Josh Habgood-Coote

If you're a reliabilist about epistemic justification, why not think that your belief that the coffee machine will produce coffee on this occasion gets its good epistemic status from the reliability of the coffee machine? (i.e. the reliability of the machine, not your belief-forming process)

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Caleb Ward

@calebw.bsky.social

Are you waking up with a tingle right now as you read the news, basking in the glow of a world that might actually be able to change? You, yes, 🫵you🫵 may be hot for revolution™️

Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social

What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...

thebritishacademy.ac.ukHawley, Katherine, 1971-2021

I love to see revolutionaries in front of a gothic cathedral

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AJ Cotnoir

@acotnoir.bsky.social

My colleague Jessica Brown and I wrote a Biographical Memoir of Katherine Hawley for the British Academy. It was a very difficult thing to write, but I benefited immensely from reading everything she wrote on metaphysics and Phil Science. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Looong boy

Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

Greeks: sculpture is about the ideal body, perfect proportions, beauty through which we can experience th— Etruscans, over in the corner:

The desire to make things long that we see in the long furby has been with it for centuries. In this essay I will

If you wear a hat with a message in tiny letters on it, do people constantly stare at you to work out what your head says?

I cannot know because I’m cursed (head too big for normal hats)

Things I’ve explained to my colleagues this year, a thread:

1. Untitled Goose Game

2. How to cook rice

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

The defend-or-retract norm of publication and the knowledge norm of publication do not entail one another!

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social

Shot: "The author has not independently checked the analyses and does not have the expertise to verify every technical detail" Chaser: "The author takes responsibility for submitting this paper and for the accuracy of this statement." arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28575

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@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

I’ll be fine if the whole internet goes down. I will simply relearn how to read.

Coverage of the protests in France has switched across to thinking about the ethics of rioting. This seems bad for a couple of reasons

This is the second and more serious problem: shifting every discussion onto the ethics of rioting effectively prevents the issues which rioters are trying to address to the (flawed) public sphere ever being properly raised. Even if well-intentioned, this is a smushing intervention to pressing issues

prometheus-mag.comRiot Tourism - Prometheus MagazinePIPS reports from the 17th October protests in Paris, situating them within a crisis of the French state and growing youth militancy.

Meant to post this which is some of very little on-the-ground writing I've seen thus far prometheus-mag.com/2026/10/19/r...

Coverage of the protests in France has switched across to thinking about the ethics of rioting. This seems bad for a couple of reasons

jstor.orgClient Challenge

One important thing that's come up in a pair of recent papers about rioting www.jstor.org/stable/26745... and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is that rioting is a communicative act, responding to a bad situation for airing certain concerns

The way Chrisman and Hubbs put it is that rioting is a vocative act which tries to call out and create the audience for its own demands.

Coverage of the protests in France has switched across to thinking about the ethics of rioting. This seems bad for a couple of reasons

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

First: 'Is rioting always wrong?' is a question that both presupposes the liberal riot/protest distinction (which is not obvious!), and shifts the topic of discussion from rioters demands across to the appropriateness of their methods.

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Margot Finn

'Analysis by the founder of the Widening Participation Languages Network, Becky Muradás-Taylor, shows that students can take a languages course at just 22 of the 73 universities (30 per cent) with entry requirements below AAB at A level after a spate of cuts in recent years.'

timeshighereducation.comLanguage courses missing from most lower-tariff universitiesDisappearing provision a ‘social justice issue’, says researcher after finding easier-to-access courses hit hard by cuts

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Mark Eli Kalderon

@markelikalderon.bsky.social

Oedipus

Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social

Who's done Frege puzzles for desire?

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Yuliya Komska

@ykomska.bsky.social

Reclaiming the trickster for the lower echelons

Who's done Frege puzzles for desire?

link.springer.comThe logic, intentionality, and phenomenology of emotion - Philosophical StudiesMy concern in this paper is with the intentionality of emotions. Desires and cognitions are the traditional paradigm cases of intentional attitudes, and one very direct approach to the question of the...

Rereading this by Michelle Montague link.springer.com/article/10.1...

jobs.leeds.ac.ukJob Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in PhilosophyAre you an ambitious researcher in Philosophy with the ability to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Would...

I hadn't read this for fifteen years, but it has Frege cases for desire!

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Pekka Väyrynen

@vayrynen.bsky.social

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lecturer in Moral and/or Political Philosophy at University of Leeds. @leedsprhs.bsky.social An ongoing post. AOS comprises also metaethics, legal philosophy, etc. Details at: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 22 Nov 2026. Spread the word! #philosophy #PhilosophyJobs

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Pekka Väyrynen

@vayrynen.bsky.social

Our job ad for a Lectureship in Moral and/or Political Philosophy at University of Leeds is also up on PhilJobs: philjobs.org/job/show/32629 #philosophy #PhilosophyJobs

philjobs.org Lecturer, University of Leeds - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer, University of Leeds An international database of jobs for philosophers

Pekka Väyrynen@vayrynen.bsky.social

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

The orchestra that named itself ‘orchestra of the new world’ was teargassed by French police

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jonathanweisberg.orgPhilosophy Fumbles the BagAcademic philosophers have just been handed a golden ticket. And, as far as I can tell, we’re responding by looking around for the nearest garbage can to toss it away in. LLMs have made MPUs cheap as ...

From now on I will be conducting all of my philosophy in the medium of texts jonathanweisberg.org/post/philoso...

@noamchompers.bsky.social

The republic of letters, but it's a big group chat

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noam

Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social

Ideal philosophy of ai job talk: come into the seminar room, smash the room computer with a hammer, walk out

Privative adjectives are ones that don't allow the inference 'adjective+noun' to 'noun'. 'Fake', 'pretend', 'fictional'. Are there any privative adverbs? (i.e. that don't allow the inference from 'walked slowly' to 'walked') [Question from my colleague Katie Zhou, which is bugging me!]

@gdpaters.bsky.social suggested 'incorrectly' on success verbs, which seems right!

'Unsuccessfully'!

@gdpaters.bsky.social suggested 'incorrectly' on success verbs, which seems right!

@jacovides.bsky.social cial suggested 'allegedly' 'putatively' and 'ostensibly' which I think do the weaker thing, but not the stronger!

Stronger question, any adverbs that from 'adverb verb' entail 'not verb'!?

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What's some cool literature (i.e. fiction!) in either post-colonial, indigenous, or afro-futurist traditions that engage either with apocalypses or the climate crisis?

A social epistemology of hyperobjects

What's some cool literature (i.e. fiction!) in either post-colonial, indigenous, or afro-futurist traditions that engage either with apocalypses or the climate crisis?