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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 6h

The 'most jobs require practical knowledge that can't be easily codified into rules' realisation is going to be messy

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Becoming pure breath via a VO2 max session

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The world if analytic philosophers worried about politicians and commentators saying nonsense rather than non-anglophone philosophers saying nonsense

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Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@drrobertchapman.bsky.social, @benbowsher.bsky.social and I have been working on something (alongside our wonderful Newcastle community) for the last little while, and I’m quite excited about it… It’s a new radical bookshop!

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women’s Road cycling is the fucking best

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The dream of becoming a lighthouse keeper is not part of the anti-work imaginary. In this essay I will...

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder whether the UKRI funded research into AI and metascience has got something to do with the evidence that's been generated that this kind of funding system is a good idea

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've got doxastic voluntarism. Is there a debate about the degree of control over our desires?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A thread of things I've explained to undergraduate students this year.

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The clout analytic philosophy used to have

From Sander Verhaegh’s new book on logical positivism: And the logical positivists were even connected to Beatles mania when John Lennon and his friends started conquering the United States. The Press Telegram ran an article titled "Beatles Take Note: Logical Positivism Put to Music" when Elisabeth Lutyens released a record featuring passages from the Tractatus; and a local Missouri newspaper reported that someone graffitied "The Beatles are Logical Positivists!" on the outside wall of a Pennsylvania train station.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The two doors in Edgecliffe in St Andrews

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Claude Monet @claude-monet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. Nymphéas et Agapanthes, 1915 In museum: Musée Marmottan Monet Location: 16th arrondissement of Paris, France Size: 120.0 × 140.0 cm #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Nymphéas et Agapanthes by Claude Monet, 1915

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My father in law's family were super involved in the RNLI, and in their house there's a certificate with a seal that says LET NOT THE DEEP SWALLOW ME UP

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thread on the wild discrepancy between 'education' coverage of Jason Arday and of James Orr -- grim, disappointing, but not surprising.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is how I am responding to editors and reviewers who reject my papers from now on.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

excerpt, computer gaming world, magazine (2002) www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/is...

a pixelated person, wearing a red top, black belt, black pants, high white boots, holding a shield, is walking from left to right in an area of grey stone.
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as in any creative field, there are bound to be those who revere the simplicity of the "good ole days," an instinct no doubt motivated in some part by nostalgia.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hadn't realised that the wonderwall video starts with setting up a vinyl and the little pause before the song starts. Nostalgia on nostalgia www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1B...

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Oasis - Wonderwall (Official Video)

YouTube video by OasisVEVO

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Doing my driving theory test and immediately distracted in a very philosopher of language way

Circles give orders, triangles warn, rectangles inform

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s my conviction that it’s very unchic to respond to an email with an emoji react

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching people with no training in philosophy try to have arguments is pretty cringe. Leave this to the professionals, y'all

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every year HowTheLightsGetIn, the biggest (nominally) philosophy conference in the world, takes place, and I wonder why certain UK academic philosophers continue to speak there, because I keep screaming at them that they’re participating in a decades-long right-wing extremist laundering operation

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Noûs is a cool journal name, obviously, but i feel like it could be fancier, to really emphasize that it's a fancy journal. maybe something like Ñöûš

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Government has spent years arguing in court that elderly Quakers sitting down and holding placards about Palestinian Action are, in fact, terrorists who must be treated as such. Meanwhile their reaction to these people is to stress that they understand their "reasonable concerns". Infuriating.

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ok hivemind (I'm still using social media like it's 2015). I'm writing something introductory about the epistemology of technology and the internet. What are some good things (topics, papers) which I should be including?

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone done a vice epistemology take on chatbot sycophancy and supporting intellectual arrogance?

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Writing all my presentations for the new year in the 'white text on black background' *serious instagram post* format

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Bosh' is a word in the the same semantic category as 'therefore'. P, if P then Q, Q BOSH

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Brighton informed its University and College Union (UCU) branch on Monday (14 September) that it intends to terminate its current trade union recognition agreement and all collective agreements on terms and conditions from next June.'

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Brighton looks to redraw trade union agreements and close campus

UCU and UNISON warn changes to trade union agreements could lead to unions being derecognised

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

French is such a beautiful language

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Bauhaus and the logical positivists are cousins, are high modernist architecture and high analytic philosophy (Davidson, Quine, Lewis, Williamson) relatives too?

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm trying to find a link to an article about AI writing being this really specific style of international English, maybe the kind that's taught in Kenya. I thought it was 404 media but IDK. Searching 'Ai writing' on google is worse that useless

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking at this makes me wonder whether there's a category of exemplary high analytic philosophy papers, with very clear definitions, tight arguments, clear and simple prose, and ludicrously large questions

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe these should be called 'paradox papers'

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What are some teachable papers which are organised around i) a four-five premise argument to a false conclusion, and ii) running through each of the options to consider rejecting them in turn?

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Love to come back from annual leave and spend the first half hour of the day verifying my identity

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How to save Exeter once the current vandalism is, one way or another, past? @profalexp.bsky.social has the details.

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jaredbeasley.bsky.social @jaredbeasley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PHIL GORE update. He has now been running 4.167 miles every hour, on the hour, for 132 hours. That's 550 miles. He's still going. The format, the Backyard Ultra, was created by none other than Lazarus Lake.

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