Consider submitting a paper or panel to NAAPE 2026! Keynotes Johannes Drerup (TU Dortmund/VU Amsterdam), Paula McAvoy (NC State), Shaun Nichols (Cornell), and Emma Prendergast (Utah Tech). More info here: www.naape.org/en/conference #PhilEvent #PhilCFP #philsky

naape01.bsky.social@naape01.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're accepting submissions now for the upcoming NAAPE conference! It will run from Friday, October 16th to Sunday, October 18th, 2026. More information below.

Really excited to be presenting my paper “When should you trust ChatGPT? Deference, Inquiry, and Epistemic Risk” in the Open Session of this summer’s @aristotsoc.bsky.social and Mind Association Joint Session!

Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable

Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

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Teaching Dennett this week in intro. In his gloss of the “making mistakes” thinking tool, he writes: my students “get ‘writer's block’ and waste hours forlornly wandering back and forth on the starting line. "Blurt it out!" I urge them. Then they have something on the page to work with.”

Please share this CFP for our undergraduate philosophy conference at Providence College this coming March! Submission deadline is January 12. Encourage your philosophy undergrads (majors, minors, or elective) to submit to this interdisciplinary conference. @apaphilosophy.bsky.social

Question for teaching philosophers: what texts do you teach that get your undergraduate students most excited?

I often find it hard to explain at parties what I do; I really like Robin McKenna’s elaboration here of what epistemologists do. Moral epistemology seems to open a whole other bag of worms at parties, though.

Robin McKenna@rbnmckenna.bsky.social · last yr.

Me on what epistemology is, what I do, and why I'm not very much fun at parties. [Note: I did not choose the picture or headline] open.substack.com/pub/therepub...