David Papineau

Some philosophical arguments are well-known only because they provoke intense debate about which of their flaws is the most important one

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy (E&R) at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy (E&R) on jobs.ac.uk!

We're still hiring—Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy
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We're back from summer break! In today's new #podcast Ariane Schneck joins me to discuss the correspondence between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes, focusing on the mind-body problem and the passions.

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#philsky #descartes #mindbodyproblem

Good spot for a picnic. Three Castle Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork

I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

"Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A. J. Ayer."

So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️

Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻

5-for-51

Australia all out 209. Kagiso Rabada gets five-for-20. Reminded me of Michael Holding at the Oval 1976. We’ll now see if this is a flat track or not.

Except Smith promptly has a yahoo at Markham of all people and here he is trudging back to the pavilion woo hoo

South Africa did well at Lords this morning but the Aussies are fighting back at 146 for 4

The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction This book is a philosopher's introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. I present and assess three versions of the idea: one version from philosophy, and two from physic...

[Book]
The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction

Jeremy Butterfield

arxiv.org/abs/2505.23639

Lecturer in Political Philosophy (Education)

We are hiring—a 12-month post in Political Philosophy
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Three sports fans

Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Not sure how long we’ll last but I’m ok with Estonia

Anybody watching Eurovision? Will there be singing?

Sign up for a week's painting in the French Pyrénées.
Katy Papineau will be running a residential course on "Atmospheric Colour in Figurative Painting" at Clos Mirabel this November 1-8
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I'm the last speaker this evening @iai.tv talking about consciousness, animal welfare and artificial people iai.tv/live

Don't ask me. I guess the singing's for those who've got consciousness all figured out already :)

I'll be online on Tuesday arguing that consciousness is a red herring if you're worried about the welfare of animals and artificial agents iai.tv/live/iai-liv...

Yes do it they are beautiful

Picard & Guinan discuss slavery YouTube video by James

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Perhaps evil is too strong. She was just following orders. Cameron gave her the absurd job of reducing net immigration to tens of thousands and she dutifully set about doing what it took. She had the same mindset as PM with her unnecessary and destructive "red lines" in the Brexit negotiations

Evil woman. But she's not alone. The parliamentary Labour party happily nodded the policy through, with only Corbyn and five others voting against (after clearly explaining what was going to happen).

Join us for this year’s May conference on Responsible AI, the first of our “Summer of AI” events, May 19-20.

This was a lot of fun 😁

The Landscape of Introspection: What Forms Could Introspective Systems Take? - Imprint Academic We can introspect. We can look inwards, as it were, at our own minds and represent what is occurring there. Philosophers and psychologists have speculated about how we do this, but there has been litt...

It's real! The JCS special issue on possible forms of introspection edited by @keithfrankish.bsky.social and myself in 2023 has just been republished as a book: The Landscape of Introspection. Check it out here: www.imprint.co.uk/product/land...