New paper on intentional action and agentic AI - open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who acts when the machine decides? Intentional action and agentic AI

Action theory offers well-developed treatments of tool use and of delegation, but agentic AI belongs to neither category. The user specifies an end; the system autonomously selects the means. What,...

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new work on competence and questions (w/ Chris Willard Kyle) is out today (open access) in Mind - academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Virtue Epistemology for the Zetetic Turn

Abstract. This paper develops and argues for a virtue epistemology that includes performance-normative evaluations of interrogative attitudes (IAs) and not

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I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

‘Easy Practical Knowledge’ out today (open access) at JPhil www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

Easy Practical Knowledge - published on October 16, 2025

We explore new connections between the epistemologies of mental rehearsal and suppositional reasoning to offer a novel perspective on skilled behavior and its relationship to practical knowledge. We a...

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Exciting news: today marks the official launch of my ERC Advanced Grant, KNOW-HOW. I’ll soon be advertising the first of several postdoctoral positions. The initial post — a 24-month postdoc based at Cogito—will begin in Spring 2026. 👉 ⁦https://www.knowhow-research.com⁩ Lots more to come—stay tuned!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Five Professors have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants – the most the UofG has ever received in one round. Congratulations @jadamcarter.bsky.social, @sabrewster.bsky.social, @fergusmcneill.bsky.social, Ruth Dukes and Simon Hanslmayr! More: gla.ac/4lb3FIl #ERCAdG

Top class science reporting in today's Daily Record - claimed proof of Scottish time travel due to the appearance of an 'iPhone' (looks more like a harmonica) in an old 1882 painting of Robert Burns. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/ti...

Time travel 'evidence' as iPhone spotted in 1882 painting of Robert Burns

A painting of Robert Burns and 'Highland Mary' has caused a stir among social media users after some claimed the image shows the Scottish poet holding an iPhone

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new paper, "Virtue Epistemology for the Zetetic Turn" (a fun collaboration w/ Chris Willard-Kyle) is now forthcoming in Mind - link to paper below. philpapers.org/rec/CARVEF-2

J. Adam Carter & Christopher Willard-Kyle, Virtue Epistemology for the Zetetic Turn - PhilPapers

This paper develops and argues for a virtue epistemology that includes performance-normative evaluations of interrogative attitudes (IAs) and not just beliefs. In this way, it brings virtue epistemolo...

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We are thrilled to announce that Cogito’s Prof Mona Simion has been appointed Ambassador for the European Research Council to the UK. The Ambassadors for the ERC will serve as influential advocates for frontier research in Europe. erc.europa.eu/news-events/... #Amb4ERC @msimion.bsky.social

Fun project w/ Kurt Sylvan: "Sosa in Perspective" -- an historical overview of Sosa's epistemology (including, but going beyond, his virtue epistemology), identifying and tracing themes in his work from his first paper (1964) to present. philpapers.org/rec/SYLSEI

Kurt Sylvan & J. Adam Carter, Sosa’s Epistemology in Perspective - PhilPapers

Ernest Sosa (1940-) is a central figure in contemporary epistemology. He is best known for pioneering the subfield of virtue epistemology, as well as developing across four decades his own distinctive...

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41 new articles on disagreement - coming out in the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement (released on 26 Nov). A pleasure co-editing this with Maria Baghramian and Rach Cosker-Rowland, and a long time in the making (thx to our fantastic contributors) www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politics, ethics, public policy, science and many other area...

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