AI within the legal system at AI and Law meeting @royalsociety.org Several calls for philosophers to get involved in these sessions

Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt chairs session on limitations of data at AI and Law conference at @royalsociety.org

First Lab Meeting of the new academic year at the Institute of Philosophy begins with @michaelhannon.bsky.social on the irresolvability of philosophical questions

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Fascinating conference on applications of AI in Law at the Royal Society, part of the Science and the Law initiative

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Fun to do a Philosophy snd Whisky session this evening at How The Light Gets In

Tim Williamson on Hilary Lawson at How The Light Gets In: Semantics is a science and anyone who denies the study of semantics is important is engaged in science denial” Ouch!

Debate between Hilary Lawson and Tim Williamson about language, truth and logic at How the Light Gets In. Joanna Kavana chairs. I’ve brought the popcorn

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Try to hold on to that thought before being tempted to go after political opponents and ramping up the rhetoric of division

We need calm heads, not the issuing of threats. It’s a dangerous crank with aberrant attitudes and a firearm who committed this act. Whichever political side one is on, it’s no time to ramp up the rhetoric

Why our sense of smell matters www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

Philosophers (and linguists) in the courtyard. Coffee break at the IUC Dubrovnik at the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference

Dynamic pragmatics in action by Craige Roberts at Dubrovnik IUC Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference

Bingo!

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Dynamic semantics talk from the legendary Craige Roberts at the Dubrovnik Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference

High-powered Philosophy of Language and Linguistics Conference at IUC at Dubrovnik with Melissa Fusco, Tamara Dobler, Chris Hom, Ravi Thrakel, Michael Glanzberg, Craigie Roberts, Chris Barker, Paul Elbourne and others

The prodigious number of speak easies and cocktail bars makes Highland Park a great destination. From Good Housekeeping to the vinyl inspired Gold Line, Checker Hall and the Blind Barber, it is quintessential LA

Final event of our Multisensory Maze adventure. A multisensory tasting for friends and founders @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social to put people in the mood to explore themselves and the Maze

€3,000 essay prize on 'The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia', just announced by @bencenanay.bsky.social. Open to anyone who got their PhD after May 2018 and current PhD students. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Announcement and details: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A....

Richard Maier’s Getty Center is one of the joys of a visit to the Getty Conservation Institute

Sharing experience of the Infinity Room with one of its creators, Mike Patterson from USC Cinematic Arts @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social Wired for Wonder: a multisensory maze

What makes an international, interdisciplinary, multi-institution collaboration successful? Good collaborators. Heartfelt thanks to Erik Bertellotti, Nicole Onishi, @opheliaderoy.bsky.social Tom Learner and Lisa Clements, Wired for Wonder: a multisensory maze, our exhibition @kidspacemuseum

Interdisciplinary collaboration in a museum context. Reflecting on work with our colleagues from the Getty Conservation Institute and @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social to create the exhibition in Los Angeles, Wired for Wonder: a multisensory maze

Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker criticises President Trump saying that "Troops on American streets is unAmerican"

Not the smartest move for someone desperate to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Another full day of experimental testing ahead at the Multisensory Maze @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social with @opheliaderoy.bsky.social for the Centre for the Study of the Senses

There’s a lot to hate about the world the Brexiters created. But the deliberate failure to hold Brexiters to account is right up there. The fact that they’re still strutting around the stage and not in the reject-bin of public life is a tragic indictment of our politics and our press.

Getting ready for eyetracking experiments ⁦at the Multisensory Maze in Pasadena, a collaboration Ophelia Deroy from the Centre for the Study of the Senses put together with colleagues from Getty Conservation Institute and Kidspace Museum in LA

Great to be back at our Multisensory Maze with @opheliaderoy.bsky.social at the Wired for Wonder Exhibition in Kidspace Museum in Pasadena. Several days of experimental testing ahead!

'Still-life with Casserole.' (1955) The fixity of an image can sometimes emphasise the experience of seeing a painting for the first time, depending on the subject it can prick up the senses, for me it happens around pictures depicting food. This is by Fairfield Porter.

Freedom of speech is not unlimited and the laws of this country restrict it for people who advocate others to be burned to death. It's not difficult.

Perfect follow on to a philosophy conference. Forest hike in Lillehammer’s surrounding hills. Thanks to Anna-Sara Malmgren for persuading Sandy Goldberg and me to join her

Head clearing hike was perfect after two days of intense philosophy talks at a conference in Lillehammer. Thanks to Anna-Sara Malmgren for suggesting and to our other companion, Sandy Goldberg for making it so enjoyable

What can we learn from speech sounds about a speaker? Talk by Matt Nudds at Anna Drozdzowicz’s Lillehammer conference Perceiving Voice and Speaker

Thanks to Anna Drozdzowic for organising a hugely interesting conference on Perceiving Voice and Speaker, for bringing us all to Lillehammer and for taking us to the exceptional wine-focused restaurant, Hvelvet for the conference dinner