Ed Gibney

The islands go so much further down too. Philosophy -> ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, aesthetics. And each of those have so many subdisciplinary islands. There’s a need for generalists to stitch together the best of the specialists, but that is unsupported as far as I can tell.

Sounds fascinating.

When “the centre” produces vast inequality, climate destruction, and genocide, well then it’s time to call that extremism.

Who? Why are we still paying attention to that disastrous leader and loser?

Bazinga over and over! 😂😂

So great to see Zach get more airtime to demonstrate the coherence, compassion, beauty, and excitement in the full Green Party platform.

I wasn’t happy with how I left our philosophy discussion, but on reflection it was much more about epistemology and what I think is the role of evidence. I’ll focus on that next time.

Ooh! I’m happy to hear that. Probably because politics is much more about the material world and we can more easily agree about that.

BREAKING: Greens smash it at the parliamentary by-election in Manchester: winning 41% of the vote!
4000 majority!
Labour 3rd in a ‘safe’ seat!
Absolutely seismic.

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

Yes to voting for who we want!

Green is for going forward to a better future. 💚 🚦 💚

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

Conference 2026 Three days of the latest in social epistemology. In the heart of Vienna.

It's THE knowledge conference of 2026! @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeconference.at

Probably ought to remove that green ring.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Second favorite:

"The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought...describes the routines of highly accomplished historical figures...who achieved great success despite working a relatively short day (4-5 hrs) followed by lots of walks, afternoon naps, loads of unstructured time, and long vacations."

Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness? The long read: Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences

My favorite quote in this long read:

“To focus on conscious thoughts is like focusing on the leaves of a tree and trying to understand them in isolation,” she said. “The tree is the mind, and there’s a lot more to the mind than consciousness.”

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Opinion | Roundup needs legal protections. This is the wrong way to do it. Glyphosate’s link to cancer has long been tenuous at best.

I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference.

wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

MAHA my ass.

Great comments on this!

❤️ that photo ❤️

Also not mentioned, Europe is filthy stinkin rich in public wealth created for the people.

“Should Europe envy the US for its tech sector? No. Tech generates a big negative externality, because among other things it generates tech-bro billionaires, who are corrupting our politics.”

The Armoured Shrimp and the Evolution of Consciousness Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture by Walter Veit

Come to Oxford to see me give a public lecture on shrimp and the evolution of consciousness on the 11th of March!

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-armour...

This is so heartwarming to see Green’s come to the fore.

Woo hoo! Endlich zum Markt.

🙄 IA.TV loves a controversial opinion.

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

oh dear

Kash Patel was using the FBI's private jet to visit his mom...

"The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm..."

www.ms.now/news/senator...

Vienna is the best. They gave us €1k to help buy this cargo bike, which gives us more joy riding around the awesome bike paths than you can imagine. This is what cities can be.

Caroline Lucas and Zack Polanski at the mics

Audience

With 1600 people in the audience - such a pleasure to do a live episode of Bold Politics tonight with Caroline Lucas.

Episode online soon! 💚🙌🏼

Make those eyes bulge @zackpolanski.bsky.social ! 😂

#VoteGreen

Great quote! I hadn’t thought of it that our own “general intelligence” could in fact be argued to be “survival intelligence”, but I’m going to think about it that way now.

I was sorry to have missed this debate. Will go read about it now…

This was wonderful. Recognising that “objectivity” is not truly possible. It’s only a few short steps from this to my evolutionary epistemology about how knowledge is established and grows more robust. That’s still in peer review, but a draft outline is here:

www.evphil.com/blog/draft-o...

I detoured from Milan to Castel Beseno to find wine because of this show!

(Most beautiful wine region on Earth by the way.)