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Deborah Alame-Jones

@alame-jones.bsky.social
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Philosopher with particular interest in Wittgenstein, Kant, philosophy of mind, cognitive science - also an animal lover with two adorable dogs.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception
A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great book - with so many of my students and collaborators there! Proud
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There is a standard format for general philosophy of mind courses which goes: first there was dualism, then (300 years later) behaviourism (quickly refuted by Putnam) then identity theory (ditto) then functionalism then the problem of consciousness, and maybe intentionality. The end.
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Also, let's take a moment to think how much good could be done for real humans and animals with the resources currently being wasted on questions about AI consciousness.
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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
First media coverage I ever received for a paper I wrote! It was a huge surprise and honour to be interviewed by @science.org
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Every kind of crappy reasoning in just one (free!) clickbait article. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If our experiences unfold like a stream over time, how would this stream unfold in other animal species? Together with @birchlse.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social, a review of temporal illusions and a path for temporal phenomenology in animals! a 🧵/n www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Delighted to see this new paper appear, led by @singhal.bsky.social with @birchlse.bsky.social and me - out now in TiCS 👇🏽
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Did the evolution of consciousness begin with smell? I have a piece arguing it might well have done (in response to @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's recent vision-centric picture). Free to read here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZhrI...
The evolution of consciousness: Olfaction first, vision later?
Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2026
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🐶 Starting with a dog called Pip, the LSE iQ podcast explores one of the biggest ethical questions of our time. What do we really owe animals — and is the law keeping up with the #science?
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The self is not « inside » the mind or body - it’s in between the body and the world! The dynamic coupling between bodily movements & bodily actions in the world are fundamental in constructing and maintaining a coherent sense of self www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The recording of my talk about the philosopher Mary Midgley and economics is already online. Thanks to the whole @inparenthesis.bsky.social team & to @philosophellie.bsky.social, @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social, @amytaggart.bsky.social, @iangr.bsky.social for joining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNC...
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Nat Dyer: 'Midgley amongst the economists'
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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989. Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology
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(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
With the help of scholars, we're mapping historical/philosophical connections to the Wartime Quartet. Our latest Margaret Macdonald - written my philosopher Oliver Spinney. You can read it on our website! www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/quartet-biog...
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Mapping Connections Mapping Connections | In Parenthesis
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Deborah Alame-Jones @alame-jones.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Excellent piece!
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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I appeared on the Philosopher’s Zone for ABC National Radio (Australia) to discuss my new book.
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Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer - ABC listen
It's been said that the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer should come with a health warning, so stark and pessimistic was his outlook on life. And the man was no less con...
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New episode (1174), with Dr. David Bather Woods (@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social). We talk about his great new book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. #Philosophy YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
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#1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist
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Leon’s Existential Cafe @leonscafe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
On episode 246, we welcome @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social to discuss the life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, how his father’s suicide shaped him, suffering as the source of compassion, happiness as the negation of pain, and why he believed life is worth living. Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
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anthonygottlieb.bsky.social @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...
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On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”
In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophy—“like the name of the one who burnt down the…
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Deborah Alame-Jones @alame-jones.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor about his new book. The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment.
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Deborah Alame-Jones @alame-jones.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor, author of ‘Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment’. Timely topic!
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Deborah Alame-Jones @alame-jones.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Great piece!
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize trophy.
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
One year of Herald of a Restless World. I’m still amazed by the response and so grateful to everyone who’s joined me in exploring Bergson’s life and philosophy
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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...
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“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…
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
A flyer for "How AI is helping - and harming - animals", 30 Sept, LSE.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Many congratulations to @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Hasok Chang on their election as Fellows of the British Academy. Major recognition for philosophy of science!
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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
End of the day, @jowolff.bsky.social asked to sum up and reflect at The Public Philosopher, the conference in his honour at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. Brilliant talk about his academic and public career, “It’s more important as a philosopher that people understand what you say”
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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Videos of two keynote lectures from the BSHP Annual Conference 2025 are now available on our website! The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below. bshp.org.uk/events/video...
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Videos and Podcasts | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
EVENT! Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy 17 July 2025 @UoNHumanities Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @thebshp.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social #philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Ahead of the Joint Session, The Supplementary Volume has been published and will be available to read open access, free of charge from now through to the end of the conference. You can access the full volume here: academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky #philosophy
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Issues | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom. www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"These whales have so much to teach us and that we are still just scratching the surface of their lives and behavior." The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Killer whales seen grooming each other with kelp in first for marine tool use
Behavior in orca population off coast of US and Canada captured by scientists using drone observation
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 16/06/2025
You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.
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The British Philosophical Association @thebpa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Great to see BBC spotlighting these fab philosophy videos created by @SAPERE_P4C and narrated by Stephen Fry. Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies. #philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight | Biology Letters
The origin of flight in avian dinosaurs has been historically an ideal framework for proposing the evolutionary relationship between form and function in limb proportions under the hypothesis of speci...
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...
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The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 2, What Is Time? Part I
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Principles of Biological Autonomy
Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...
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North Lancashire Green Party @northlancsgreens.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
GREEN WIN CENTRAL LANCASTER 🟢 Green - Gina Dowding 2157 ELECTED ⚪ Ref - Rob Kelly 765 🔴 Lab - Fran Wild 500 🔵 Con - Thomas William Inman 235 🟠 Lib Dem - Derek Kaye 112 About Gina at northlancs.greenparty.org.uk/people-profi... #LocalElections2025 #lancashirecountycouncil
North Lancs Green Party logo. LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025 RESULTS GREEN WIN! COUNCILLOR GINA DOWDING LANCASTER CENTRAL LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL  "Thank you to all the people in Lancaster Central that have voted green and re- elected me to the County Council. I am really honoured that they put their confidence in me. Ι will continue to work for the benefit of all of our communities and to reduce inequalities while trying to combat the big challenges of our day: action on climate change, protecting nature and promoting fairness."Promoted by Anne Chapman on behalf of North Lancs Green Party, c/o Derwent Rd, Lancaster LA1 3ES
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/05/2025
Vote for real hope and real change. Vote Green today.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When we advised the UK government about 🐙🦑🦀🦞🦐 sentience in 2021, we also highlighted the worst welfare risks they face and what it would take to address them. Not much has changed yet, so we've published an updated review (open access) with all the latest evidence: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Information and data will never deliver creativity — Life, information, and the search for meaning New piece over at @iai.tv In which I quote Colwyn Trevarthen and David Bowie. iai.tv/articles/inf...
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Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci
Michael Friedman, Suppes Professor of Philosophy of Science, Stanford University (1947-2025)
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
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LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.
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