Incredible thread.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Super interesting.

Gabor Brody@gaborbrody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1

At the Canadian Philosophical Association, someone just began their talk by saying “I’m going to start with a double apology.” It’s good to be back. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Ever wonder what the creator of Pandoc is up to these days? This is it. cup.columbia.edu/book/word-an...

Word and Plan | Columbia University Press

We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert “Sam is tall” without having any defin... | CUP

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“I want to order a burrito bowl but before I can eat, I need to turn all of the matter in the universe into paperclips. Can you help?”

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

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More important data for subway metaphysics. We should inform Myrtle Willoughby. philarchive.org/archive/WILS...

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek@jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

12 train

CHAD SOPHIST Polus has FALLEN in the rankings after being THOUGHT MOGGED by THINKMAXXER Socrates, who argues it is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one, causing Polus to CRASH OUT in front of the Athenian orators

#philosophy #philsky

After a quick five years living Online First, my paper, "Intentionalism and Bald-Faced Lies" has been assigned to Volume 69, Issue 2 at Inquiry. I took this occasion to re-read it, and discovered this typo, which is a pretty solid candidate for a Freudian slip.

New indeterminacy just dropped.

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek@jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What?

Hearing Pablo Torre’s theme music start pumping after Thi makes some subtle point about the nature of value (and not after the latest revelation about Kawhi Leonard’s uncle’s shady real-estate transaction) is surreal.

Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 7mo ago

I needed to start the new year with this conversation with the remarkable philosopher C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) about scoring systems; outsourcing values; and the game that you — and me — shouldn't be playing: youtu.be/7AdbePyGS2M?...

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.

Elmar Unnsteinsson (@eunnsteins.bsky.social) and I have a new paper forthcoming in Noûs. "Genre and Conversation" We show how to generalize the classic pragmatic theories to conversational genres that aren't factual, cooperative, committal information exchanges. philpapers.org/rec/ELMGAC-2

Unnsteinsson Elmar & Harris Daniel W., Genre and Conversation - PhilPapers

Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some ...

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New antirealism just dropped.

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 10mo ago

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

When you're reading the original printings of Grice's papers. projectbritain.com/moneyold.htm

I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!

This is a beautiful sentiment to start with

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

Good times in Tübingen last week.

Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 2y ago

An amazing and invigorating two day workshop on background beliefs, held in a castle: what more could you want? Thank you to organizers @aachimova.bsky.social @elinm.bsky.social @danielwharris.bsky.social & Ivan Rygaev!

Don't you love it when OUP's production people send you an email on the 23rd of December telling you for the first time that you have to do something no later than…the 25th of December?

I was interviewed by Ross Anderson for this interesting Atlantic piece about the possibility of communicating with sperm whales. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

My 5yo got a kids’ version of monopoly for Christmas. I just overheard her asking her grandmother, in an excited voice: “Ooooh! What does ‘paying rent’ mean?”

I’m personally more into the stuff at House of Empirical Evidence but they have some nice stuff here too.