Frontiers | The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals Pain is not solely a function of tissue damage but can be strongly shaped by environmental context. Its perceived intensity, duration, and likelihood—the cor...

New paper alert!
Schuck-Paim C, Alonso WJ, Hartcher K, Chiang C, Pereira PA, Veit W, Mendl M, Nicol CJ and Lecorps B (2026) The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals. Front. Anim. Sci. doi.org/10.3389/fani...

New paper: Veit, W., & Browning, H. (2026). Two Kinds of Conceptual Engineering. Croatian Journal of Philosophy. 25(73), 99-119. doi.org/10.52685/cjp...

My Academic Family Tree J.L. Austin, Hans Reichenbach, Paul Griffiths and Peter Godfrey-Smith, and more

Wrote a new blog post on my academic family tree: walterveit.substack.com/p/my-academi...

Save the date :)

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The Armoured Shrimp and the Evolution of Consciousness Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture by Walter Veit

Come to Oxford to see me give a public lecture on shrimp and the evolution of consciousness on the 11th of March!

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Why Modern Philosophy is Broken | Walter Veit YouTube video by Unsolicited advice

Made an appearance on one of youtube's largest philosophy channels. Joe Folley's Unsolicited Advice. Give it a watch! youtu.be/o1Fusxds1Lk?...

Is Diversity Intrinsically Valuable? On the merits of thought experiments in philosophy and a reply to Eric Schwitzgebel

I wrote a new essay responding to Eric Schwitzgebel: Is Diversity Intrinsically Valuable? If you can provide me with better arguments for the existence of intrinsic values I'd be happy to be convinced.
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Why the Central Argument for Panpsychism Fails On Intrinsic Properties and Science's Alleged Inability to Account for Them

New blog post continuing my discussion with Philip Goff:
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Will Science Ever Explain Consciousness? It already has

New essay! "Will Science Ever Explain Consciousness?
It already has"
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To Hell with A Priori Metaphysics On the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy

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To Hell with A Priori Metaphysics On the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy

I wrote an essay responding to Philip Goff's recent anti-science meme. Hopefully successful in clarifying the relationship between science and philosophy, and perhaps even changing the minds of some philosophers.
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Sometimes there is no real distinction here. But often philosophy is even more abstract than theoretical science.

Loved that paper!

Bought some traditional kvass with live cultures. Partly because of potential health benefits. But mostly because of nostalgia about summers in Latvia.

A Flaw of Analytic Philosophy and how to overcome it

Philosophy friends!
New essay/blog: let me know your thoughts
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What to do with a meaningless life? On Camus, Absurdism, and Existential Nihilism

Now available as a written up essay
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What to do with a meaningless life? On Camus, Absurdism, and Existential Nihilism

New video essay on nihilism!
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Gave an interview to Tommy Blanchard
walterveit.substack.com/p/consciousn... (a clip below)

I'll be presenting at this conference on animals and philosophy in Reading in May. You can register to attend for free at the link below!

Ratio Annual Conference on Animals and Philosophy I am pleased to announce that I am organizing the annual Ratio conference of our department this year on the topic of animals and philosophy.

I am pleased to announce that I am organizing the annual Ratio conference of our department this year on the topic of animals and philosophy.
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So excited to see this recommendation coming from the Animal Sentience Committee, really hoping it leads to some real change in decapod protection
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Is consciousness required for AI welfare? - Asian Journal of Philosophy Goldstein and Kirk–Giannini have recently argued that artificial language agents can possess well-being in the absence of phenomenal consciousness. Here, I challenge their position, contending that th...

New open access paper!
Veit, W. Is consciousness required for AI welfare?. Asian J. Philos. 5, 18 (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s442...

Why Effective Altruists (And Everyone Else) Should Become Nihilists Video Essay

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New video essay - link in first comment

What’s it like being a raven or a crow? YouTube video by Walter Veit

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What’s it like being a raven or a crow? This recording is based on an article Heather and I published in The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

Recorded a new episode
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Panpsychism is a New Form of Creationism Why philosophers fail to take seriously the implications of the Darwinian revolution

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