Richard Pettigrew

One of the best tweets of all time

Left it pretty late to do a Pancake Day joke and now all that’s left is this crêpe one which will probably fall flat and make me feel like a flipping tosser.

A tawny eagle

passing out the handout and sitting quietly while everyone reads it for the full 20 minutes and then standing up and going 'any questions?'

Get in, buddy. We're getting roasted in the unsolicited AI email summary.

The Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology 2026 Join us in Room 224/226, Devon House.

The Daniel C. Dennett Lecture at Northeastern University London, with Richard Pettigrew (@wiglet1981.bsky.social) is this Thursday!

Find more information and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daniel...

Marx and the Politics of Need | George Boss | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit

It’s book launch day! Marx & the Politics of Need is out today, available open access. I hope it sparks ideas and conversations. Dive in here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...

This is happening on Thursday! Do come along if you’re interested!

Good morning, Glasgow, and what a start to the day! This is what it looked like on the Clyde waterfront at about 9am.

#glasgow #goodmorning #cityscape #reflections #theclyde

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

"Nor of Renown less eager, yet by doome Canceld from Heav’n and sacred memorie, Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. For strength from Truth divided and from Just, Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires Vain glorious, and through infamie seeks fame: Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome."

First guy to get cancelled.

British Society for the Philosophy of Science Doctoral Scholarships Doctoral scholarships awarded by the BSPS for doctoral work in the philosophy of science undertaken at any UK university

We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Doctoral Scholarship Competition! (The Competition closes at noon on Friday 27 March.) www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...
#philsci #philosophyofscience #phdfunding

RIP Joe Halpern. He was a great example of true interdisciplinary research spanning CS, Economics, Philosophy, and many others.

Knowledge: A Human Interest Story In this book the author argues for a groundbreaking perspective that knowledge is inherently interest-relative. This means that what one knows is influenced not just by belief, evidence, and truth, bu...

This is a thread of things I've recently published, starting with my book from last year, with Open Book Publishers, defending the claim that knowledge is interest-relative.

I'll continue this thread when new stuff comes out.

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Montaigne: to philosophize is to learn how to die.
Me: are you sure you want to make that your USP?

The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge - Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration Book talk with Dr Samuel Ritholtz and Dr Rebecca Buxton about their recent book "The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge".

Sam and I have TWO book events next week!

First, we're in Amsterdam at the Research Centre for Migration on Wednesday 25th February. You can sign up here: arc-m.uva.nl/content/even...

Scotland is so beautiful - I wish it were real

I think it's right on the moment given the recent UK craze for Skeleton.

Novel punctuation is a combo of question mark and comma

in professional contexts you don’t wanna get me started on the restrictions of standard punctuation.

imagine me, interrupting your SERIOUS discussion to introduce my proposed new punctuation, to express doubt about 1 clause *within* a sentence

(that’s right, it’s more of a comma than a question)

An information poster about studying philosophy at university of Bristol with an image of a skeleton skewering a peasant as illustration

I sometimes worry our advertising material isn’t as welcoming as it might be

I’m not saying I keep a low profile but I’ve just noticed I’ve been charged a no-show fee for a restaurant booking which I did, in fact, honour.

Yes, that’s fascinating too, but it just surprises me that it’s possible for any architecture at all based on these sorts of statistical correlation principles at the bottom to do this.

Yes!! I’m always surprised this isn’t more discussed. Surely this teaches us something interesting about the world or language or the internet corpus or something??

"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

Not to mention everyone in Scotland not called Scott

I get email...

The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020.

They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.