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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
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Philosopher at VU Amsterdam
PI of ERC-funded project 'Social Epistemology of Argumentation' (2018-2024)
Author of 'The Dialogical Roots of Deduction' (CUP, 2020) and 'Formal Languages in Logic' (CUP, 2012)
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes is a Brazilian and Dutch philosopher whose research concerns the formalization of argumentation and reasoning in the history of logic and the philosophy of logic. She is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a professorial fellow at the Arché philosophical research centre of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. .. more

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hi all! I'm a philosopher at VU Amsterdam. Over the past 6 years I've been leading the ERC-funded project 'The Social Epistemology of Argumentation'. With some amazing young scholars, we've been developing more realistic accounts of argumentative processes. I'll post some links to articles below.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Agreed! My favorite dialogue by Plato 🤩

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Haven’t seen it yet 😬

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
To be clear, I'm very much in favor of philotainment! The fun can be deep, and the deep can be fun 😀

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Chatting with a colleague today, we came up with a neologism (maybe it already exists): PHILOTAINMENT, i.e., philosophical entertainment (or entertaining philosophy).

Some examples of philotainment that comes to mind: the series 'The Good Place', maybe 'The Matrix', Slavoj Žižek. Other examples?

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Cool! I'd love to hear what you think of the paper if/when you read it 😊

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Brandom has been a major influence on my thinking for over 15 years. But as I became more interested in the entanglement of discursive practices with politics and power relations, I moved away from idealized approaches such as his GOGAR towards more 'realistic' accounts of argumentative processes.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
->Netherlands. The case study illustrates in particular the limitations of Brandom’s account when it comes to problematizing the potentially exclusionary, status quo-affirming aspects of discursive practices of giving and asking for reasons."

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
->consideration in particular the cognitive limitations of human beings and the power relations underpinning discursive interactions. To illustrate the differences between the two approaches, I discuss a specific case study, namely the societal debates on the folk figure of “Black Pete” in the->

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
->in these practices. In this paper, I contrast Brandom’s account of the “game of giving and asking for reasons” with the conceptualization of argumentation as epistemic exchange (of reasons) that I have been developing in recent years. My account openly aims to be more realistic, taking into->

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
"Brandom’s inferentialism relies on a highly idealized account of discursive practices of giving and asking for reasons, which deviates considerably from concrete, real-life practices. In particular, it abstracts away features pertaining to politics and to the power relations among those involved->

Reposted by Alan Richardson

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 8d
Just in time for Xmas 😀 My paper on the absence of sustained discussion of power relations in R. Brandom's inferentialism is out! "Who Gets to Play? Power in the Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons". Abstract 👇
journals.openedition.org/ejpap/5366
Who Gets to Play?
1. Introduction Robert Brandom’s inferentialist research program has been one of the most comprehensive, wide-ranging philosophical research programs in the last decades, bringing together topics f...
journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Steven French, Catarina Dutilh Novaes

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Springer @springer.springernature.com · 9d
How do mathematical proofs really develop? This #OpenAccess chapter revisits Lakatos’ proofs and refutations, showing how dialogue, challenge, and cooperation shape mathematical practice and why his ideas still matter today. bit.ly/4ai5Ojo @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #booksky
Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 15d
I don’t think so, I love Eurovision! But it’s time for Israel not to be allowed to participate anymore.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 16d
At some point, the whole Eurovision thing won't be viable anymore, if a few more countries drop out. C'mon, other countries, grow a spine!

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Lisa Bortolotti, Catarina Dutilh Novaes , and 1 more

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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 18d
Please share!
The journal "Experimental

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 22d
For once, the Netherlands making the right choice.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Ben Crum , and 3 more

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 24d
Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 24d
Done, thanks!

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 24d
Does anyone have institutional access to this awesome-looking volume? My library doesn't have it, and I want to consult two of the chapters (the one on Anna Julia Cooper and the one on Jane Addams). Any help would be gratefully received 😊
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century
Abstract. This handbook challenges the misconception that there were no female philosophers during the nineteenth century. It explores the diverse philosop
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 25d
"For me, marriage is a form of state authority and coercion that I will not endorse through my participation."
As someone who has once partaken in the institution (now divorced), I feel the same way. Also, it's historically a patriarchal institution that cannot be fully unburdened from its history.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 25d
"Perhaps this is behind the burgeoning genre of opinion pieces in which a rightwing man complains that women don’t want to date him. Often enough, he is an avowed libertarian, leaving it a mystery why he does not simply accept the workings of the free market." 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan
Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan
www.theguardian.com

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 18
I was just in a workshop on mathematical understanding in Princeton last week; this point came up pertaining to mathematics, but it generalizes to other areas of inquiry.

Reposted by Steven French

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 18
Indeed! What also happens is that the masters move on to something *else* that they claim is mysterious & requires ingenuity (now that their previous skills have been democratized by automation), so as to reaffirm their superiority. It's a recurrent phenomenon with novel disruptive technologies.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Nov 18
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Trevor A. Branch

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Nov 18
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 16
On this, I love this paper on justified exclusions in mathematics, focusing on justly excluded cranks. Which doesn't mean that there can be no false negatives, but it's a matter of workload management for the community.
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 5
Naturally, I got in touch with the student to encourage them to pursue a Research Master’s in philosophy ☺️

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 5
That delicious feeling of marking a truly outstanding exam ✨ I've been teaching this course (History of Analytic Philosophy, 2nd year BA) for 6 years; I've had some great students before, but this one is simply off the charts! This student is a true philosophical talent 🤩 #happyteachertoday

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Oct 29
Met volle overtuiging net op @lucstultiens.bsky.social gestemd! Luc is heel actief geweest om het onderwijs te beschermen tegen de absurde bezuinigingen van het vorige kabinet, die ook steun kregen van oppositiepartijen zoals het CDA. Hop naar een kabinet dat Nederland niet dommer wil maken!
lucstultiens.bsky.social Luc Stultiens @lucstultiens.bsky.social · Oct 28
Opmerkelijk vanavond: Bontenbal verweet Timmermans de onderwijsbezuinigingen van VVD/PVV niet te steunen.

Als het CDA een rechte rug had gehouden net als de rest van de oppositie, hoefden scholen en universiteiten in NL nu geen mensen te ontslaan.

Het alternatief lag op tafel, CDA stemde tegen..

Reposted by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Martin Drenthen, Judith Pollmann

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Luc Stultiens @lucstultiens.bsky.social · Oct 28
Opmerkelijk vanavond: Bontenbal verweet Timmermans de onderwijsbezuinigingen van VVD/PVV niet te steunen.

Als het CDA een rechte rug had gehouden net als de rest van de oppositie, hoefden scholen en universiteiten in NL nu geen mensen te ontslaan.

Het alternatief lag op tafel, CDA stemde tegen..

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Oct 27
Of course you are right that the far right, and Wilders in particular, continues to have a firm grip on media & electorate in NL. But compared to the last elections, there's at least a bit more pushback. I also found this article on the profiles of voters interesting 👇
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Nieuwe kiezers bereiken zónder de harde kern vervreemden – het blijkt moeilijk voor alle partijen
Het probleem waar iedere partij mee worstelt is: hoe bereik je die nieuwe kiezers zonder je vaste kiezers, je ‘kernelectoraat’, van je te vervreemden? Bijna iedere partij zit deze campagne met dit pro...
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