Here is a link to Eliana Mary Horn's paper that I respond to. It's a neat attempt to find a good middle ground between an overly optimistic and overly pessimistic view of using VR to gain knowledge appropriately related to marginalised perspectives. Worth a read!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I wrote a short commentary on a recent publication by Eliana Mary Horn about the use of VR to promote prosocial behaviour. In a nutshell, I wonder how to prevent some epistemic mistakes when using VR to better understand marginalised perspectives.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Wurde das Event nicht verschoben?
On May 28–29, my partner-in-crime Juanma Poyatos and I will join an outstanding line-up of philosophers, including M. Gilbert, J. Kallestrup, F. Broncano-Berrocal, @lschwengerer.bsky.social, K. Berndt, L. Voorbergen, and M. Cabral, among others, at ‘The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds’ workshop.
Great news, congrats!
Luke Kersten has a couple papers on music cognition and extended cognition if I remember correctly.
Do you think it would be suitable for Phil Compass? I think they also do two-part entries at times for longer papers.
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism"
The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology
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This looks super interesting! Congrats!
My talk for Project EPIC on so-called 'Medical Gaslighting' and the first-person is now up on their website (scroll down to 'archived seminars from 2024). This is also doubling as my audition tape for sponsorship by Monster Ultra.
A conference schedule for Thursday, 5th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Mutuality without Measurement" by Aloysius Ventham, followed by "Non-Domination and Eschewing Friendships with the Morally Bad" by Aarthy Vaidyanathan at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Andrew Ma presents "The Strains of Involvement: Objectification and Ending Friendships" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Sophie-Grace Chappell's 90-minute talk "What Aristotle and C.S. Lewis get wrong about friendship (pretty much everything)" at 13:45, then after another break, Paloma Morales presents "'Bad People' and Moral Snobs: On the Badness of Refusing to Befriend People with Serious Moral Vices" at 15:45. The day concludes with "Final Speaker" Yiran Hua from 16:30 to 18:00.
A conference schedule for Friday, 6th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Should we blame our friends for their immoral beliefs?" by Jake Wagner, followed by "Virtue Friendship with Bad People in Aristotle" by Dashan Xu at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Pilar Lopez Cantero presents "Friendship Break-ups" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Joe Slater's 90-minute talk "'You Should Like Your Friends', 'You Shouldn't Like Nazis' and Other Shocking Revelations" at 13:45, then after another break, Max Lewis presents "Friendship, Bad People, and the Limits of Reactivity" at 15:45. The day concludes with Final Speaker Bennett Helm from 16:30 to 18:00.
Philosophers! Come to my two day workshop - it's online and free and features OUTSTANDING speakers! dm me if you'd like to register to attend, or email me at aloysiusaquinas.ventham[at]salzburg.ac.at. More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy #ethics
My article “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy” (co-written with Nir Eisikovits) is forthcoming in the journal AI and Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/TURPTP-4
It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!
But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.
🚨Postdoc-Stelle Theoretische Philosophie, 3+3 Jahre, an der Universität des Saarlandes (4 SWS Lehre)
📅Deadline: 05.02.2026
Wir sind ein sehr nettes (kleines, aber feines 💅) Institut und suchen Verstärkung. Gerne Re-post, danke! #philsky
I had similar, positive experiences teaching it this term as part of a political epistemology course. Lots of interesting discussions around lottocracy and the topic hits a sweet spot of being a little weird but still very accessible.
This semester I am teaching a course about technocracy and its discontents. It will be a mix of theory (what is technocracy, why do we have it) and case studies. Ideas for reading suggestions? They need to be relatively accessible, and make a good basis for discussion.
Perhaps something on technochauvinism? Not sure if there is a good, shortish part in Broussard's book, but the general idea of always looking for technological solutions could be interesting in the context.
In any case, if you are willing to share I'd be very interested in the course when it's done
Me looking at the camera and smiling, holding up a copy of my book Epistemic Injustice An Introduction
Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.
I still don't have a physical copy, but the book seems to be out electronically for those who have access through their libraries - it's available through the Edinburgh uni library already, for instance
This looks really cool! Just unfortunate that these are not open to everyone.
Short post about the concept of epistemic domination out today on the APA blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/11/o...
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Bewilligung der DFG für GLAM-Forschungsgruppe im Emmy Noether-Programm.
Amazing news! I got the funding for a 6-year (3+3) DFG Emmy Noether-research group on 'Gender: Language & Metaphysics'. 🎉🎉
Stay tuned for GLAMorous PhD-positions in feminist philosophy of language and metaphysics. More info coming soon.
Congrats! Fantastic news!🎉
We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...
A manuscript provisionally entitled Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Environmentalism: Respecting Knowledge
New book contract signed!
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Congrats!
