Pablo Rivas-Robledo
@pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social
PhD student at the ILLC in Amsterdam
Host of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social
Host of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social
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In a way, aren't all printers 3D?
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In a way, aren't all printers 3D?
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Congratulations to Barbara Vetter!
Her work is a must read in the theory of modality. She has been crafting her theory over many years and it's great to see a fellow possible world agnostic receive such an award!
You can learn more about her work on our podcast!
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Her work is a must read in the theory of modality. She has been crafting her theory over many years and it's great to see a fellow possible world agnostic receive such an award!
You can learn more about her work on our podcast!
youtu.be/RpVWA9jXG4w?...
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Congratulations to Barbara Vetter!
Her work is a must read in the theory of modality. She has been crafting her theory over many years and it's great to see a fellow possible world agnostic receive such an award!
You can learn more about her work on our podcast!
youtu.be/RpVWA9jXG4w?...
Her work is a must read in the theory of modality. She has been crafting her theory over many years and it's great to see a fellow possible world agnostic receive such an award!
You can learn more about her work on our podcast!
youtu.be/RpVWA9jXG4w?...
The season finale is here. What a ride. And to end it on a high note, I had the pleasure to meet with my co-supervisro and an absolutely stellar philosopher, Luca Incurvati. In the two years we have been working together I have learned tons, and in this interview I learned even more.
Thank you, Luca
Thank you, Luca
🏓 The Ping Pong Philosophy Season Finale is here! 🎙️
We wrap up our very first season with Luca Incurvati, one of today’s leading voices in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
OUT NOW on Spotify and YouTube! https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PvxF4QjmlxJFwtW5Rdj5q?si=7SfQi1FySGCPCBqm9ak5WQ
We wrap up our very first season with Luca Incurvati, one of today’s leading voices in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
OUT NOW on Spotify and YouTube! https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PvxF4QjmlxJFwtW5Rdj5q?si=7SfQi1FySGCPCBqm9ak5WQ
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The season finale is here. What a ride. And to end it on a high note, I had the pleasure to meet with my co-supervisro and an absolutely stellar philosopher, Luca Incurvati. In the two years we have been working together I have learned tons, and in this interview I learned even more.
Thank you, Luca
Thank you, Luca
I think it is always a pleasure to know that analytical philosophy is doing well and it is genuinly concerned with philosophical problems that have real world repercusions. That is why it was a pleasure to interview Mari Mikkola for @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social, who is one those.
Mari Mikkola on hate speech, feminism, metaphysics… and surviving Phenomenology of Spirit.
🎙️ A must-listen episode of Ping Pong Philosophy!
Check it out now!
https://youtu.be/VZDW77ou2iA
🎙️ A must-listen episode of Ping Pong Philosophy!
Check it out now!
https://youtu.be/VZDW77ou2iA
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I think it is always a pleasure to know that analytical philosophy is doing well and it is genuinly concerned with philosophical problems that have real world repercusions. That is why it was a pleasure to interview Mari Mikkola for @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social, who is one those.
Giving talks with slides is just academic karaoke.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Giving talks with slides is just academic karaoke.
Over the summer I had the chance to go to the SIFA conference and attend the keynote talks. The first day Mario de Caro gave a fantastic talk on Virtue Ethics and AI systems that inspired me to reach him and ask him to do an episode. 24 hours later we recorded this interview. Thank you, Mario.
I talked with Mario de Caro, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and Università Roma Tre, about virtue ethics for AI, free will, and the time he managed to make Hilary Putnam change his mind.
