you can just read the george eliot translation of spinoza's ethics for free online! georgeeliotarchive.org/files/origin...

only just catching up with @alondra.bsky.social 's important article on social science and AI in Daedalus. A lot in it, but the following quote stood up for me: "There is a strong case that social science should refuse proprietary AI models entirely....

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

Congratulations on baby Chihiro, Mark! And enjoy the twilight zone

Mark Fabian@markfabian.bsky.social · 5d ago

New blog post: open.substack.com/pub/profmark... On eternity, care, intergenerational life, paternity leave, and oxytocin.

Signed. Please i don’t need protection from trans women, go do something useful instead

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 13h ago

Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk

are there any historical predecessors of Lewisian modal realism? feels like the sort of thing some scholastic or early modern philosopher would have come up with

A baby's first steps beside a huge crater left by a Russian missile strike near an apartment building in Kyiv on August 1, 2026. Heartbreaking. 📹: cherrybombfields / Instagram

Ireland is very beautiful

The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil

“One of the things I still like about economics is that it takes what people do very seriously while having minimal respect for their stated rationale for doing it. We share this tendency with psychoanalysis”. 🤯This essay is making me rethink my views on revealed preference…

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 6d ago

Happy friday! open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

Happy friday! open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

Skin in the Game

A shorter one this time, shadows and ambiguity, articulation as a norm violation

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A great title for an important paper “With Great Performativity Comes Great Responsibility?”. Congratulations to @becklukas.bsky.social @jakobortmann.bsky.social and the rest of the team #philsci #econsky

MAPS Project @mapsproject.bsky.social · last wk.

1/2 Economic predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies. In a new paper forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Methodology, the Maps Team tries to bring some structure to how we think about economists' responsibility for these performative effects. philpapers.org/archive/BECW...

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

Check out this diamond #openaccess press of very high scholarly quality. Consider it for your #philsci monographs and check out the excellent books they already published

BSPS Open - BSPS

World-class philosophy of science monographs published Open Access at no cost to authors: a collaboration between the BSPS and University of Calgary Press.

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A centenary special issue of Philosophy, one of the journals of @triphilosophy.bsky.social dedicated to Bernard Williams’s question of how to think about the function of philosophy. Some great looking articles! #philsky

Looking for open-science and meta-research events? Been tracking these in the past month, manual and automated. Encouraging to see that there are quite a few. If you want to see what I'm keeping track of: metaventory.vercel.app/events?view=...

Check out this diamond #openaccess press of very high scholarly quality. Consider it for your #philsci monographs and check out the excellent books they already published

BSPS Open - BSPS

World-class philosophy of science monographs published Open Access at no cost to authors: a collaboration between the BSPS and University of Calgary Press.

thebsps.org

Looking after my 97yo father in law today. To pass the time I am reading to him his own memoir. This excellent story is from his travels in Yugoslavia in 1950

worked in a citation to this podcast by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social in my book manuscript. In the actual bibliography. Feels good to cite something different! preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021...

Heading to Cambridge today: spspcambridge2026.com/program #spsp #philsci #hps

SPSP Conference 2026 Program | SPSP Cambridge 2026

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 conference program. Hosted at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Several good points on the use of LLMs in philosophy: 1) our strict views on the appropriate style of writing analytic philosophy implicitly encourages LLM use, 2) It's not deskilling that's a worry but the loss of process, 3) especially of the social ideal of philosophy as "showing up". #philsky

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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New article from Leah McClimans in the Studies in #HPS on whether patients-reported constructs are measurable. Interesting criticism of myself and Hausman on whether heterogeneity within a construct is an obstacle to measurement. She argues it isn’t. Open to the idea… #philsci

It was a great honor and pleasure to host Nancy Cartwright in Bielefeld. In her lecture at the Institute for Studies of Science „In Defense of Ambiguity“ - that we need polysemous terms to study things we care about, like „poverty“, which has different meanings/measures in different contexts (1/2)

Minecraft is looking incredible these days

mintimperial@mintimperial.com · 4w ago

Geology on Staffa also A1 standard, brilliant stuff, world class, would nerd out here again no question

While walking two evenings ago, my wife and I spotted these guys under an oak tree. They told us they're not a band, but that they get together to pick bluegrass a few times a month. #Burlington #Vermont

If you can't join us at our annual conference, you can at least watch the keynotes, which will be both livestreamed (link below) and later posted on our YouTube channel.  Abstract for the first talk in alt text and link to livestream here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... #philsci #philsky

Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last mo.

Signed as soon as I read it. True, some philosophers will cheerlead for free (due to their tech optimism or with the expectation of funding later) and such behaviour is not covered by the proposed policy. But it would still be useful to be able to detect some cheerleading worth discounting.

really enjoyed reading the line "women, which is never a kind of undifferentiated or immobile concept, but contains diverse groups, and the social and natural attributes of its connotation change constantly" in a history text from 2013 (quoted in a review, here sas-space.sas.ac.uk/9234/1/EASBH... )

And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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When a phenomenon is urgent and concerning can a responsible scientist devise a concept specifically to foreground this concern? Shiri Cohen argues yes and makes a compelling case on how it would interact with validity, causal utility and other more familiar criteria #philsci #polisci