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@alejandrofabregastejeda.comOct 6, 2026, 11:34 AM

I am really happy to share that I have started as PI of an @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social-funded 3-year project @clpskuleuven.bsky.social. I'll investigate how scientists conceptualize, model & measure environments across the life, cognitive, social & Earth sciences! #philsci #philsky #evosky #envhum 🧪

@philosophyplaydate.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:01 AM

It's new episode day! A child has asked us why people keep secrets, and we've dabbled in military philosophy, decried the Panopticon and stood up for the little people once again.

Download, subscribe, review, listen:

drstevecross.squarespace.com/podcast

#philsky #philosophysky #podcast

Philosopher Christabel Cane wears a mask with text reading "Why do people keep secrets?"
@thebjps.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:30 AM

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

Neurocognitive Foundations of the Mind
—Gualtiero Piccinini

Reviewed by
Felipe De Brigard

www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky

@tenuretracker.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:35 AM

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy

#assistantprofessor #philsky #ethics

@knowledgecrisis.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:00 AM

🔥 New Publication!

Daniel Sharp, with co-author Katharina Anna Sodoma, has published the chapter "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right" in 'The European Face of Political Epistemology.'

🧐Read it here: buff.ly/aDgifvC
#philsky

New Publication! Key researcher Daniel Sharp, along wiht co-author Katharina Anna Sodoma, has recently published the chapter "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right" in 'The European Face of Political Epistemology.'
@openshaw.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:21 AM

We're hiring! NTU Philosophy has three tenured/tenure-track openings. Our department is friendly, collaborative, and a great place to do research. Happy to answer questions if you're thinking of applying. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #philjobs #PhilSky #AcademicJobs

@profdolske.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:35 AM

Censorship: Free Speech, John Stuart Mill, and Social Media. Thank you @jpmessina.bsky.social for joining Good Is In The Details! #philsky

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@mikael-rossi.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:00 AM

Have you ever cried within your mind?

I can't hear myself cry in my head like I hear my inner voice reading to me.

If I try to cry within when I cannot cry externally, I only hear my mother's wails.

It disturbs me.

#PhilSky #Philosophy #BookSky

@hermeneuticist.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:43 AM

Post a meme made by you

(An oldie from the bad place) #PhilSky

Four circles along two axes: accuracy and precision. Where there is high accuracy and high precision, the circle shows red dots clustered around the centre. This is what analytic philosophers think they are doing. Whether there is high precision but low accuracy, the red dots are clustered together as far from the centre as possible. This is what analytic philosophers are actually doing. 
@philimprint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:34 AM

Tyler Colby Re (2026) “The Art of Work in Kant’s Critique of Judgment”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 28, 1–16. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Abstract in alt text. #philsky

There is a general impression among Kant scholars that Kant has no robust theory of work. Most of his references to the topic appear in his historical and anthropological writings, where he tells us that work is burdensome, and valuable only for the sake of whatever we produce. In this paper, I argue that Kant has an under-explored theory of work in the third Critique. This theory bears little resemblance to his depiction of work in the historical and anthropological writings. The third Critique will depict work as self-expressive, creative, and free, features Kant will go on to associate with art. Kant's contention is that when work resembles art, it is both agreeable and something we enjoy for its own sake. However, when work fails to resemble art – when it is, in Kant's words, natural, scientific, and mercenary – it is both disagreeable and constrained, and begins to sound like his description of work from the historical and anthropological writings. Kant's theory of work in the third Critique has a number of important implications. The first is that it provides a new foundation for a contemporary philosophy of work that places freedom and creativity at the center of the labor process. My analysis also engages a part of Kant scholarship that has, until recently, been largely neglected. It is only in the last decade that the English-language Kant literature has taken up the question of how to make sense of Kant's remarks about work. However, the focus is rarely on Kant's aesthetic theory of work, but rather on the place of work in his moral and political philosophy. I discuss the implications of Kant's third Critique theory of work for these other debates, as well as for our understanding of the third Critique as a whole.
@philimprint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:33 AM

Bart Streumer (2026) “How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 27, 1–17. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Abstract in alt text. #philsky

