Anita Leirfall

Save the date: The next conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice SPSP 2028 will take place from June 28 to July 1 at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. 🇨🇴 #philsci

Montaigne, after a busy life, full of activity, had decided to retire to his estate and allow idleness to overtake him in preparation for death. He found, however, that leisure did not still his mind and was assailed by “chimeras and imaginary monsters.” poeticoutlaws.substack.com/p/civilizati...

Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 (interview): www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4... #literature #Hemingway

Autumn. 🍁

new humor piece on my Substack -- "I like you. Like, a lot. But my emojis might be misleading."

"We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." — T.S. Eliot

Steven Strogatz, prof of maths at Cornell U describes the excitement&grief of watching AI take on work that gives people a sense of purpose&asks what could be lost if machines deliver answers w/o the human struggle, insight&understanding that make solving problems meaningful youtu.be/LfGenpmOjDQ?...

Incredible! (I haven’t heard of this.)

www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/metaphy... Happy to share that my first book is out: Metaphysik des absoluten Geschehens (Mohr Siebeck, 2026), a revised version of my PhD. It develops a phenomenological metaphysics of the event, between the later Heidegger and Hegel. #philsky #phenomenology

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be Large language models can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill. But evidence from neuroscience suggests that intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #consciousness #AI #philsky

After spending weeks studying bonobo vocalizations & gestures, I visited one of the world's leading bonobo research centers to communicate with them on their own terms. A remarkable experiment that revealed just how powerful communication can be across species. www.msn.com/en-us/scienc...

We often see reason as providing a solid basis for our theories. Some have even imagined that reason alone can deliver truth. But far from being a stable foundation, critics of reason argue that it is equally a vehicle of destruction iai.tv/video/reason... #reason #truth #destruction #PhilosophySky

«Tension theory suggests that exposure to stress events may stimulate novel and flexible thinking. Historical evidence indicates that many eminent creators experienced significant childhood trauma, implying that creativity can emerge as an adaptive response.» psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Kant's Critique of Spinoza Omri Boehm, Kant's Critique of Spinoza, Oxford University Press, 2014, 252pp. | Reviewed by G. Anthony Bruno, University of Bonn philarchive.org/archive/BRUR... #Kant #Spinoza #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

The Rulers of Europe: Every Year youtu.be/IpKqCu6RcdI?...

Pure consciousness reveals a boundless reality beyond objects Language cannot capture the deepest level of consciousness iai.tv/articles/pur... #consciousness #reality #language #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Chris Hill's review of my book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/defl...

Fascinating! 🦑 😍

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

PETER FALK sketching at his Beverly Hills home in 1984.

AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post) “AI systems… will transform the discipline: they will make philosophy more capital-intensive.“ dailynous.com/2026/10/08/a... #AI #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Congratulations with the Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson! 📚📚📚 My friend, the Norwegian poet Tone Hødnebø, has translated her writings into Norwegian. ✍️ Congrats to both of them!

Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 -"Tempest": 3. Allegretto · Alfred Brendel youtu.be/HJ_U60tCczE?... 🎹

“Limerence” is an intense, largely involuntary craving for a particular person’s romantic reciprocation. It’s not mere desire, but a more complex & existentially altering state in which your mood, attention &sense of what matters become hostage to how that person feels about u iai.tv/articles/tim...

Last night, our newly elected President, Alexander Bird, delivered the Inaugural Address. Focusing on the philosophy of science, Bird denied that empiricism is a necessary feature of knowledge. Draft paper here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philsky

I wrote a short commentary for Animal Sentience on @birchlse.bsky.social's remarks about AI, in his excellent book 'The Edge of Sentience' www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

Fishermen at Sea — a beautiful, haunting night scene of men toiling on rough waters by J.M.W. Turner. Painted in 1796, it’s known for its dramatic moonlit chiaroscuro and was his first oil shown at the Royal Academy. See the atmospheric work: buff.ly/UOcaBV1 #Turner #Art

Do philosophers think differently than non-philosophers? Focusing on differences btw philosophers&non-philosophers in regard to neurodivergent traits & responses to thought experiments, the researchers found some support, in the aggregate, for a “yes” answer to that q. dailynous.com/2026/09/10/h...

Overwhelming Cheating In a comment on an earlier post, a professor suggested as a topic for discussion, “Academic integrity violations becoming commonplace (analog, not just AI!) and what to do about it.” dailynous.com/2026/09/30/o... #academia #cheating #philosophy #PhilosophySky

Is there any philosophy (or medicine) paper on what we mean by fatigue and tiredness?

Google's "ubiquitous presence in US classrms through Chromebks & its software partnerships w/schls have provided a critical launchpad for its AI tools...[which have] helped push many students to become acad'ly & emotionally dependent on AI...'They're learning to regurgitate whatever AI tells them.'"

‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Call for Abstracts: SENTIENCE: Science, Ethics, Law Deadline: 11 December 2026 Conference: 17–18 May 2027 Conference location: Senate House, University of London www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar... #animal #sentience #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Steinbeck explores how parental love, or its absence, can make us compassionate or mean, and he shows the difficulties of being our brother’s keeper in this richly detailed and engaging novel. booksongif.substack.com/p/east-of-ed...

One Reason People Are Spending So Much Time Alone www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.

One of the most thought-provoking points that @samgilbert.bsky.social makes here is about calculators. Despite widespread fears, calculators do not seem to harm children's math abilities—in fact they improve them. But the timing of the introduction seems to be critical...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.

I have a dream. 63 years ago MLK Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial steps and shook the conscience of a nation. His call for justice, equality and a world judged by character not color is a dream we are still fighting to realize today. #MLK #IHaveADream #CivilRights #History #BlackHistory #BlueskyEdu

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'European business schools are switching to oral defences and pen-and-paper assessments in response to artificial intelligence rendering some longstanding evaluation methods obsolete, according to a report.' It's not just European business schools...