Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, March 30, where Panu Raatikainen (University of Tampere) will give a talk titled “Consciousness, Materialism, and Explanation”. All welcome! Abstract of the talk, and more here: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/03/23/3...
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Poster for the event. All information can be found on the website.
“Reason and Power in Argumentation: The Case of Conspiracy Theories” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), an in-person only seminar Mon, March 16 in Helsinki. Organized together with the Helsinki Philosophy Colloquium. Details: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/03/09/1...
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In our Perspectives on Science Seminar on March 2, Inkeri Koskinen & Santtu Kauppila (TINT / Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Towards a Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI-based Science: Forward-looking trust in collective pursuit”. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/02/24/2...
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Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, February 23rd, where Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk titled “Cherry-picking – in history and beyond”. Abstract of the talk, and more here: tint-helsinki.fi/2026/02/18/2...
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The final myth in that list has, I think, been put convincingly to bed by the evident failure of LLMs.
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#philski #philsci Quick Q: anyone know what semantic glue is supposed to be? Can I get it on Amazon or do I have to go to like a crafts store?
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My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu
#Consciousness may be an illusion and yet still possess ethical significance!
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In the first instance arguing with my mother, in the second with my brother, and, more proximately, paraconsistent logic, the scourge of the ubiquitous dichotomy.
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today's #philosophy of science class was about model theoretic semantics and i think almost two whole people kinda got it
hey, they are trying
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Cover of Dr. Emily Herring's biography of Henri Bergson, "Herald of a Restless World"
Today I finished
@emilyherring.bsky.social's biography of Henri Bergson, "Herald of a Restless World". Her writing was engaging and clear. It's really a model of how to write a contemporary biography today. The last sections of the book are a beautiful elegy to Bergson. 1/2
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