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Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.
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#PHILOSOPHY PLAYTIME! This week we play with the idea ‘can we trust our senses?’
18.30-20.00, Wednesday 12 November at EH9|Espresso, Perth Rd, #Dundee
£6 cash on door, complimentary (decaf) coffee
All curious minds welcome!
18.30-20.00, Wednesday 12 November at EH9|Espresso, Perth Rd, #Dundee
£6 cash on door, complimentary (decaf) coffee
All curious minds welcome!
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I suddenly realized the cover art to my new all science fiction short story collection 101 Things to Do Before You're downloaded shares a theme with my last purely SF collection, 2010's What We Still Talk About, a completely unplanned connection. Time to blast off! pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I suddenly realized the cover art to my new all science fiction short story collection 101 Things to Do Before You're downloaded shares a theme with my last purely SF collection, 2010's What We Still Talk About, a completely unplanned connection. Time to blast off! pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...
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The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
Sign up and more information:
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PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association
The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
Sign up and more information:
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My short story ‘Tweedledum’ just appeared at The Piker Press:
www.pikerpress.com
www.pikerpress.com
Tweedledum by Steven French
The Piker Press is a weekly journal for arts, sciences, fiction and non-fiction,
featuring a wide array of literature, from humor to drama. We like to think of it as the
illegitimate, onli...
www.pikerpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My short story ‘Tweedledum’ just appeared at The Piker Press:
www.pikerpress.com
www.pikerpress.com
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Today the Sun produced an X1.8-class #SolarFlare (the highest category). The event also triggered an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, although we are still yet-uncertain of the likely strength or timings of the impact at Earth. #spaceweather
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Today the Sun produced an X1.8-class #SolarFlare (the highest category). The event also triggered an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, although we are still yet-uncertain of the likely strength or timings of the impact at Earth. #spaceweather
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New on the Archive:
De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/
De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New on the Archive:
De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/
De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/
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The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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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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Right-wing vigilante violence against the left (including assassinations of trade-unionists and environmental activists) has long been a feature of Latin American politics. I sometimes fear that this is in our future in Europe too.
In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin
A leading liberal politician has quit in fear of her physical safety. It is a crushing setback for democracy in one of the world’s most open societies, says journalist Martin Gelin
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Right-wing vigilante violence against the left (including assassinations of trade-unionists and environmental activists) has long been a feature of Latin American politics. I sometimes fear that this is in our future in Europe too.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Translation: new dino discovered in fossil vomit
🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Translation: new dino discovered in fossil vomit
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I woke up at 3 a.m., and it's now 5 a.m. here in Tokyo. I'm drinking decaf coffee, looking through the curtains at the still pitch-black outside, gently lit by the orange light inside the room. Recently, I've been enjoying Maya Delilah's guitar tone. Her tone feels warm, like a fireplace. I love it.
Maya Delilah - Begin Again (Live From Middle Farm Studios / 2023)
YouTube video by MayaDelilahVEVO
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November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I woke up at 3 a.m., and it's now 5 a.m. here in Tokyo. I'm drinking decaf coffee, looking through the curtains at the still pitch-black outside, gently lit by the orange light inside the room. Recently, I've been enjoying Maya Delilah's guitar tone. Her tone feels warm, like a fireplace. I love it.
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Goodbye to Great Britain and the Island of #Ireland…
With a return to the Pliocene locked-in, the only meaningful question is, will we stop there or maintain BAU until a return to the Middle Miocene becomes inevitable or - ultimately - the early Eocene?
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Goodbye to Great Britain and the Island of #Ireland…
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Never undervalue the importance of faffing during any artistic pursuit.
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Never undervalue the importance of faffing during any artistic pursuit.
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reading House Of Leaves and my family probably thinks I’ve gone nuts; holding pages up to a mirror, translating pages in French to English, holding the book upside down at times, and just plain babbling to myself in my reading corner. *See footnote 289
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
Somewhere, Mark Danielewski is laughing. 🤪😱
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Dallas is out still this week so, naturally, Anne keeps forgetting to post these! 😅
But we are taking questions for SQUIRE by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas! Get those sent in to us at thecomicscollective@gmail.com! ⚔️
But we are taking questions for SQUIRE by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas! Get those sent in to us at thecomicscollective@gmail.com! ⚔️
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Dallas is out still this week so, naturally, Anne keeps forgetting to post these! 😅
But we are taking questions for SQUIRE by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas! Get those sent in to us at thecomicscollective@gmail.com! ⚔️
But we are taking questions for SQUIRE by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas! Get those sent in to us at thecomicscollective@gmail.com! ⚔️
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Here is a bit of a puzzle: Why are there so many different Logic textbooks?
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Here is a bit of a puzzle: Why are there so many different Logic textbooks?
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
Formal Logic (TFL + FOL, nothing meta) seems like one of those things that we should be able to standardize and success in teaching is more clearly measurable compared to other philosophical subjects. Yet…
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This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
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Reform UK want to take public spending down to 35% of GDP — that’s a £275 billion cut, the equivalent of shutting down the NHS.
The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.
The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.
October 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reform UK want to take public spending down to 35% of GDP — that’s a £275 billion cut, the equivalent of shutting down the NHS.
The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.
The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.
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A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
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Very happy to share this paper I wrote with Antonis Antoniou, which is forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. [1/2]
#philsci #philsky
#philsci #philsky
New on the Archive:
Antoniou, Antonis and Lorenzetti, Lorenzo (2025) Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27152/
Antoniou, Antonis and Lorenzetti, Lorenzo (2025) Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27152/
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New on the Archive:
Massimi, Michela (2025) The right to participate in science. Navigating cooperation among epistemic jurisdictions. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27155/
Massimi, Michela (2025) The right to participate in science. Navigating cooperation among epistemic jurisdictions. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27155/
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New on the Archive:
Massimi, Michela (2025) The right to participate in science. Navigating cooperation among epistemic jurisdictions. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27155/
Massimi, Michela (2025) The right to participate in science. Navigating cooperation among epistemic jurisdictions. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27155/