Check out the podcast on Spotify and YouTube! https://youtu.be/nSEJGjq0Vko 🎙️🏓
Check out the podcast on Spotify and YouTube! https://youtu.be/nSEJGjq0Vko 🎙️🏓
Mario de Caro on virtue ethics for AI, free will and making Hilary Putnam change his mind I EP 8
Mario holds two positions, he is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and Università Roma Tre. He has held various positions at Harvard University, MI...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Over the summer I had the chance to go to the SIFA conference and attend the keynote talks. The first day Mario de Caro gave a fantastic talk on Virtue Ethics and AI systems that inspired me to reach him and ask him to do an episode. 24 hours later we recorded this interview. Thank you, Mario.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
We now on episode seven, which was actually the first episode we recorded. This was huge, because I was going to interview none other than Filippo Ferrari, who is a mandatory reference when studying issues in the normativity of truth, something that our research project touches on.
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
We now on episode seven, which was actually the first episode we recorded. This was huge, because I was going to interview none other than Filippo Ferrari, who is a mandatory reference when studying issues in the normativity of truth, something that our research project touches on.
Although possible world semantics has become the standard way to treat modality in contemporary analytic philosophy people like Barbara Vetter have pushed to understand it better in terms that are relevant for us humans in the actual world. I got to sit down with her for Ping Pong Philosophy. Enjoy!
In this episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓, I talk with Barbara Vetter, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies, about possibility, human abilities, and more!
Barbara Vetter on grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and more! I EP 6
Barbara is a professor of Theoretische Philosophie at Freie Universität’s Berlin’s Institut für Philosophie. She is also the co-director of the “Human Abilit...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Although possible world semantics has become the standard way to treat modality in contemporary analytic philosophy people like Barbara Vetter have pushed to understand it better in terms that are relevant for us humans in the actual world. I got to sit down with her for Ping Pong Philosophy. Enjoy!
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TOMORROW! 🎙️🏓 A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy drops!
This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology.
You don’t want to miss this one!
This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology.
You don’t want to miss this one!
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
TOMORROW! 🎙️🏓 A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy drops!
This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology.
You don’t want to miss this one!
This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology.
You don’t want to miss this one!
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Halfway through our first season! 🏓🎙️
Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast.
There’s so much more to come!
Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀
Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast.
There’s so much more to come!
Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Halfway through our first season! 🏓🎙️
Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast.
There’s so much more to come!
Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀
Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast.
There’s so much more to come!
Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀
For the mid season episode I had the absolute pleasure to intervew one hell of a philosopher, the one and only Massimo Pigliucci. We got to talk about many things, the most fun of those being whether if denouncing pseudo-science for so long has gotten him a lot of hate mail.
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For the mid season episode I had the absolute pleasure to intervew one hell of a philosopher, the one and only Massimo Pigliucci. We got to talk about many things, the most fun of those being whether if denouncing pseudo-science for so long has gotten him a lot of hate mail.
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🏓 One of my favorite conversations this season with Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at CCNY.
We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever.
🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!
We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever.
🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🏓 One of my favorite conversations this season with Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at CCNY.
We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever.
🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!
We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever.
🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!
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New paper! 🥳
"Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica.
A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...
"Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica.
A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...
Trust in Mathematics
Abstract. In this paper we develop a systematic account of trust in mathematics based on Katherine Hawley’s commitment account of trust. We focus on two re
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper! 🥳
"Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica.
A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...
"Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica.
A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...
For the fourth episode (and one of my favourites so far) I got to interview @lisamherzog.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to listen to her "slightly crazy" takes on political philosophy, going to the opera (which she suggests to all philosophy students) and anarchism.
Watch/listen here or on Spotify!
Watch/listen here or on Spotify!
In this episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓, I talk with Lisa Herzog, Full Professor and Aletta Jacobs Chair of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen, about anarchism, philosophy at the opera, and the importance of sustainable work.
Lisa Herzog on anarchism, philosophy at the opera and the importance of sustainable work I EP 4 🏓
Lisa Herzog is Full Professor and Aletta Jacobs Chair of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. Befo...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For the fourth episode (and one of my favourites so far) I got to interview @lisamherzog.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to listen to her "slightly crazy" takes on political philosophy, going to the opera (which she suggests to all philosophy students) and anarchism.
