Joel Krueger
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Philosopher at the University of Exeter working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI | joelkrueger.com
Don't have confirmation from all affected departments, but... #Philosophy at #Exeter has avoided compulsory redundancies, and so have the other disciplines I've heard from so far. They've wrecked our summer, and bullied beloved colleagues into "voluntary" redundancy. But we're still here.
If you’re looking to be loved, Simone de Beauvoir would warn you to look away from AI.
You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer
If you’re looking to be loved, Simone de Beauvoir would warn you to look away from AI.
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"AI can’t give us authentic love. It can only offer devotion. And while this devotion can feel good, if we’re looking for real love – authentic love – we’ll need to look elsewhere" - @lucyosler.bsky.social and Joel Krueger for @uk.theconversation.com 💕 theconversation.com/you-can-love...
You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer
If you’re looking to be loved, Simone de Beauvoir would warn you to look away from AI.
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Spent the last 2 days bingeing all 8 episodes of the latest season of The UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, and every one is a banger! Honored to be interviewed on one of the OG philosophy podcasts, "where philosophy and real-world issues collide" www.unmutepodcast.com/all-episodes...
Very exciting to learn what leading thinkers like Remy Debes, Nick Buccola, Maria Acosta Lopez, @joelkrueger.com, Robin Dembroff, @phronimouse.bsky.social, and Stephen Darwall have been up to, not to mention my co-authors @dryan149.bsky.social & @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (@mitpress.bsky.social)
"Humanities are being extinguished by university bosses across the country. We desperately need an emergency rescue package to stop the death-rattle of Britain's great universities." @drjogrady.bsky.social in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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"What drives these cuts is not financial necessity [...]. What drives these cuts is strategy and executive choice – the judgment of university leaders that HASS subjects can be (almost) as successful with 25% fewer staff."
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.
This is cultural suicide and intellectual vandalism. In an era where humanities-illiterate tech bros have unearned god-like powers, we need historians, philosophers, ethicists, classicists more than ever. Please sign. (Reposting without 404) www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:
The crisis in UK higher education is worsening week by week — Exeter University is one of the best in the UK, with superb lecturers (and several You’re Dead To Me guests), but it’s planning massive job cuts in History, Archaeology, Classics — see the petition below to lend your voice in support
Dr Susan Greaney@suegreaney.bsky.social · 4mo agoPetition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ
I am heartbroken by University of Exeter’s decision to endanger the majority of staff in philosophy and qualitative social science, including #Egenis @exeterspspa.bsky.social No warning, no consultations, just an email dropped into inboxes announcing redundancy. c.org/zKbPJFDwBq #philsci #sts #hps
they’re pushing through approx 25% compulsory redundancy focused on humanities & social science without anything close to a financial justification. The only reasonable interpretation is ideological motivation. I am both heartbroken and embarrassed. Sign please. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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There's a petition to fight the redundancies at Exeter. Anthropology is among the most targeted disciplines in the whole uni, with over half of us slated to lose our jobs. We do better than the university average on both student satisfaction and rankings which makes it feel ideologically targeted...
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@uniexecec.bsky.social have announced that 200 people will be made compulsorily redundant, with over 500 in scope and most of those in Humanities and Social Sciences. The branch has asked for the key financials to support this case, but this has been denied. Complaint is in with CAC #vandalism #ucu
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Stop the vandalism at the University of Exeter! 200 staff at risk of losing their jobs just before Christmas, after having worked out their three months notice by teaching out term one!?! Lunacy
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I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH
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If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4
The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene.
Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · 4mo agoA statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Latest papers: Zamir Kadodia & Joel Krueger draw on frameworks such as the neurodiversity paradigm and niche construction theory to reframe the concept of epistemic injustice as a distributed phenomenon in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
Our volume For, Against, Together is officially available online with Cambridge University Press! Together our incredible contributors rethink antagonistic political emotions in our current climate. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... Here’s a taste of what’s inside 🧵
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Cambridge Core - Social Psychology - For, Against, Together
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Brand new edited volume!! Loneliness in Our Time: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Axel Seemann, Emily Hughes, Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger. Open access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci
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New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality. The paper is co-authored with @joelkrueger.com, and funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Phenomenology #Embodiment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Just one week til our “Social AI: A Philosophy Workshop” 🌟We will be joined by Pii Telakivi, Rob Clowes, Kris Goffin, Shahd Omar, Kesavan Thenagopal, Mike Barnes, Mercedes Corredor, Ben White, Leda Bario, Allister Lee, Àger Pérez Casanovas, Shane Glackin, Tom Roberts, & Joel Krueger 🌟
Chatbots don’t just make things up—they generate and spread gossip, complete with negative evaluations and juicy rumours that can cause real-world harm, according to new analysis by @joelkrueger.com and @lucyosler.bsky.social from the University of Exeter @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn
“Feral” gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned. Chatbots like Cha...
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