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Richard Pettigrew
@wiglet1981.bsky.social

Philosopher at University of Bristol πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ he/him

https://richardpettigrew.com/

Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For? .. more

Philosophy 39%
Computer science 14%

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hear me out: joyce carol oates super bowl halftime appearance

Been nice knowing you, noam.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com

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Me: Ooh, what about a philosophy-themed Mamdani generator meme?

Skynet:
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

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HOW HAVE I NOT WATCHED THIS SHOW BEFORE
The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...
Annual Conference | 2025
The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 15-17 July 2025 at the University of Glasgow
www.thebsps.org

I wrote up a blogpost that riffs on some of the ideas in this paper

At least they didn’t let that guy loose on urban nomenclature…<taps earpiece>…wait, say that again? did you say β€˜malice’?

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Naming my streetcar something normal like "engine #317" or "central line, tram 7", or whatever; looking askance at whoever called theirs "desire".
I think it's worth noting that u get more time/people/questions & certainly home baking when giving a talk at our Monday morning pol-phi sessions than u do at most conferences. Good to know if contemplating a PhD with e.g. @wiglet1981.bsky.social @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social

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It occurred to me that someone should make one of those single-page hasandrewcuomoleftnewyorkyet.com websites. I'd do it myself but then I'd have to follow the news about him to maintain it. So instead I'm going to make hassomeonemadehasandrewcuomoleftnewyorkyetyet.com

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I’m the consultant off screen coaching cuomo, β€œsmiling should not be apparent in the eyes at all” and guys he’s crushing it

inviting him to my next conference to finally get that strictly proper scoring rules Lego set I keep asking them to make
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

nothing about this story falls short of outstanding
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Getting the baking done for the Monday morning political philosophy meeting with @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social, and others…

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It came as a huge surprise to me in 2004 when the Abbey National was taken over by Santander

I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition

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And some goats for your timeline

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I dressed up as a utility monster for Halloween, but no one else seemed to enjoy it as much as I did.

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I was thinking of being a bat for Halloween, but I just couldn't imagine what it would be like.

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I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.
Birds but they get spookier each time. πŸŽƒπŸ‘»

Enter if you dare...πŸšͺ

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More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧡1/7

doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
Lady Parts and Baby Parts: What Is a Fetus?
A common-sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co-extensive with the approximately baby-shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabo...
doi.org

Has Google managed to screw up their maps app thru AI as well? They’ve recently started showing random driveways as roads around my neighbourhood. I’d find this really confusing if I were counting off side roads before knowing where to turn. I wonder if it’s produced thru AI from satellite images.
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!

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Sure, but this is the reason why Farage has a career in politics at all: because he was recruited by the Sun, the Mail and others as a figurehead for whatever terrifying outrage horseshit they were pushing in any given week. One of a cast of thousands of tame wingnuts, who rose through the ranks.
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.