This is a very interesting paper that engages with empirical literature on how cults undermine agency. Much needed in the responsibility literature, which has plenty of sci fi brain washing examples but li on close real life equivalents.
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Feed the birds - five years a bag....
BBC News - Sign threatens five‑year jail term for feeding birds
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Giving the keynote on Defending Psychiatric Diagnoses at the Swedish Congress of Psychiatry. You know the drill by now, psychiatric diagnoses as not reflecting real people but that is alight because they are idealised and abstract models, and modelling is great in science. #psychiatry #philsci
But hopefully they don't have your home address
As part of #BPF2026, I'll be speaking online at @triphilosophy.bsky.social - 1pm, Tuesday 17 March.
Following #IWD, come and find out how we can fight back against misogyny's growing use of various digital representations against women!
#philsky #philosophymatters
All are welcome! Zoom link below
Is it bad manners to send book proposal to more than one publisher at once?
I'm not much liking the 21st century, so I'm escaping to the 19th century and reading Middlemarch
I have proofed 4 pages. Stopping now before I start to make things worse.
Disgraceful!
For me it's not so much about LLMs than about career stage. If I can't write the way I want now that I have at least some job security, when can I?
Submissions are open for @triphilosophy.bsky.social's 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
If you have written book that meets the criteria, please ask your publisher to nominate it. If you work in publishing, please nominate your favourite eligible books.
Image of the original cover of Wedekind's Drama Frühlingserwachen
I have just finished reading Wedekind's Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening). It's certainly different....
A copy of the Cambridge student edition of Hobbes Leviathan.
Maybe more orange. Anyway, it was fine? Long time since I've read it for a reading group
I have the dark blue one with the red writing
I feel seen...
Sliver of sky!
Thinking about LLM companions/friends and Nozick's experience machine. Seems like lots of people do choose the experience machine. #philsky
I'm co-running a weekly online reading group on trans philosophy. We're now meeting Thursdays, 16:00-17:00 UK time. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please drop me a message :)
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What are people's views on revealing that one reviewed a paper post publication? Bad etiquette? Fine?
I sometimes want to approach authors whose papers I really liked, but not sure it's the done thing. #academicsky
News headline - Trump says 'special relationship is obviously not what it was'.. Picture of Trump and Starter gazing into each others eyes
You've lost that loving feeling, ooh-ooh that loving feeling...
Ha, I look like a motivational speaker.
Anneli on blame
Question time!
Very interesting talk by @annelijefferson.bsky.social tonight at the Aristotelian Society! Learnt a lot about blame #philsky
Join us online for this workshop on AI psychosis & the relationship between hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts. With lived experience experts, philosophers of psychiatry & of technology, psychologists & mental health researchers www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/heari... #philpsy #philsky
Join us for the Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge)
🗓️ Friday 13 March 2026 3pm - 5pm
📍 In-Person, LSE Campus
Abstract: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
#Philosophy #Medicine #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @ox.ac.uk
Poster of event with photos of Lisa and Tim
Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky
I did this with ours last summer. Some really impressive open days. Unfortunately, no scope for direct comparison as he's applied for engineering.
Aw, that's so sweet! And amazingly organised!
I sort of feel there's going to be so many ways people misunderstand papers that I'd only write response if you feel a burning need to set the record straight.
