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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the moon to share that our book, Somebody Should Do Something, is a finalist for the @goddardriverside.bsky.social Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! Huge thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for nomination & for their support to me, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, & @dryan149.bsky.social

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Goddard Riverside @goddardriverside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congrats to Somebody Should Do Something by @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social! It is shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chandra Sripada, talking about ideas he also presented at the CAIC Launch Event last April -- all of which are now available on our new YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@CAIC-at-Pur...

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Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center

The Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC) uses cutting edge cognitive science to understand different kinds of intelligent agents and the real-world consequences of their actions. - Cogni...

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stanford scientists discover the human brain may actually be two separate organs www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me and @dryan149.bsky.social's commentary on @julianje.bsky.social and @yarrowdunham.bsky.social's excellent BBS target article "The Institutional Stance" just went live. JJ-E and YD argue that sometimes, we rely on role-based representations instead of mentalizing... philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874

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Department of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational Linguistics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Listen below to a podcast I did about how to help create social change amongst your circle of influence for important issues like animals, the environment, and social justice 🌱🌿🌳🐣🦥🐳

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🥳 The call for papers for the SSPP is now available! The QR code takes you to the submission page or find it linked below. Come hang out with me and @natashasnature.bsky.social 🥳

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a fabulous volume. I enjoyed the chance to think about how episodic memory fits into standard phil mind (spoiler: it doesn’t), and the other chapters are are all so fun and creative. A testament tk Devin and Louise’s lovely vision of philosophy of mind today. Highly recommend!

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maria Waggoner and I are thrilled to have a paper in Dale & Wiegman's new _Philosophy and the Evolution of Virtue and Vice_ "Can We Learn to Be Virtuous from the Vicious? On Moral Learning and the Pedagogical Value of Antihero Protagonists" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Can We Learn to Be Virtuous from the Vicious? | 18 | On Moral Learning

Virtue ethical theories and cultural evolutionary theories both find significance in social learning, teaching, and education. This chapter brings these

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The alienation people are experiencing today—the mental toll of life in our technologically determined society, the crises of attention so many death-of-literacy pieces dine out on—are often the very forces that booksellers identify as driving the growth of their stores defector.com/what-do-book...

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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The Philosophy of Memory Organization @phomo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Interested in presenting your work on philosophy of memory at the APA? Submit your abstracts for PhOMO's next APA session, expected to be at the 2027 Pacific Division meeting in Portland, Oregon (March 24–27)! Submission deadline is September 18th. Full details: www.phomo.org/event-detail...

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3rd PhOMO APA affiliated group session | The Philosophy of Memory Organization

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s an unbelievable honor to receive this award. Getting to do it alongside such a dear friend makes it even better. Thanks for being wrong about everything so we could make it happen @felipedebrigard.bsky.social 😂😂😂

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Extremely grateful for this award and for sharing it with my good friend, Dr @sarahrobins.bsky.social

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

check out the invited program for the SSPP 🥳 It’s shaping up to be a great conference with some memorable sessions. call for papers coming soon! 👀 @natashasnature.bsky.social

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mindscape 363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins. Food for thought here, whether you are biological or silicon! #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Chandra Sripada.

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So awesome that this book now is in paperback. Consider listening to CASBS's podcast episode about the book with two of its coauthors, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2018-19) 🎙️🎧 ➡️ bsky.app/profile/casb...

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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A very well timed post, I might add! bsky.app/profile/mitp...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Newly released in paperback, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social, and @dryan149.bsky.social's “Somebody Should Do Something” provides a novel approach to creating transformative social change—and the ways that each of us can help make a difference: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

A photo of the book "Somebody Should Do Something" against a plain white background.

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

All year, scientists have been making revisions to the human-origin story. … Last week, a team of researchers published new evidence suggesting that two “ghost” ancestors haunt our family tree—not Neanderthals or Denisovans, but some other hominin populations. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue 🧵 “If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God,” Mother Teresa wrote in 1975... psyche.co/ideas/mother...

