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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Applied Epistemology Project at UNC has wrapped up, having run the 4-year course for which it was funded. However, our website will be staying online in order to make the resources developed by the project available in perpetuity. Thread highlighting those resources (inc. one new one) below. ❤️

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With Chris Howard and Maggie Shea, I'm excited to announce the 9th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop, March 26-27 2027. Keynote by Sarah McGrath + 7 talks selected by CFA. Accepted papers eligible for special issue of Phil Studies. Submissions due Oct 7: normativity.web.unc.edu

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Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop

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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Excited to share our fifth (and final) "explainer video"! (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on partisanship, featuring a script by Rishi Joshi! Please share & consider using in teaching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2c...

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[AEP Explainers] Partisanship (with Hrishikesh Joshi)

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Welcome to the daily existence of a public health ethicist on a health sciences campus (So. Many. Unexplored. Value. Judgments.) Scientism is a heckuva drug. #SorryNotSorry #ISaidWhatISaid #PHEthx

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New paper! I investigate cases where experts tacitly encode value judgments into their public pronouncements, and examine the complications this presents for the rationality of deference to experts, with a particular focus on pandemic policy. (1/2) philpapers.org/rec/WORCVJ

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Alex Worsnip, Covert Value Judgments in Expert Testimony - PhilPapers

Scientific experts frequently say things that encode value judgments, not least when they are called on to offer advice or recommendations. Often, however, the value judgments underlying their testimo...

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Really excited about the lineup for this. Check out the full thread for details and for how to apply to be a respondent.

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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

AEP research getting out there! 👏👏👏

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

(Kinda) new paper, with the fab Z Quanbeck, finally out @ Phil Imprint! We defend a combo of epistemic permissivism + limited pragmatism re reasons for belief. This preserves some features of pragmatic encroachment views while avoiding their drawbacks. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

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A Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment

As a slew of recent work in epistemology has brought out, there are a range of cases where there's a strong temptation to say that prudential and (especially) moral considerations affect what we ought...

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For one year only, the 8th Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop will (paradoxically) be in Montreal! Keynote by Jane Friedman plus 7 talks selected via open CFA. As usual, accepted papers eligible for special issue of Phil Studies. Submissions due Oct 15th; more info at normativity.web.unc.edu

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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Very excited to share our third "explainer video". (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on epist of free speech, featuring a script by Rob Simpson! Please share & consider using in teaching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMgb...

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[AEP Explainers] The Epistemology of Free Speech (with Robert Simpson)

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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Reminder: tomorrow is the deadline to apply for this! It's a chance to get expert instruction in public writing on applied epistemology, feedback from peers, and to enjoy an in-person workshop here at UNC

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annamariaaeder.bsky.social @annamariaaeder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🥁🎉It's time again! My colleague Thomas Grundmann is organising the Cologne Summer School in Philosophy. This year's star is @aworsnip.bsky.social (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 🎊📢 You can find more information on the following website: cssip.uni-koeln.de Spread the word and repost!

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The exciting AEP announcements just keep on coming! This is a really cool initiative being spearheaded by our summer 2025 RA Devin Lane--anyone interested in writing applied epistemology for a public audience should apply!

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

These explainer videos (produced and animated by the fantastic Ripley Stroud) are among my favorite things we're doing at the @unc-aep.bsky.social. The second one just came out, featuring Kevin Dorst on polarization. Please check it out and share widely!

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Stephan Torre @stephantorre.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In support of #philosophymatters, this fortnight I'll be highlighting things that don't matter that are not philosophy. First up: layovers.

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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fascinating new post on our blog by Emily McWilliams, discussing the denial and undertreatment of women's pain in medical procedures through the lens of applied epistemological work on testimonial injustice, manufactured ignorance, and motivated reasoning: aep.unc.edu/2025/03/17/t...

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The Retrievals and the Routine: Systematic Erasure of Women’s Pain | The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Is the unwillingness of deferring to experts really a serious societal pathology? Review by @aworsnip.bsky.social et al explores under exactly what conditions we ought to defer to experts, and under what conditions people are willing to defer to experts: buff.ly/NXuDVSu

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Sam Pratt @sampratt99.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New Paper in Philosophical Psychology: Trust in experts is low. Why? How bad is it? And what should we do? To answer these questions, we reviewed philosophy (when *ought* we defer to the experts) and psychology (when *do* people defer to the experts). Link in comments!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The disease of the American political class is the inability to see, describe, or respond what is happening, when doing so would conflict with the speech norms of the American political class

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I wrote a blog post about Samuel Alito as a case study in the ethics of suspicion and psychologizing blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

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Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

First (soon to be) published paper to come out of a fun collaborative project we're doing at UNC with a group of philosophers and psychologists on deference to experts!

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It's this kind of thing that gives me hope that we live in a simulation designed by a massive joker and all the other crap that's going on is just a part of that too

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Interesting to see that US safety standards focus on what happens to people inside the car on collision, whereas in the UK there’s a much greater focus on pedestrian safety and that of people in the cars you collide with.

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'm honored to be the guest lecturer at this year's Cologne Summer School in Philosophy, where I'll be delivering five lectures (plus a public lecture) on my current work in applied epistemology. (1/2) cssip.uni-koeln.de

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Cologne Summer School in Philosophy

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Genuinely never thought I'd see the day when Mitch McConnell was described by other Republicans as a "RINO". *Mitch McConnell* as "Republican in Name Only". Because he--what?--opposed like 1% of Trump's agenda and appointments?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Starmer confirming the UK is willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. An immense moment. Hard to overstate how important this is or how impressive it is that he's done it.

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Capitalist Lion Tamer @timcushing.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

[speaking to Senate committee] I choose to use the remainder of my time to add this mp4 of MBV's live rendition of You Made Me Realise to the congressional record youtu.be/HNlvioY0Y-0?...

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My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is a good idea. A daily Democratic press conference with a consistent, skilled spokesperson who covers two things: 1. What DOGE and the Trump administration did to the American people today 2. What Democrats are doing in response

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/02/2025

The "woke grant" database is predictably idiotic, includes papers about diversity in beetles, cis-regulatory gene pathways, and brain trauma. US gov characterises the included grants as advancing "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda". www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about...

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dropping the Adams case is so obviously corrupt and unethical that a former Scalia clerk resigned on principle. This is not a partisan issue; it's a question of whether DOJ will be weaponized by this administration on behalf of its allies and against its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case (Gift Article)

The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I am begging the Democratic Party to create a media spectacle. Myself & dozens of other political communication experts will coach you for free.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is so depressing. The UK has a very restrictive (and at times cruelly arbitrary) immigration system. For years the Tories have been entirely inaccurately accusing Labour of presiding over "open borders" when they were in government; now Labour is accusing the Tories of the same. Utter fiction.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

There's so much going on, but important not to lose sight of the possibility that the NC Supreme Court could overturn an election in an act of partisan lawlessness almost as brazen as what Trump attempted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

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Opinion | The Courts Must Stop This Judge From Stealing an Election

North Carolinians — all Americans — should be watching closely to ensure that justice is done.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I feel like 'all-inclusive' actually *never* comes up in a DEI context and only ever refers to like package vacations

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Trump does well on vague approval but that support plummets as soon as voters are asked about details. Do you approve of how Trump is handling Gaza?” has 54% approval but “Do you approve of the specific plan Trump has advanced for handling Gaza” has 13% approval.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION

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Nate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 07/02/2025

If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.

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