Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
Philosopher, sailor, wine snob #philsky
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An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· May 26
Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 2
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Here is part 2 of Lukas Schwengerer' series of posts on intellectual virtues on line for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· May 12
Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 1
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Lukas Schwengerer "Intellectual Virtues Online" for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Apr 29
Digital Technology and Cognitive Scaffolding
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Spencer Paulson "Digital Techonology and Cognitive Scaffolding" on Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 2)
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Part 2 of Ian James Kidd on pessimism for Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 1)
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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A great post by Ian James Kidd on Pessimism for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Alex Worsnip on psychologising explanations for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Feb 17
An Existentialist Challenge to the Babel Fish
Could advanced translation technologies solve linguistic injustice in the world? Activists and scholars hear this question being asked quite often, and sometimes with a slight skeptical tone sugges…
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Çağla Çimendereli on translation techonologies and linguistic injustice for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism
If you have followed the 2024 US election coverage, you have likely come across the term “migrant crime”. A term coined by Donald Trump to refer to an alleged crime wave spurred by Joe Biden’s bord…
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Felix Bräuer "Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Terrorism and Evil
On 1 January of this year, an American man drove his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans (Louisiana, US). Fifteen people were killed and dozens of others injured. The perpetr…
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Rik Peels "Terrorism and Evil" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Oppressive Praise
Think about the last time you expressed praise. For me this is easy. As a parent of young children, I do it multiple times a day. ‘How kind you are, sharing your teddy!’ ‘Aw, it sounds like you wer…
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Jules Holroyd "Oppressive Praise" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Dec 24
The “affective” in affective polarization
Public opinion in many contemporary democracies shows increasing signs of polarization. In particular, animosity and dislike across political lines have become increasingly characteristic of Wester…
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Some of you may be interested in this excellent post by
@almagro.bsky.social for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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@almagro.bsky.social for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Philosophical Foundations for Chatbot Regulation
In an age where we increasingly converse with artifacts – whose interfaces include AI, a pressing question emerges: Who, or what, are we really talking with? As AI-based chatbots, often terme…
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Some of you may be interested in this post by Ori Freiman on chatbot regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy
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Some amazing talks coming up this Friday 13 Dec thanks to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social, @uconn.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera & yours truly!
"Cultural Imperialism: A Face of Trans Oppression"
"Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces Sculpt Trans Affect"
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"Cultural Imperialism: A Face of Trans Oppression"
"Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces Sculpt Trans Affect"
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Lucy Osler
@lucyosler.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Digital Transformations: Identity, Gender, and Affectivity
An exploration of the digital aspects of human lives, and the ways in which identities, communities, and collectives form in online spaces.
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We’ll be travelling across trans communities, tradwives, endometriosis support groups, metal and baddiecore!
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Nov 25
AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 2: How (if at all)?
Earlier, I argued that we should safeguard the right to a meaningful explanation of life-changing decisions, even when such decisions are made by complex AI algorithms. Here, I argue that the compl…
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Part 2 of Bram Vaassen's post on AI regulation for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Nov 23
@zaranosaur.bsky.social thought you would be interested
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Nov 11
AI regulation and the right to meaningful explanation. Pt 1. Why (not)?
Ask anyone except a gun rights activist, and they will agree that the rise of new technologies requires the implementation of new regulations. Not too long ago, a law against human cloning would ha…
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Some of you may be interested in this post by Bram Vaassen on AI and the right to an explanation for Open for Debate. #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Oct 28
True Believers?
Introduction One popular image of the ‘brainwashed’ person is someone who repeats what their leader says and who professes conviction in what they repeat.[1] But do brainwashed people really believ…
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When can someone be said to truly believe something? A great post by Chris Ranalli on Open for Debate #philsky #philosophy
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Oct 14
How should we lead our intellectual lives?
This question has long preoccupied philosophers, but has recently taken on greater public urgency in response to fears about misinformation, disinformation, bullshit, tribalism, and other perceived…
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A great post on collective virtues by Steven Bland on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Values and Virtues in Philosophy and Psychology
During the recent general election campaign in the UK, I received a flyer through my door from a local independent candidate who claimed to value, among other things, humanitarianism. He also wante…
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How do virtues relate to values? An excellent post by Henry Roe on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky #psychology
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Gatekeeping in Science
It’s common in public discourse to see worries about pseudoscience. This is understandable, for the stakes are high. Although science surely can’t tell us about everything, it is our best way to le…
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"Gatekeeping in Science" by Katherine Dormandy for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Professor of Philosophy - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary:
The highly ranked Department of Philosophy is seeking excellent junior candidates for multiple tenure/tenure-track faculty positions. The selected candidate will mount a vigorous resear...
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The Philosophy Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring up to six (6!) faculty this year, open rank, open AOS, open AOC:
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Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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Junior position: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...
Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Aug 19
AI voices should sound weird
There has been a lot of discussion recently – both among academics and in the popular press – about what kinds of limits should be placed on content generated by AI. Although questions about how t…
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Ethan Nowak "AI voices should sound weird" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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Aidan McGlynn
@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Volume 133 Issue 531 | Mind | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Mind Association. Publishes high-quality original contributions on philosophy, in which no area of philosophy, no style of philosophy, and no school of philosophy is exclud...
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July 2024 issue of Mind is out, with my review of @ale1808.bsky.social's 'The Mismeasure of the Self':
Alessandra Tanesini
@ale1808.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Extreme belief systems
In Kirill Srebrennikov’s 2016 film, The Student, Venia, a lonely high school student begins to intensely read the bible and appeal to it for everything he says and does. Through this, he becomes a …
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Jakob Ohlhurst "Extreme belief systems" on Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky
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We're hiring!
Two 12-month Teaching & Scholarship positions, one in social epistemology and one in political philosophy.
Closing date: Sunday 21 July 2024.
Full details: bit.ly/cdfphilts12
Two 12-month Teaching & Scholarship positions, one in social epistemology and one in political philosophy.
Closing date: Sunday 21 July 2024.
Full details: bit.ly/cdfphilts12
SUBJECTIVE JUSTICE
Can bad people be good judges?[1] This question would have been unintelligible before the rise of the modern state, when moral character and expertise were deemed as inextricably linked.[2] Person…
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A lovely post by Amalia Navarro in Open for Debate on virtue epistemology and the judiciary #philosophy #philsky
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UCD Post-doct Fellow L1 (PERITIA), Philosophy, 24 Months | University Vacancies IrelandUniversity Vacancies Logo
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2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship (Level 1) on the international research project #PERITIA Network of Research on #Trust and #Expertise, working with Prof. Maria Baghramian at #UCD School of #Philosophy. #PhilSky #PhilJobs universityvacancies.com/university-c...