Philosophy Tilburg University
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This is the official account of the Tilburg University Philosophy Department. Want to know more about our research and staff? Visit the website at https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/tshd/departments/dphil Hosted by @timchristiaens.bsky.social
Could Germany ban Meta's AI smart glasses? @hateaid.org have launched a criminal complaint against Meta, after the Federal Network Agency claimed the glasses are not intended for covert filming. I share some thoughts about the case and wider misogyny these glasses are used for. #tech #philosophy
Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down in a month. That really feels like the end of an era. There are multiple potential explanations for its downfall. 1/6 www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/...
Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.
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My review of Cecilia Rikap’s wonderful The Rulers is out in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social . I mainly talk about her theory of corporate power and Big Tech today and what that means for our current political challenges. But please, read the book since my review cannot do it justice!
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Second day of the Descartes Lectures in Tilburg. With keynote lectures by @serenekhader.bsky.social and responses by @kdpham.bsky.social , @nescio13.bsky.social and Lorna Finlayson. All talks on oppression, decolonization, and political philosophy! All been amazing so far 😁
Stoked to find out today that the paper I've co-authored with @lucyosler.bsky.social, "The (Under)diagnosis of Endometriosis: Epistemic and Affective Injustices in the Medical Niche", is officially forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social edited by @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social & @eabyrne.bsky.social 🤩
A pleasure to publish this on endometriosis and affective injustice! 🙌🏻
Dr Louise Richardson-Self@lvself.bsky.social · 3w agoStoked to find out today that the paper I've co-authored with @lucyosler.bsky.social, "The (Under)diagnosis of Endometriosis: Epistemic and Affective Injustices in the Medical Niche", is officially forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social edited by @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social & @eabyrne.bsky.social 🤩
Yesterday was Day 1 of Descartes Lectures with amazing @serenekhader.bsky.social ! Particularly illuminating was her analysis of oppression as “social inclusion in unequal terms,” explaining why oppressed groups may comply with the society that’s oppressing them @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social
NEW: Big Tech and the rise of intellectual monopolies The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @iipp-ucl.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Review by @timchristiaens.bsky.social @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social
Big Tech and the rise of intellectual monopolies - LSE Review of Books
The Rulers by Cecilia Rikap argues Big Tech rules through networked capitalism & intellectual monopolies, controlling knowledge, digital infrastructures & data
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My new paper 'Athletes as Political Representatives' published open access in @sportethicsandphil.bsky.social. It focuses on the form of athletic political representation that I find most interesting: when athletes represent the political through their athletic performances l1nq.com/8lelt16 #philsky
Athletes as political representatives
Athletes are often claimed to be representatives of a wider community, whether that be their club, their nation or humanity as a whole. But in what sense exactly might athletes be understood to be ...
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🚨 New paper out 🚨 “Plebeian cooperativism: Reconciling workplace democracy with the iron law of oligarchy” in @polstudies.bsky.social Grassroots democracy at work is oft criticized for creating new hierarchies, but I argue that contestation from below can arrest the tendency for democratic decline.
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@dicktimmer.bsky.social and my paper ‘Against the Desertist Case for Minimal Thresholds’ was just published by the Journal of Social Philosophy. You can check it out here, in open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Against the Desertist Case for Minimal Thresholds
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Introducing 'A Genealogy of Italian Thought' 💭 Dario Gentili analyses the genesis of Italian thought through the history of the political and theoretical conflicts in Italy from the 1960s to the present. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fwHGu8
Moving on to chapter 10 of my summary of Cecilia Rikap’s The Rulers. This chapter is on automation and the impact of Big Tech and AI on the future of work. Prepare for some doomsaying. 1/6
Chapter-by-chapter summary of Cecilia Rikap's The Rulers with today chapter 3. Here, Rikap compares IBM to today's Big Tech companies to see how we moved from old-school monopoly capitalism to today's networked capitalism. 1/5
Very pleased to see the cover of my first book — hopefully out in a few months! Although the design is Peirce-centred, I tried my best to put the guy in relation to Scottish, English, German, and other American philosophers & psychologists. Enjoy! #Peirce #psychology #pragmatism #hps #philosophy
Starting a new run of chapter-by-chapter summaries. Currently reading the fascinating The Rulers by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social from @versobooks.bsky.social . Today I’ll start with the introduction. 1/5
When yoy bump into yourself in a Cambridge bookstore.
*blush* got caught in action presenting on C.W. Morris and institution building as a kind of philosophy of science in practice! Behind me a fragment of his correspondence with Neurath. #philosophy #spsp
Tim Christiaens@timchristiaens.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrillian talk at Cambridge University by @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social on the links between American pragmatism and logical positivism.
Philosophy in action as I talk about Silvia Federici and environmental politics at the Society for Italian Philosophy conference in Edinburgh. (And I love the accidental colouring effect on my slides).
You know you’ve made when your book appears at a conference on someone else’s slides.
Tilburg MA student Charlotte De Lange just published her first paper in Philosophical Psychology 🥳 It's about grieving the loss of your former self as an outlaw emotion and a narrative practice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Self-grief after trauma: outlaw emotion and narrative practice
Philosophical discussions of grief have mainly focused on bereavement and the loss of others, while philosophical accounts of trauma have primarily focused on disruption of the self, embodiment, an...
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The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind ( @ispsm.bsky.social ) is organizing its yearly web conference. With Jimena Clavel Vazquez from Tilburg Philosophy as one of the organizers. Submit your abstracts and proposals here 👇 www.ispsmind.com/internationa...
ISPSM Conference 2026
4th Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind
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Congratulations Charlotte de Lange, a Philosophy MA student at @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social, for publishing her excellent paper 'Self-grief after trauma: outlaw emotion and narrative practice' in @journalphp.bsky.social! You can read it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky
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I spoke to @lukebrunning.bsky.social about my research on deepfakes and online authenticity for the new Ethics Untangled blog by @idea-leeds.bsky.social: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/deepfakes-an... Sign up to the blog above for more interviews and insights from my fantastic colleagues at IDEA.
Here is an article @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social and I wrote about how political apologies may prematurely consigning injustice to history. psyche.co/ideas/good-a... #philsky
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Job alert 🚨2-year post-doc position in the Tilburg philosophy department on linguistic justice with a focus on online hate speech that is amplified by AI technologies. career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Job opening: Postdoc researcher (2 years, 1,0 FTE) (23929)
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On this day, 50 years ago, Der Spiegel published an interview with Heidegger - 5 days after his death. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology: with a phenomenology of tool-use in Being & Time (1927) and later with The Question Concerning Technology (1954).
I was recently interviewed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about ratings and reviews on Airbnb. Why are ratings so consistently high and positive on the platform? Was quite proud of myself as well that I managed to do the whole interview in German. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/a...
Vermieter bei Airbnb unter Druck: Fünf Sterne oder nichts
Der Druck auf der Airbnb-Plattform ist groß: Vermieter wollen deshalb schlechtere Bewertungen vermeiden. Für Nutzer wird es schwieriger, die passende Unterkunft zu finden.
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