Adam Toon

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My personal favourite is when it offered to correct "Wittgensteinian" to "Wittgenstein, Ian".

Salt and vinegar given appropriately significant proportions...

Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
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Interested in the social implications of genomics and its philosophical aspects?

Our project has numerous activities coming up! Follow the blusky account to stay up-to-date.

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Hello BLue-Sky, are you interested in the study of the social implications of genomics? Our project brings together philosophers, social scientists, and geneticists to address this question. Follow us here and sign-up for our mailing list at Hugera.org/contact/ #philsky #STS #metascience

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S... The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

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Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
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Also, I LOVE the bit where he's living as the pig keeper (I think) and his landlady comes in while he's reading and asks him what he's up to, and he says "Trying not to be so bleedin' ignorant, Mrs P". I think about that like (almost) every time I read anything...

The absurdity is what sticks with me. "Book-ends, pumice stone, West Germany"...

I've just launched my new website! It has a page on my Marie Curie project, which I will keep updating as the project progresses. yoshinariyoshida.com

An 18thC engraving of Emile Du Chatelet in a traditional dress and choker necklace depicted in an oval frame with a globe and books in background. There is an inscription below her portrait "C'est ainsi que la Verité Pour mieux etablir sa puissance a pris les traits de la beauté, et les graces de l'eloquence." © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

Just 2 weeks left to submit for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
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#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN

Deadline: October 13, 2025
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Latest papers: Stacie Friend & Kris Goffin argue that although chatbot-fictionalism offers insights into human-AI interaction, it does not resolve ethical concerns in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Also, why aren't these ornithologists indoors, counting non-grue things that are not grue jays?

Have we considered that it might be bleen...?

A screenshot of an article published in popular science. It reads: “First known wild 'grue jay' hybrid spotted in Texas. Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.”

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
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Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Ctrl Alt Deleaf wins public vote to name track cleaning train Other names on the shortlist included Leaf-Fall Weapon, Pulp Friction and The Autumn Avenger.

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True! (Classic Hancock episode "The Blood Donor" a good example of someone messing even this up...) I'd say there's a difference between skill and ability. "Skill" seems to suggest training, something not just anyone could do, etc. "Ability" seems much broader, so harder to give examples.

They certainly need to be able to sign consent forms!

Only exception I could think of was (some) experimental test subjects, where someone's contribution to productivity might lie entirely outside what we'd normally call skills/abilities (e.g. mere physiological response). Probably telling that it's such an odd example, and not really a job...

Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism"

It's open-access, which I'm really happy about.

Brief 🧵 on what it's all about!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From monkeys to infants: the empirical challenges facing mental fictionalism In recent decades, a novel theoretical account of folk psychology has emerged that challenges traditional assumptions: mental fictionalism. Rather than treating mental states as things in creatures...

Third: Gavin Robert Foster @gibbonitathought.bsky.social offers a critique of mental fictionalism based on evidence concerning mindreading in infants and non-human primates: doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Idealization and mental fictionalism Cognitive scientists speak of codes, signals, encoding, decoding, computation, representation, and information-processing. The orthodox view is to take talk of neuronal signaling and computational ...

Second: Michael D. Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social explores the relationship between mental fictionalism and successful idealizations in the sciences: doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Latest news in mental fictionalism! Three more excellent contributions to our special issue of Philosophical Psychology. First: Agata Machcewicz-Grad discusses Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas' hybrid view of beliefs: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @timcrane.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

Title info for "Rethinking Mental Language: Toon's Fictionalism and its Philosophical Roots" by Ayush Srivastava

Many thanks to Ayush Srivastava (IIT Bombay) for a positive and thought-provoking review of Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) in Problemos (Vilnius University Press): www.zurnalai.vu.lt/problemos/ar...

All part of his masterplan to win The Brian Clough Trophy...