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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕

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Taiwan enthusiast. Philosophy professor. Intellectual omnivore. Humean supertaster. liao.shen-yi.org

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 4h
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h
Wrote about how Trump’s tantrums over the Supreme Court reveal the not so hidden subtext of what Republicans expect from the justices. Also a mention of how Supreme Court politics resemble the Calciopoli scandal. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
As is nearly always the case with the president’s accusations, this was an illuminating projection. Trump fears that public pressure on the Supreme Court can sway the justices and how they rule. So when they don’t side with him, he assumes that’s what happened, and he trashes the Court in the hope that it will side with him the next time. He views criticism of the Supreme Court much as he views laws in general: When Trump or one of his allies wants to do something, such as use taxpayer dollars for cultish campaign ads, it’s legal. When his opponents want to do something, it’s illegal
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 29/09/2026
@dailynous.com in the side links there is a post about whether you'd take a pill to forego sleep, and there's a philosophy paper on this exact question! doi.org/10.1017/apa....
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The Value of Sleeping | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
The Value of Sleeping - Volume 11 Issue 2
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 29/09/2026
Congrats @felipedebrigard.bsky.social !!
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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 29/09/2026
(i think joe cruz's nyt piece, which acknowledges that "there will be challenges of scale", is perfectly fine. what's deeply annoying is the nyt printing 1000 of these pieces on teaching by Williams profs for every one piece on teaching by a CUNY prof)
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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NewArticle #Philsky #Philosophy On Prizes | Federico Luzzi #OpenAccess Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New public #philosophy book out now!! Navigating philosophy - 50 quick fire big ideas! Just in time for Christmas stockings & Secret Santa gift idea lists 🤩 #teachers #edusky #philsky www.unipressbooks.com/titles/navig...
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests. #philsky #podcast #philosophy
Special logo to celebrate 500 episodes
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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: Winner of the toss in each of the V/AFL Grand Finals BRIS have played in. Sorted chronologically, most recent last BRIS BRIS BRIS BRIS BRIS BRIS BRIS BRIS #AFLFreoLions #AFLGF #AFLFinals #AFL
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 26/09/2026
It's actually annoying how good Brisbane is. We don't need a father-son academy dynasty.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 25/09/2026
BuzzFeed died so NYT could live.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 25/09/2026
Sophisticated internet users of many years of extreme onlineosity still reliably getting trolled by Top 100 listicles
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone’s putting up the philosophers of language bat sign again
News article: SPORTS
Kyle Juszczyk gets fined for chugging celebration that NFL says was beer and he says was juice
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 25/09/2026
I’m confused how a sociolinguistic who studied linguistic variation comes out to be an ultra prescriptivist about the language people use to talk. Just unfortunate how the AI stuff really warps people’s minds. (That, or the fact that public intellectualizing makes people into caricatures.)
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writing this meme counts as research for me
Victoria Beckham: Analytic philosophy is rigorous
David Beckham: Be honest
Victoria: It's the only contemporary philosophy that isn't meaningless nonsense
David: Do you carefully formalize philosophy or just define your terms
Victoria: We just define our terms
David: Thank you
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 23/09/2026
I like the credit card option for transit like everyone else but it is a bit sad that cute EasyCard and K-pop cards are going to become rarer. It also gives the credit card monopolies way more power over our lives.
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The aesthetics of science is a happening place where many of the cool kids hang out and do cool kid stuff (like, uh, think about the relationship between art and science), as @milenaivanova.bsky.social, @alicemurphs.bsky.social and i explain: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/31... #philsci
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Expressive Activity Area update. Those wishing to express themselves will have to crouch in between the shrubbery
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Claim: this book is actually very good.
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Anca Gheaus @ancagheaus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hope many will read this Ethics editorial for a glimpse into the amount of work required to run a philosophy journal properly. Not all journals are like Ethics, but good journals *realy* involve a lot of attention, effort and time www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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From the Editor* | Ethics: Vol 137, No 1
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not quite, JEV is zero-shot not logistic regression. It takes a distance measure in semantic label space which encodes bias at pretraining rather than at analysis. Consequently it’s harder to fix biased outputs in JEV because of this as there are no model weights to change. So they optimized racism.
