On Monday in Athens! #philsky

award

Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association! #philosophymatters #philsky

Signed a contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for a Handbook of Philosophical Psychology, co-edited with Lisa Bortolotti, Matteo Mameli & Kengo Miyazono.
It covers methodology, mental attitudes, emotions, knowledge & experience and social/political dimensions & I’ll write a chapter on consciousness

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

PhilReviews A comprehensive, searchable database of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews across 1,480 academic journals.

A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews.

Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type.

Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does.

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The 2026 Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London. YouTube video by Northeastern University London

The video of my Dennett lecture at Northeastern London is now up on YouTube!

Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

I tell you what I'd like to abolish: gravity.

Next month at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social in NYC, a mind-body talk for the 2026 Nagel Lecture. Philosophy Department. Link below.
I'll look at the debate taking shape between "biological naturalism" and "computational functionalism" (labels that are imperfect but not bad).. 1/

Happy Philosophy Fortnight everyone! Make room for a little philosophy in your life by participating in some of the incredible events on offer all over the country: #BPF2026 #philsky #philosophymatters bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma...

A reminder that I made a starter pack for philosophers who work on intimacy and relationships: go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS let me know if you want to be added! Please share.

The law of the transformation of quantity into quality *and* vice versa. Cit.

"War is not holy; only peace is holy."
Pope Leo.

International Women's Day 2026 Our collections provide an historic overview of the pioneers and feminist movements that inspired change and improved women’s rights.

This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism.

Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n

#TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay

Happy International Women’s Day!
#IWD26 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay

(Clearly it should be a Bank Holiday, and everyone should therefore have a day off work tomorrow.)

Excerpt from Lydia Becker's 1869 article 'On the Study of Science by Women' in the Contemporary Review. It reads: 'When a naturalist seeks to group a number of individuals into a distinct class, he fixes on some character or set of characters common to them all, and distinguishing them from other individuals. When he finds such a group distinctly defined, he calls it a species. But when he finds two individuals differing very widely from each other, yet so connected by intermediate forms that he can pass from one extreme to the other without a violent break any where in the series, he considers them to be of one and the same kind. If we apply this principle as an illustration of the variety in human intellects, taking the conventional masculine type of mind as one end of the scale, and the conventional feminine type as the other, we shall find them connected by numerous intermediate varieties, distributed indiscriminately among male and female persons ; that what is called a masculine mind is frequently found united to a feminine body, and sometimes the reverse, and that there is no necessary nor even presumptive connection between the sex of a human being and the type of intellect and character he possesses.'

Portrait of Lydia Becker by Susan Isabel Dacre. Becker sits in a black dress with a lace neckline with red flowers attached.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #numerousintermediatevarieties 🌈🗃️

Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out
And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism

www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...

New Post: Mary Wollstonecraft in the Idler This piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in the Idler, No. 54 (May-June 2017), 83-9: Quite Contrary: Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in t…

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay

pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

We face two urgent challenges concerning consciousness and AI. Challenge One is that millions of users will soon misattribute human-like consciousness to AI friends, partners, and assistants on the basis of mimicry and role-play, and we don’t know how to prevent this. Challenge Two is that profoundly alien forms of consciousness might genuinely be achieved in AI, but our theoretical understanding of consciousness is too immature to provide confident answers one way or the other. Centrism about AI consciousness is the position that we must take both challenges seriously. The two challenges interact in ways that make this difficult. Steps to address Challenge One might undermine attempts to address Challenge Two by portraying the idea of conscious AI as impossible or inherently unlikely. Conversely, attempts to address Challenge Two might lead to higher levels of misattribution from ordinary users. This “manifesto” attempts to construct mutually consistent strategies for addressing both challenges.

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

The Benefits of Doing Philosophy A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

This week, Anna Mameli, a secondary school student, and volunteer for the Philosophy Garden, reports on a paper recently published in a special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie on philosophy and its benefits in the public sphere.

#philsky

Poster of event with photos of Lisa and Tim

Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky

Photo of a black book cover on a red surface. Title : Women and republicanism, edited by Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy.

Just arrived! This is the third volume @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social and I have worked on together 😎😊

Very well deserved!

Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works"

⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026.
📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way)
🔗www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025...

I'll be talking about what blame is good for, functionalist explanation and consequentialist justifications in London next Monday. Come along if you're in town! #philsky

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you?

Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale.

time.com/7380496/why-...

great work by my colleague to be!

Although this was strongly written from the #philsci perspective, I hope it’ll be useful for #philtech, #sts, or #philsky in general. The ubiquity of simulations in natural/social science, medicine, policy/politics, should make them of at least some interest to anyone doing 21st century philosophy.

Book cover of “Organic Progress and Evolutionary Theory” by Silvia De Cesare in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

New Element in the #PhilBio series by Silvia De Cesare—free to download until March 2! De Cesare examines the thorny issue of 'evolutionary progress,' recounting the arguments against and in favor of cashing out this contested notion 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #philsky

This special edition of American Philosophical Quarterly commemorates Nicholas Rescher, former Center Director and Chairman of the Center.

The article includes contributions from Center Director Edouard Machery and former Center Director John Norton. #philsci

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