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G. A. Cohen - Gilbert Ryle
m.youtube.com/watch?v=80Ao...
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Defended G. A. Cohen in a balloon debate today as part of Welcome Week in my department - took great restraint on my part not to attempt to recreate his impression of Ryle.
01.10.2025 18:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and itโs possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread ๐งต)
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itโremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Hoping if I look at this for long enough it will erase all memory of the Ezra Klein article
12.09.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Useful test for the value of a โcan AI do Xโ article: how much of it is either (a) here is what senior executives at AI companies say or (b) here is what the AI told me.
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just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...
My paper โAnimal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonderโ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... has just been published at @the-joap.bsky.social In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.
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Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology and author of The Mind of a Bee
CCS is a community of researchers dedicated to understanding the evolution of cognition and development of behaviour across taxa. Join us at our next conference #CO32026 in Montreal, April 15-18, 2026.
https://www.comparativecognition.org/
Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professional marine biologist. My social media is separate from, and does not represent, my employer. Please bring croissants ๐ฅ
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
freelance investigative journalist, 2024 British Journalism Awards nominee
fact-checker & subeditor @tbij.bsky.social
they/them
โข philosophy professor
โข editor of Daily Nous, philosophy news site
โข person
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
- Purdue PhD student / Affiliate at Social and Cognitive Origins Group
- Animal cognition -- ToM
- Norm psych.
- Kant
Prev: UofT/IHPST, Carleton
anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com
Socialist since 1937. ๐น
Group Leader, Uni Tรผbingen | Humans, hominins, and apes | Evolution of human cultural evolution
-> When and how did we get from ape-like cultures to deep, broad & open-ended cultural evolution?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Origins of the Social Mind โข Apes โข Dogs โข Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins โข he/him
Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
The most interesting ideas in ethics and political philosophy. Where every episode contains a surprise. By Dr William Gildea. https://linktr.ee/surprisingethics
Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. ๐ช๐บ๐ he/him
Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
