EuJAP has a new a new publication: “What is a Response to Wrongdoing?” by Dr Nicolas Nayfeld’s article. the paper can be accessed at this link: hrcak.srce.hr/en/335370 @ksifferd.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.com @annelijefferson.bsky.social

Trying to better manage my media diet. No I do not want to see pictures of the flesh eating screw worm. Yes I do want to see pictures of Taylor’s ring.

J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man

No syllabus ever survives first contact with the students.

Oop, the dealership is now playing Alanis Morisette. For the ladies.

Many of my students have been National Guard and they are smart, effective, motivated folks happy to be earning an education (often the first in their families to go to college). They are doing their best.

Remember that most of the people in the National Guard want nothing to do with this and are, in fact, probably pretty pissed off that their governor ripped them away from their normal lives to do security theater miles away from home.

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For the first time I've seen, National Guard outside the Library of Congress this morning. They are unarmed and look incredibly bored.

Notes from a Subaru dealer: As Neil Young’s plays over the loudspeaker, folks in Birkenstocks and Keens watch non traditional families drive over mountain passes and dogs surf. These are my people now.

Chicago don’t play.

Honest question: Is it okay to shop at Costco during the economic blackout today? I’m happy to support the company and unhappy about having to go on a Saturday.

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

Three new manuscripts have come to me through the editorial system in the last 6 hours, which means six have be submitted to the journal (they are split between our two Eds in Chief). WTH, people. It’s 12/27. Why are you submitting papers today? Can’t it wait until the new year?

I have about 10,000 words of my book written. So far I have said very little and possibly all I know about blame and punishment.

My hot yoga instructor this morning was about 18 and I think this was her first class. She kept forgetting to do the left side in our series. I swear that I’m actually off balance now. If I fall off my chair whilst writing it’s on her.

Today’s observation: if I write 1,000 words five days a week I should be done with this book in about three and a half months. No problem.

👋. I’ve decided to start posting to bluesky as a distraction while writing my book.

Glad to see this paper by @annelijefferson.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social and Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs is now out. Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents - on how environments shape moral agency. #philsky #OA link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents - Topoi

Recent work on ecological accounts of moral responsibility and agency have argued for the importance of social environments for moral reasons responsiveness. Moral audiences can scaffold individual ag...

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New post on the EPIC blog: Elisabetta Lalumera (who will work on the EPIC Discounting Dementia case study) talks about the importance of epistemic injustice and her various projects in the ethics and philosophy of medicine epistemicinjusticein... #philsky

“They want to ban reproductive freedom nationwide. What other freedoms do they want to take away?” is a great line

Hilariously, the Republican heckling is making Biden look cognitively nimble.

Our little project is gearing up: if you know somebody who would be interested in a postdoc position on philosophy of psychology and psychiatry in Rijeka, Croatia, spread the news: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/193732 @ksifferd.bsky.social

Just noticed that my book is now out in paperback! #philsky www.routledge.com/Are-Mental-D...

Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While rece...

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The public lecture on whether withholding #blame is dehumanising, by Nadine Elzein, is now available on YouTube for those who could not attend in person: buff.ly/3vVzC2O Thanks to the Royal Institute of Philosophy for making the event possible! @philsky

Is withholding blame dehumanising? | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | University of Birmingham

The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture given by Dr Nadine Elzein is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.Abstract: Philosophers ...

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How a philosopher has coped with schizophrenia. The value of academic freedom. Kant makes the cover (sort of) of two magazines. Philosophy in & about prisons. Language & reality. Free speech & trust. Ethics for now and (much much) later...

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Recent additions to the Heap of Links… Discussion welcome. “Could it be that there are unbridgeable gulfs in thinking and perception between groups of people speaking different languages?” — ...

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Got my copy! It's Open Access on the OUP website, so you can also get yours!

New, from me: The popular idea of welfare fraud relies on "welfare queen" tropes. But in a lot of policy areas, the biggest fraudsters are sophisticated criminal gangs using information technology or organized scams. SNAP is a good example. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rethinking...

Rethinking welfare fraud

SNAP clients are having their benefits stolen; governments are slowly catching up

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Donald Trump is a cheat and a fraud and a rapist. I do not understand my fellow Americans who support him.

How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years?

Demographic Trends in the US Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 (guest post)

How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years? In the following guest post, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) shares some data on these matters...

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