OK, so no one cares, but lately I've been feeling really jazzed about *social convention*! My paper "Convention for One" will be published in Thought, and argues we have conventions with ourselves that are very much like standard group conventions cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/u...

‘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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My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

A couple of years ago I started wondering why I was spending so much time on hobbies cosplaying obsolete jobs. This is a go at an answer: I'm in the grips of *skill nostalgia*, and the problem is to avoid it becoming reactionary. It turns out John Ruskin (??) has the answer aeon.co/essays/the-r...

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I’ll be in Rotterdam next week for a workshop on ‘The Wisdom, and Madness, of Crowds: Group Beliefs, Echo Chambers and Collective Identities’. Looking forward to two fantastic days with a great lineup of speakers. www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ev... #philsky

The Wisdom, and Madness, of Crowds: Group Beliefs, Echo Chambers and Collective Identities

Workshop on collective beliefs explores their formation, dynamics, and impacts, including echo chambers, polarization, and group identity effects.

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New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social to discuss his book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. Really fun and valuable chat on a topic quite relevant to our current void. Enjoy!

Epistemic Injustice with Aidan McGlynn — Embrace The Void

My guest this week is Aidan McGlynn, a senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Edinburgh and author of the book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. We discuss the various facets of epistemic ...

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I wrote a short commentary on a recent publication by Eliana Mary Horn about the use of VR to promote prosocial behaviour. In a nutshell, I wonder how to prevent some epistemic mistakes when using VR to better understand marginalised perspectives. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

Overconfidence and Prosocial Behavior-Promoting Virtual Reality - Philosophy & Technology

Eliana Mary Horn (2026) proposes an account of how we ought to understand prosocial behavior-promoting virtual reality that forms a middle ground between an overly optimistic and overly pessimistic pe...

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I'm very happy this paper (A Semantic Vacuity Theory of Truth) came out: doi.org/10.1093/mind...

A Semantic Vacuity Theory of Truth

Abstract. The redundancy theory says that truth predicates make no descriptive contribution to sentences that contain them. The theory has strong initial p

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On May 28–29, my partner-in-crime Juanma Poyatos and I will join an outstanding line-up of philosophers, including M. Gilbert, J. Kallestrup, F. Broncano-Berrocal, @lschwengerer.bsky.social, K. Berndt, L. Voorbergen, and M. Cabral, among others, at ‘The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds’ workshop.

It's THE knowledge conference of 2026! @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeconference.at

Conference 2026

Three days of the latest in social epistemology. In the heart of Vienna.

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"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

The Self-Evidencing Agent

What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

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Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ

Keith Harris, Epistemic magnetism - PhilPapers

An agent’s epistemic prospects depend on a combination of that agent’s individual characteristics and features of that agent’s epistemic environment. Such factors cannot always be cleanly separated. O...

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My talk for Project EPIC on so-called 'Medical Gaslighting' and the first-person is now up on their website (scroll down to 'archived seminars from 2024). This is also doubling as my audition tape for sponsorship by Monster Ultra.

Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

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Philosophers! Come to my two day workshop - it's online and free and features OUTSTANDING speakers! dm me if you'd like to register to attend, or email me at aloysiusaquinas.ventham[at]salzburg.ac.at. More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy #ethics

My article “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy” (co-written with Nir Eisikovits) is forthcoming in the journal AI and Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/TURPTP-4

Cody Turner & Nir Eisikovits, Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy - PhilPapers

AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. The sycophantic behavior of LLMs has been documented to cause significant harm, such as feeding users’ .....

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It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication! But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

🚨Postdoc-Stelle Theoretische Philosophie, 3+3 Jahre, an der Universität des Saarlandes (4 SWS Lehre) 📅Deadline: 05.02.2026 Wir sind ein sehr nettes (kleines, aber feines 💅) Institut und suchen Verstärkung. Gerne Re-post, danke! #philsky

This semester I am teaching a course about technocracy and its discontents. It will be a mix of theory (what is technocracy, why do we have it) and case studies. Ideas for reading suggestions? They need to be relatively accessible, and make a good basis for discussion.

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

I still don't have a physical copy, but the book seems to be out electronically for those who have access through their libraries - it's available through the Edinburgh uni library already, for instance

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

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Short post about the concept of epistemic domination out today on the APA blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/11/o... #philsky

Amazing news! I got the funding for a 6-year (3+3) DFG Emmy Noether-research group on 'Gender: Language & Metaphysics'. 🎉🎉 Stay tuned for GLAMorous PhD-positions in feminist philosophy of language and metaphysics. More info coming soon.

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

Can Only Meat Machines Be Conscious?

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New book contract signed! #philsky

As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

routledge.com

Traveling to Greece tomorrow for this: politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2... Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.

NOW ONLINE! What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day! Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast. In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories. Check it out on Spotify buff.ly/YPz92HY Apple buff.ly/uy9DJsl YouTube buff.ly/RRhw4jg

New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal... #philsky

New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal... #philsky