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King's College London. Working on mind, metaphysics, and science. davidpapineau.co.uk

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Temporal Cognition in Animals Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Temporal Cognition in Animals

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02.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.

Julia Haas in Nature:

www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...

19.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Dortmund, workshop on NaΓ―ve Realism, Guiliana Martina first up this morning, talking about Seeing Features

19.02.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First up @davidpapineau.bsky.social on scientific kinds and kinds of sense experience.

18.02.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Close call between Fernando Pessoa and Howard Carpendale

12.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brighton. Fun. First time for a while. Here for Sussex Uni/RIP philosophy of medicine symposium.

06.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🩺 How does #philosophy inform practice and research in #medicine?

Free TRIP-funded workshop, run by the Philosophy Department at Sussex. With @davidpapineau.bsky.social Sarah Sawyer, @robynrwaller.bsky.social @drjastockdale.bsky.social and more.

Book here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/philosophy-d...

03.02.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is panpsychism pseudophilosophy? A response to Walter Veit

Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff. #philsky @walterveit.bsky.social

16.01.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Join us for another great Sussex Philosophy Society panel in Brighton! Open to academics and public alike. Registration required (free event). @sussex.ac.uk @triphilosophy.bsky.social @davidpapineau.bsky.social @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social #philosophy

20.01.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scrabble season: I hope you will play a little over the holidays There are two different kinds of game being played on the world’s Scrabble boards. Which will you play?
28.12.2025 07:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes I’m sure I’d agree with him. (It wasn’t him I was expecting to get angry with but Woolf, Lawrence et al)

14.12.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sureβ€”Forster wasn’t all bad by any means

14.12.2025 11:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

By the same coin, Rex Mottram is the only character in Brideshead Revisited that is in any way acceptable

14.12.2025 09:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never read it. But I can remember being pissed off as a kid by the depiction of Leonard Bast esp when he gets squished by a bookcase. Carey’s book’s only going to make me more angry isn’t it?

14.12.2025 09:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

I am talking first thing tomorrow at our conference on "Physics and the Self", Institute of Philosophy, Senate House, London.
You can still sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

12.12.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I met Owen. But not Warnock I think.

10.12.2025 14:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Fun conference in London this weekendβ€”"Physics and the Self". Institute of Philosophy, Senate House.
You can sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

09.12.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to Β£10 billion with a central estimate of -Β£5.4 billion.

It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

09.12.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 1154 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 39

Hi SΓ©rgio. It should be out next September if all goes smoothly.

02.12.2025 07:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A gentle summary of the last twenty-odd years of Pearl-style causal inference with DAGs, perhaps most helpful if you're just arriving from old-school philosophy of causation.

I like this genre. And if you do too, I can also recommend Weinberger et al.'s forthcoming piece in BJPS
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30.11.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Causal inference and the metaphysics of causation - Synthese The techniques of causal inference are widely used throughout the non-experimental sciences to derive causal conclusions from probabilistic premises. This poses a philosophical question. What in the n...

New paper out in Syntheseβ€”a metaphysical theory of causation designed to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space link.springer.com/article/10.1...

30.11.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

FFS I get back from the pub 10 mins late and Spurs are 2-0 down at home to Fulham

29.11.2025 20:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunset on the Blackwater Estuary

29.11.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For me one of the best things about the books is the Martian dimensionβ€”Lee Child the Englishman and Jack Reacher the army rat are both strangers in a strange land

28.11.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but young’uns should probably all be given a copy of @davidpapineau.bsky.social ’s Philosophical Devices. global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

26.11.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Bjørn Sætrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka... According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...

And this. Cognitive dissonance can no longer be regarded as established.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

24.11.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Wow - debunking β€œWhen Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

24.11.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
480. Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism | History of Philosophy without any gaps

Todayβ€˜s new episode: French skepticism around the time of Descartes, with a focus on Mothe le Vayer:

historyofphilosophy.net/french-skept...

#philsky #philosophy #podcast #skepticism

16.11.2025 08:12 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Symposium on Concepts at the Interface: Author’s Reply toΒ Commentaries Brains Blog Symposium on Concepts at the Interface Author’s Reply to Commentaries Nicholas SheaInstitute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of Londonnicholas.shea@sas.ac.uk Reply to Sarah Fisher Turning to Sarah Fisher’s helpful commentary, she raises a challenging question about concepts in LLMs. I was very pleased to have a chance to discuss this with her in the CLEA online symposium about the book a couple of months ago.

Symposium on Concepts at the Interface: Author’s Reply toΒ Commentaries

Brains Blog Symposium on Concepts at the Interface Author’s Reply to Commentaries Nicholas SheaInstitute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of Londonnicholas.shea@sas.ac.uk Reply to Sarah Fisher Turning to…

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