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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy | International Symposium Oct. 7 to 9 @oeaw.bsky.social & online www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranst... @elisafreschi.bsky.social

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What do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophy

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a child, I used to think that Matthew was the first boy on the right (with the light on his face). As an adult I checked with others and it seems that several people were uncertain about who was being called exactly. Relevant for the theology of free will and deserving-ness. #philsky

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case you are interested in my latest book (on Veṅkaṭanātha's "revolution" within Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, on doing Sanskrit philosophy based on individual authors and on doing history of philosophy outside of Europe in general), here is a discount code fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can we stop talking about the "Western model of X" (moral responsibility/belief in the self/any other philosophical theory)? There is no uniform "East" nor any uniform "West".

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of all mammals on Earth, 96% are either livestock or humans. Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals and half of plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please don't tell me that the solution to the huge number of applications is having AI assess (AI-generated) applications. And please also don't tell me that AI is "saving us time".

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 21/09/2026

I’ve just been named subject editor for the new “Animal ethics” area in the SEP, following my complaint that there are too few articles on this topic (serves me right for complaining). So stay tuned for new entries in the area, and hit me up with suggestions on topics that you think merit one!

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are surely many reasons for this raise, but I wonder whether also the use of AI is one of them. It makes applying very easy...

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#OtherMinds: is biological "life" a conditio sine qua non for consciousness?

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18/09/2026

Ha ha ha. There is no area of my work where AI has saved time. AI use by other people has significantly increased my workload. Unwanted insertion of AI tools has forced unnecessary, time-consuming, changes to my work processes & configurations. It has no benefit in my own work.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#SanskritJobs The University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) is currently inviting applications for a tenure-track professorship in "Religious Studies: Asian Religions [Hinduism/Buddhism] and Social Sciences". jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

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An academic in Religious Studies (Asian Religions and Social Sciences)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/04/2026

To be clear- what should have happened is this software should have returned ERROR - LANGUAGE MODELS CANNOT PERFORM CALCULATIONS, instead of using several watt hours of energy to fabricate an answer The reason it didn't is because it's more profitable for Anthropic to burn energy to fake capability

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026

Or why he also cropped out the part where I link to the post detailing the exact energy consumption I'm comparing it to, lol

Like ChatGPT, the only right answer here would have been: "This is a language model chatbot, and cannot return accurate answers to calculations. Please consider using a calculator".

The model consumed 0.2864 watt hours to generate that answer. I asked my Bluesky crew what it would take to perform a similar calculation on a pocket calculator. Turns out the number is so small that it's quite hard. Let's use the Casio fx-83GT CW (which can return up to 23 digits). It consumes 0.0008 watts when operational. To do our calculation would take about 0.5 seconds - so it consumes 0.00000011 watt hours to deliver a consistently correct answer.

That is 2,577,600 times the energy consumption, to deliver the wrong answer.

I imagine someone looking at the energy rating for their chatbot and seeing it was only 1.5% of a phone charge would feel like it was a pretty damn efficient way of

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Colleagues, do you also increasingly receive letters asking something along the lines of "I am seeking critical feedback on my preprint…"? The ones I receive resemble each other so much that I wonder whether they have all been written using the same blueprint/LLM or whether these are just bots…

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 14/09/2026

For other #philosophy resources on Bluesky, see the links below, additional feeds on my profile, and the new @philosophy.eurosky.social lists. #PhilSky

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

artha cannot mean only bāhyārtha 'external object' in Mīmāṃsā, since also dharma 'duty' is an artha.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Apparently ChatGPT Astra-6 beat Rimworld and Portal, and I for one am excited to think finally AI can play the video games, which will free us up for additional Toil.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Call for Proposals for the 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, to be held June 4–7, 2027, at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea. The conference theme is: Embodiment and Agency Across Texts and Traditions 1/

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Annual SACP Conference 2027 – Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

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Viktoria Knoll @grauesuppe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣Philosophy friends and colleagues! We have an open 6-year postdoc position in theoretical feminist philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphilosophy, and/or metaphysics. 📅Starting April 1, 2027 🚨Application deadline: November 2 Please share and circulate widely! #philsky #feministsky #PhilJobs

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I just learnt of the death of Enzo Bianchi. In the last book by him I read he defends the idea of the sociality of heaven. No lonely afterlife can be desirable and human. #PhilosophyOfReligion #Philosophy

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spending my scarce time generously doing unpaid reviews of manuscripts that I discover midway are entirely AI-generated is turning me into the damn Joker. Trying not to take it out on editors, who are victims in this too, and who need our diligent professional service, but I'm about to fully snap

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Looking for a PhD in #Sanskrit studies? web.unica.it/unica/protec... The deadline for applications is 28 September 2026. The selection procedures will take place between 1 October 2026 and 23 October 2026. Enrolment will begin on 3 November 2026. PhD studies will commence on 16 November 2026. 1/

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Very interesting study of AI impact on students from University of Hong Kong: 80% of Chinese students using Doubao & DeepSeek... "Homework scores once predicted exam performance; now those who score highest are, perversely, more likely to do worse in exams." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For Mādhva Vedānta, #Vaikuṇṭha is made of Lakṣmī (Lakṣmī is its substance). However, Lakṣmī is not directly God, rather She is His devotee, the highest in the hierarchy (higher than Brahmā, Vāyu and Śiva etc.). How can She be imperishable qua Vaikuṇṭha? 1/

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#SanskritJobs Robert H. No foundation fellowships: The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies 2026-27 competitions. 1/

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#SanskritJobs #UniversityJobs at the University of Vienna: University Assistant postdoctoral in the research area of Sanskrit Philosophy (6109) Link to the job posting: jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/6...

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University Assistant postdoctoral in the research area of Sanskrit Philosophy

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#SanskritJobs #PhilosophyJobs at the university of Vienna: University Assistant Praedoc in the research area of Sanskrit Philosophy (6068) Link to the job posting: jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/6...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wish our sector could support academic writing better, especially for early career and non-anglophone writers. Otherwise they end up punished with rejection when they turn to AI, convinced by current discourse that it's the solution to academic communication. Seen too many papers ruined by AI now.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It turns out that machine learning based on AI-generated texts is not good enough!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

7. It's yet another thing that AI has stolen away from the current generation of scientists. Yet again, AI proves to be an anti-egalitarian force in that these abuses force us to abandon the Mertonian norm of universalism for increased reliance on credentials, reputation, and personal connections.

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