Ivars Neiders

Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...

My paper ‘Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... has just been published at @the-joap.bsky.social In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.

3 killed, 19 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russian forces launched 104 Shahed-type attack drones, decoy drones, and eight rocket-powered kamikaze drones overnight.

⚡️ 3 killed, 19 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day.

According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russian forces launched 104 Shahed-type attack drones, decoy drones, and eight rocket-powered kamikaze drones overnight.

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

No, You Can’t Design Your Baby—And Trying Would Be a Terrible Idea A genomics firm saying they can help parents with “genetic optimization” of their embryos is tone-deaf Silicon Valley marketing trampling over legitimate science. Parents should be wary

The Myth of the Designer Baby—Why ‘Genetic Optimization’ Is More Hype Than Science

#philscience #philsky #philosophy #ethics #science #bioethics

Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...

1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.

The Best Hegel Books Stephen Houlgate picks the best books on Hegel. Hegel has influenced thinkers such as Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and countless others. And yet, he is seen as perhaps the most obscure and…

"People often describe Hegel as a kind of Aristotle of the modern age. He had an insatiable desire to learn and understand things. So he was interested in mathematics, science and politics."
fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

People normally think that certain things should not be for sale (e.g., organs)

But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself What happens when the greatest strengths of science, such as openness, humility, self-criticism and self-correction, are exploited for political gain? This Perspective calls for scientists to affirm…

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

1941.g.4.augustā Arāja komanda ar vietējo palīgpolicistu atbalstu pie ebreju kapiem nošāva visus (~540) Varakļānu ebrejus.
#Zilo_autobusu_akcija.

Šādas reklāmas tagad rāda instagramā.

⚡️UPDATE: Death toll rises to 26 in Russia’s July 31 attack on Kyiv.

Three children are among the 26 people killed, local officials said.

Russian drone, missile barrage on Kyiv leaves 6 killed, including child, 52 wounded, more people trapped under rubble The overnight attack comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on Russia within 10 days unless the Kremlin agrees to halt its full-scale war against Ukraine.

⚡️UPDATE: Death toll rises in Russia's attack on Kyiv.

Six people, including a six-year-old boy, were killed and at least 52 injured in Russia’s latest strikes on the capital overnight on July 31, according to local authorities.

IMO ministra necienīgs viedokļraksts. Jo 1) retoriski agresīvi salīdzina vides aizstāvjus ar komunistiem, kuru 2) viedoklis ir balstīts emocijās. Ar to pietiek, lai diskusija neturpinātos, jo ministrs ir runājis. Šī nav korekta publiska retorika. Vismaz no ministriem sagaidītu cieņpilnāku izteiksmi.

Propaganda campaign mimics Kyiv Independent to spread fake news, targets US Videos and social media posts circulating online impersonate the Kyiv Independent's branding, falsely claiming that President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed sanctions on a list of American citizens, s...

⚡️Propaganda campaign mimics Kyiv Independent to spread fake news, targets US.

Videos and social media posts circulating online impersonate the Kyiv Independent's branding, falsely claiming that President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed sanctions on a list of American citizens.

The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

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Motion to replace the term 'paradox' in philosophical writing with 'real pickle'.

Russian glide bomb hits medical facility in Kharkiv, killing at least 1, injuring at least 12, including child The strike occurred at around 11:40 a.m. local time, targeting the Industrialnyi district of the city.

⚡️Russian glide bomb hits medical facility in Kharkiv, killing at least 1, injuring at least 12, including child.

The strike occurred at around 11:40 a.m. local time, targeting the Industrialnyi district of the city.

Vārda "izmisums" ostensīvā definīcija.

Don't feed the troll.

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R.I.P.

Ukraine endured another large-scale missile and drone attack overnight. The mapped flight paths show most threats were mainly directed toward Zhytomyr, Pavlohrad, and Odesa. Ukraine’s Air Force has not yet released official details.

Russian strikes hit Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts — 1 killed, 5 injured Russian forces launched a series of overnight attacks across Ukraine on July 18, killing one person and injuring at least five others, according to local officials.

⚡️Russian strikes hit Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts — 5 injured, homes damaged.

Russian forces carried out a series of overnight attacks on Ukraine on July 18, injuring at least five people in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, local officials reported.

Administratīvā apgabaltiesa atcēlusi NEPLP lēmumu par licences anulēšanu Krievijas telekanālam "Doždj" jeb "TV Rain".

NEPLP pārsūdzēs šo lēmumu, bet plašākus komentārus sniegs pēc sprieduma izvērtēšanas, norāda padomes vadītājs Ivars Āboliņš.

The word ‘cancer’ leads to overtreatment and fear. Should we drop it? | Aeon Essays Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?

The amazing physician-philosopher Ben Chin-Yee and a recent Cambridge HPS graduate on cancer diagnosis as an Austinian speech act with illocutionary consequences that are not what they should be. A really striking essay! #philsci #philsky #MedHum #bioethics

Intriguing experimental philosophy study on the ordinary concept of suicide

If you ask another agent to kill you and they comply, are you thereby committing suicide?

@ivarsneiders.bsky.social

scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Key result:

The original effect was found in all of the cultures (!). There were no significant cross-cultural differences

A now-classic experiment from Kevin Tobia found an effect of morality (becoming morally worse vs. becoming morally better) on intuitions about personal identity

A new study now looks at that effect across a variety of different cultures

www.researchgate.net/publication/...