Yuri Cath
@ywcath.bsky.social
Philosopher at La Trobe Uni (views mine) in Naarm/Melbourne. Thinking about practical knowledge, knowledge of experience, and other stuff I lack. Originally from NZ. He/him
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/ycath
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Yuri Cath
@ywcath.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
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My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Trustworthy Data Visualization
This past September I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf; it’s now on YouTube to watch. Keen-eyed observers will note from the title that it’s about trustworthy data visualization. But it’s also ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
I'm happy to report that I've been promoted to Associate Professor!
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm happy to report that I've been promoted to Associate Professor!
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Throwback to the best carved pumpkin I ever carved. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Throwback to the best carved pumpkin I ever carved. Happy Halloween!
I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.
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Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.
Philosophers Among Recent Discovery Grant Winners - Daily Nous
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their p...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.
Stoked to see that the ARC Discovery Project on which I am lead CI got funded!! 🎉My awesome co-CIs are Richard Skarbez (LTU), Mary Walker (LTU), Margot Strohminger (ACU), and Tim Bayne (Monash). We have exciting plans incl international collaborations, a conference, a post-doc, and a public event.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Stoked to see that the ARC Discovery Project on which I am lead CI got funded!! 🎉My awesome co-CIs are Richard Skarbez (LTU), Mary Walker (LTU), Margot Strohminger (ACU), and Tim Bayne (Monash). We have exciting plans incl international collaborations, a conference, a post-doc, and a public event.
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Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
www.dropbox.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
A haunted house for academics consisting of nothing but darkness and a cruel sounding voice repeating every beltting reviewer 2 comment you ever received on a paper.
A haunted house for academics but every room is just another committee you have to serve on before you can leave.
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A haunted house for academics consisting of nothing but darkness and a cruel sounding voice repeating every beltting reviewer 2 comment you ever received on a paper.
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The Indispensability of Intuitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Indispensability of Intuitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
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I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in Philosophy
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Research Associate in PhilosophyVacancy Reference: 184814Salary: Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum We have an opportunity for a Research Associ...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
LLMs can be harmful, even when not making stuff up
This is a guest post by Joe Slater (University of Glasgow). Provided by author It is well known that chatbots powered by LLMs – ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. – sometimes make things up. People have s…
justice-everywhere.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
Looking forward to giving this talk later this week for the philosophers at the Uni of Melbourne on virtual reality and 'what it is like' knowledge.
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PhilPeople
PhilPeople is an online directory of philosophers, a social network for philosophers, and a tool for keeping up with everything in the philosophical profession.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Looking forward to giving this talk later this week for the philosophers at the Uni of Melbourne on virtual reality and 'what it is like' knowledge.
philpeople.org/news/item/ev...
philpeople.org/news/item/ev...
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I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
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Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.
Finally the Tawny has won!! Such an awesome bird. We've been lucky to have Tawnys in the little park outside our apt building for years now (sometimes getting to watch two parents and two chicks right from our balcony).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year – live
Follow live as we announce the winner of the 2025 Australian bird of the year
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Finally the Tawny has won!! Such an awesome bird. We've been lucky to have Tawnys in the little park outside our apt building for years now (sometimes getting to watch two parents and two chicks right from our balcony).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If you know an awesome person who might not have seen that we are running a search at Georgetown, could you please pass this along. (I know every philosopher who is on the job market looks at PhilJobs constantly. But maybe you know someone who isn't on the job market but who would like to be at GU)
I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you know an awesome person who might not have seen that we are running a search at Georgetown, could you please pass this along. (I know every philosopher who is on the job market looks at PhilJobs constantly. But maybe you know someone who isn't on the job market but who would like to be at GU)
Looking forward to giving this talk at Monash tomorrow. There's an online option for anyone interested in attending remotely.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Knowledge Downstream
Abstract: What distinguishes a mere true belief from genuine knowledge? A multitude of answers have been given to this question, but almost all of them share a key feature in common, namely, that...
philevents.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Looking forward to giving this talk at Monash tomorrow. There's an online option for anyone interested in attending remotely.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice
Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera
YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden
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October 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice
It's that one day of the year when I watch an AFL game and try to make sense of what is going on.
a woman says " you got to embrace the chaos you have to " in a dark room
ALT: a woman says " you got to embrace the chaos you have to " in a dark room
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September 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It's that one day of the year when I watch an AFL game and try to make sense of what is going on.
Some striking heads and patterns from the NGV's wonderful Kimono exhibition. (Thanks to that weird game they play here for giving us a public holiday today.)
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Some striking heads and patterns from the NGV's wonderful Kimono exhibition. (Thanks to that weird game they play here for giving us a public holiday today.)