Reposted by Caro FloresJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m thinking with undergrads, notetaking, putting concepts on the board as we read them, connecting them, making sure that students write down what was accomplished in the class as we go along, all pre-canvas stuff. 151
Reposted by Caro FloresJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For lack of clear rules about the use of AI in classrooms, it’s difficult to steer students toward slow, close reading and analysis. So I’m pretty sure that I’m gonna return to reading together in class and bluebook-style assignments next year. 2016010
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm also thinking about how to bring these ideas to a wider audience, and I'd love to talk with anyone thinking about the same questions, in a classroom, a reading group, or a piece. And here's the version to cite: doi.org/10.1111/phpr...doi.orgBeyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic AgencyThe dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate... 1110
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This builds on work I admire: @mjcrockett.bsky.social's research on moral outrage and social learning online, and @add-hawk.bsky.social's work on hostile epistemology, value capture, and how Twitter gamifies communication. Both shaped my thinking a lot. 2130
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is part of why popular interventions don't work that well. Fact-checks and media literacy target content, so they can only do so much to make us good at inquiring and interacting with information. 1101
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why worry? The process that shapes these styles is orthogonal to truth and blind to the environments we live in. It's a neglected kind of epistemic hostility: not exploiting existing vulnerabilities to implant false beliefs, but producing new ones. 1110
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What shifts is our epistemic style: who we trust, how much evidence it takes to change our minds, which explanations feel satisfying. Engagement-driven curation -> cognitively delicious content: outrage, out-group attacks, simplicity. True or false, it teaches the same lessons about *how* to think. 1141
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How? Two mechanisms. Normative learning: feeds show us, thousands of times a day, what people like us think and do, and who gets rewarded or piled on. Reinforcement learning: likes and shares at unpredictable intervals train habits, like reflexively dismissing certain sources. 1130
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Social media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation. And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist. New @PPR (yay!) and free here: philpapers.org/rec/FLOBMSdoi.orgBeyond Misinformation: Social Media and the Sculpting of Epistemic AgencyThe dominant account of social media's epistemic harms focuses on the spread of misinformation and the production of false beliefs at scale. This paper argues that the misinformation narrative, whate... 410941
Reposted by Caro FloresRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Social media is a paranoia machine. It makes connections explicit, though not transparent. It not only allows you to trace ties between people, institutions, and events, but also continually produces new ties. On social media, everything becomes connected, and thus potentially suspicious 215745
Reposted by Caro FloresNico @n1c0n1c0.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I need all my gender abolitionists to submit to this by August 15: philevents.org/event/show/1... @floresophize.bsky.social @carolhay.bsky.socialphilevents.orgSocial Categories of the FutureRecent years have seen an explosion of work on social categories, including gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation. But little attention has been paid to what these and other categories migh... 232
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 06/07/20263-to-9-month fellowships in Portugal - apply to the University of Lisbon to be my colleague for a little bit! gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-li...gulbenkian.ptVisiting Professorships in the HumanitiesThese professorships are aimed at Portuguese higher education institutions seeking to host visiting professors from international universities with a distinguished academic record and recognised exper... 031
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 06/07/2026<3 <3 and a highlight was your brilliant talk!! 030
Reposted by Caro FloresElise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 05/07/202610/10 conference. Not regular epistemology, cool epistemology. @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social @floresophize.bsky.social 1101
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Reminder to hit me up if you're a recent PhD and are interested in applying! 032
Reposted by Caro Floresnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026yeah, why are parties to a public debate opting to make their case in concrete, verifiable terms that are accessible from more or less any reasonable normative perspective, rather than high metaphysical language associated with specific faith traditions? mystifying choice bsky.app/profile/mich... 311912
Reposted by Caro FloresLucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Had a great conversation with Jackie Snow about chatbots’ memory function and the way their personalised callbacks to information and stories you have shared about yourself can calcify your own self-narratives and self-understanding (which I’ve elsewhere described as narrative railroading) 🤖✒️🛤️ 0102
Reposted by Caro FloresEleonore Neufeld @eneufeld.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This piece by ángel pinillos is so good napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...napinillos.substack.comThe Honest Case for the HumanitiesOr: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us 1113
Reposted by Caro FloresEleonore Neufeld @eneufeld.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Syllabus (draft) on modal thought: flaxen-store-af3.notion.site/PHIL555-Moda... Comments welcome!flaxen-store-af3.notion.sitePHIL555: Modal Thought | NotionOverview 0162
Reposted by Caro FloresEleonore Neufeld @eneufeld.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Wrote this chapter on how modal cognition develops! check it out! philpapers.org/rec/NEUTDO-9philpapers.orgEleonore Neufeld, The Development of Modal Cognition - PhilPapersThis chapter provides a systematic overview of empirical findings and theoretical perspectives from the growing field of the development of modal cognition. I begin by laying out methodological prelim... 082
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Thrilled to say I just found a way to include a screenshot of this in a conference talk 1477
