Great to get an honourable mention in the @thebjps.bsky.social Popper Prize for their best paper in 2025. Doubly great to be there alongside @cmwhiteley.bsky.social. If I remember correctly, we wrote these papers sitting a few metres from each other in grad school @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

One of my fav papers is finally out: "Normative formal epistemology as modelling" is now in @thebjps.bsky.social In it I argue that formal epistemology is no good for building theories about the epistemic. But that's ok, because actually it builds models www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/P8FVP...

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow. It is called "Should experts be open and honest?" and I'll be talking about Covid-19, change, and Stephen John's provocative case against these virtues of expert communication. www.iffs.se/en/calendar/...

Futurists, historians, x-risk people: help! Several 20th C thinkers said that we live at the most important time in history. Carl Sagan warned that our technological power now exceeds our wisdom, Derek Parfit called it "the hinge of history". I'm looking for earlier versions of that claim. Ideas?

ngl guys, this made me laugh. Absurd waste of money from a UK perspective but just genuinely funny from an African one

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2y ago

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...

New from the BJPS Review of Books Idealization in Epistemology by Daniel Greco –Reviewed by Joe Roussos (@joeroussos.bsky.social) Read it here: https://buff.ly/4g5WgaP #philsci #philsky #epistemology

CfP: What is the appropriate role of climate economics in decision-making and climate policy? What role do value judgments play in its models and methods? How does it relate to other disciplines? If you have answers, submit them to our topical collection for the EJPS: philsci.eu/Phil-Climate...

Literally all of them

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pub quiz. Can you name a counter-example to David Hume’s argument that if our political leaders are independently wealthy they’d have no motivation for corruption and will act in the public interest?

How do you define wishful thinking? I had a different definition in mind than a speaker at a conference on Friday. They said wishful thinking is: Ann believes that Kamala will win because she desires to have that belief I thought: Ann believes that Kamala will win because she wants Kamala to win

By way of introducing myself, here's a recently published paper! 🔓 It is on unawareness and awareness growth, based on some criticisms of Karni-Vierø "Reverse Bayesianism". I provide a new model of growing awareness and show that it overcomes recent challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Awareness Revision and Belief Extension

What norm governs how an agent should change their beliefs when they encounter a completely new possibility? Orthodox Bayesianism has no answer, as it takes all learning to involve updating prior b...

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