Daniel Drucker
@danieldrucker.bsky.social
Philosophy professor at UT Austin who thinks about attitudes, epistemology, and communication. https://www.danieldrucker.info/
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And Putnam's paper comparing Rorty and Quine has one of my favourite titles.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And Putnam's paper comparing Rorty and Quine has one of my favourite titles.
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a new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments).
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
David J. Chalmers, What we talk to when we talk to language models - PhilPapers
When we talk to large language models, who or what is our interlocutor? First, I address some issues about how best to characterize the interlocutor in terms of mental states. Second, ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
a new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments).
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley.
philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8
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Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Quick argument against Hamblin's view of questions (a question is a partition of its possible answers). Suppose p possibly answers Q iff in some world w, p is the correct answer to Q. Consider "is 'this sentence isn't true' true?". "Yes": then it's not true. Contradiction.
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Quick argument against Hamblin's view of questions (a question is a partition of its possible answers). Suppose p possibly answers Q iff in some world w, p is the correct answer to Q. Consider "is 'this sentence isn't true' true?". "Yes": then it's not true. Contradiction.
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Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Why did PPR ruin its layout so badly?? philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=RO... (the paper looks interesting, no shade to the paper)
philpapers.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Why did PPR ruin its layout so badly?? philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=RO... (the paper looks interesting, no shade to the paper)
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SALT 36 will be held at my alma mater, the University of Buenos Aires, on July 29-31 2026. This will be the first time the conference takes place in South America.
Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/
Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
SALT 36 will be held at my alma mater, the University of Buenos Aires, on July 29-31 2026. This will be the first time the conference takes place in South America.
Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/
Abstract deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Link: saltconf.github.io/salt36/
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
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📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models
How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models
www.cambridge.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What's been the most philosophically substantive and interesting change of mind that someone has had recently? (As with, say, Russell or Putnam.) Do any come to people's minds? I realized it was very hard for me to think of major cases, but that could be my own limitation.
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What's been the most philosophically substantive and interesting change of mind that someone has had recently? (As with, say, Russell or Putnam.) Do any come to people's minds? I realized it was very hard for me to think of major cases, but that could be my own limitation.
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70 years ago yesterday, they applied for summer money.
September 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
70 years ago yesterday, they applied for summer money.
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where do they FIND these people?!
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
where do they FIND these people?!
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Twain's point being that the Southern plantation society being romanticized wasn't even itself "authentic," it was a performance of a nonexistent past popularized by Sir Walter Scott's sentimental reimagining of a version of the Middle Ages that never happened harpers.org/2007/07/how-...
July 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Twain's point being that the Southern plantation society being romanticized wasn't even itself "authentic," it was a performance of a nonexistent past popularized by Sir Walter Scott's sentimental reimagining of a version of the Middle Ages that never happened harpers.org/2007/07/how-...
Is there any work on conditionals like '[Larry David is making a new show with the Obamas.] If Susie Essman is involved, hooray!'? It seems really hard to make sense of it on most of the approaches to conditionals/expressives that I'm aware of, but I'm curious if people know stuff or have thoughts.
July 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Is there any work on conditionals like '[Larry David is making a new show with the Obamas.] If Susie Essman is involved, hooray!'? It seems really hard to make sense of it on most of the approaches to conditionals/expressives that I'm aware of, but I'm curious if people know stuff or have thoughts.
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I did the thing you are never supposed to do. I wrote a (rough draft of a) textbook: Theories of Rational Decision
It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well.
raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...
It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well.
raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...
raw.githubusercontent.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I did the thing you are never supposed to do. I wrote a (rough draft of a) textbook: Theories of Rational Decision
It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well.
raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...
It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well.
raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...
Why isn't there a common distinction between "act" and "rule" decision theories in the way that there is between act and rule varieties of consequentialism? Aspects of the distinction might be simulated in other ways (resolute choice etc?), but I suspect they don't touch the core of the distinction.
June 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Why isn't there a common distinction between "act" and "rule" decision theories in the way that there is between act and rule varieties of consequentialism? Aspects of the distinction might be simulated in other ways (resolute choice etc?), but I suspect they don't touch the core of the distinction.
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Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:
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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:
academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
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Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes:
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
jdmitrigallow.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes:
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.
Some attitudes we usually do not have
I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \ps...
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June 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.
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I wrote about the social history of analytic philosophy @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Politics of Apoliticism | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”
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June 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I wrote about the social history of analytic philosophy @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
May 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
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A 2-year-old boy who spent the night alone in the remote Arizona wilderness and walked 7 miles through mountain lion territory was led to safety by a rancher's dog, authorities say.
April 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A 2-year-old boy who spent the night alone in the remote Arizona wilderness and walked 7 miles through mountain lion territory was led to safety by a rancher's dog, authorities say.
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🥁🎉It's time again! My colleague Thomas Grundmann is organising the Cologne Summer School in Philosophy. This year's star is @aworsnip.bsky.social (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 🎊📢
You can find more information on the following website: cssip.uni-koeln.de
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You can find more information on the following website: cssip.uni-koeln.de
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March 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🥁🎉It's time again! My colleague Thomas Grundmann is organising the Cologne Summer School in Philosophy. This year's star is @aworsnip.bsky.social (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 🎊📢
You can find more information on the following website: cssip.uni-koeln.de
Spread the word and repost!
You can find more information on the following website: cssip.uni-koeln.de
Spread the word and repost!