Watch/listen here or on Spotify!
Watch/listen here or on Spotify!
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The publisher who disowns AI will make an absolute killing - it'll be seen as the most independent, trustworthy and imaginative and will be the place to which authors and readers will flock.
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The publisher who disowns AI will make an absolute killing - it'll be seen as the most independent, trustworthy and imaginative and will be the place to which authors and readers will flock.
_Anarchy in th UK starts playing in the background_
No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!
No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!
This has to be one of my favorite episodes of the season! I had such a fascinating conversation with Lisa Herzog. We talked about anarchism and the importance of sustainable work.
Can’t wait for you to watch it!
Ep 4 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow! 🎙️
Can’t wait for you to watch it!
Ep 4 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow! 🎙️
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
_Anarchy in th UK starts playing in the background_
No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!
No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!
Back when I was an undergrad I stumbled upon a video of a certain Franz Berto who boldly claimed that the laws of logic are not only about how we reason in our mind, but that they applied to reality as such. Years later I was able sit down with him for a chat.
New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!
New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!
🌍 Are possible worlds just as real as our own? And what role does imagination play in logic and metaphysics?
In this episode 🏓, I talk with Franz Berto, Professor at the University of St. Andrews, about modal realism, imagination, and what we can learn from reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
In this episode 🏓, I talk with Franz Berto, Professor at the University of St. Andrews, about modal realism, imagination, and what we can learn from reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
Franz Berto on modal realism, imagination and reading the Tractatus I EP 3
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October 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Back when I was an undergrad I stumbled upon a video of a certain Franz Berto who boldly claimed that the laws of logic are not only about how we reason in our mind, but that they applied to reality as such. Years later I was able sit down with him for a chat.
New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!
New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!
Tomorrow a new episode of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social will be posted. This time is with the extraordinary Franz Berto, who (to my surprise) would like for modal realism to be true.
🎙️ A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy drops TOMORROW!
This week’s guest: Franz Berto 🏓
💭 When was the first time you realized that Lewis was a great philosopher, yet deeply mistaken?
Stay tuned to hear Professor Berto’s answer!
This week’s guest: Franz Berto 🏓
💭 When was the first time you realized that Lewis was a great philosopher, yet deeply mistaken?
Stay tuned to hear Professor Berto’s answer!
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tomorrow a new episode of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social will be posted. This time is with the extraordinary Franz Berto, who (to my surprise) would like for modal realism to be true.
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Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links
People working on non-deterministic semantics flaunt that they can do modal logic without possible worlds. But do they have a theory modality?
Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues.
#metaphysics #modallogic
Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues.
#metaphysics #modallogic
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
People working on non-deterministic semantics flaunt that they can do modal logic without possible worlds. But do they have a theory modality?
Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues.
#metaphysics #modallogic
Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues.
#metaphysics #modallogic
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Hey Google! How about you the fuck don't?
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hey Google! How about you the fuck don't?
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🎙️ Had a fascinating conversation with Jennifer Lackey in this week’s episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓
Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.
Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🎙️ Had a fascinating conversation with Jennifer Lackey in this week’s episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓
Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.
Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.
Can you believe it? I got to sit down with one of my favourite philosophers and ask them about their work.
The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.
The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.
🚨 TOMORROW! A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy with Jennifer Lackey 🎙️🏓
💭 What’s a philosophical position you wish were true, but in your view… isn’t?
Jennifer shares her take in tomorrow’s episode.
Don’t miss it!
💭 What’s a philosophical position you wish were true, but in your view… isn’t?
Jennifer shares her take in tomorrow’s episode.
Don’t miss it!
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Can you believe it? I got to sit down with one of my favourite philosophers and ask them about their work.
The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.
The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.
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What is an area that philosophers should engage with more?
Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts!
🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube
Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts!
🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What is an area that philosophers should engage with more?
Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts!
🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube
Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts!
🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube