#Philosophy #Ethics #Politics #Immigration #HumanRights #Philsky

I'm of the view that as freedom of movement/choice of location is one of the most fundamental human rights, & the earth belongs to all of us equally, we all have the right to unrestricted immigration (& emigration).

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“But when the dust has drunk the blood of men,
no resurrection comes for one who's dead.”

—Aeschylus

#PhilSky #Easter #Sunday

Why Technology Doesn’t Normally Make You Dumber, but Agentic #AI Will: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1044731...

#philosophy #philsky #papers

Just about to drop over on #HoPWaG, an interview with the fabulous Steven Nadler on occasionalism! Will our conversation contain any Easter eggs? Tune in to find out...

#philsky #Philosophy #podcasts

Workshop on Rationality and Epistemology - Department of Philosophy This workshop will focus on rationality and epistemology. Featured speakers include: Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto), Yonathan Fiat (Toronto), David Barnett (Toronto) and Jennif...

The amazing grad students at UofT have organised a workshop with Timothy Williamson (and Jennifer Nagel, Gurpreet Rattan, Yonathan Fiat and David Barnett)

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/worksh...

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are there any Aristotle-heads here on Bluesky? #philsky what exactly is the whole deal with intuitive induction, and is it a viable idea or not?

How bad smells affect your health That foul odour wafting your way can do more than make you gag – it could also affect your body and mind.

The significant role of the sense of smell

#philsky #philosophyofsenses #philosophyofperception

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Abstract Why is discrimination morally wrong, and how does political partisanship shape moral judgments of discrimination? Several theories locate the distinctive moral wrongness of discrimination in its disrespectfulness. However, such theories disagree on whether disrespect derives from the deliberation of the discriminating agent, or from the expressive content of the discriminatory act. In a preregistered vignette-based experiment (N = 1019), we tested the extent to which people are sensitive to deliberation and expressive content in their moral judgments of gender-based workplace discrimination, and whether this sensitivity is moderated by political partisanship. Results suggest that while all participants are sensitive to expressive disrespect, only Independents and Republicans are sensitive to the difference between high and low deliberation-based disrespect.

Is discrimination wrong because of what it expresses or how it’s deliberated? Bjørn Hallsson & @vikipedersen.bsky.social argue expressive disrespect drives moral judgment for everyone, while deliberation matters mainly for Independents & Republicans. More: buff.ly/o9ah6YE

#CEPDISC #philsky #xPhi

Research in the Wild: Subalternity in AI What if we had a name?

Here goes – my first meeting with #Gramsci (it's been a long time coming). First formulation of the "AI subaltern" for my paper, which I am writing openly because that's totally a thing #PhilSky #AI

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We were sad to learn of the recent passing of @vanderbilt.edu philosopher Charles Scott, who joined us on the program back in 2010: philosophytalk.org/shows/what-n...

#PhilSky #philosophy #normal #norms

Research Fellow - AR3263 at University of St Andrews Discover Research Fellow - AR3263 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Apparently we're hiring another two-year postdoc, for Aaron Cotnoir's Unity Project. AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r...

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unless electrons assume the salience of oxygen #AI will always lack organismic sentience

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#cogsky

Don't miss it!

➡️ Slavoj Žižek is speaking at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in May

Get your tickets now: bit.ly/4q3r6Fm
Check out Žižek's books: bit.ly/49M3Gzz

📆 22-25 May
📍 Hay-on-Wye, UK

#Zizek #Philsky

Folks, they found the seat of consciousness! #philsky

Lots More Leibniz - Daily Nous 2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month. They'll appear in a new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), edit...

2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.

They’ll appear in a new three-volume edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), ed. by Lloyd Strickland and published by Oxford University Press dailynous.com/2026/03/27/l... #philsky

I received this message from one of my Intro to Philosophy students yesterday.

I think it's the best feedback I've ever received - and it came after giving a Kant lecture! 🤯

#philsky #philosophy

6 books from the Library of Peter Nidditch - the editor of John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding.

6 books from the Library of Peter Nidditch.

(One for the Locke scholars of the parish).

#philsky #JohnLocke #provenance #bibliography

What you consume, that you think
What you think, that you become
#poetry #philsky

Ahead of our next episode, "Thomas #Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen," we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Shereen Adel, to ask Josh Ober and Emilee Chapman of Stanford how ideals of #citizenship have evolved from ancient Athens to modern America: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zca3... #PhilSky

#BookReview Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds. A. Jurkevics, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. x +284 pp, £99 (hb)
| Virginia De Biasio

Read full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WVJPJU...

#philsky #philosophy

And to end the symposium, Melinda Gülsüm Esen reviews the book! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #newbooks #philsky #philpsy #booksky
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(Still) defending mental fictionalism: A response to commentaries on Mind as Metaphor This paper responds to commentaries on Mind as Metaphor by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne, Tamás Demeter, László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete, Zoe Drayson, M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez, and Kendall...

Adam Toon responds to his critics! A further defence of fictionalism about mental states doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 #philsky #philpsy
8/9

What motivates mental fictionalism? Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...

Zoe Drayson explores the motivation for #fictionalism about the mental, arguing that Toon’s positive argument seems to ontologically commit him to the types of mental states he is trying to deny doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 #philsky #philpsy
7/9

Kendall L. Walton asks whether fictionalism is just #behaviourism in his commentary: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
6/9

M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez argues that we can articulate the fictionalist proposal in terms of collective #imagination understood as a shared or collective practice sedimented in habits and behaviours doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
5/9

Tamás Demeter, László Kocsis & Krisztián Pete aim to show that representationally essential #metaphors are incompatible with genuine causal #explanation doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 #philsky #philpsy
4/9

Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick Bourne offer the first commentary, where they develop David Lewis’s notion of a quasi-miracle to suggest an alternative form of #fictionalism to Toon's doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
3/9

Defending mental fictionalism: A précis of Mind as Metaphor Mind as Metaphor develops a new approach to the mind. This approach is called mental fictionalism. It claims that our concept of mind is fundamentally metaphorical: we project the “outer world” of ...

Next, Adam Toon presents the main themes of his book, Mind as Metaphor, in a precis: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
2/9

Is the #mind just a metaphor? Dive into our new book symposium with this thread for #vol39issue3! Start with Kathleen Murphy-Hollies and Lisa Bortolotti's editorial doi.org/10.1080/0951... free access #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
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Defining “Conspiracy Theory” Without Begging the Question: A Roadmap - Erkenntnis Generalism about conspiracy theories (CTs) is the view that CTs, as a class, are epistemically flawed. Particularists argue that each CT must be judged individually on its evidence. Both sides accuse ...

The so-called neutral definition of the much contested term 'Conspiracy Theory' is rather ill-adviced - good account by Romy Jaster & Geert Keil. #philsky
link.springer.com/article/10.1... @kraymondh.bsky.social #conspiracy