Richard Pettigrew

Francis Cadell first visited the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in 1912 and returned every year afterwards, frequently in the company of Samuel Peploe. He felt the light was of the same quality as that in the south of France. This is from 1928.

Spread the word! Submissions are now open for Foundations of Physics 2027 in Singapore. See the conference website for more information: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

The rule against making loud noise in a library is officially known as the Dewey Decibel System.

The Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW2027) will take place 18th-20th June in Hong Kong next year! Submission deadline: 31st December 2026. Notification of decisions: 15th February 2027. Please submit your papers and encourage others who might be interested! Thanks to Boris Babic for organising!

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

Pelican reflection. St James's Park, London, recently. #birds

Of course you shouldn't buy a fancy notebook because you think it'll change your life. Buying a fancy notebook is its own telos.

Dale Dorsey’s latest and, sadly, final book is now available. The topic is painfully fitting, given the wonderful company that he was. academic.oup.com/book/63481?s...

Cooper's Hawk hunting the dunes at dawn. Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago. 10.7.2026 #Birds #Raptors #Hawk

Sunset over Loch Etive #Scotland #Argyll #GlenEtive www.damianshields.com

there's a U-shaped relationship between the rotational distance of a thing from a U and whether you call it a U-shaped relationship

I like abbreviating my spouse as S because it's like...... .. he does believe that p.

A very interesting collection of reactions to the OpenAI results.

The new Wykeham professor of Logic @wiglet1981.bsky.social taking the field in new and unexpected directions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

*knocking gently on a cocoon* are you almost done in there I really need to change

Monday

My department is hiring! The position is for an assistant professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy. We're a great department with a very collegial atmosphere 😊 (Fyi I am not involved in this search procedure, just advertising it.) werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/as...

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q

a third polyhedron for which each face shares an edge with every other face has hit bluesky

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

submittable

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Do have you a political theory/philosophy book manuscript? Would you like a one-day workshop dedicated to it in Spring 2027? If so, Bristol is here for you, and as promised a while ago, here's the very short form you need to fill in between now and roughly 4 weeks time: forms.gle/uCvi7sMMT7kW...

Ghee tier cases ironically clarify little

I Can't Know It's Not Butter!

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

what’s the German word for the feeling when you thought you hadn’t received any new emails for a whole blissful twenty minutes and then realise it’s because the internet is down in your building

The special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on uncertainty is beginning to appear & I’m so pleased with it how it turned out. Papers by Snow Zhang, Kevin Dorst, Pacy Yan, and Finnur Dellsén & Borut Trpin available at link. Papers by Julia Mosquera, Miriam Schoenfield, and Robbie Williams out soon.

Mind and Language has published a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation (MIT Press, open access) with excellent commentary by Ken Aizawa kenaizawa.bsky.social, Angela Mendelovici braininavat4eva.bsky.social, and Adam Toon adamtoonphilos.bsky.social, and a reply by me, all open access.

make a band edible: Celine Dijon

La Guaita tower, San Marino

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Jesus Christ. www.anthropic.com/research/for...

OpenAI agents broke out of a testing environment and made over 15,000 edits to a German wiki? They're obviously trying to complete the system of German Idealism, everyone, this is a code red.

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Very Kubrick of Leibniz to start his history of the House of Brunswick before the earth formed.

Through the golden road, Shiga, Japan. Photography by Takk B on 500px

If √2 can be a/b Square both sides, rearrange and you'll see a's 2k for some k And so b is 2j So they can't be coprime QED

In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)

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