The Summer Illusion (repost) I’ll get all that work at home done AND all that research AND I’ll have plenty of time to relax. Of course of course! schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

The Summer Illusion (repost)

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Al Wilson introduces the second keynote of #BSPS2026: Eleanor Knox, ‘The Scale and Context-Relativity of Spacetime Structure’ #philsci #philsky

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

Unitary evolution is bouba. Wave function collapse is kiki.

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IMPORTANT LINGUISTICS RESEARCH QUESTION what's your favourite bouba/kiki meme?

The newest issue of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy (vol. 26, no. 76) kicks off with a special issue on The Behavioral and Ethical Consequences of Large Language Models (three articles), along with four standalone articles. All articles are open access, free of charge. #philsky

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Current Issue — Vol. 26 No. 76 The Behavioral and Ethical Consequencesof Large Language Models Enactive Problem Solving and Chatbot Architectures Riccardo Viale and Shaun Gallagher The Attribution of ...

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My new publication, "Tallis’s Take on Panpsychism: A Thorough Assessment", is out in Palgrave’s Companion to the Philosophy of Raymond Tallis. I look at Tallis’s objections to panpsychism and argue that the view remains viable. You can also read Tallis’s reply directly in the volume! 🙂 #philsky

Tallis’s Take on Panpsychism: A Thorough Assessment

I examine Raymond Tallis’s objections to (primarily Russellian) panpsychism, focusing on three key arguments: the subject combination problem, the epistemic challenge of knowing through &#3...

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The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

Jordan@slclunk.com · 2mo ago

It really speaks to her stupidity that she couldn’t “frog in a boiling pot” CBS News into a gradual and more subtle right-wing organization. But that would take skill and strategy developed by not having smoke blown up your ass about being a special and talented journalist for your entire life

New on the Archive: Le Bihan, Baptiste (2023) String Theory for Metaphysicians. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29853/

New on the Archive: Dashwood, Cameron (2026) The Structure of Phonons. In: UNSPECIFIED. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29858/

Model-building famously devoid of right-wing extremists

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

Oh it's ghosts all the way down.

Speak for yourself

Cathode Ray Zone@cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I think one is hurt when un-attached, though one may not realize it. Or be in denial about it. Attachment is part of mammalian life. We aren’t Cartesian Egos trapped in meat sacks.

From the new issue: Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy – Katie Robertson & Alastair Wilson Abstract in alt text or read it here (open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions.

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Everyone who does work that is more formal than mine is lost in trivial details and needs to focus on real philosophy. Meanwhile. anyone who does work less formal than mine needs to get serious and quit being so frightened by a little math.

Thanks @fredcollings.bsky.social for accompanying me and for some of the photos!

Finn Thwaite@finnthwaite.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I had a great time presenting at Oxford for the BLOC Graduate Philosophy of Physics Workshop. My talk was on "Physical Emergence as Metaphysical Naturalism". I'm super thankful for all of the interesting feedback!—I've a lot to think about. (See final pic of me stressing over a coffee beforehand)

I had a great time presenting at Oxford for the BLOC Graduate Philosophy of Physics Workshop. My talk was on "Physical Emergence as Metaphysical Naturalism". I'm super thankful for all of the interesting feedback!—I've a lot to think about. (See final pic of me stressing over a coffee beforehand)

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

If you conceive it, they will come.

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature

How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

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Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

99% of the time, saying that feature F explains why humans are unique or special is just rhetorical window dressing for something like "F is a thing humans do and I think that's neat."

*watching civilization crumble* Wow this is harming so many people in their capacities as knowers 😔😔

Nancy Cartwright has an apt expression for this phenomenon: vanity of rigour.

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

I think the artificial order of randomised control trials has replaced the artificial order of rational choice theory for the current generation of economists. There's still the same desire to reify the model over reality. The same refusal to acknowledge anything that can't be fit into the model.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

New on the Archive: Franklin, Alexander (2026) Against Rigour: In Favour of Informal Standards for Reduction in Philosophy of Physics. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28449/

Such a fantastic talk today at LSE. A triumph in interdisciplinary philosophy!

There is this funny but confusing dynamic whereby philosophers point to neuroscience as the strongest support yet for the causal closure of the physical world, and then the neuroscientists themselves turn out to be substance dualists.

Anita Leirfall@anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that the brain may not produce consciousness, but instead filter or permit it. Tracing history from Galileo to modern consciousness science, he argues that scientific progress came by prioritising what can be measured, leaving inner experience behind iai.tv/video/the-br...

The Center for Philosophy of Science is proud to congratulate former visiting fellow Andrea Roselli on the publication of two papers. Scan the QR code or visit our website for more information. #PhilosophyofScience

I'm thankful for having been given the opportunity to present my analysis of fusion emergence from the perspective of the philosophy of physics at the 'Panpsychism, Non-Physicalism, and Causal Powers of Consciousness' workshop in @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. An enjoyable and insightful few days!