I need all my gender abolitionists to submit to this by August 15: philevents.org/event/show/1... @floresophize.bsky.social @carolhay.bsky.social

Social Categories of the Future

Recent years have seen an explosion of work on social categories, including gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation. But little attention has been paid to what these and other categories migh...

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3-to-9-month fellowships in Portugal - apply to the University of Lisbon to be my colleague for a little bit! gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-li...

Visiting Professorships in the Humanities

These professorships are aimed at Portuguese higher education institutions seeking to host visiting professors from international universities with a distinguished academic record and recognised exper...

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10/10 conference. Not regular epistemology, cool epistemology. @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social @floresophize.bsky.social

Elise Woodard@elisewoodard.bsky.social · last mo.

this is going to be a banger

Reminder to hit me up if you're a recent PhD and are interested in applying!

Caro Flores@floresophize.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Marie Curie Postdoc Application call for next year is out! Do reach out if you are working in social epistemology (or philosophy of mind with a social bent) and would like to apply to be in Lisbon for 2 years. You need to have finished your PhD and be less than 8 years out. 1/2

yeah, why are parties to a public debate opting to make their case in concrete, verifiable terms that are accessible from more or less any reasonable normative perspective, rather than high metaphysical language associated with specific faith traditions? mystifying choice bsky.app/profile/mich...

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wait never mind it's just an extended rant about how the people who are upset about an upsetting thing are doing it wrong.

Had a great conversation with Jackie Snow about chatbots’ memory function and the way their personalised callbacks to information and stories you have shared about yourself can calcify your own self-narratives and self-understanding (which I’ve elsewhere described as narrative railroading) 🤖✒️🛤️

University of Exeter News@uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Featuring analysis by @lucyosler.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-m...

This piece by ángel pinillos is so good napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...

The Honest Case for the Humanities

Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us

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Syllabus (draft) on modal thought: flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL555-Moda... Comments welcome!

PHIL555: Modal Thought | Notion

Overview

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Wrote this chapter on how modal cognition develops! check it out! philpapers.org/rec/NEUTDO-9

Eleonore Neufeld, The Development of Modal Cognition - PhilPapers

This chapter provides a systematic overview of empirical findings and theoretical perspectives from the growing field of the development of modal cognition. I begin by laying out methodological prelim...

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Thrilled to say I just found a way to include a screenshot of this in a conference talk

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

This is a super interesting short paper! Not for the formal results, which I confess I don't really understand. But for the meta-science. It discusses how the same model can be implemented differently in code. So there's a need for independent coding, even when the researchers agree on the model.

Jingyi Wu, Remco Heesen & Jun Kyu Lee, Why Scientists Should Not Show and Tell - PhilPapers

Are scientists incentivized to share intermediate results? Some recent work has argued that credit-maximizing scientists would share intermediate results, whereas other work has argued that sharing to...

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The Marie Curie Postdoc Application call for next year is out! Do reach out if you are working in social epistemology (or philosophy of mind with a social bent) and would like to apply to be in Lisbon for 2 years. You need to have finished your PhD and be less than 8 years out. 1/2

MSCA opens €399 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.

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I wrote up some notes about divergences and the work they might do for us in philosophy. philarchive.org/rec/PETDFP

Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

So much of traditional analytic epistemology is just going “When you know, you know” in increasingly obfuscatory ways

A new paper challenges the view that higher education liberalizes students (N = 483,885): Students political identities change during college. But there are big differences across majors: Englise/arts students move to the left, while business/engineering shift right psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

US academic: *dodging bullets Matrix-style on the way to class, getting affordable medical care from a guy in a van parked behind campus* lol UK salaries low

#BookReview What's Wrong with Stereotyping? E. Beeghly, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ix + 249 pp, £30 (hb) Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Read it here (full access text) 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DZZYRE... #philsky #philosophy#oup

Thinking about @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 's thesis that fraudsters flourish in high-trust environments. This has application to philosophers' vulnerability to culture-war bad actors. Philosophers can be terribly naive, think themselves super-smart and immune to being conned, and so get conned

Last month, Paul Silva organised a terrific online book symposium on Jessie Munton’s wonderful new book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention. It was great to discuss the book with Jessie, Jessica Keiser, and Rachel Fraser. The video is here:

"Priority and Prejudice"–Philosopher Meets Critics #26–Munton, Keiser, Pettigrew, Fraser

YouTube video by Figments of the Brain

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if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

my primary complaint, obviously, is that journals should do more publishing of my papers, and less publishing of other people's papers. this would be cost- and time-neutral

Amazing lineup for the @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge conference this summer @floresophize.bsky.social @rbnmckenna.bsky.social @elisewoodard.bsky.social #philsky

What a paragraph

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

An average day in philosophy

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tables and chairs don’t exist You don’t know that P There’s no such thing as moral responsibility No objective moral truths Electrons are conscious

Big fan of @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social's clear, accessible slide decks on lottocracy. Everyone should make something like this for their (academic) books! www.lottocracy.org

LOTTOCRACY

A website for the book Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections published by Oxford University Press. Includes an introduction to lottocracy, events, audio/video, and connections to others working on sortition, lottocracy, and democracy and democratic innovation.

lottocracy.org

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures

In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

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Will be norming it up at NYU for the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop tomorrow (@dryan149.bsky.social will be norming along in spirit) nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/post/8127532...

Workshop Monday, April 6th: Evan Westra, The Dynamics of Articulated Norms

Our speaker on Monday, April 6th will be Evan Westra, who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue. Evan will give a talk called "The dynamics of articulated norms": Of the myriad social norms.....

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