Richard Pettigrew

Grey cat sticks her head foolishly through the banisters

Grey cat balances precariously on the banister

good afternoon

Abstract of Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience.

It sounds silly but this new précis of The Edge of Sentience is one of my favourite pieces of my own writing. Yes, it's true, you could get chatGPT to summarize my book (and it's open access, so you literally could) - but I do it better! www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

When people used to ask on Twitter which historical figure would have been a main character there most often, it always struck me Pierre Bayle was the clear choice

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uncollected-writings-9780198927570?cc=gb&lang=en&

Officially published today! Link in Alt Text.

(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)

Then I present my favoured account, which adapts Rachel Fraser’s account of the wrong of aesthetic injustice. I argue that this allows us to see that certain putative stock examples of testimonial injustices in fact do not fall under the concept.

Abstract: In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the concept of testimonial injustice, as well as the existing accounts of this characteristic wrong, and I argue that the latter don’t work.

What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?* Abstract. In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the con

This is now out in the special issue of The Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice that Mona Simion edited.

What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

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bro just assume the axiom of choice it's fine

they're doing real philosophy of math over on stancilsky

Note on garden wall reading ‘free quince from our garden’

unclear why quince is imprisoned in their garden in the first place

[in mary poppins court]
clerk:call the witness for the prosecution
*spoonful of sugar walks in*
medicine: oh, shit

The Uncanny Valet

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Orange cat stares haughtily at the camera with a magnificent ringed tail wrapped about his feet. The sky is blue, the sun bright, and he has recently supped on some kibble from an indulgent shopkeeper.

Corfu cat

Huge win for Blofeld

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Turns out the trick is:

Step 1: come to Albania
Step 2: sit in town square
Step 3: profit

Tiny kitten approaches

Tiny kitten meows terrifyingly

Small? Yes. Fearsome? Also, yes.

Tabby cat with one paw forward in the middle of the Magic To Do routine from Pippin

Sarandë cat performs Fosse dance routine

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

I talk about this a bit in my review of Laurie’s book in Mind, where I’m a bit sceptical. But I don’t know of anyone who’s pursued it positively drive.google.com/file/d/1StGY...

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

apparently Wyatt Earp could have watched a Disney cartoon while eating a cheeseburger

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

Isn’t it wonderful? Had a really lovely day there and at Perast, which also hosted multiple glorious cats

Mysterious black cat sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background, clearly enjoying the limelight as Halloween approaches

Tabby cat hunched and sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background.

Half tabby half orange face with tail like a lemur’s curled in front of them. Looking expectantly but in vain at my pizza slice (out of shot)

Orange and white cat poised to leap

Kotor promised cats, and Kotor delivered