Reposted by Caro FloresShen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 21/05/2026This is a super interesting short paper! Not for the formal results, which I confess I don't really understand. But for the meta-science. It discusses how the same model can be implemented differently in code. So there's a need for independent coding, even when the researchers agree on the model.philpapers.orgJingyi Wu, Remco Heesen & Jun Kyu Lee, Why Scientists Should Not Show and Tell - PhilPapersAre scientists incentivized to share intermediate results? Some recent work has argued that credit-maximizing scientists would share intermediate results, whereas other work has argued that sharing to... 0112
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The deadline for internal approval by Humanities at the University of Lisbon is August 25th, 2026. Email npac@letras.ulisboa.pt by June 2nd if you would like your application pre-assessed. 000
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The Marie Curie Postdoc Application call for next year is out! Do reach out if you are working in social epistemology (or philosophy of mind with a social bent) and would like to apply to be in Lisbon for 2 years. You need to have finished your PhD and be less than 8 years out. 1/2marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.euMSCA opens €399 million call for Postdoctoral FellowshipsPostdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility. 100
Reposted by Caro FloresRichard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I wrote up some notes about divergences and the work they might do for us in philosophy. philarchive.org/rec/PETDFP 0153
Reposted by Caro FloresShen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 06/05/2026Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.journals.sagepub.comSocial Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms... 328478
Reposted by Caro FloresPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 25276106
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 08/05/2026So much of traditional analytic epistemology is just going “When you know, you know” in increasingly obfuscatory ways 090
Reposted by Caro FloresJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A new paper challenges the view that higher education liberalizes students (N = 483,885): Students political identities change during college. But there are big differences across majors: Englise/arts students move to the left, while business/engineering shift right psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 1207
Reposted by Caro FloresBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026US academic: *dodging bullets Matrix-style on the way to class, getting affordable medical care from a guy in a van parked behind campus* lol UK salaries low 071
Reposted by Caro FloresJournal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 06/05/2026#BookReview What's Wrong with Stereotyping? E. Beeghly, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ix + 249 pp, £30 (hb) Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Read it here (full access text) 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DZZYRE... #philsky #philosophy#ouponlinelibrary.wiley.com 021
Reposted by Caro FloresChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Thinking about @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 's thesis that fraudsters flourish in high-trust environments. This has application to philosophers' vulnerability to culture-war bad actors. Philosophers can be terribly naive, think themselves super-smart and immune to being conned, and so get conned 38320
Reposted by Caro FloresRichard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Last month, Paul Silva organised a terrific online book symposium on Jessie Munton’s wonderful new book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention. It was great to discuss the book with Jessie, Jessica Keiser, and Rachel Fraser. The video is here:youtu.be"Priority and Prejudice"–Philosopher Meets Critics #26–Munton, Keiser, Pettigrew, FraserYouTube video by Figments of the Brain 0184
Reposted by Caro Floressouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today 1365097751
Reposted by Caro Floresnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026my primary complaint, obviously, is that journals should do more publishing of my papers, and less publishing of other people's papers. this would be cost- and time-neutral 2433
Reposted by Caro FloresKeith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Amazing lineup for the @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge conference this summer @floresophize.bsky.social @rbnmckenna.bsky.social @elisewoodard.bsky.social #philsky 0175
Reposted by Caro FloresOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win 355037868
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Big fan of @alexgphilosophy.bsky.social's clear, accessible slide decks on lottocracy. Everyone should make something like this for their (academic) books! www.lottocracy.orglottocracy.orgLOTTOCRACYA website for the book Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections published by Oxford University Press. Includes an introduction to lottocracy, events, audio/video, and connections to others working on sortition, lottocracy, and democracy and democratic innovation. 020
Reposted by Caro FloresSamantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgPredicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measuresIn relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ... 38037
Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This looks awesome and I would love to see a draft at some point! 020
Reposted by Caro FloresEvan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Will be norming it up at NYU for the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop tomorrow (@dryan149.bsky.social will be norming along in spirit) nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.com/post/8127532...nylanguageworkshop.tumblr.comWorkshop Monday, April 6th: Evan Westra, The Dynamics of Articulated NormsOur speaker on Monday, April 6th will be Evan Westra, who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue. Evan will give a talk called "The dynamics of articulated norms": Of the myriad social norms..... 1183
Reposted by Caro FloresJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Online hostility is predicted by economic & political inequality Inequality breeds online hostility because people crave status in unequal societies and status-seekers constitute the main perpetrators of hostility in political settings, whether online or offline. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 46327
Reposted by Caro Floresnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026quill kukla uses the 'what if i volunteer to be a human table at an orgy?' objection, for, i believe, the first time in the pages of Ethics 3211
Reposted by Caro Floresnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026a major question in cognitive psychology is which tasks are Easy and which tasks are Hard 5472