Although possible world semantics has become the standard way to treat modality in contemporary analytic philosophy people like Barbara Vetter have pushed to understand it better in terms that are relevant for us humans in the actual world. I got to sit down with her for Ping Pong Philosophy. Enjoy!

TOMORROW! 🎙️🏓 A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy drops! This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology. You don’t want to miss this one!

Halfway through our first season! 🏓🎙️ Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast.  There’s so much more to come! Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀

For the mid season episode I had the absolute pleasure to intervew one hell of a philosopher, the one and only Massimo Pigliucci. We got to talk about many things, the most fun of those being whether if denouncing pseudo-science for so long has gotten him a lot of hate mail.

🏓 One of my favorite conversations this season with Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at CCNY. We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever. 🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!

New paper! 🥳 "Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica. A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested! academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...

For the fourth episode (and one of my favourites so far) I got to interview @lisamherzog.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to listen to her "slightly crazy" takes on political philosophy, going to the opera (which she suggests to all philosophy students) and anarchism. Watch/listen here or on Spotify!

The publisher who disowns AI will make an absolute killing - it'll be seen as the most independent, trustworthy and imaginative and will be the place to which authors and readers will flock.

_Anarchy in th UK starts playing in the background_ No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!

Back when I was an undergrad I stumbled upon a video of a certain Franz Berto who boldly claimed that the laws of logic are not only about how we reason in our mind, but that they applied to reality as such. Years later I was able sit down with him for a chat. New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!

Tomorrow a new episode of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social will be posted. This time is with the extraordinary Franz Berto, who (to my surprise) would like for modal realism to be true.

Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links

People working on non-deterministic semantics flaunt that they can do modal logic without possible worlds. But do they have a theory modality? Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues. #metaphysics #modallogic

Hey Google! How about you the fuck don't?

🎙️ Had a fascinating conversation with Jennifer Lackey in this week’s episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.

Can you believe it? I got to sit down with one of my favourite philosophers and ask them about their work. The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.

What is an area that philosophers should engage with more? Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts! 🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Have you watched the very first episode of Ping Pong Philosophy with Greg Restall yet? Did it spark any questions or thoughts? Drop them in the comments. I’d love to hear! 💭  And if you haven’t seen it, now’s the perfect time to check it out! 🏓🎙️

I am just a boy, standing in front of legal scholars, asking them to read any philosophy of science published after Popper

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

For the first episode of Ping Pong Philosophy I had the absolute pleasure to speak with Greg Restall, one of the most renowned philosophical logicians and absolutely great guy to have a chat with. Thank you for your time, Greg, I had a blast. We are also on Spotify!

Aw yesss, these are questions. I'll see you tomorrow, the first episode airs in a couple of hours!

Hello there, #PhiloSky! I'm launching a news podcast with some great guests this Tuesday. It's a short podcast, which means +/- 10 min. Join me! Tomorrow I will publish the questions for this season (Season 2 is already in the works). Follow us! @pingpongphilosophy everywhere #philosophy #podcast

🤩 I can’t wait to finally bring this project to life! Here’s the lineup of incredible guests joining us for the very first season of the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast 🏓 We go live October 7th Don’t miss it!

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

What is the origin of the term “phenomenology”? It famously occurs in Husserl and Hegel but their projects are clearly different. Where did the word come from? Were they both drawing on a common source? A thread...

Overleaf is down

As a humanities professor, I completely agree with this take. Students will occasionally say to me "I chose this class because I thought it would be easy" I usually ask them, "why did you think that would be easy?" I know the answer, but I think it's useful for them to feel comfortable answering

The existence of the subformula implies the existence of the more powerful, but often neglected, superformula

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven. But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #bigbang

Lean won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award 2025 #LeanLang #LeanProver In a few days there will be a much better text at @lean-lang.org's site, but here is all I could gather today: dev.to/adolfont/lea...

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NEW ARTICLE: Want to use LLMs to extract information at scale in sociology? @eollion.bsky.social @oms279.bsky.social and C. Ton have you covered. Read "From Codebooks to Promptbooks," now in Sociological Methods & Research doi.org/10.1177/0049... (Preprint @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/wjvfq_v1)

The average American has three friends, but the minimax theorem only applies to two player games. So we advise you to drop one

Generative AI can efficiently generate something that looks impressive but really isn’t. Why would you want to do that?

Academics be surprised when you bring up their own research Like, bro, YOU published the paper

Damn, I feel like if I am the opener act for Metallica or something. Thrilled to be tomorrow in Bergen talking about truth and higher-order logic #logic #Bergen #higher-orderlogic

Joaquim Reizi Barreto A Survey on Lawvere's Fixed-Point Theorem https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13536

Postdoc Position in History of Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy: Medieval and Renaissance; Girolamo Cardano www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Sometimes working in contemporary philosophy it's just a "Ah, so Tim Williamson has a paper on that" followed by a "Damn, that's a weird argument" and lastly a "but he's not wrong, right?"

Guess we'll never know if we have a good theory for this

As the cold in Amsterdam continues, I will a talk on some of my research in higher-order definitions of truth. Excited to finally share some of the initial results of the ERC project GENERALISE.

Super thrilled to in Brussels today for this event. At long last met @denizsarikaya.bsky.social in person.

Journalists. Please. Too many of you are going to call this a tax “on Colombia”. It’s a tax on Americans. All Americans who ever drink coffee. Or buy cut flowers. A tax. On Americans.

Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19, University of Helsinki. Our invited speakers this year are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown, and @kevinzollman.com . Find the call for abstracts here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsci #philsky