Lukas Schwengerer

Do you think it would be suitable for Phil Compass? I think they also do two-part entries at times for longer papers.

The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social

Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.

I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

Keith Harris, Epistemic magnetism - PhilPapers An agent’s epistemic prospects depend on a combination of that agent’s individual characteristics and features of that agent’s epistemic environment. Such factors cannot always be cleanly separated. O...

Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism"

The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology
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This looks super interesting! Congrats!

Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

My talk for Project EPIC on so-called 'Medical Gaslighting' and the first-person is now up on their website (scroll down to 'archived seminars from 2024). This is also doubling as my audition tape for sponsorship by Monster Ultra.

A conference schedule for Thursday, 5th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Mutuality without Measurement" by Aloysius Ventham, followed by "Non-Domination and Eschewing Friendships with the Morally Bad" by Aarthy Vaidyanathan at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Andrew Ma presents "The Strains of Involvement: Objectification and Ending Friendships" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Sophie-Grace Chappell's 90-minute talk "What Aristotle and C.S. Lewis get wrong about friendship (pretty much everything)" at 13:45, then after another break, Paloma Morales presents "'Bad People' and Moral Snobs: On the Badness of Refusing to Befriend People with Serious Moral Vices" at 15:45. The day concludes with "Final Speaker" Yiran Hua from 16:30 to 18:00.

A conference schedule for Friday, 6th of March. Sessions begin at 10:00 with "Should we blame our friends for their immoral beliefs?" by Jake Wagner, followed by "Virtue Friendship with Bad People in Aristotle" by Dashan Xu at 11:00. After a 15-minute break, Pilar Lopez Cantero presents "Friendship Break-ups" at 12:00. Lunch runs from 12:45 to 13:45. The afternoon features Joe Slater's 90-minute talk "'You Should Like Your Friends', 'You Shouldn't Like Nazis' and Other Shocking Revelations" at 13:45, then after another break, Max Lewis presents "Friendship, Bad People, and the Limits of Reactivity" at 15:45. The day concludes with Final Speaker Bennett Helm from 16:30 to 18:00.

Philosophers! Come to my two day workshop - it's online and free and features OUTSTANDING speakers! dm me if you'd like to register to attend, or email me at aloysiusaquinas.ventham[at]salzburg.ac.at. More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy #ethics

Cody Turner & Nir Eisikovits, Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy - PhilPapers AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. The sycophantic behavior of LLMs has been documented to cause significant harm, such as feeding users’ .....

My article “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy” (co-written with Nir Eisikovits) is forthcoming in the journal AI and Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/TURPTP-4

It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!

But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.

🚨Postdoc-Stelle Theoretische Philosophie, 3+3 Jahre, an der Universität des Saarlandes (4 SWS Lehre)

📅Deadline: 05.02.2026

Wir sind ein sehr nettes (kleines, aber feines 💅) Institut und suchen Verstärkung. Gerne Re-post, danke! #philsky

I had similar, positive experiences teaching it this term as part of a political epistemology course. Lots of interesting discussions around lottocracy and the topic hits a sweet spot of being a little weird but still very accessible.

This semester I am teaching a course about technocracy and its discontents. It will be a mix of theory (what is technocracy, why do we have it) and case studies. Ideas for reading suggestions? They need to be relatively accessible, and make a good basis for discussion.

Perhaps something on technochauvinism? Not sure if there is a good, shortish part in Broussard's book, but the general idea of always looking for technological solutions could be interesting in the context.

In any case, if you are willing to share I'd be very interested in the course when it's done

Me looking at the camera and smiling, holding up a copy of my book Epistemic Injustice An Introduction

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

I still don't have a physical copy, but the book seems to be out electronically for those who have access through their libraries - it's available through the Edinburgh uni library already, for instance

This looks really cool! Just unfortunate that these are not open to everyone.

Short post about the concept of epistemic domination out today on the APA blog: blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/11/o...

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Bewilligung der DFG für GLAM-Forschungsgruppe im Emmy Noether-Programm.

Amazing news! I got the funding for a 6-year (3+3) DFG Emmy Noether-research group on 'Gender: Language & Metaphysics'. 🎉🎉
Stay tuned for GLAMorous PhD-positions in feminist philosophy of language and metaphysics. More info coming soon.

Congrats! Fantastic news!🎉

Can Only Meat Machines Be Conscious?

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

A manuscript provisionally entitled Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Environmentalism: Respecting Knowledge

New book contract signed!
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Congrats!

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:

Traveling to Greece tomorrow for this: politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2...

Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.

NOW ONLINE!
What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day!

Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast.

In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories.
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New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...

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I illustrate how some inferentialist accounts of self-knowledge are best captured with this weak notion of privileged and peculiar access. I then argue that this weak notion can give us everything we want in a theory of self-knowledge and defend it against recent arguments.

The paper is a discussion of different ways of thinking about privileged and peculiar access.
I propose a very weak version of merely contingent privilege and peculiarity, rather than anything more demanding.

Lukas Schwengerer, Contingently Privileged and Peculiar Self-Knowledge - PhilPapers My access to my mental state is often said to be privileged and peculiar. It is privileged insofar as I am in a secure epistemic position regarding my mental state, and ...

You can also find a final draft version on philpapers for easier access: philpapers.org/rec/SCHCPA-61

New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...

#philsky

Congrats!