Screenshot for article published in Psyche, with the title "Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue," by Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva, philosophers, above a photo of Mother Teresa with a group of people

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us for the Philosophy & Neuroscience Palooza at the PSA! 🧠 8:30-10:00am: DSPNW's “Neurophilosophy at 40” featuring Patricia Churchland 🧠10:15-11:45am: SPAN's meet the author session with David Sussillo 🧁 🍇🥯 Light breakfast will be served at each session!

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our book's final chapter explores how people can focus on the social roles they already occupy—in their jobs, families, pastimes, and friend networks—to find opportunities to make a difference. We begin with a profile of Nigerian feminist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. 🧵 www.youtube.com/shorts/q6N1e...

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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: The Lioness of Lisabi #history #community #FunmilayoRansomeKuti #shorts

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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thanks to our friends @cogcompneuro.bsky.social for announcing our new journal MINDS, MACHINES, & BRAINS at this morning's keynote. We're excited to be collaborating with you on this!

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social! Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Individual actions were associated with greater collective engagement and stronger policy support within the same year. The findings challenged the crowding-out effect, suggesting that increases in individual action do not undermine broader forms of climate engagement. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Spent the last 2 days bingeing all 8 episodes of the latest season of The UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, and every one is a banger! Honored to be interviewed on one of the OG philosophy podcasts, "where philosophy and real-world issues collide" www.unmutepodcast.com/all-episodes...

Flyer for the latest season of the UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, featuring photos of Stephen Darwall, Robin Dembroff, Nick Buccola, Remy Debes, Joel Krueger, Maria Acosta-Lopez, Olivia Bailey, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Dan Kelly

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My not-very-online colleague Maria Waggoner @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social @purduephilosophy.bsky.social just published an incredibly interesting and original paper in Phil Imprint on the agential value of intrusive thoughts. Y'all should check it out! journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

The Agentic Value of Intrusive Thoughts
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This paper investigates the relationship between the content of one's intrusive thoughts—such as intentionally swerving into oncoming traffic—and one's values. I first consider two approaches that are already on the table within empirical and philosophical literature – either one's intrusive thoughts indicate a moral failure of the person who has them, or they are to be seen as noise and to be disregarded. After pointing out problems with these approaches, I propose another avenue which builds on the finding that intrusive thoughts often occur in situations of increased uncertainty and social isolation when our agency would otherwise be threatened. By employing a social account of agency, I suggest that some instances of intrusive thoughts could play the role of an 'other.' Under this proposal, at least some intrusive thoughts would serve a surprising function of helping us to manifest our values and uphold our agency.

How to Cite:

Waggoner, M., (2026) “The Agentic Value of Intrusive Thoughts ”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 23, 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.7356

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-... That’s right. I just referenced the collective human experience. I waded deep into the primordial waters, and suddenly I have strong opinions about how you should lead your life and I want to text them to you in all caps. That nine-to-five is a hamster wheel, man.

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Behold, I Have Returned from a Hike

Gaze upon my photos and weep.

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

newbooksnetwork.com/somebody-sho... News Books Network!

Screenshot of a podcast conversation hosted by Thomas Discenna with the authors of the book Somebody Should Do Something in the New Books network

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Who made the call to swap out bologna sandwiches for PB&J at the March on Washington? I found out from Tom Discenna for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social as we shared stories of social change newbooksnetwork.com/somebody-sho... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

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Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We need a more straightforward and persuasive argument. We teach a set of skills that you cannot get anywhere else. AI has made those skills more valuable. Those skills matter not only at work but in every domain of life. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Why Are Humanists So Bad at Defending the Humanities?

There is a more persuasive case, and it’s been ignored.

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

this year @natashasnature.bsky.social and I will be taking over the SSPP as Philosophy Program Co-Chairs 🥳🥳 We can’t wait to plan some sessions 🤓🤓 See yall in Atlanta! ✌️🍑 southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/

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The Southern Society

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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com

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