David Papineau

@davidpapineau.bsky.social

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King's College London. Working on mind, metaphysics, and science.
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David Papineau is a British academic philosopher, born in Como, Italy. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously taught for several years at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Robinson College. .. more

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 12d

Yes I’m sure I’d agree with him. (It wasn’t him I was expecting to get angry with but Woolf, Lawrence et al)

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 12d

Sure—Forster wasn’t all bad by any means

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 12d

By the same coin, Rex Mottram is the only character in Brideshead Revisited that is in any way acceptable

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 12d

Never read it. But I can remember being pissed off as a kid by the depiction of Leonard Bast esp when he gets squished by a bookcase. Carey’s book’s only going to make me more angry isn’t it?

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 14d

I am talking first thing tomorrow at our conference on "Physics and the Self", Institute of Philosophy, Senate House, London.
You can still sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 16d

I met Owen. But not Warnock I think.

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 17d

Fun conference in London this weekend—"Physics and the Self". Institute of Philosophy, Senate House.
You can sign up for online attendance here: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

www.sas.ac.uk

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, David Papineau , and 6 more Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, David Papineau, Leigh Sparks, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Tom Griffin, Jonathan Birch, Mark Priestley, Christina Pagel

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17d

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.

It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 24d

Hi Sérgio. It should be out next September if all goes smoothly.

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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 26d

A gentle summary of the last twenty-odd years of Pearl-style causal inference with DAGs, perhaps most helpful if you're just arriving from old-school philosophy of causation.

I like this genre. And if you do too, I can also recommend Weinberger et al.'s forthcoming piece in BJPS
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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 26d

New paper out in Synthese—a metaphysical theory of causation designed to explain statistical causal inference. Basically a summary of a 100,000-word book (Causation: Science, Statistics and Metaphysics) that'll go into production with CUP soon. Watch this space link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Causal inference and the metaphysics of causation - Synthese

The techniques of causal inference are widely used throughout the non-experimental sciences to derive causal conclusions from probabilistic premises. This poses a philosophical question. What in the n...

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 26d

Causal inference and the metaphysics of causation - Synthese

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 27d

FFS I get back from the pub 10 mins late and Spurs are 2-0 down at home to Fulham

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 27d

Sunset on the Blackwater Estuary

David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 28d

For me one of the best things about the books is the Martian dimension—Lee Child the Englishman and Jack Reacher the army rat are both strangers in a strange land

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · Nov 26

Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but young’uns should probably all be given a copy of @davidpapineau.bsky.social ’s Philosophical Devices. global.oup.com/ukhe/product...