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

The symposium will feature commentaries by:
Dr. Geoffrey Hobbis — KTI WUR
Dr. Clemens Driessen — Cultural Geography WUR
Dr. Hugh Desmond — Philosophy WUR
The commentaries will be followed by a brief response from Prof. Wilson and discussion with the audience.
All are welcome!
#philsky #STS #philsci

Next week at the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Fatema Amijee will ask, and attempt to answer, 'When Can Inquiry Come to an End?'

⏰ 18:15–19:45, Monday 12th October
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

All welcome, no booking required.

#philsky

Universita degli Studi di Catania is hiring:
Researcher in Digital Humanities on Goethe's Journey in Italy

#researcher #philsky #digitalhumanities

“Making Harm Necessary: An Essay on Punishment and Self-Defense” by Patrick Tomlin at doi.org/10.1086/742214 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

I like the general “fuck you” feel of Moore’s proof of the external world. #philsky

Rutgers University (@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social) is hiring:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy

#postdoc #philsky

Here the paper, in which we find that people assign the same moral status to humans with animal organs as to other humans. But they sometimes assign slightly higher moral status to animals with human organs.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40794268/
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsky

Recognizing that conventional reality is illusory doesn't negate the need to alleviate the suffering of others

Prob with Techbro Broligarcy is they don't understand that sunyata (emptiness) must be balanced by compassion to be the antidote to their suffering

They have no time for empathy #philsky

#philsky #psych #Science #tech

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🔥 Dylan Trigg (FWF researcher) spoke with the @Kurier.at about Parenthood, and that we don't share a single feeling of parenthood, but structural conditions that characterise this experience.

👉️ Read it here: buff.ly/yDV33UY

#philsky #parenthood #research @FWF-at.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social

New issue, new Editor's Choice! From the new special issue on mental fictionalism, guest editors Adam Toon & Tamás Demeter have selected Bruno Mölder's paper, "Can mental fictionalism avoid cognitive collapse?" doi.org/10.1080/0951... It will be free access for three months. #philsky #philpsy
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What a successful weekend for author Eve D'Vincent at the 2026 PAWS International Captive Wildlife Conference 🎉📖

Her research was well-received, sparking conversations and curiosity in the subject of human-animal relations!

⬇️Link to the book below

#PhilSky #PAWS #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare

Just accepted: Jeffrey Barrett & Eddy Keming Chen, 'Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle'

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

How do we explain unexpected events? New post on substack! lisatpg.substack.com/p/spinning-a... #philsky #philpsy #edusky #philosophyforeveryone

KiC Seminar Series start again today! To get things going we will hear from Keith Raymond Harris (Vienna) @kraymondh.bsky.social with 'What are reputations made of?'

#philsky #seminar #reputation @univie.ac.at

University of North Carolina is hiring:
Assistant/Associate Professor in Philosophy of Emerging Technologies

#professor #philsky

Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (@unituebingen.bsky.social) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher for the Ethics Laboratory

#postdoc #philsky #ethicsofhumanorigins

📣 Workshop: The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations. 11–12 Jan 2027. NTU Singapore.

Philosophers and psychologists working on memory, imagination, and mental representation.

Schedule and details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #PhilMind #CogSci