Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈 he/him https://richardpettigrew.github.io Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For?

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction

Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.

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While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

lmao just found a this hilarious line from Peirce where he writes, "if you, dear Reader, are inclined to suppose I have overlooked something comparatively obvious, please consider the possibility I have not"