David Tan

A black cat sits proudly in his little house bed.

a homeowner at just 5 years old

So glad to have worked on this together and to see this paper out in the world!
🧪 #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #CogPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social

He did! Received treats and then got all snuggled up on the couch

Sleepin

sounds like a perfectly legit rant to me

If you don't send us questions I'll just rant about how all legal research is either philosophy or sociology and attempts to classify it differently are an illusion

Madness!

Dear Americans, speaking from an Australian context, 100+ pages is way too long for an article.

The human brain can definitely find meaning in something written by AI, just like it can find the face of Jesus in a Dorito.

Imprisonment

My cat is roaming free, relaxed, surveying his domain, oblivious to the fact that he is going soon be stuffed into a carrier to see the vet.

The other thing about it is IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE BEST USE CASE SCENARIOS ARE. STUDENTS ARE USING IT TO CHEAT AND NOT LEARN ANYTHING. HOW YOU INTEND FOR A PRODUCT TO BE USE DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER

Australia should recognise Palestine. To not do so only rewards Israel’s crimes A Palestinian state cannot cure the historical injustices of Israel’s foundation, but it is a vital step towards remedying the past.

My colleague Prof Ben Saul sets out the compelling moral and legal case for recognition.

www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

Maybe this explains why I've never been able to get a better student evaluation than my first year of teaching 😂

Our *new paper* explores how flexibility in social categories like gender and race can undermine unfair norms. If we can't read an identity, we can't use it to underpin discrimination. We show even a little confusion can be powerful, and advocate identity play
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26062/

infodumps are great :)! I didn't know the 75% figure

Very useful insights! To clarify I wasn't meaning to deny current Palestinian Statehood, just by their own logic even if it isn't, a universal ban on recognition until indisputable statehood seems, to me, to lead to strange results

And if the argument implies that it is practically impossible for new states to form, one wonders how any of the existing states ever formed in the first place...unless all of it was all illegal recognition.

Not an int lawyer: but also the arg for illegality seems to imply that states cannot recognise other entities unless they are full-fledged states. But practically could new states ever have clear territory, stable govt and ability to enter legal relations unless other states first recognise it?

Marko sets it all out if anyone is interested www.ejiltalk.org/no-recognizi...

Should always add a caveat: I'm not an international lawyer

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I wrote an entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Algorithmic Fairness. It is here: plato.stanford.edu/entries/algo...
I found this a challenging but facinating project. Comments welcome.

hope everyone checks out my new guest post in the daily nous!

I have so many questions about who sat down and thought "you know what I'm going to do with my spare time? I'll write this blog post"

This is how the book opens:

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

Why do we only get one new set of teeth when we're around 7 years old?

What a waste. Hardly done any gnashing by that point.

Why can't we get a new set of teeth when we're 35? That would make a lot more sense.

Maybe even again at 65. Sharks have it sorted.
Someone should look into this imo.

The ICJ is a legendarily conservative legal body. Drawing on @drnajimagi.bsky.social 's live mega-thread last night hear are a few of the jaw-dropping moments for me in the Climate Change Advisory Opinion.

1. Licensing of new fossil fuel projects may be wrongful & expose states to int'l litigation