hell yeah

When I was in Scotland for a big England v Argentina game, all the shops sold out of Argentinian wine. I wonder how well these “Mexican” dishes are selling north of the border today.

I like that when you check with the local power company about how many have lost power, 300K in the storm that just passed, they lead with the 2 million who haven’t lost power. It’s somehow not that reassuring that they aren’t broken everywhere.

New publication, "Comparativism about Instrumental Value". I started this project back when I was living in Melbourne. V happy that it's finally found a home. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Good piece from Richard Moran.

The capitalisation of 'Slack' in this meant I seriously misinterpreted what the subject matter would be.

There are twelve new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social. A short thread on the papers follows.

Happy that my book, Deflating Mental Representation, has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan international prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/announc...

Hot off the press at Phil Imprint! "The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; the Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness", with @jpober.bsky.social. Abstract: On broadly Copernican grounds, we are entitled to assume that apparently behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial 1/6

I thought England would miss Trent’s passing, didn’t expect them to miss his defence.

Delighted to see Daisy Dixon’s new book, Depraved, is the Guardian’s Book of the Day — it’s a great read, accessible but deliberately unflinching in tackling problematic art and artists from a philosophical and aesthetic position www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Oh no! Victor Mair died. I learned so much—including about my own languages (or topolects, as he might call them) from him from Language Log.

There's a new 'Innateness and Language' entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by my colleague Gabe Dupre plato.stanford.edu/entries/inna...

for non australians, i feel compelled to tell you that in this past week our own racist reanimated corpse, a woman called pauline hanson whom you can think of as our nigel farage, said we need to return to the australia of paul hogan (crocodile dundee) and hogan immediately told her to get fucked

Nice day to be out and about in Ann Arbor.

Higher education is not vocational training. It’s preparation for life.

I am heartbroken by University of Exeter’s decision to endanger the majority of staff in philosophy and qualitative social science, including #Egenis @exeterspspa.bsky.social No warning, no consultations, just an email dropped into inboxes announcing redundancy. c.org/zKbPJFDwBq #philsci #sts #hps

Come work with me! Jaakko Hirvelä is hiring a 2 year post-doc with a focus on epistemology in the awesome "Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology of Risk" project. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #philsky #epistemology #philosophy

the problem with the suburbs is that they’re not walkable and it turns out actually you can build walkable suburbs

Here is an #OpenAccess article in which I describe and explain a syllabus on women thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy; this is based on a class I teach for King's College London: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole issue is on teaching women philosophers. #philsky #philosophy

England's odds of meeting Senegal in the round of 32 increased yesterday and one of the reasons is because England drew with Ghana there is a real chain of logic that makes this true, it's all FIFA's fault, and I laid it out in today's newsletter: www.expectinggoals.com/p/world-cup-...

I was in the Australian Labor Party so I merely dislike the people on the other side of the coalition. Loathing is reserved for the other sub faction of your faction.

I wrote a book! It's called WHY WE ASK WHY, and it's about the human drive to explain, combining psychology, philosophy, and stories. It will be released on October 6, but it's currently available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble at 25% off with code PREORDER25.

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

Apple Music suggested this auto generated playlist and I think it is drunk.

literally watergate

It is a great honour to be giving the David Lewis/Barry Taylor lecture at the University of Melbourne next month. I had met them both a few times; Lewis's ideas were of course massively influential, but I am glad that Uni Melbourne is also celebrating Barry events.humanitix.com/against-inte...

I thought Portugal's best chance of winning it all was for Ronaldo to be so bad in the group stages that they were forced to drop him. Through game 1 things looked promising, but that goal will make it harder.

TIL you can buy Tim Tams at Meijer. Restocking just got easier.

After a long time, the work with @nathansen.bsky.social on the ordinary conception of the word 'racist' is officially alive on the internet! Get that beautifully typeset and carefully copyedited pdf—all 44 pages of gloriousness—at Ergo for FREEEEEEEEE! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Let's remember one thing before Starmer goes: this is the man who thought it would be a good idea to risk thousands upon thousands of deaths in poor countries by cutting aid to own the libs. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, mate. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...

Online hosting is not an archival medium dailynous.com/2026/06/22/k...

Featured today: Monima Chadha's keynote lecture at the BSHP Annual Conference 2026 'Reimagining Responsible Agency' (24/04/2026) youtu.be/IWsMzH93zpY Don't miss out on new content! Hit subscribe to the BSHP YouTube channel

It's a lot of work, but one really important thing in running anything that allows comments is that you enforce stable pseudonyms. That means banning really generic names, and banning multiple psued's from the same address. This is *so* much work though; I'm glad I'm no longer doing it.

Woke up to see the Paraguay result, which meant that Australia’s probability of making the knockouts somehow went up over the course of yesterday. Not the way we drew it up, but it’ll do.

My purely vibes based forecast was USA 50%, other two outcomes 25% each, so I'm glad the fancy computers were (a) close to that, and (b) slightly better for Aus.

"Zetetic and Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology" is now actually out in Phil Studies! :D link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Grand jury testimony on Broadview 6 released today reinforces something I laid out last week: The prosecution was entirely focused on @katmabu.bsky.social. It started with her, implicated Cat Sharp bc Abughazelah had liked a post tagging her, and focused on Andre Martin bc he said he worked for her.

this is just crushing a beautiful tribute www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...

This is a really neat result. The explore/exploit trade-off is different if you've got more opportunities to exploit ahead of you, and children react appropriately to that fact.

was it Paddington?

a reminder that in the midst of all this multicultural communal joy, we’re still run by people intent on wielding power to harm and destroy. the only way for all this to have meaning beyond cute stories at a soccer tournament is to insist on building the world we’re celebrating now.

"It's like a teppanyaki" - an Aussie re: Waffle House www.instagram.com/reel/DZnW_Sk...

An R32 game between Spain and Argentina would be a dramatic start to the knockout rounds.

Garrett Hardin's historically inaccurate (& surreptitiously racist) "tragedy of the commons" still gets quoted by environmentalists who should know better. I spent some time debunking this in the 1980s, as (more famously) did Elinor Ostrom. Amy Remeikis takes another swing. www.thenewdaily.com....

SokkahBS during those 90 mins. #AUSTUR #FIFAWorldCup

Can’t remember last time Scotland and Australia between them played 4 World Cup games on the same day. First went ok but harder tests to follow. www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

After two days with Claude Fable 5 the best way I can describe it is "relentlessly proactive" - here's an example where I dropped in a screenshot of a bug and it span up custom CORS Python servers and used pyobjc-framework-Quartz to capture screenshots simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...

Counterpoint…

Horror story in five short posts