Ralph Stefan Weir
@ralphstefanweir.bsky.social
Philosopher interested in metaphysics, mind, AI, language, art, religion etc. Author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics.
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New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live!
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
Recent piece in Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
When the Dying Wake: What Terminal Lucidity Reveals
A phenomenon that may be beyond neuroscientific explanation.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Recent piece in Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live!
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live!
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...
@jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social makes a great observation
Wow I don't know what's happening at NY Review of Books but those guys are just printing banger after banger article. The last 2 issues have had incredibly good articles
If you're not reading them you should be www.nybooks.com
If you're not reading them you should be www.nybooks.com
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Politics, Literature, Arts, Ideas: the latest articles and features from The New York Review.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social makes a great observation
Works in Progress is an amazing magazine of new ideas. Defying wider trends in publishing, it is moving from online only to print as well. This will be the most beautiful and intelligent magazine in existence and you should really consider subscribing. worksinprogress.co/print/
Print - Works in Progress Magazine
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September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Works in Progress is an amazing magazine of new ideas. Defying wider trends in publishing, it is moving from online only to print as well. This will be the most beautiful and intelligent magazine in existence and you should really consider subscribing. worksinprogress.co/print/
Departing Split to end the summer conference season in Rome
September 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Departing Split to end the summer conference season in Rome
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Massive congratulations to our brilliant University Challenge team, including two LSHH team members, for winning in Lincoln's first appearance on the show! Looking forward to round 2!! www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...
University of Lincoln students victorious after win on iconic quiz show
It's the first time the university has had a team compete on the popular show
www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Massive congratulations to our brilliant University Challenge team, including two LSHH team members, for winning in Lincoln's first appearance on the show! Looking forward to round 2!! www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...
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Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? Yes! When controlling for baseline differences, philosophy students outperform all other disciplines on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind
July 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? Yes! When controlling for baseline differences, philosophy students outperform all other disciplines on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind
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Upcoming conference in beautiful Lisbon this October on "Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, organised by LSHH's Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/age...
Artistic Networks of Trust
The Calouste Gulbenkian Conference in Art History, in its second edition, offers a reflection on networks of trust in the art world, through the lens of Calouste Gulbenkian’s life and transnational ac...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Upcoming conference in beautiful Lisbon this October on "Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, organised by LSHH's Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/age...
I will be debating the interaction problem for mind-body dualism with the great philosophy podcaster Ben Watkins at 6pm this evening UK time (1pm EST), hosted by Emerson Green. Please join us! www.youtube.com/live/-P2k1pG...
DEBATE: Is mind-body interaction a problem for dualism? Ralph Stefan Weir vs. Ben Watkins
Ralph Stefan Weir and Ben Watkins debate whether there is a sound argument from mental causation to materialism. The argument goes roughly as follows: Our minds cause bodily movements. Bodily movement...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I will be debating the interaction problem for mind-body dualism with the great philosophy podcaster Ben Watkins at 6pm this evening UK time (1pm EST), hosted by Emerson Green. Please join us! www.youtube.com/live/-P2k1pG...
What Heraclitus a Hindu?? You probably thought no, but I'm going to tell you... maybe! afternature.substack.com/p/was-heracl...
Was Heraclitus a Hindu?
An evaluation of Thomas McEvilley's "scholarly proof" of the influence of the Upanishads on the great pre-Socratic.
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June 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What Heraclitus a Hindu?? You probably thought no, but I'm going to tell you... maybe! afternature.substack.com/p/was-heracl...
People often suggest that to qualify as *science* a theory must be based on publicly observable evidence. But in fact, neuroscience relies heavily on private experience. Investigators ask people what they can see, how much pain they feel, etc.
May 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
People often suggest that to qualify as *science* a theory must be based on publicly observable evidence. But in fact, neuroscience relies heavily on private experience. Investigators ask people what they can see, how much pain they feel, etc.
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LSHH researcher Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan's new book on Armenian architecture, supported by the Barakat Trust, comes out later this year. Read about it here! shorturl.at/729mX
May 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
LSHH researcher Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan's new book on Armenian architecture, supported by the Barakat Trust, comes out later this year. Read about it here! shorturl.at/729mX
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Almost time for the 2025 student edition of the Lincoln Philosophy Salon! Looking forward to public talks on art and morality, personhood, and the quantum measurement problem by three of our brilliant current students
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Almost time for the 2025 student edition of the Lincoln Philosophy Salon! Looking forward to public talks on art and morality, personhood, and the quantum measurement problem by three of our brilliant current students
Here I am explaining what the deal is with functionalist architecture at Works in Progress substack.com/home/post/p-...
The purpose of a building is how it looks
True functionalism combines utility and beauty
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May 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Here I am explaining what the deal is with functionalist architecture at Works in Progress substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Congratulations to everyone celebrating their graduation in Uphill Lincoln this lovely evening!
April 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Congratulations to everyone celebrating their graduation in Uphill Lincoln this lovely evening!
Honoured to feature in Emerson Green's latest episode, in which he gives a great intro to the problem of personal identity over time m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKg...
Could you have been an alligator? | Philosophy of Personal Identity
YouTube video by Emerson Green
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April 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Honoured to feature in Emerson Green's latest episode, in which he gives a great intro to the problem of personal identity over time m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKg...
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I'm a hereditary Crystal Palace fan. Today is a good day.
April 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm a hereditary Crystal Palace fan. Today is a good day.
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On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social
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‘If the subjects are no one, they can be us’ – Lauren Kane on the figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich who have their backs turned to us
To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich | Apollo Magazine
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer, writes Lauren Kane
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April 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
‘If the subjects are no one, they can be us’ – Lauren Kane on the figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich who have their backs turned to us
There's a new video clip in which I explain why I think there's no problem of mind-body interaction, ahead of a future debate on the topic with the same channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziov...
The Myth of the Interaction Problem
YouTube video by Emerson Green
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April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There's a new video clip in which I explain why I think there's no problem of mind-body interaction, ahead of a future debate on the topic with the same channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziov...
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A new special issue of Theologica on death and the afterlife co-edited by Lincoln philosopher Dr Daniel Came and Dr Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is now available online! ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/th...
March 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A new special issue of Theologica on death and the afterlife co-edited by Lincoln philosopher Dr Daniel Came and Dr Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is now available online! ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/th...
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From exploring metaphysics and the nature of reality to joining the Guides and Scouts Society, hear Thomas share his experience of studying BA (Hons) Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. 📚
Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/
Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/
March 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
From exploring metaphysics and the nature of reality to joining the Guides and Scouts Society, hear Thomas share his experience of studying BA (Hons) Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. 📚
Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/
Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/
I am writing a new version of the Stanford article on Dualism. If anyone has thoughts on what needs adding I'd be delighted to hear them
February 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am writing a new version of the Stanford article on Dualism. If anyone has thoughts on what needs adding I'd be delighted to hear them