And third, academic content is turned into valuable assets when authors sign copyright agreements with journal publishers, and then publishers make AI licencing agreements with big tech companies to bundle up their article archives for AI training theconversation.com/an-academic-...
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Inequalities in the funding landscape are actually a major barrier to OA publication. The author-pays model for OA means only those with access to resources get their research out there for all to read for free. OA should become truly open, for authors too! #OpenScience
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The Barcelona Principles propose some simple actions to create a less unequal play field between native speakers and non native speakers of English in philosophy. First among them: reviewers should not assess papers based on style. contesi.info/bp/
When personal level sufficient & necessary conditions for a mental phenomenon X are taken as a description of the underlying psychological process for X. Example: Common belief and knowledge assumed to need recursive mindreading
Ecriture inclusive : Le Conseil d'Etat valide l'utilisation par une ville (Paris) de l'écriture inclusive (point médian) sur des plaques commémoratives.
Pour la 1ère fois, le Conseil d'Etat entérine le constat selon lequel l'écriture inclusive relève bien de la langue française.
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When personal level sufficient & necessary conditions for a mental phenomenon X are taken as a description of the underlying psychological process for X. Example: Common belief and knowledge assumed to need recursive mindreading
Y a-t-il un lien pour les autres arrondissements ?
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
A challenge for teaching but one that can be easily solved. Many students are usually a very motivated to try out different fields. The *real* challenge is for established academics on hiring committees to start seeing the value of those multidisciplinary grads.
Interesting that after he became world-renowned, he tended to "make-up" less and less: "After “Hat,” ... his patients were far more likely to say ordinary, banal things, and they rarely quoted literature. They still had secret gifts, but they weren’t redeemed by them; they were just trying to cope."
Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Thanks to the LSE blog for the highlight!
The one constant of all publishing reform efforts has been ludicrous publisher profit margins. We specifically highlight a need for funders to act.
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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social).
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Huge if true, might revolutionise philosophy of perception
Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!
I still find disjunctivism about hallucination really counterintuitive (compared to perception) after years of following the debate, so kudos for making it accessible
Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis
This is pretty informative! Look forward to checking out Pinker's book. But the (prevalent) emphasis on recursive mentalizing for common knowledge seems to me a non-starter. I suspect a confusion here between epistemological models and models about what people actually do, psychological models
New publication out in Philosophical Psychology! 🚨
"Explaining joint attention: Between epistemic justification and psychological processing"
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Instead of an epistemic-first approach I offer a psychologically plausible probabilistic account of JA. Usually, a rough assumption of attending to the same target, based on cues/predictions/heuristics, is enough to form a basis for coordination, even if this assumption can be fallible.
But joint attention is a psychological phenomenon, and we also have to explain what capacities or processes are behind it. Since most accounts are focused on a fully epistemically justified state of joint attention, they fall short when trying to address the psychological processes behind it
This paper argues that usually philosophical accounts of joint attention are purpose-built to address an epistemic question: under which conditions are people fully justified to take their and another’s attention to be of the same object?
Joint attention plays a crucial role in allowing for further coordinated behaviours and interactions. How do we explain this role?
