Otimo! O Lattes eh um excelente recurso, entao faz sentido. Mas para pessoas da velha guarda como eu que sairam do Brasil faz tempo, nao faz parte do nosso repertorio haha...

Me cadastrei! Mas nao tenho curriculo Lattes, tive que por o link generico do Lattes para o formulario passar :D O link do meu proprio website nao foi aceito haha...

Much appreciated, Aidan! For me, my surname consists of both names, one coming from my mom and the other from my dad. Dutilh is incidentally the matrilineal one, so skipping it feels like ignoring that side of my heritage. As a feminist, this is a hill I will die on 😅

E defendeu hoje, ja é dr. Ruby 🎓

Que legal! Nao sabia que vc a conhece ☺️

Todays's PhD ceremonies “Empowerment” has become one of the most widely used words in contemporary feminism. It appears in social media, advertising, corporate culture, and political debate. Yet as the term has become more popular, its meaning has shifted. Where empowerment once referred to collective struggles to challenge and change oppressive social structures, it is now often used to describe individual confidence, choice, or self-expression—even when those choices take place within unequal conditions.

The PhD dissertation that I will examine is very interesting! An ameliorative analysis of the concept of empowerment, including a fascinating genealogical chapter on how the concept changed overtime.
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Stylized map with text 'Er gaat niets boven Groningen'

On my way to Groningen for a PhD defense! Back to the good old times of working on the train 😀 (I *hope* I still have the required concentration skills...) It's been almost 8 years since I moved to VU Amsterdam, but Groningen, and the Philosophy Faculty in particular, still feels like 'home' 😊

Why mental metaphors do not help us understand chatbot mistakes - Synthese Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...

We shouldn't be calling chatbot mistakes "hallucinations", "bullshit", or preferably by any other mental metaphor. Here's why by @reginafabry.bsky.social and me:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dit is mij eerder ook gebeurd... Maar al jaren val ik niet meer voor de mooie beloftes van D66 en stem ik consistent PRO (met andere namen toen!).

Would be amazing if you could join, Aidan, but no worries if not 😊 You've seen the paper before haha...

My first contribution as ACEPS Research Associate will be a talk (online) on the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire, based on joint work with Solmu Anttila, on May 7th. I think the talk is open to externals too, details here 👇
www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/u...

African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) Decolonising knowledge|Epistemic Injustice & Epistemic Decolonisation|African Institute for Epistemology & Philosophy of Sci|Uni Johannesburg

I'm now officially a member of ACEPS, the African Institute for Epistemology & Phil. Science at UoJ 🥳 Under Veli Mitova's leadership, ACEPS is doing great things for epistemology & phil. science in terms of challenging Eurocentric & colonial legacies in these areas: www.uj.ac.za/faculties/hu...

*criticS, not critica! (Posted from my phone...)

Ik vroeg me ook af! Ik stem Progressief Oegstgeest sinds ik hier woon (al 18 jaar 😅), en vond het opvallend dat de landelijke partij nu die naam ook kreeg. Geen toeval, neem ik aan?

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who...

Nancy Fraser on Habermas. Fraser is IMO one of the most insightful critica of Habermas, and this piece reflects on her intellectual debt as well as disagreements with him. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction - Philosophy & Technology Philosophy & Technology - Disruptive technologies are a key theme in economics, the philosophy of technology, and situated cognition - yet these debates remain largely disconnected. This paper...

Very cool new paper out by my colleagues @loehrgui.bsky.social and @sconinxphil.bsky.social ! A foundational paper for the NWO-funded project on technological niche disruptions (TEND) that we kicked off earlier this year.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm now applying for a big research grant. If funded, I'll aim to host some of the project's events in countries such as South Africa and Brazil; this post gives very good concrete advice on how to go about 😊

I made a point of mostly not going to talks by GN colleagues, whose talks I would be able to attend elsewhere (in Europe or North America), prioritizing instead talks by philosophers based in Africa. I learned a ton from these philosophers, whose work I would have likely not encountered otherwise!

->in the spirit of genuine exchange with all participants--not as an 'exotic' vacation with their GN friends.

Recently, I attended a large conference in South Africa, which had a good spread of delegates from Africa as well as elsewhere, which I think mostly succeeded in fostering such exchanges->

->making it virtually impossible for people based in countries with limited funding to attend. To redress this (partially), organizing conferences in the Global South and encouraging Global North academics to attend them is a great idea. But of course, GN academics must attend these conferences ->

How (and Why) to Organize a Conference in the Global South (guest post) - Daily Nous Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas. But scholars have unequal access to conferences, often owing to where such conferences are held and the ...

Great guest post at @dailynous.com (Full disclosure: one of the authors is a former student whom I admire greatly.) One of the many ways in which academia systematically excludes people from the Global South is by hosting prestigious events only in rich countries->
dailynous.com/2026/03/10/h...

Coincidentally, I was just re-listening to the Origin Story episodes on Eugenics today! Clearly, this path has been taken and it hasn't delivered any good 'science' at all...

I hope it was at least a bit interesting for people with no background on Latin medieval logic! Things can get pretty esoteric in that neck of the woods...

Catchy topic 😆

And next week I'm in Helsinki, for a PhD defense and to give this talk 👇

My first time in Singapore, very much looking forward!

Dear EPSA25 participants, We are delighted to announce that the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science will be publishing a Topical Collection containing selected papers from the EPSA25 conference. Please consider submitting your paper. Submission is open to anybody who was accepted for presentation or poster presentation and attended the conference. The special issue will be edited by Julie Jebeile, Vincent Ardourel and Hannah Hilligardt. The submission deadline is 15 June 2026. To submit please go to the EJPS submission page (https://www.editorialmanager.com/epsa/) and select “EPSA25” from the drop-down list. If you have any questions please send them to: julie.jebeile@unibe.ch We very much look forward to receiving your contributions. All the best, The European Philosophy of Science Association

📣 CFP for a topical collection containing selected papers from the *EPSA25* conference:

philsci.eu/page-1075762 #philsci

Poster for workshop, with pictures of windows and the names of speakers.

My colleague Tamara Dobler is organizing this very cool workshop on the semantics-pragmatics distinction, taking place at VU Amsterdam on June 25-26. (It is possible to register as a participant by sending Tamara an email.) My talk will be on joint work with @celinehenne.bsky.social

Precies! Ik ben ooit voor de mooie verhalen van D66 gevallen en een paar keer op hen gestemd. Maar intussen weet ik het beter... Dit gezegd hebbend, heb ik liever Jetten als premier dan andere opties, maar wel met een flinke dosis expectation management.

Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.