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At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Pablo of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social interviews me for his podcast and I reveal who my favourite living philosopher is (I see y'all on the edge of your seat):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KdK...
Franz Berto on modal realism, imagination and reading the Tractatus I EP 3
YouTube video by Ping Pong Philosophy
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October 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis, preprint here:

philpapers.org/archive/BERS...
September 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Franz Berto
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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June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 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:

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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Forthcoming in Ergo, why we should ditch Williamson's 'heuristics' for counterfactuals:

philpapers.org/archive/BERT...

Thx to the editors for the smooth processing: your online submission system is cool!

@standrewsphil.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So currently our paper is the 2nd most read in Mind. This'd be all good and well, if we hadn't been beaten by... Some bloke's 75 year old stuff. 😎

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

@levinhornischer.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The third 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!

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June 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We have *three* new lecturers joining the castle -- ehm, the department @standrewsphil.bsky.social : Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social, Matthew Vermaire, Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social. Welcome folks!

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June 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
'The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant' is out!
(Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Relevant Logic Again.)
Download here, Open Access of course:

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

@levinhornischer.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Philosophers: spread the word! Starting May 27, Arché celebrates its founder in a three-day Crispin Wright conference. Like anyone who knows what Crispin has meant for this place, I am so happy that this is happening. Programme here:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

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May 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Franz Berto
Coming up on 10 June: the finals of The Ethics Cup, an ethics debating tournament hosted by our department that emphasises substance over style and tries to inculcate important civic virtues like intellectual humility, civility and tolerance.
ethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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March 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Get your ticket! Our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe has put together an exciting event for the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival, covering the ethical pros and cons of asymptomatic testing for Alzheimer’s biomarkers.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/alzhei...
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Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test - Edinburgh Science
Soon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know?
www.edinburghscience.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Metaphysicians: spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, Guest Editor Jonathan Tallant, call for papers here:

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Call for Papers: Themes From David Lewis’s Metaphysics
Guest Editor:  Prof. Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2026 Scope 2026 marks forty years since the publication of David L
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April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Metaphysicians: spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, Guest Editor Jonathan Tallant, call for papers here:

academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
Call for Papers: Themes From David Lewis’s Metaphysics
Guest Editor:  Prof. Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2026 Scope 2026 marks forty years since the publication of David L
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April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Philosophers: spread the word!! Full-time research postdoc, 3 year job in St Andrews-Arché within the Leverhulme-funded WIKI project:

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply by clicking the link above, *check* the Further Particulars attachment there for details. Deadline: May 2.
April 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The second 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!

academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/2

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March 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
St Andrews Philosophy is on Bluesky!

@standrewsphil.bsky.social

Follow us to know what happens in the place with (as legend has it) the highest density of philosophers in the world. :-)
March 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us!

philjobs.org/job/show/28814
Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews - PhilJobs:JFP Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
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March 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Look at the Arché Metaphysical Indeterminacy Conference! June 17-18, 2025. Info here:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
February 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Philosophers: spread the word! We'll have a special issue of The Philosophical Quarterly on *The Philosophy of Uncertainty*. Guest Editor Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social -- who also came up with The cool cover pic.
Call for papers here:

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February 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Forthcoming in Mind: 'The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant' - with @levinhornischer.bsky.social
Our only excuse to come up with yet another interpretation for the Routley-Meyer semantics, is that we finally nailed it! (Not that I'm partial). 🙂
Preprint here:
philpapers.org/rec/HORTLO-15
January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here:

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.
January 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM