Grey cat sticks her head foolishly through the banisters
Grey cat balances precariously on the banister
good afternoon
19.10.2025 15:15 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@wiglet1981.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Bristol π³οΈβπ he/him https://richardpettigrew.com/ Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For?
Grey cat sticks her head foolishly through the banisters
Grey cat balances precariously on the banister
good afternoon
19.10.2025 15:15 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Abstract of Birch, PrΓ©cis of The Edge of Sentience.
It sounds silly but this new prΓ©cis 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...
16.10.2025 09:10 β π 68 π 13 π¬ 3 π 0When 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
16.10.2025 09:27 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0https://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 whoβs counting?)
Then I present my favoured account, which adapts Rachel Fraserβs 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.
16.10.2025 08:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Abstract: 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 donβt work.
16.10.2025 08:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This 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?
academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...
bro just assume the axiom of choice it's fine
16.10.2025 03:53 β π 24 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0they're doing real philosophy of math over on stancilsky
16.10.2025 03:52 β π 103 π 9 π¬ 5 π 1Note on garden wall reading βfree quince from our gardenβ
unclear why quince is imprisoned in their garden in the first place
15.10.2025 09:59 β π 86 π 6 π¬ 5 π 1[in mary poppins court]
clerk:call the witness for the prosecution
*spoonful of sugar walks in*
medicine: oh, shit
The Uncanny Valet
11.10.2025 12:47 β π 391 π 103 π¬ 10 π 3My 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
11.10.2025 11:37 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Huge win for Blofeld
10.10.2025 12:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0damn. hoping it at least signifies something
10.10.2025 04:09 β π 3884 π 791 π¬ 54 π 8Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.
09.10.2025 14:02 β π 110 π 12 π¬ 18 π 2Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
βA second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.β
08.10.2025 22:54 β π 15974 π 2804 π¬ 234 π 117Turns 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.
09.10.2025 04:42 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tabby cat with one paw forward in the middle of the Magic To Do routine from Pippin
SarandΓ« cat performs Fosse dance routine
08.10.2025 15:32 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A 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/
08.10.2025 12:48 β π 34 π 6 π¬ 1 π 2I talk about this a bit in my review of Laurieβs book in Mind, where Iβm a bit sceptical. But I donβt know of anyone whoβs pursued it positively drive.google.com/file/d/1StGY...
08.10.2025 09:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it
07.10.2025 21:49 β π 415 π 19 π¬ 5 π 5apparently Wyatt Earp could have watched a Disney cartoon while eating a cheeseburger
08.10.2025 09:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure youβre in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when itβs announced so youβve got a good story about getting the news. βSo, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pingingβ¦β
08.10.2025 09:12 β π 25 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.
07.10.2025 23:53 β π 802 π 86 π¬ 60 π 22Sorry Iβm late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of Franceβ¦
06.10.2025 08:13 β π 200 π 33 π¬ 4 π 2Isnβt it wonderful? Had a really lovely day there and at Perast, which also hosted multiple glorious cats
05.10.2025 09:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Mysterious 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 lemurβs 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
05.10.2025 08:46 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0