Berkeley defends idealism partly by taking ordinary objects such as tables and stones to consist of ideas. Materialists reject this account of ordinary objects. I argue that Berkeley can undermine this rejection by making quasi-realist moves of the kind that many expressivists about normativity make. This ultimately results in a version of idealism that we cannot believe, since trying to believe it will make us believe materialism. But I argue that this version of idealism may nevertheless be true.
@philimprint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:32 AM

Michael Towson Hicks (2026) “A Practitioner's Guide to Pragmatic Humeanism”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 26, 1–18. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Abstract in alt text. #philsky

All Humeans hold, roughly, that laws are informative summaries of non-lawful matters of fact. Pragmatic Humeans go further: for them, what makes these summaries the laws is their usefulness to agents like us. By adding elements of our specific epistemic interests and constraints, pragmatists contend, we can arrive at satisfying explanations of otherwise surprising features of our actual laws and our actual scientific practice. But the pragmatic shift is not without problems. The more elements of our particular psychology we add to our nomic formula, the more susceptible we are to idealistic ratbaggery. Intuitively, what can or must happen does not depend on our particular cognitive architecture: we cannot change the laws by changing us. But if laws are distinguished from accidents by features of our psychology, then changes in our psychology might lead to differences in what the laws of nature allow. My aim here is to clarify the role of pragmatic constraints, and thereby respond to this challenge from creeping idealism. My strategy has two parts. First, I argue that pragmatic constraints determine the laws only indirectly, by generating a nomic formula that itself makes no reference to agents. Second, I discuss what sorts of agents are agents like us. I argue that pragmatists should appeal to a particular sort of idealized agent, one whose specific limitations and interests have been idealized away.
@philimprint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:32 AM

Jordan MacKenzie (2026) “Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley: Does AI Threaten our Valuing Practices?”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 25, 1–13. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Abstract in alt text. #philsky

We often have a visceral negative reaction to the prospect of AI taking over our creative activities or being used to demonstrate care and concern. What justifies this reaction? In this paper, I argue that AI raises two existential threats to our valuing practices. The first existential threat is forward-looking—when we offload our labor onto AI, we risk flattening our valuing landscape, turning activities and products that could have once been valued for the meaningful processes that resulted in their creation into things that can only be valued for their functionality. The second threat is backward-looking—AI forces us to reckon with the valuing discord that already exists in our lives. When we see that other people don’t care about whether the art or writing they’re consuming is AI-produced, we must reckon with the fact that they never shared in our valuing practices.
@philimprint.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:31 AM

Charles Goldhaber (2026) “Mechanisms for Hume's Skepticism”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 24, 1–13. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Abstract in alt text. #philsky

What happens to a mind that embraces skepticism? On familiar classical and contemporary accounts, it suspends judgment about the matters skepticism calls into question. For Hume, such suspension can occur only temporarily. He claims that skepticism's more enduring effect is weaker: it lowers the vivacity of, and thus our confidence in, beliefs, typically leaving commonplace ones intact. Hume's associationism offers at least two explanatory mechanisms for this effect, one doxastic and one emotional. In the doxastic mechanism, causal reasoning about our failures in reasoning decreases the vivacity of beliefs formed through reasoning. In the emotional mechanism, appreciating our cognitive failures diminishes certain passions, and with them the vivacity of beliefs otherwise augmented by those passions, especially pride. Understanding these mechanisms not only resolves exegetical puzzles about Hume's apparently flippant attitudes toward skepticism, but also provides a psychologically rich picture of how minds might self-correct without exaggeration.
@paulruth.substack.comOct 5, 2026, 9:10 PM

A simple idea to help solve some pressing ethical issues.
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@thereclamationmag.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:09 PM

“Suffer us to famish and their storehouses crammed with grain. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there’s all the love they bear us.”

—William Shakespeare

#BookSky #PhilSky #Monday

@epochemagazine.orgOct 5, 2026, 6:56 PM

From the archive: "Bringing People Closer: Cicero, Hierocles, and Cosmopolitanism", by Will Johncock #Philosophy #Philsky

@philtalkradio.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:30 PM

ICYMI Our episode about yesterday's birthday girl (and the philosopher who gave the Trolley Problem its name), Judith Jarvis Thomson, is now available to download: podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/w... #PhilSky