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Amy Taggart
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PhD Researcher in Environmental Ethics at Trinity College Dublin.
Ethics of food production in Ireland in the context of climate and biodiversity change.
Applied Ethics | Political Philosophy | Policy
https://www.tcd.ie/environmental-ethics/people/
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Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

-Rachel Carson
A single tree near a path on a hill.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz {Slow Movement}
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November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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My student Arlene Lo has a paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Canada's attempts to integrate Indigenous groups into its environmental impact assessments. It's now out in (appropriately enough!) the Canadian journal of philosophy. It's good, check it out!

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Anti-Colonial Science? The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge Inclusion in Science-Based Policy Arlene Lo An aspect of the Indigenous struggle against colonial oppression is the struggle for the inclusion of their knowledge in policymaking. Perceived as epistemically inferior to science, Indigenous knowledge and subsequently interests are systematically excluded in science-based policy. This article advances an anti-colonial political philosophy of science. As Indigenous knowledge feeds into the necessary political value judgements in policy-relevant science, Indigenous knowledge inclusion, I contend, should be treated as a political, not solely epistemic, matter. I further argue that Indigenous peoples, not just scientists, should have the power to make such political value judgements given the politics of representation under coloniality.
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Tony Njoku - Lost Forever
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The future is AI vs "Nay, I"
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That feeling when someone says "I love your jumper, where did you get it?" and you *finally* get to say "I made it" and they give a look of admiration.

Plug that into my feckin veins.

#knitsky
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Winter Atlantic sky.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Going Down To Bangor
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November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Here's pages 3 and 4 of the forthcoming book:
Introduction: Epistemic Matters 1. Epistemic Everything Everywhere All at Once A recent pattern in academic philosophy over the past 20 or so years has involved relentlessly adding the word ‘epistemic’ in front of almost every other word. Examples include: epistemic infringement; epistemic apprenticeships; epistemic oppression; epistemic failure; epistemic vices; epistemic atonement; epistemic weaponry; epistemic injustice; epistemic phariseeism; epistemic slurs; the epistemic apocalypse; epistemic health; epistemic inoculation; epistemic complicity; epistemic dehumanisation; epistemic appropriation; epistemic trespassing; epistemic violence; epistemic rights; epistemic death; epistemic exploitation; epistemic redlining; epistemic reparations; epistemic sanity; the epistemic IKEA effect; epistemic apathy; epistemic shamelessness; epistemic utopia; and epistemic exhaustion. This trend shows no sign of slowing down; on the contrary, it can seem like we’re only a short distance along an exponential curve, with new additions to the list almost every week. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies things like knowledge, evidence, understanding, justification, wisdom, warrant, and so on. Traditionally, it examines how we learn about the world and ourselves, the nature of knowledge and understanding and other states of this kind the scope and limits of what we can know, how to respond to the ‘sceptic’ who argues that our beliefs are rarely if ever justified or warranted, and other issues like these. ‘Epistemic’ is an adjective that picks out things as falling under epistemology’s remit; the epistemic is what epistemology studies. Knowledge is an epistemic state; indeed, it’s the paradigm of an epistemic state. Knowledge is a relationship between thinkers (or perhaps groups of thinkers) and the world, involving those thinkers recognising how things are in the world. That might sound rather abstract, but examples couldn’t be more familiar; I know where my keys are right now, and I know the last four digits of my phone number (at least when I have had sufficient caffeine), and this is a matter of me recognising certain things about the world―the location of my keys in it, and the digits of my phone number. To describe something as epistemic is a way of somehow relating it to knowledge and other epistemic states, such as those I’ve already mentioned. So why has there been such an explosion of interest in epistemic…stuff? In particular, why has there been such a focus on prefixing ‘epistemic’ to stuff that doesn’t seem all that closely related to epistemology’s traditional concerns (for example, weaponry, slurs, violence)? Is there anything philosophically interesting behind the ‘epistemic X’ pattern? Is it just herd-mentality combined with the influence of a few philosophical trend-setters (dynamics which philosophers are not always as immune to as we like to think, or like others to think)? Or is it a slightly odd marketing-gimmick: a way to try to make research that might pass by relatively unnoticed seem like it’s part of a hot new trend?
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Epistemology is in, baby.

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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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It’s true, Schopenhauer played the flute - I’ve seen them!
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"Humphreys’ 'Animals, Ethics, and Language: The Philosophy of Meaningful Communication in the Lives of Animals' ...completely transformed my perspective on human-animal relations."

Check out the full review of Rebekah Humphreys' Palgrave book here:
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Animals, Ethics, and Language: The Philosophy of Meaningful Communication in the Lives of Animals
I have always loved animals, from cats and dogs to the amazing creatures I see in documentaries. However, as a kid, there was nothing quite like cartoons t
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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“Most of the things that we need to do for climate change we need to do anyway and we would generally be better off doing those things” @hannahdaly.ie

🎙️ Ep2 Climate change-off the record
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Episode 2: Professor Hannah Daly
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Comforting myself through illness with “a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.” 💙 📚
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Movement VII
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Looking forward to this 💙 📚 @axdouglas.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Is it really philosophy when they didn't call it philosophy?
What’s in a Name? “Philosophy” in Non-European Traditions (guest post) - Daily Nous
If certain cultures didn't have the word "philosophy," or a word that can directly be translated with "philosophy," is it illegitimate, maybe culturally imperialist, to impose it on them? In the follo...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social)

While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
No, this is not about the decline of the occident, just a note about a curiosity in academic philosophy. Philosophy is a discipline in which reading is a key competence, not least in that philosoph…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Julianna Barwick - Labyrithine
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November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Gandhi’s Talisman. Unfortunately for too many world leaders their doubts are dissolving in a way Gandhi did not anticipate.
"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her to a control over his [her own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Teaching an octopus to play piano
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science

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I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
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November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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It would have been awful spending years in grad school mastering Hegel's Science of Logic to find out that they were only hiring in Philosophy of Reanimated Corpse.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Mainland mail.
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Dragon
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November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM