Paperwork has been signed, no takesies backsies now and I can finally share the news. I'm SO excited to be joining the WIKI project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow starting this January! It's gonna be WIKID.

To all who participated, thank you for being part of the celebrations, and for inspiring us for the next 10 years!! (Lots of folks are missing from the picture, but you know who you are, and thank you!) Lots more to come, including some of the recorded talks from the conference... Stay tuned!! 😉

That was the one Carnap used on me.

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · last yr.

There's a paper at the top of my Philpapers page called 'Can we repudiate ontology altogether?' and I keep misreading it as 'Can we repudiate ontology together?' which makes it sound like the best chat-up line ever

Not as I intended it, but now I don't want to read it any other way!

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · last yr.

There's a paper at the top of my Philpapers page called 'Can we repudiate ontology altogether?' and I keep misreading it as 'Can we repudiate ontology together?' which makes it sound like the best chat-up line ever

A new paper of mine, now forthcoming in Noûs! The first fruits of the postdoc! Check it out if you're interested in ontological nihilism (or just want to know some reasons for thinking that at least something exists)! philpapers.org/rec/MASCWR-2

Christopher James Masterman, Can we repudiate ontology altogether? - PhilPapers

Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorising. Recent defences of the view involve a sophisticated combinatio...

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Has it always cost so much money to just attend the Joint Sessions?? I don't remember having to pay 180 quid before? That's so much and doesn't even include dinner...

Incredibly excited to host this in-person workshop in St Andrews this summer! Programme and registration details will be on the website in due course. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

Looking after this little lady for the week! Equal parts cute and distracting!

There's still time to respond to our CFA for the DRL Anniversary Conference! Don't miss the chance to join us in Manchester from July 2 to 4 to celebrate 10 years of the DRL and look forward to new projects, ideas and challenges in diversifying philosophy! Details at philevents.org/event/show/1...

The Diversity Reading List Anniversary Conference

Call for Abstracts: The Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference The DRL is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2025 with a two-and-half-day conference! WHEN: 2-4th July 2025 WHERE: University...

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Here's a new paper of mine, forthcoming in Analysis. It's on two ways of making precise the distinction between truth in vs. truth at a possible world. Check it out if that sort of thing floats your boat! philpapers.org/rec/MASTDA-8

Christopher James Masterman, Two Distinctions about World-Relative Truth - PhilPapers

The distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world plays a significant role in many debates in modal metaphysics. In this note, I argue that there are two radically ...

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Here's a new paper of mine for those who might be interested. "Modality, truth and mere picture thinking". Excitingly enough, it's my first published piece on truth in vs. truth at a possible world, which is what I did my doctoral thesis on. philpapers.org/rec/MASMTA

Christopher James Masterman, Modality, truth, and mere picture thinking - PhilPapers

Many draw the distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world. The latter notion purportedly allows for propositions to be true relative to worlds even if they do not ...

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The DRL is celebrating its 10th Anniversary (!) with a conference July 2-4th 2025 at the University of Manchester! CFA below: submit your talks, projects, and ideas to promote all things diversity and inclusivity in Philosophy by 10/03. Here's to the next 10 years! philevents.org/event/show/1...

The Diversity Reading List Anniversary Conference

Call for Abstracts: The Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary Conference The DRL is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2025 with a two-and-half-day conference! WHEN: 2-4th July 2025 WHERE: University...

philevents.org

The OUP ebook pdfs are always so awful to read. Just a huge wall of tiny text and little silly brackets telling you when you're really on a new page. Don't understand why and surprised I haven't heard more people complain about them.

2-year Research Fellowship for my EPSRC-funded Unity Project at the Arché: Philosophical Research Centre. Looking for a metaphysician with background in philosophy of science, cognitive science, or formal ontology. Apply here (deadline 31 January): www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Leverhulme-funded WIKI project on the logic of counterfactual thought begins today, will last 4 years: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/projec... We've hired Soroush Rafiee Rad as first postdoc www.rafieerad.org/index.html , while Ale Rossi will help with my teaching and share research fun with us.