Sarah Fisher

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🎈Book launch!

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber

Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA

Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!

✨CFA✨

I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy

What became of the public philosopher?

In this forthcoming London Lecture, to be held at Senate House in London on 16 October, @reginarini.bsky.social considers how public #philosophy has changed in 100 years.

➡️ Tickets for this event are now available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers We align the aligners

Very important work being done here.

Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Special Issue Call for Abstracts: The journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy is putting together a special volume on Political Epistemology. The issue will feature invited contributions from scholars such as Alex Gu...

Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025.

More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Please share with others who might be interested :)

This sounds like my writing process

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion.

Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something!

#philsky

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

Aw thank you @natalan.bsky.social 🥰

❤️❤️❤️

BBC Wales headline reading ‘Politician wants Kneecap axed from Green Man’

I have no opinion of the story, just appreciating this BBC headline - well played 🤣

What Do You Mean? On the philosophy of meaning and more

A recent interview from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with me and Emma Borg #philsky #philosophy #language #meaning open.substack.com/pub/newbooks...

Economic diarrhoea 😂 #newsagents #thenewsagents

You don't want to read this And I don't want to write it.

You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it.

iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

Is Morality the Cause of Ideological Disagreement | UCL Uncovering Politics This week we ask what drives ideological disagreement in politics? How far do people on left and right disagree with each other because they have fundamentally different moral intuitions or for other ...

Very cool research #philsky #ucl #polarization ucl-uncovering-politics.simplecast.com/episodes/is-...

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

Content Moderation Makeover: Meta’s Changes Are a Mixed Bag Professor Jeffrey Howard discusses the many ethical questions raised by the fact-checking and moderation changes at Meta and its platforms.

Excellent recent piece by Jeff Howard here #Meta #Contentmoderation www.publicethics.org/post/metas-c...

Philosophy job!

Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy at Exeter College, @ox.ac.uk

For a philosopher with an area of specialization in any area of theoretical analytic philosophy, and an area of competence in feminist philosophy

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published.

This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Philosophy on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

📣Come and be my colleague! The Dept of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a new Assistant Prof (Area: Open). I cannot recommend Trinity, the Dept, or Dublin enough! Please share with anyone interested, and if you’ve any questions, do get in touch. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ107/a...

The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states shou...

My book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees is out now.

It outlines what an ethical response to refugees would be based on states' obligations towards the world's displaced. It argues an ethical response is not only urgently required but is within our reach.

www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-o...

Assisted dying vote live updates: MPs vote in favour of allowing assisted dying The bill passing the first stage in the Commons means it will be followed by months of parliamentary activity before it becomes a law.

I’m really pleased. Not an easy topic to discuss or decide on but I think this could eventually help many people 👍

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI 6.30pm Tue 3 Dec | Jonathan Birch | Free public event at LSE

No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️

Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.

📆: deadline February 17!

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I’m Sarah and I’m not as creative as I think I am

I like how immersive it is. Not very realistic though

and I'm very glad to have been pointed to this 'Rationality Wars' article (I'm starting to enjoy social media all over again! 🦋)

Reading it reminds me how bound up the narrative of human irrationality is with the social, political, and technological turbulence of our times...

Framing effects and rationality Abstract. This chapter demonstrates how the pragmatics of natural language can explain many apparent biases of ‘framing’ in reasoning. It explains that the

Well this is extremely kind @neillevy.bsky.social ☺️

McKenzie & co definitely couch their reinterpretation of framing effects in Bayesian terms—see e.g. academic.oup.com/book/8069/ch...