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Katrina Sifferd

@ksifferd.bsky.social
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Philosopher @Elmhurst University, Co-Editor in Chief, Neuroethics (Springer). Interested in mind, responsibility, punishment, and criminal law.

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Marko Jurjako @mjurjako.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
EuJAP has a new a new publication: “What is a Response to Wrongdoing?” by Dr Nicolas Nayfeld’s article. the paper can be accessed at this link: hrcak.srce.hr/en/335370 @ksifferd.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.com @annelijefferson.bsky.social
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Trying to better manage my media diet. No I do not want to see pictures of the flesh eating screw worm. Yes I do want to see pictures of Taylor’s ring.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Oop, the dealership is now playing Alanis Morisette. For the ladies.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Many of my students have been National Guard and they are smart, effective, motivated folks happy to be earning an education (often the first in their families to go to college). They are doing their best.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Remember that most of the people in the National Guard want nothing to do with this and are, in fact, probably pretty pissed off that their governor ripped them away from their normal lives to do security theater miles away from home.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Notes from a Subaru dealer: As Neil Young’s plays over the loudspeaker, folks in Birkenstocks and Keens watch non traditional families drive over mountain passes and dogs surf. These are my people now.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Chicago don’t play.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Honest question: Is it okay to shop at Costco during the economic blackout today? I’m happy to support the company and unhappy about having to go on a Saturday.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Three new manuscripts have come to me through the editorial system in the last 6 hours, which means six have be submitted to the journal (they are split between our two Eds in Chief). WTH, people. It’s 12/27. Why are you submitting papers today? Can’t it wait until the new year?
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I have about 10,000 words of my book written. So far I have said very little and possibly all I know about blame and punishment.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My hot yoga instructor this morning was about 18 and I think this was her first class. She kept forgetting to do the left side in our series. I swear that I’m actually off balance now. If I fall off my chair whilst writing it’s on her.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Today’s observation: if I write 1,000 words five days a week I should be done with this book in about three and a half months. No problem.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
👋. I’ve decided to start posting to bluesky as a distraction while writing my book.
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Glad to see this paper by @annelijefferson.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social and Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs is now out. Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents - on how environments shape moral agency. #philsky #OA link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents - Topoi
Recent work on ecological accounts of moral responsibility and agency have argued for the importance of social environments for moral reasons responsiveness. Moral audiences can scaffold individual ag...
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 13/03/2024
New post on the EPIC blog: Elisabetta Lalumera (who will work on the EPIC Discounting Dementia case study) talks about the importance of epistemic injustice and her various projects in the ethics and philosophy of medicine epistemicinjusticein... #philsky
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/03/2024
“They want to ban reproductive freedom nationwide. What other freedoms do they want to take away?” is a great line
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Hilariously, the Republican heckling is making Biden look cognitively nimble.
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Marko Jurjako @mjurjako.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Our little project is gearing up: if you know somebody who would be interested in a postdoc position on philosophy of psychology and psychiatry in Rijeka, Croatia, spread the news: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/193732 @ksifferd.bsky.social
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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Just noticed that my book is now out in paperback! #philsky www.routledge.com/Are-Mental-D...
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Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While rece...
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 25/01/2024
The public lecture on whether withholding #blame is dehumanising, by Nadine Elzein, is now available on YouTube for those who could not attend in person: buff.ly/3vVzC2O Thanks to the Royal Institute of Philosophy for making the event possible! @philsky
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Is withholding blame dehumanising? | The Royal Institute of Philosophy | University of Birmingham
The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture given by Dr Nadine Elzein is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.Abstract: Philosophers ...
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 17/01/2024
How a philosopher has coped with schizophrenia. The value of academic freedom. Kant makes the cover (sort of) of two magazines. Philosophy in & about prisons. Language & reality. Free speech & trust. Ethics for now and (much much) later...
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Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… Discussion welcome. “Could it be that there are unbridgeable gulfs in thinking and perception between groups of people speaking different languages?” — ...
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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Got my copy! It's Open Access on the OUP website, so you can also get yours!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
New, from me: The popular idea of welfare fraud relies on "welfare queen" tropes. But in a lot of policy areas, the biggest fraudsters are sophisticated criminal gangs using information technology or organized scams. SNAP is a good example. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rethinking...
