Anita Leirfall
@anitaleirfall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently x.com/themarginali... #Dennett #criticism #kindness #arguing #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky
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December 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently x.com/themarginali... #Dennett #criticism #kindness #arguing #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky
Did you know that the word "scientist" was coined for a woman? The polymathic Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville. Here is her abiding wisdom on tenacity and the key to a flexible mind x.com/themarginali... #science #philsky #PhilosophySky
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December 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Did you know that the word "scientist" was coined for a woman? The polymathic Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville. Here is her abiding wisdom on tenacity and the key to a flexible mind x.com/themarginali... #science #philsky #PhilosophySky
Computation is not the Right Framework to Comprehend the Concepts of Intelligence and Life ocrampal.com/computation-... #intelligence #life #computing #philsky #PhilosophySky
Computation is not the Right Framework to Comprehend the Concepts of Intelligence and Life
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for comp...
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December 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Computation is not the Right Framework to Comprehend the Concepts of Intelligence and Life ocrampal.com/computation-... #intelligence #life #computing #philsky #PhilosophySky
Did the most talented athletes, scientists, and musicians reach peak performance relatively early or late in their career? Did they forgo mastering multiple sports, academic subjects, and musical instruments to reach world-class performance in only one? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Did the most talented athletes, scientists, and musicians reach peak performance relatively early or late in their career? Did they forgo mastering multiple sports, academic subjects, and musical instruments to reach world-class performance in only one? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Last #HoPWaG episode of the year, on Blaise Pascal!
He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal
#philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts
He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal
#philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts
December 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Last #HoPWaG episode of the year, on Blaise Pascal!
He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal
#philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts
He was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
www.historyofphilosophy.net/pascal
#philsky #philosophy #pascal #podcasts
Recalling her own experience both as a child & as a parent, Margaret Mead offers an inclusive alternative to the narrow Santa Claus myth, inviting parents to use the commercial Western holiday as an opportunity to introduce kids to different folkloric traditions & value systems x.com/brainpicking...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Recalling her own experience both as a child & as a parent, Margaret Mead offers an inclusive alternative to the narrow Santa Claus myth, inviting parents to use the commercial Western holiday as an opportunity to introduce kids to different folkloric traditions & value systems x.com/brainpicking...
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The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...
How the 'Christmas tree worm' evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses — BBC Science Focus Magazine
Meet the bizarre underwater worm that looks like a Christmas decoration and sees through its gills. December 24, 2025 A game I like to play while scuba diving or snorkelling on a tropical coral reef i...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...
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Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy?
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy?
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
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For those of you planning a (well earned) long break over the next 2 weeks, bear in mind that the deadline for submitting a paper for the 2026 ECPR General Conference (Krakow in September) is Jan 9th. Please share with anyone you think might miss this! ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...
ECPR General Conference 2026, Jagiellonian University, 8 – 11 September 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
For those of you planning a (well earned) long break over the next 2 weeks, bear in mind that the deadline for submitting a paper for the 2026 ECPR General Conference (Krakow in September) is Jan 9th. Please share with anyone you think might miss this! ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...
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Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
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Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social
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They're not "waiting to return to the surface," they're waiting for the planet to be blasted into pebbles to that they can reach another star-system #panspermia #intraterrestrials #aeonophiles
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life
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December 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
They're not "waiting to return to the surface," they're waiting for the planet to be blasted into pebbles to that they can reach another star-system #panspermia #intraterrestrials #aeonophiles
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
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However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.
Articles including references to nonexistent research material are themselves being cited in other papers — effectively laundering their erroneous citations. The more these false citations are repeated, the more the illusion of their authenticity is reinforced. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Articles including references to nonexistent research material are themselves being cited in other papers — effectively laundering their erroneous citations. The more these false citations are repeated, the more the illusion of their authenticity is reinforced. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man”
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky
Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man”
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an impo...
www.peterharrington.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man”
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky
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Education should get a lot more bolshy about tech that undermines actual education. I'm not sure it will all be gone in 3 years because it's embarrassing - unless we actively call it out as antithetical to having an educated future generation.
October 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Education should get a lot more bolshy about tech that undermines actual education. I'm not sure it will all be gone in 3 years because it's embarrassing - unless we actively call it out as antithetical to having an educated future generation.
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Grammarly is now an enemy of education
"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."
Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."
Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
Some reasonable adjustments may have just become academic misconduct
Lots of universities across the UK permit the use of Grammarly in reasonable adjustment plans for disabled students, and some permit it in some circumstances for those whose first language isn't Engli...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grammarly is now an enemy of education
"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."
Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."
Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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First woman to receive an academic PhD?
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678.
She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678.
She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
First woman to receive an academic PhD?
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678.
She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678.
She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered
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🎉Warmest congratulations to Dr Jessie Munton on the publication of her book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention (OUP) 📘
@jessiemunton.bsky.social
@oupphilosophy.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
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@jessiemunton.bsky.social
@oupphilosophy.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
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December 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🎉Warmest congratulations to Dr Jessie Munton on the publication of her book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention (OUP) 📘
@jessiemunton.bsky.social
@oupphilosophy.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
@jessiemunton.bsky.social
@oupphilosophy.bsky.social
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy
Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x)
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December 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy
Just like pamphleting gave a platform to a certain kind of political theory nerd in the 18th & 19th C., which subsequently put those people in positions to shape the most important events in modern history, New Media is putting new kinds of people into very powerful situations x.com/robkhenderso...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just like pamphleting gave a platform to a certain kind of political theory nerd in the 18th & 19th C., which subsequently put those people in positions to shape the most important events in modern history, New Media is putting new kinds of people into very powerful situations x.com/robkhenderso...
Every major improvement in human wellbeing, from rising life expectancy to declining famine, has its roots in technological advance rather than moral evolution or political reform. iai.tv/articles/tec... #technology #wellbeing #PhilosophySky #philsky
Technology is the only thing that has ever reduced poverty
<p><em>Public debate increasingly casts technology as a threat — to jobs, to equality, even to civilisation itself. In this article, environmental activist Zion Lights challenges that narrative, showi...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every major improvement in human wellbeing, from rising life expectancy to declining famine, has its roots in technological advance rather than moral evolution or political reform. iai.tv/articles/tec... #technology #wellbeing #PhilosophySky #philsky
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky
1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy - Uppsala University
1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
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December 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky