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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My paper "Epistemic Actualism" has been published at Nous. It argues that beliefs and credences do not aim at truth, but rather *actual* truth. And it uses this thesis to defend accuracy-first epistemology from several objections. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At some point, PhilPapers is just gonna have to accept that I'm a human.

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New publication, "Comparativism about Instrumental Value". I started this project back when I was living in Melbourne. V happy that it's finally found a home. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This semester, I taught an undergraduate course on Probability and Rational Choice for the first time. My lecture notes are here: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/par...

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have a new paper forthcoming at Mind, called "Structured Deliberation". It's about a certain way of deliberating about a complex decisions: split the large menu of options up into submenus, choose between submenus, and thereafter choose from the selected submenu... philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=GA...

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

*Excellent* new paper from @bweatherson.bsky.social on deference. He shows, among other things, that Kevin Dorst's Total Trust principle comes apart from the Value of Information thesis in infinite probability frames. ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/article/...

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View of Deference and Infinite Frames

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Video of a talk I gave at USC's Information Science Institute. It's meant to give an opinionated overview of the developments in the philosophy of causation over the past 30 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt...

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Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models

YouTube video by USC Information Sciences Institute

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Next was a thought-provoking talk by @dmitrigallow.bsky.social on recent developments in the philosophy of causation at the USC Information Sciences Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt... (3/6)

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Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models

YouTube video by USC Information Sciences Institute

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This paper, offering two game-theoretic arguments against Uniqueness in epistemology, is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. #philsky brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts...

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Epistemic Permissiveness and Symmetric Games – Brian Weatherson

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Just submitted the completed manuscript of The Book of Infinity to MIT Press. Hoping for the best! #BookOfInfinity

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Budget shortfalls are a real issue and they need to be addressed with cuts somewhere. I do hope my erstwhile colleague Ann Cudd considered taking a pay cut herself before hanging actual philosophers out to dry. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/12...

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PSU Lays Off 17 Academic Faculty Members As Union Talks of Potential Strike

Amid an $18 million budget deficit, Portland State University is laying off 17 non-tenure track faculty, citing “changes in programmatic and curricular needs.” The university issued layoff notices on ...

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I really wish Americans could get as excited about improving our laws as they get about vigilante justice

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

My paper "instrumental divergence" is now available online: rdcu.be/dDXHR (If you want a typo-free version, you can go to philpapers.org/rec/GALIDB)

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

I just downloaded the latest pre-release build of Quarto, and this bug I posted just a few weeks ago has been fixed. Quarto really could be the tool that gives people all the power of LaTeX they need without the steep learning curve. github.com/quarto-dev/q...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Nice line from the famous mathematician Hilbert

"We are a university, not a bath house", on discriminating against female students for admission

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 22/11/2023

Been laughing at this for days. Orca Mosh pit.

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Academia is such a crazy place. Somehow I'm both unemployed and so busy that I'm working over Thanksgiving break.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 03/11/2023

After a white house screening of The Hudsucker Proxy, President Biden committed $16 billion for hulahoop research. The president explained the initiative, "You know. For kids."

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Today I learned that part of ACU's internal justification for eliminating Dianoia was that none of us could teach logic, lol

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

That ‘falsifiability’ is not regarded by contemporary philosophers as the demarcation line between science and pseudoscience.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

The latest revision of my SEP entry on accuracy-first epistemology / epistemic utility theory is now published! This is a complete rewrite that expands the scope of the entry a lot, trying to take in much of the amazing work that’s been done in the past five years.

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Epistemic Utility Arguments for Epistemic Norms (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

"Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian-American biochemist who shares half of the prize, was shabbily treated by Penn, which refused to offer her a permanent position, demoted her, and paid her a derisory salary while she carried out her world-changing research." unherd.com/thepost/acad...

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