A little personal, but here's a new post about Imposter Syndrome.

I've dealt with it for years and none of the usual advice worked. Then I realized it behaves like a conspiracy theory – and that insight changed how I relate to it.

Check it out here!
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It has been said: start an email with normal human pleasantries and only later get to your request for work.

But I say unto you: no, get your request into the first line so I can see it in the preview without having to click anything.

We talk about civility as if it’s about manners. But what if it’s really about uncertainty — about how we engage others before we’re sure their views are beyond the pale?

New Substack essay⬇️

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Everyone talks about civility. Here’s how to think about it.

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Dog-whistling gets a lot of attention. But what about its opposite — when we hear hidden codes that aren’t there?
A short note on “wolf-crying”.

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“We should publicly own up to the failures and excesses of our own side. I call this practice partisan admissions of guilt.”

Ooh, it’s rare for me to agree so wholeheartedly with something. @koosterum.bsky.social’s invitation has my full endorsement:

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Just wrote my first Substack essay. It’s on “partisan admissions of guilt.”

Check it out ⬇️

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I'm also excited to share that another paper of mine, co-authored with Helena Ward and Rhys Southan, "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence," is out in Philosophical Studies! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Some great news this month!
1) Officially finished my philosophy PhD, examined by Elizabeth Anderson and Paul Billingham.
2) Starting a new job at King's College London in September as an Early Career Fellow at the YTL Centre in the Dickson Poon Law School.

Fwiw, if I had to pick a single document at this moment which authoritatively & comprehensively summarizes the causes of & remedies for addressing disinformation, it would be this Institut Jean Nicod policy brief. Highly recommend uploading it into a chatbot for translation.

#BookReview The Ethics of Advising. M. Jonas, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 256 pp, £77.00 (hb) | David Archard #philsky #philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QMJZTT...

Really pleased about how this turned out! Thanks to UCL and Emily McTernan for having me.

See the podcast here:
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See the paper it’s promoting here:

doi.org/10.1111/japp...

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