Can’t get enough Philosophy of AI? Enjoy speech act theory? Then you’ll love my new paper ‘Artificial Speakers, Artificial Speech Acts?’ (now accepted at Phil Quarterly). philpapers.org/rec/COUASA-2
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Yuri Cath
@ywcath.bsky.social
Philosopher at La Trobe Uni (views mine) in Naarm/Melbourne. Thinking about practical knowledge, knowledge of experience, and other stuff I lack. Originally from NZ. He/him https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/ycath
This short piece on Robin McKenna's 'Non-Ideal Epistemology' is finally in an issue of @ijps.bsky.social (it unfortunately got left out of the special issue it was written for).
Pessimism and Optimism in Non-Ideal Inquiry Epistemology
McKenna’s version of non-ideal inquiry epistemology combines pessimism about the epistemic capacities of individuals with certain forms of optimism about the influence of social institutions on our...
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I was down about the state of the world today, but then I was reacquainted with the fact that the world contains olive bread, and that helps a bit.
Interesting new paper by @chrisjcousens.bsky.social and Paul-Mikhail Podosky #philsky
Chris Cousens@chrisjcousens.bsky.social · 2d agoSick of bullshit? Don’t like slurs? Then you’ll loathe this new paper (with Paul-Mikhail Podosky): Bullshit Slurs! We identify a new species of bullshit and argue that some slurring utterances leverage this in nasty ways that foreclose self-protective counterspeech. philpapers.org/rec/PODBSS
I had a great time chatting to Heather about her current research on closed-mindedness!!
Australasian Association of Philosophy@aaphilosophy.bsky.social · last wk.Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut), speaks with Louise Richardson-Self (University of Tasmania), about her book project on Closed-Mindedness & why fixing it sometimes means changing the environment, not just the person in it. AAP's Women in Philosophy series. #philsky @lvself.bsky.social
📢 A La Trobe PhD scholarship attached to the ARC Discovery grant I lead is now open for expressions of interest. #philsky Details in link below, scroll down to'PRO-2414109 - Virtual Reality and Knowing What It Is Like', and more info in 🧵... www.latrobe.edu.au/research/gra...
Project-based graduate research scholarships
project-based scholarships page
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I'll be presenting some new research at the “Narrative, Imagination, and Well-Being” workshop on 25/9/26 with the Macquarie University Minds & Intelligences Research Centre, organised by the excellent @reginafabry.bsky.social Register: events.humanitix.com/workshop-nar... #philosophysky #philsky
Workshop: Narrative, Imagination, and Well-Being
This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.
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Not The Onion.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.bsky.social · 2w agoHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
A very interesting set of reflections here on the relations between philosophy and therapy from philosopher turned psychotherapeutic counsellor Liz McKinnell. Would be great for students to show them how phil applies outside the classroom. #philsky liztherapydurham.wixsite.com/therapy-prac...
YOU MAY BE DOING PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT REALISING IT
Before I became a psychotherapeutic counsellor, I spent many years as an academic philosopher. When I changed careers, I sometimes wondered how much of that old life would follow me into the therapy r...
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👉️ Today at 10am! Key Researcher Philip Ebert ( @philipaebert.bsky.social ) gives a plenary lecture on "Varieties of Risk" at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/9VHxI9X #philsky #SOPhiA2026 #risk @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Varieties of Risk
Philip Ebert University of Salzburg The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in da…
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Very embarrassing for me, a guy who never wants anyone to read his papers ever, but I published a paper in 2023 about how any view of achievement that sees humanoid robots (or cars or plans) as threats to human sporting achievements is a very silly view of achievement philpapers.org/rec/KARHAA-2
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The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 3w agoA robot may resemble a person, but it does not experience sport in the way humans do.
‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions
‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions
The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history
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Australia is getting absolutely pantsed by Bangaldesh in the cricket, and I for one am here for it
In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. Such an ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day.
📢 A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world's most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.
Māori word 'kaitiakitanga' named world's most beautiful by language app
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A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
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I am delighted to share that the thematic collection of Topoi that I edited with the brilliant Emily Hughes is now complete. Read 20 excellent articles, plus my editorial introduction, on the “Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration.” #philsky link.springer.com/collections/...
Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to ...
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👀 Job opportunity! Key Researcher, Benjamin Schnieder's research group Phlox (buff.ly/0mEPyhR) is looking to employ a 'University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics' for an initial contract of 6 months. You'll also actively collaborate with us at KiC! Job details 👇️ #philsky #jobopp #vienna
University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics
University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics
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This stings a little until you recall that one of the things those Philosophy people just made up was Sociology.
Tim Gill@timgill924.bsky.social · 2mo agoLet’s be honest. If Philosophy hasn’t been ‘liquidated’, Sociology will not be. For all the criticisms, at least Sociologists collect data. Meanwhile the Philosophy people just make things up out of thin air. Just whatever they want. Doesn’t matter.
A new paper out (open access), co-authored with Chris McCarroll. We presented this at the first Eurasian Memory Meeting in Taipei (March 2024). Thanks to many for questions and comments. Nice to see it finally out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
What Memory Teaches: Experiential Knowledge, Imagination, and Accuracy in Remembering - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
This paper clarifies and then indicates a conflict between, on the one hand, influential and longstanding ideas in the epistemology of imagination and, on the other, an emerging view of the accuracy c...
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getting everyone in the office to do the countdown like for nye but for the ausalert
Found a philosophy themed crime novel in a charity shop today. As well as its perfect title, it looks like the killer names all their victims after philosophers 😆 #philsky "My next victim, codename Bertrand Russell, was an art lover."
At a time when organisations say that what they desperately need isn't more coders or exam takers but young people with critical thinking and independent reasoning skills, it's a profound injury to the future to allow the closure of Philosophy programmes across the UK and US, including Dundee's.
Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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