Josh Habgood-Coote
@impractknow.bsky.social
Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running
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The Routledge Handbook of Joyce Carol Oates Social Media Posts (vols1-12)
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Routledge Handbook of Joyce Carol Oates Social Media Posts (vols1-12)
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seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
I saw this on running instagram and was convinced it was a shitpost
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I saw this on running instagram and was convinced it was a shitpost
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These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
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Benjamin Lay was out there THROWING FAKE BLOOD on Quakers in the damn EARLY 1700s because HE KNEW that enslaving Africans was a SIN, INHUMANE and should end IMMEDIATELY.
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Benjamin Lay was out there THROWING FAKE BLOOD on Quakers in the damn EARLY 1700s because HE KNEW that enslaving Africans was a SIN, INHUMANE and should end IMMEDIATELY.
A Ghaelaigh! Tá céist agam. An Caighdeán Oifigiúil has 1st and 3rd person forms for the modh ordaitheach. The best suggestion I’ve heard is that this is for things like ‘let them eat cake!’ but I read this as 2nd person and I would translate this with the modh foshuiteach anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Do I know any gaeilge speakers who have *good* grammar? I'm trying to come up with some plausible looking examples of first and third person imperative sentences
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Do I know any gaeilge speakers who have *good* grammar? I'm trying to come up with some plausible looking examples of first and third person imperative sentences
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Katherine Hawley is indeed sorely missed here in Philosophy and St Andrews, and it’s good to see her clear and wise reflections on trust and trustworthiness gain a fresh audience.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
Kieran Healy (@kjhealy@mastodon.social)
A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/11/10/trustworthy-data-visualization/
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Katherine Hawley is indeed sorely missed here in Philosophy and St Andrews, and it’s good to see her clear and wise reflections on trust and trustworthiness gain a fresh audience.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
Do I know any gaeilge speakers who have *good* grammar? I'm trying to come up with some plausible looking examples of first and third person imperative sentences
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Do I know any gaeilge speakers who have *good* grammar? I'm trying to come up with some plausible looking examples of first and third person imperative sentences
If 'doxastic' is about belief, and 'epistemic' is about knowledge or truth, what's the Ancient Greek word for about intention?
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If 'doxastic' is about belief, and 'epistemic' is about knowledge or truth, what's the Ancient Greek word for about intention?
The death of the headphone jack and solipsism by design
People playing music without headphones on the train got me reflecting on Hobbes and Rousseau and the nature of Society and such things
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The death of the headphone jack and solipsism by design
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Just accepted:
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship
– Mikkel Gerken
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship
– Mikkel Gerken
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Just accepted:
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship
– Mikkel Gerken
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship
– Mikkel Gerken
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci
I wrote a paper arguing that we should replace authorship with contributors, spokespeople, writers, and guarantors. One of the contributors to that paper (Mikkel Gerken) has written a response paper arguing that the view defended in that paper is implausible www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I wrote a paper arguing that we should replace authorship with contributors, spokespeople, writers, and guarantors. One of the contributors to that paper (Mikkel Gerken) has written a response paper arguing that the view defended in that paper is implausible www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Me on a hike: Oh neat, a lime kiln!
The lime kiln: I was the fires of hell manifest. I melted the earth itself to feed the insatiable gluttony of the empire's industrialization. Pity the wretched souls who tended my miasmic inferno.
Me: I wonder if there are remains of a railroad nearby?
The lime kiln: I was the fires of hell manifest. I melted the earth itself to feed the insatiable gluttony of the empire's industrialization. Pity the wretched souls who tended my miasmic inferno.
Me: I wonder if there are remains of a railroad nearby?
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Me on a hike: Oh neat, a lime kiln!
The lime kiln: I was the fires of hell manifest. I melted the earth itself to feed the insatiable gluttony of the empire's industrialization. Pity the wretched souls who tended my miasmic inferno.
Me: I wonder if there are remains of a railroad nearby?
The lime kiln: I was the fires of hell manifest. I melted the earth itself to feed the insatiable gluttony of the empire's industrialization. Pity the wretched souls who tended my miasmic inferno.
Me: I wonder if there are remains of a railroad nearby?
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Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
"En cédant à la pression du ministre, Philippe Baptiste, l’administrateur du Collège de France compromet l’indépendance d’une institution fondée il y a plus de quatre siècles, qui a accueilli les plus grands noms de la pensée française, de Foucault à Bourdieu.
Communiqué de presse : le Collège de France cède aux pressions et annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe »
Le Collège de France annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » sous pression politique. Des universitaires dénoncent l’ingérence ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point, alertant su...
carep-paris.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
On the Celebrity Traitors, twenty celebrities tried to work out which three of them were lying. Here's what I, an epistemologist, have to tell you about what this game tells us about evidence, knowledge, and the human condition
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
On the Celebrity Traitors, twenty celebrities tried to work out which three of them were lying. Here's what I, an epistemologist, have to tell you about what this game tells us about evidence, knowledge, and the human condition
Question for Emile Durkheim: is it good if a million people are expressing suicidal thoughts to a chatbot?
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Question for Emile Durkheim: is it good if a million people are expressing suicidal thoughts to a chatbot?
Scorekeeping in a food fight
How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin
is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Scorekeeping in a food fight
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How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin
is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin
Incredible sentence for social ontologists
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Incredible sentence for social ontologists
Aura farming (submitting papers to highly ranked philosophy journals)
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Aura farming (submitting papers to highly ranked philosophy journals)
The epistemology of ‘why can’t I fucking do anything’ is a bastard
i have a long essay in my drafts that i did over the last week or so about having covid and proceeding to, in a state of mental impairment, believe that i had 50 rare diseases and put like 10 million supplements in my body because of stuff i read online but i think it would get me skinned alive
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The epistemology of ‘why can’t I fucking do anything’ is a bastard
Post-covid symptoms are dead weird. Energy has come back fine four weeks out, but word recall is still fucked!
I had to ask students today to help me find the word 'obsolete'
I had to ask students today to help me find the word 'obsolete'
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Post-covid symptoms are dead weird. Energy has come back fine four weeks out, but word recall is still fucked!
I had to ask students today to help me find the word 'obsolete'
I had to ask students today to help me find the word 'obsolete'