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Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

In this new paper, we look at some different dimensions on which beliefs vary:

- Is the belief deeply important to your identity?
- Would you change your mind if you got evidence against it?
- Is it best described in terms of credences (“pretty sure”), or is it more yes/no?

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🏆 Lucía Garzón, graduada #UGR, Primer Premio del Certamen Arquímedes 2024

👏 ¡Enhorabuena!

ℹ️ https://canal.ugr.es/noticia/lucia-garzon-recientemente-graduada-en-filosofia-por-la-ugr-consigue-el-primer-premio-del-certamen-arquimedes-2024-en-el-area-de-ciencias-sociales-y-humanidades/

New paper 🚨

Are LLMs just “calculators for writing”?

In this new paper led by Cristina Voinea, we argue that while there are some aspects of the analogy that can be defended, ultimately it is inadequate.

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

The journal "Experimental

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This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable."

For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B<PL formula.

yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...

Convocatoria de contratos predoctorales 2025 | Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia

📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral!

⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25

🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...

Agency, desire, and the conceptual representation of consent Advances in the protection of human rights have placed the notion of autonomous consent in the spotlight of ethical and legal thought. Nowadays, the m…

🎉 ¡Premio Arquímedes 2024 en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades!
@luciagarzon.bsky.social, graduada en Filosofía por la @universidadgranada.bsky.social ha obtenido el Primer Premio por su trabajo sobre el consentimiento.

📘 Publicado en Cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔗 sl.ugr.es/0eRQ

Agency, desire, and the conceptual representation of consent Advances in the protection of human rights have placed the notion of autonomous consent in the spotlight of ethical and legal thought. Nowadays, the m…

For anyone interested, the full paper with all the results, published in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉Thrilled that @luciagarzon.bsky.social won First Prize at the Certamen Arquímedes (cienciagob.bsky.social) for the best undergraduate-led research in the Social Sciences & Humanities category! A truly well-deserved recognition of her research on the folk concept of consent. Congrats, Lucía!🌟

"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."

hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞

The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi

We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.

Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

🚨Job Alert!

FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation"

Deadline: November 13.

More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa...

happy to answer questions by email!

🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.

👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.

Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi. In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel (California) and Kirstan Brodie (Co...

Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET

"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.

First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.

philevents.org/event/show/1...

Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented.

⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️
www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

🚨Big news! @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics journal - new open access companion to JME -- is now officially open for submissions. See the full announcement here www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-...

🚨 Global BioXPhi Research Initiative 🚨 Assessing Replicability and Cross-Cultural Generalisability of Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (@bioxphi) studies! Exciting initiative led by Ivar Hannikainen (@moralsciencelab) and @briandavidearp (@NUS_CBmE) www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Experimental jurisprudence (or “X-Jur”) addresses questions of jurisprudence or legal philosophy by complementing traditional philosophical analysis with empirical methods. Often those methods…

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu/entries/expe...

Check out the first qualitative study of judges’ views on AI in law: users.wpi.edu/~esolovey/pa... Our focus groups featured a cross-section of 12 UK judges, including 5 members of the UK Supreme Court. Co-authored with Erin Solovey and Daniel Chen.

Might consent morally transform some human interactions but not others? In our new article in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @jorgesuarezm.bsky.social, @ivarr.bsky.social, and I explore whether the information consent conveys may be at odds with normative standards in the sexual domain. 🧵