Indignation is a powerful and unpredictable force, and a potent political catalyst. The energy is strong enough to demonstrate how big a mistake it was to vote against the housing decrees. #Spain #elections2026
Marylin Delgado
@philosophypills.bsky.social
Associate Researcher. Former Associate Professor of Philosophy. Author. Ethics. Philosophy of Action. Moral Psychology. Intersection of Epistemology and Ethics. Art. Other interests and concerns. aretea.es | https://marylindelgado.com
Not interested in whether an entity is capable of wakefulness, awareness, self-awareness—consciousness as pure structure, but in the lived experience, personal history, and the biological and environmental mechanisms that make it human.
What a waste of time Dark Matter's episode 5, season 2. Filler content that plays on the audience's confusion and adds nothing to the main storyline of Jason 1, Jason 2, and the other characters.
how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions
Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...
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I don't get why people automatically switch to Autumn mode just because it's September, even when it's still 33°C and not a single leaf has fallen.
🟢 Book review Sharing Thoughts (Oxford University Press, 2025), edited by José Luis Bermúdez, Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social & Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social, has been reviewed by Victor Tamburini in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Read it: lix.li/UcLGcu
Sharing Thoughts: Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication
This welcome collection addresses the question of how to individuate thoughts and their constituents, concepts, to explain intersubjective phenomena such as co…
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On another note... (aside from posts on philosophy of mind by non-experts or two brains jokes)
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2w agoThe extraordinary 3,000 year-old ‘Berlin Gold Hat’! One of four known cone-shaped golden ‘hats’ from ancient Europe. Sheet gold decorated with bands of solar and lunar motifs, which may represent calendars according to latest research. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
Maybe not my finest quality, but I take more than a little offense at the whole "i respect scientific but not philosophical expertise". I do judge you for thinking that, tbh
No doubt it's Monday. Bluesky woke up pretty irritated today.
"...color is not decoration around the facts. It is part of how the facts enter public life. Just as the way we color-code the planet influences what we know about it, this is an epistemic and political practice." www.noemamag.com/the-politics... 8
The Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMA
Color once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it.
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Fiery Embers. Photo taken from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor as the sun rises.
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
What?!
Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 3w agoThe soul is real and can be tied with a rope according to this graphical abstract. The paper is even weirder! "Quantum evidence of nonlocal consciousness during clinical death" www.cell.com/the-innovati... This is a Cell Press journal... via @pubpeer.com @forbetterscience.bsky.social
Fleetwood Mac and Cheese, The Rolling Scones
Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson@keithwilson.eu · 4w agoMake a band edible: Soft Celeriac
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
Heather Battaly in conversation with Louise Richardson-Self
YouTube video by Australasian Association of Philosophy AAP
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Walking the Walk #philsky
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 4w agoNew paper in draft! I've been working on this one since 2018, never satisfied, redrafting over and over. I'm sure it still needs considerable work, but I'm finally ready to circulate it. Walking the Walk Ethicists who advocate moral principles without trying to live by them will generally 1/4
Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped "The collective sense that time is moving faster today than it has in the past has gained enough traction for scientists to start taking notice.” www.noemamag.com/your-percept...
Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped | NOEMA
We keep marveling at how fast the years go by. The deeper problem is that we’re forgetting them — and losing the quiet, boring moments where memory forms.
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