My instinct is to be flippant about the Arday situation cos, I dunno, in the grand scheme of things I genuinely just don't think it's very important. I hadn't actually heard of the bloke before all this, and from the looks of it his research seems like it'd have been bad even if it wasn't fake.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm tired of accountability without power: henceforth if your black and gonna commit academic fraud you have to apply for a license to do so from me. There will be a fee.

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"AI can’t give us authentic love. It can only offer devotion. And while this devotion can feel good, if we’re looking for real love – authentic love – we’ll need to look elsewhere" - @lucyosler.bsky.social and Joel Krueger for @uk.theconversation.com 💕 theconversation.com/you-can-love...

You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer

If you’re looking to be loved, Simone de Beauvoir would warn you to look away from AI.

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The syllabus for my course Philosophy of Scientific Communication is now available here. Please share to anyone who might be interested in teaching a course like this (and kindly give me an acknowledgment if you use it): drive.google.com/file/d/1LDKY...

David Colaço@davidcolaco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Several people seemed interested in my Philosophy of Scientific Communication course, so here is my schedule of readings. Thanks to everyone for their help; I hope to get to additional topics mentioned using these as the anchors:

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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My hot take on Q&A is that there are lots of different equilibria that involve norms that are, in isolation, in tension if not in contradiction with one another.

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

When did Chronicle of the Higher Ed start the rightward turn? It isn't an outlet that I follow, but it's somehow now in that Atlantic-to-JournalOfControversialIdeas pipeline.

Very excited that this piece I co-wrote with @carlafehr.bsky.social is finally out. Please share widely! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

insidehighered.com

"NPR: Your book is accused by some Chinese audiences of romanticizing colonialism, or of being an example of colonial nostalgia literature. How do you respond? Yáng: Clearly, they have not understood the book." 💀

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China. n.pr/4x7x783

Yang: My biggest worry is that Taiwanese people will give up on our current way of life and the pursuit of democracy, equality, and freedom that lasted more than a century. We only gained the right to choose who governs us directly thirty years ago. Are we really going to give that up so quickly?

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China. n.pr/4x7x783

Here's a really nice paper by @edbaggs.bsky.social on "James J. Gibson’s affordance examples". The affordance idea is often glossed as about "possibilities for action". Anyone who actually reads Gibson will see many examples that don't fit that schema. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

It’s funny how Philosophy is the perfect environment for this kind of Discourse, both internally and externally with respect to the discipline. Just the ideal combination of clever, weirdos, creeps, fancy schools, media coverage, and zero stakes to anyone outside of a network of about 500 people.

📢 New article: “Appraisive Things” by @julesholroyd.bsky.social & @liao.shen-yi.org! Why use prizes, trophies and statues to praise others when words might suffice? The authors show how the finitude and durability of things enrich our understanding of praise.

Appraisive Things | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Appraisive Things

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"Context Collapse" is what happens when separate conversational or social contexts mix. Academics have been studying it for nearly two decades; I summarized that literature (and proposed a new unifying model) for Philosophy Compass... (link: final preprint) <🧵> (1/7) philpapers.org/rec/HOLCCW-4

The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances

PDF | Human cognition and behavior are guided by a myriad of norms which enable us to successfully navigate our social environment and our interactions... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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"Appraisive Things", my paper with @julesholroyd.bsky.social, now out in official typeset form! doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Appraisive Things | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Appraisive Things

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕@liao.shen-yi.org · 2w ago

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

The long-term foreigners tend to find Taiwan's tourism policies frustrating and exasperating. My column today on the latest exercise in futility. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Notes from Central Taiwan: Institutionalizing Taiwan’s tourism failure - Taipei Times

Unable to solve the enduring mystery of why Taiwan does not attract tourists in the desired numbers (despite the collective screams of all of us knowledgeable long-term foreigners watching the governm...

taipeitimes.com

35°C+, blazing sunshine, and a brutal UV index. That’s summer in Taiwan. Thankfully, convenience stores are everywhere. Need a break from the heat? Step inside, enjoy the AC, then continue your day. How do you survive a Taiwanese summer? #Taiwan #Summer #LifeInTaiwan

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

A new way of interacting with the philosopher personas of J.L. Austin, Iris Murdoch, G.E.M. Anscombe, and R.M. Hare is now up at ux-phi: The Oxford tutorial. Try it out here: www.ux-phi.com/class/TUTORI...

lol

周子愉 Fausto Chou@faustochou.com · 2w ago

We’re watching far-left #DPP politicians from #Taiwan raising glasses and schmoozing with far-left #Democrats in Washington. Interesting optics.

I honestly think KMT has done a pretty good wordplay here. Credit where credit is due.

Brian Hioe@brianhioe.bsky.social · 2w ago

The KMT has this rather memorable poster for the rally against food oil contamination tomorrow

I did not think the subreddit for AFL is the most progressive place. Yet the response to Adelaide fans booing Quaynor for no good reason and the head coach's non-response to that has been, hearteningly, overwhelmingly negative.

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp" by Michaela M. McSweeney is available now! Read it here: www.pdcnet.org/jpd/content/... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp - published on July 3, 2026

First, I give an account of grasp alienation, which is a distinctive kind of alienation that happens when we cannot map our phenomenal experience of the world onto our cognitive understanding. Second,...

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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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