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Rethinking welfare fraud
SNAP clients are having their benefits stolen; governments are slowly catching up
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Donald Trump is a cheat and a fraud and a rapist. I do not understand my fellow Americans who support him.
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 16/01/2024
How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years?
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Demographic Trends in the US Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 (guest post)
How many philosophy majors are there, who are they, and how has this changed over the past twenty years? In the following guest post, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) shares some data on these matters...
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Sarah Jessen @sarahjessen.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Five €4000 grants available to support PhDs and postdocs to conduct international lab visits to study how environments influence early development - including philosophy, methods/tools, policy impacts (www.cost.eu/actions/CA22...). More details here: t.co/iDmbI7pBEw
generic view of a busy street in a city.
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Neuroethics (Springer) @neuroethicsj.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
The 9th most requested paper in 2023 was "Born which Way? ADHD, Situational Self-Control, and Responsibility" by P. Koi. Koi argues that genetic and neurobiological explanations are overstated in evaluations of responsibility for those with ADHD. It's open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Neuroethics (Springer) @neuroethicsj.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
The 10th most requested paper in 2023 was "The Illusion of Agency in Human-Computer Interaction" by M. Madary. This fascinating paper makes the case that our digital devices create illusions of agency. It's open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Neuroethics (Springer) @neuroethicsj.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Hi everyone! Neuroethics (Springer) has moved from X to Bluesky. We're going to get things started with listing this year's top requested papers. (We're limiting the top ten to those published since 2020.)
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I just caught up with my journal work in the lull before final papers come in. Now I’m going to figure out if I need a separate code to start up a Neuroethics journal Bluesky account.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Writing philosophy properly is such slow process. Word by word, sentence by sentence.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Writing philosophy is an exercise in delayed gratification. Often indefinitely delayed, and often not so gratifying when it eventually arrives.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
I just asked Google if lice removal can be paid for out of HSA funds. I parent for the fame and glamor.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
My 13 yr old is playing REM’s Life’s Rich Pageant on an endless loop and I don’t hate it. Lots of good memories in there.
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/11/2023
This is a fun guest post at the Cocoon of someone who went from being an FBI agent to being a philosopher. Especially this advice: to "make sense of my unusual background instead of turning away from it altogether," and "top worrying about looking, sounding, and acting smart"
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Non-Traditional Paths into Philosophy (Guest post by Luke William Hunt)
This is the fifth entry in the Cocoon's series, Non-Traditional Paths into Philosophy, a series of guest posts by people who entered academic philosophy later in life or otherwise took a non-tradition...
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Deactivated Twitter and deleted the app off my phone for all the reasons. It’s on my list to move @neuroethicsj over next week. I’m slow but full of conviction.
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Deadline extended for #Psychology abstracts for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology #cogpsyc docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 15/11/2023
And another new Element! *Memory and Remembering* by Felipe De Brigard. Essential reading and free to download till 29 November! www.cambridge.org/core/element... @felipedebrigard.bsky.social
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Memory and Remembering
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Memory and Remembering
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Hello! We are a journal publishing research at the intersection of #philosophy & #psychology. We have just published a double special issue on Philosophies of Madness, first part here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/3... Check it out. Eight open-access papers and two free-view book reviews! #philsky
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
I just wrote my endowed chair report. I should be impressed with myself but I feel sort of depressed. I think I need to be more focused. What am I trying to do, exactly?
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Don't miss this call for papers for the 2024 Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory! This is one of the best events I've been to; the venue is beautiful and the people wonderful. Deadline Nov 20. stanfordpoliticaltheorygraduateconference.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/2...
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2024 Call for Papers
The political science and philosophy graduate students at Stanford University will host a graduate political theory conference on February 9-10, 2024 in person.  We are delighted to announce that t...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Election day in US -- get out & vote if you can!
Picture of a woman wearing an "I voted" sticker
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
⚡️The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Journal is on Bsky! @hoposjournal.bsky.social Give them a follow! #philsci #histsci #18thC #19thC #EarlyModern 🗃️#philsky #hpbio @markrubin.bsky.social pls add auto feed 🙏
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Giving a neurolaw lecture to the Loyola neuroscience folks today. I hope I’m not trying to say too much in my 55 minutes. Ack. Will report back.
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Katrina Sifferd @ksifferd.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
So happy that #philsky is taking off. I’m about a week away from deleting my Twitter and starting up a a Bluesky account for Neuroethics (Springer).
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