Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

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Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈 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

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 9h

hear me out: joyce carol oates super bowl halftime appearance

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Been nice knowing you, noam.

Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 1d

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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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 2d

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

Skynet:

I ask google for a famous philosophy paper with "for" in the title. Its AI overview suggests G.E. Moore's "A Defence of Common Sense".

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Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 3d

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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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

HOW HAVE I NOT WATCHED THIS SHOW BEFORE

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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 4d

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

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 4d

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

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

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

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

Naming my streetcar something normal like "engine #317" or "central line, tram 7", or whatever; looking askance at whoever called theirs "desire".

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 5d

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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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 5d

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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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

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

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6d

inviting him to my next conference to finally get that strictly proper scoring rules Lego set I keep asking them to make

Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6d

nothing about this story falls short of outstanding

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 7d

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 7d

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 7d

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

Ten chocolate chip cookies just out the oven

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Michael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 8d

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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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 9d

And some goats for your timeline

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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 10d

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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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 10d

I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 10d

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪

A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.

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Ali Boyle @aliboyle.bsky.social · 11d

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

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Map of part of Bristol with many driveways shown as roads

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 11d

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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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