That assumes that we can only be surprised by what we don‘t know and can never be surprised by what we know. But i‘m not sure surprise and knowledge are connected in that way. Can‘t I find something suprising I already know? Can I not come to know something I‘ve already expected?
Why is surprise so esteemed? what if the correct way to look at things turns out to be boring
Es braucht endlich sichere Fluchtwege und Bewegungsfreiheit für alle Menschen! Wir fordern: Menschen schützen statt Asylverfahren auslagern!
Very cool to be teaching in such a beautiful city
Call for Papers for “The Epistemology of Medicine Conference” hosted by LMU Munich June 25-26 2026. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social
Talk/paper submission deadline is January 31, 2026!
Speakers: Enno Fischer, Ina Jäntgen,
Ulrich Mansmann, Lauren Ross
Jacob Stegenga & Jon Williamson
#philsci #philsky #hps
Periodic reminder to send us your coolest papers to this Special Issue on feminist philosophy of mind that I'm co-editing at Hypatia! Deadline is now February 9.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6y2...
This reminds me so much of chantal mouffe and ernesto laclau‘s work!
My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I should too
Something to do with a thing they call „AI“, I‘m sure it‘s nothing important…
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How do folks feel about the newest academia.edu update of ToC? #academicsky #philsky
Certain characters from a Dostoevsky novel and some ideas from psychoanalysis make an appearance as well.
If this sounds interesting, here’s the preprint:
philpapers.org/rec/HUBUAX
(Open access version coming soon—thanks @unicologne.bsky.social )
#philsky #philosophypapers #academicsky 5/5
Also since today is international men's day: if someone isn't aware of one's reasons—e.g., when they are based on misogyny—this doesn't mean that their action was not intentional. Cases like these were an important goal when writing that paper.
A recent example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=me1a...
I suggest we should take the latter option and I end by exploring a way in which Anscombe’s other core idea—that the practical syllogism is key for an action’s intentionality—can be reconciled with the phenomenon of uncertain action. 4/5
I argue that actions like these put Anscombean theories in front of a dilemma:
1️⃣ either they have to conclude (implausibly) that these actions are not intentional after all, or
2️⃣ they have to give up the claim that whenever an action is intentional the agent knows their reasons for so acting.
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A paper forthcoming in *Synthese* argues that acting intentionally while being uncertain about one's reason is incompatible with classic views of practical knowledge. Think of a case like:
Did I congratulate you because you I truly think you deserved it or because I wanted to look good?
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🎉🎉 PUBLICATION ALERT 🎉🎉
Some of the most important ethical problems in self-reflection and in our relationship to others arise out of the fact that we can be uncertain about what our reasons in an action are. My new paper argues that such uncertain actions pose a theoretical challenge…
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NVM just saw it
📣🥁Dear colleagues, friends, and everyone else,
at the University of Cologne, we now offer a fantastic 😊 Master's programme in English: Knowledge and Society.
Please spread the word and inform interested students.
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@dieworkwear.bsky.social was this you?
Oh i see, but they can‘t be integrated into the text I presume?
Footnotes by a mile!
Oh right! But there are other traditions in english where you do say „i do“, i believe
What‘s the „i do“ mistake again? I was taught that people don‘t actually say „i do“ but instead they say „yes“ but then it seemed that that‘s not actually correct…
cursed. abolish the publishers
still doesn‘t look fully repaired to me? Maybe they stopped the works too soon…
