Ben Long

On my way back from talking about hinge epistemology at the St Andrews Arché Graduate Conference. Thanks to all of the speakers for their insightful talks, and to @megottschall.bsky.social and co for organising!
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MindGrad Deadline Extension:

The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!

Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...

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Pyrrhonian scepticism vs the "scepticism" of the conspiracy theorist!

There's still one month left to send in your submissions for MindGrad 2026!
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Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology

Annalisa Coliva - 'Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology', free to download for the next two weeks - it's presumably in part building on her chapter in the handbook, which was on social hinge epistemology:

Film review by Jorge Luis Borges of KING KONG (1933): King Kong: A monkey fourteen meters high (some of his fans say fifteen) is obviously charming, but perhaps that is not enough. This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements. His only virtue-his height-seems not to have greatly impressed the photographer, who persists in not shooting him from below but from above, a plainly mistaken angle that invalidates and annuls his tallness. It should be added that he is hunchbacked and bowlegged, features that also shorten him. To ensure that there is nothing extraordinary about him, they make him fight monsters far stranger than he and find him lodgings in fake caverns the size of a cathedral, where his hard-won stature is lost. A carnal or romantic love for Miss Fay Wray brings to perfection the ruin of this gorilla and of the film as well.

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

MindGrad 2026 Call for Papers now open! 2026 is a special year, marking the 20th edition of the MindGrad series of conferences. Submission link: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...

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CFP: MindGrad 2026
Deadline: 6th October 2025

I'm helping to organise next year's MindGrad at the University of Warwick.

We are welcoming graduate student submissions of 5000 words in the Philosophy of Mind and related areas.

Submission form and info:
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There were some technical hiccups with the form, but everything is back to normal now!

CFP: MindGrad 2026
Deadline: 6th October 2025

I'm helping to organise next year's MindGrad at the University of Warwick.

We are welcoming graduate student submissions of 5000 words in the Philosophy of Mind and related areas.

Submission form and info:
forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...

#philsky

Happy to say that my paper, "Acceptance or Suspension: A Puzzle for Hinge Epistemology", has been accepted for the 2025 Arché Graduate conference in St Andrews!

It's comforting to know that wherever I turn in my research, Robert Fogelin has written something on the subject. Does anyone else have a Fogelin-esque figure like this?

I have finally decided to venture outside of the realm of V60 brewing. The dialling in process with a second hand lever machine has claimed a few casualties...

Not my favourites, but Weird Al should definitely be considered for Spinoza or Descartes!
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I watched Stuart Little recently. Once you realise that Hugh Laurie's character is Gregory House hallucinating about the rat he found in season 2, the film improves dramatically.

Here's a question for anyone doing interpretative work. How do you weigh philosophical plausibility with textual accuracy? This question has been on my mind a lot after doing some work on Hume's scepticism about the senses in the Treatise.

We Can Make an Impact. SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

The lack of far right slop during my morning scroll is a breath of fresh air.