Kevin Riggs

Just published:

Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Good effort!

“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…

I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

Which pub?

An in-person viva? Blimey. Very rare these days - hope Edinburgh paid your expenses.

Good to have you back

Humber street

That made me cough out my white wine in a quite fancy fish restaurant (yeah there is one in Hull...)

Maybe..but only if they all are from M&S...

Gert lush....

a man laughs while talking on a phone outside ALT: a man laughs while talking on a phone outside

Tylenol’s lawyers

Silvery bench.

Terminator 2’s let himself go.

Dunning Kruger defecting to Reform is another win for nominative determinism

Cream first obvs

Brilliant.

Where's the stonehenge backdrop? 😉

Thanks for the reminder!

Chance

Petrichor is a good word!

Same here...(bham)

Lucky you. I would love to have been there, even with that weather!

Get back to the Gower mate....

As it’s #WorldSwiftDay here is a montage of Swift photos I’ve taken. One of the most challenging birds to capture in flight as they are super fast and turn on a sixpence. They are one of my favourite birds and I love to listen to them “ screaming” over the rooftops ❤️

JOB!

3yr funded post-doc in Theory of Mind inspired by the knowledge first epistemology of Williamson, and the work of @jsphillips.bsky.social. Looking at knowledge and ignorance processing in adults with me and Richard O'Connor at the Uni of Hull. Please re-post.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE794/p...

Trump and weinstein.... a masterclass in zero information transfer

The financial impact of government policy decisions on universities We estimate the net impact of government policy decisions taking effect in 2025–26 will be a £1.4 billion reduction in funding.

www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insig...

Gert lush me ol' babber...

(Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either in…

Happy to share our latest study on (Un)intentionality bias in action observation! We found that people perceive ambiguous actions as intentional—especially when posture aligns with the goal. This bias shifts with schizotypal cognitive traits.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JOB!

3yr funded post-doc in Theory of Mind inspired by the knowledge first epistemology of Williamson, and the work of @jsphillips.bsky.social. Looking at knowledge and ignorance processing in adults with me and Richard O'Connor at the Uni of Hull. Please re-post.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE794/p...