Some photos from last week's Perception, Memory, Imagination workshop here at NTU, co-organised with @whcsung.bsky.social - we're grateful to everyone who presented, participated, and helped out for making it a successful event! Thanks also to CoHASS for the funding to make it happen.
Happy to be added
Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in @thetls.bsky.social @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
award
Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association! #philosophymatters #philsky
When I first went to university there were no photocopiers. We typed onto waxed paper, corrected mistakes with nail varnish, and made inked copies from that. (Oh and the statistics department had special hand-cranked Babbage-like machines for doing sums of squares.)
A reunion would be great. Working on it. Watch this space.
In Dortmund, workshop on Naïve Realism, Guiliana Martina first up this morning, talking about Seeing Features
First up @davidpapineau.bsky.social on scientific kinds and kinds of sense experience.
Close call between Fernando Pessoa and Howard Carpendale
Brighton. Fun. First time for a while. Here for Sussex Uni/RIP philosophy of medicine symposium.
🩺 How does #philosophy inform practice and research in #medicine?
Free TRIP-funded workshop, run by the Philosophy Department at Sussex. With @davidpapineau.bsky.social Sarah Sawyer, @robynrwaller.bsky.social @drjastockdale.bsky.social and more.
Book here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/philosophy-d...
Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff. #philsky @walterveit.bsky.social
Join us for another great Sussex Philosophy Society panel in Brighton! Open to academics and public alike. Registration required (free event). @sussex.ac.uk @triphilosophy.bsky.social @davidpapineau.bsky.social @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social #philosophy
Yes I’m sure I’d agree with him. (It wasn’t him I was expecting to get angry with but Woolf, Lawrence et al)
Sure—Forster wasn’t all bad by any means
By the same coin, Rex Mottram is the only character in Brideshead Revisited that is in any way acceptable
Never read it. But I can remember being pissed off as a kid by the depiction of Leonard Bast esp when he gets squished by a bookcase. Carey’s book’s only going to make me more angry isn’t it?
I am talking first thing tomorrow at our conference on "Physics and the Self", Institute of Philosophy, Senate House, London.
You can still sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
I met Owen. But not Warnock I think.
Fun conference in London this weekend—"Physics and the Self". Institute of Philosophy, Senate House.
You can sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
Hi Sérgio. It should be out next September if all goes smoothly.
A gentle summary of the last twenty-odd years of Pearl-style causal inference with DAGs, perhaps most helpful if you're just arriving from old-school philosophy of causation.
I like this genre. And if you do too, I can also recommend Weinberger et al.'s forthcoming piece in BJPS
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New paper out in Synthese—a metaphysical theory of causation designed to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space link.springer.com/article/10.1...
FFS I get back from the pub 10 mins late and Spurs are 2-0 down at home to Fulham
Sunset on the Blackwater Estuary
