Chris Cousens

@chrisjcousens.bsky.social

Philosopher writing about harmful speech and political discourse online. Lecturer in moral and political philosophy. He/him https://chriscousensphilosophy.wordpress.com/chris-cousens/

Instead of overturning red cards, could we use VAR to go back and give a red card to every player who wailed and flailed and caterwauled in feigned agony after the lightest touch from an opponent, only to spring up and continue playing as though nothing had happened?

Just a reminder that I'm running the thought experiment competition again, open to any high school student in Australia. If you have any relevant contacts, I'd really appreciate it if you could forward them the link to the competition website. Deadline is July 15th. sites.google.com/view/thought...

Flinders Thought Experiment Competition

Students are invited to submit their ideas to the Flinders Thought Experiment Competition! Competition Deadline: 15th July, 2026 at 6pm. Eligibility: Open to all students attending a high school i...

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Call for Abstracts The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge invites contributions to its 2026 conference (Exeter College, University of Oxford, 2nd-4th 09 2026). bstk.org.uk/events.html Please submit abstracts (500 words, suitable for blind review) to info@bstk.org.uk by April 30 2026.

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Epistemologists get roasted for calling everything ‘epistemic’ while speech act theorists get away with calling everything illocutionary *and* naming all their papers ‘How to X things with words’.

Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org

AIDE Summer

AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...

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This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Email saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper"

Said paper is my PhD dissertation, "The Role of The Hippocampus In Configural Learning"

I had a chat with David Rutledge on the ABC’s Philosopher’s Zone about AI speech acts in the workplace. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Or for Australians, ABC Radio National June 1 at 5.30 am, repeated June 3 at 1.30 pm and June 5 at five 12:05 am.

Speech acts and AI - ABC listen

Speech acts - utterances that have the power to make things happen in the world - are increasingly being created by AI, especially in certain workplaces where it's not uncommon to receive orders and i...

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Here's a little reminder about the panel "Social and Political Issues in Philosophy of Language", which will be organized by me and @timgrass.bsky.social at this year's MANCEPT Workshops, 3–5 September. Please consider submitting a proposal (Deadline for submission is April 30th)! CFA below:

Social and Political Issues in Philosophy of Language at MANCEPT Workshops 25

Social and Political Issues in Philosophy of Language @ MANCEPT Workshops 25 Convenors: Jesper Olsson (University of Graz) and Tim Grasshöfer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) In r...

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