Emma Curran

AI: *bombs a hospital*
AI ETHICS: It's also more likely to assume a doctor must be a man and a nurse must be a woman :((

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

Longtermism and aggregation Advocates of longtermism point out that interventions which focus on improving the prospects of people in the very far future will, in expectation, bring about an astronomical amount of good (or agen....

This is slightly old news, but now that I have access to Bluesky again, I'm going to take the opportunity to flag my most recent publication 'Longtermism and Aggregation' at PPR. I first drafted this paper years ago, so it's great to finally see it out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've just managed to guess my bluesky password, having been locked out of my account for about a year! Hello all!

Oops haven’t posted on here in 4 months. Is it any more lively now? #philsky

Just uploaded my thesis onto philpapers. In it, I explore, defend and extend the moral reasons we have to do less than best.

philarchive.org/rec/CURDLT-2

Any recommendations for work in philosophy of biology, broadly construed?

Generally just looking for interesting work I mightn’t have seen, in any topic. I’m in a place where I just want to do some reading!

#philsky

Finally made it to the US! Extremely excited to start my work at Rutgers. #philsky

A grad student asked me to clarify my attitudes towards academic Philosophy:

Love the discipline
Wary of the profession
Dislike the business

For the first time in a while I am so excited to start a new research project. It feels like the first day of school. How do I begin? Go out and buy new highlighters and pukka pads, like I did when I was 15?

The people I asked were mostly childless, so this likely explains the difference

This has been such a useful resource when it came to try
to rebuild my Twitter philosophy network on BlueSky. Thank you!

this feels like a big response but ok

Fascinating. On Bluesky the results almost seem reversed? IRL I’ve asked ~60 people and *all* women said 10-20 and *almost all* men said 0-10. On Bluesky, thus far, the gender split (which is much less stark) seems to go the other way around.

‘Difference’ was left intentionally ambiguous, so I could see the variety of interpretations - if that helps!

Ok, so I’ve been asking the following question to groups of people for a few months now. Surprisingly, I’ve noticed an almost perfect gender split.

“Between which ages is there a greater ‘difference’: 0 and 10, and 10 and 20?”

Any guesses to how the responses are split? And potential explanations?

Oh interesting - thanks!

Thanks!

‘Bristol Blue Glass makers recreate colour lost for 200 years’

Hume’s missing shade found

Struggling with this app, maybe because the philosophy community isn’t established here yet.

Can I get recommendations on who I should follow? #philsky #philosophy

Passed my PhD viva without corrections yesterday! Now I’m planning my future work.

It’s a weird feeling putting four years of research to bed.

I think for me the paralysis comes from being “obviously wrong”. I don’t mind being wrong in some interesting, useful manner. But the idea of producing work that has some clear flaw everyone else can see immediately gives me shivers.

Hey #philsky is there anyone out thereeee?

Hello blue sky, brief introductions: I’m Emma, a philosopher at Cambridge. I principally work in nonconsequentialist ethics, especially as applied to the domains of private philanthropy, healthcare and public policy.

Expect mostly philosophy positing, occasional real life stuff.