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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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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 21/09/2026
Who needs probabilities that sum up to 1?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 21/09/2026
Has anyone try to structure questions for Jev to see whether its probabilistic output even obeys how probability works?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 21/09/2026
PLEASE. EVERYONE.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 21/09/2026
(Straightedge) Chad Gilbert from NFG died. So I guess here’s a shoutout to that one time when I wrote my terrible teenage pop punk music taste into a philosophy paper. philpapers.org/archive/LIAC...
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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My academic job market advice is that when they give you time for questions at the end of the interview you should ask was that as good for them as it was for you and if they think you’re tenure-able material
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Dmitri Gallow @dmitrigallow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My paper "Epistemic Actualism" has been published at Nous. It argues that beliefs and credences do not aim at truth, but rather *actual* truth. And it uses this thesis to defend accuracy-first epistemology from several objections. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the overaching thing is you want to present as a Professional Philosopher—an assistant professor in all but name, basically. so you will want to ruthlessly cull anything that sounds or looks 'grad student-y'. this will feel unnatural (and perhaps disingenuous). you should get used to that
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 19/09/2026
Staying unprofessional forever and never taking off the line that says "Jacob Cooper Award in Philosophy, Rutgers University" from my CV :p I mean, it's a prize that'd get you into the NYT a hundred years ago! www.nytimes.com/1930/04/27/a...
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WINS JACOB COOPER PRIZE.; Atlantic City Senior to Get $250 Award at Rutgers University. (Published 1930)
H A Heller wins J Cooper prize in logic
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Tom Roberts @tomroberts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And this one (shameless self-promotion alert!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Artificial thinking things
A realist view of artificial intelligence is one that holds that artificial systems can exhibit genuine cognitive powers of one sort or another. In this paper, I examine the further question of whe...
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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 18/09/2026
there's this from keith frankish: keithfrankish.github.io/articles/Fra... i know of an excellent draft by another philosopher that digs into the technical details, but it doesn't look like it's appeared yet
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 18/09/2026
It feels like extremely low hanging fruit so it's probably been picked. But has anyone done the Dennett design / physical / intentional stance with LLMs as minds or whatever? Reference?
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
great project by @nathansen.bsky.social! Do some thought experiments in a socratic manner!
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Experiments — ux-phi
Playable versions of canonical experiments in philosophy: the Socratic-questionnaire thought experiments — the trolley problem, Gettier cases, the side-effect effect, Mary the colour scientist.
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
honestly feel like the way that the orthodox anti-AI position is that it's all hype and it's impossible for these things to do anything interesting has crossed the line from kind of intellectually annoying to actively harmful
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ESPN needs to make a top 10 Dad plays of the year category
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Philosophy writing pet peeve: refering to one of your theses or premises with a number or acronym makes your writing more difficult, not easier, to read
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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hiring! 🧠❤️🤔If you’re a philosopher working in ethics/ x-phi/ empirically informed moral philosophy / moral psychology / applied ethics, consider applying for a 2.5 year research postdoc with me in my lab at Oxford. Deadline noon 16th Oct. Details 👉 philjobs.org/job/show/32101 Hit me up with q’s!
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Shameless Fiona Gallagher
ALT: Shameless Fiona Gallagher
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Jake Spinella @jakespinella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anthropic is just like me
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 16/09/2026
Joao Cancelo just scored these two goals less than half an hour apart, please send help
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Wes Siscoe @wessiscoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*New Paper* Relative and Absolute Gradable Adjectives: Linguistic Foundations and Philosophical Applications | Philosophy Compass compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Relative and Absolute Gradable Adjectives: Linguistic Foundations and Philosophical Applications
In Ignorance, Peter Unger famously argues for a version of radical skepticism, that everyone knows “hardly anything to be so.” Skepticism, of course, is nothing new. What was unique about Unger's pos....
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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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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 16/09/2026
Excited to teach my students today that when people say "Not me going to Starbucks for the second time today." they are in fact not negating the clause "I am going to Starbucks for the second time today"! ^_^
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 16/09/2026
I thought I have successfully eliminated from my feed Will Stancil opining about politics and people who bother to engage with him on that. But now I have to see the engagements of him opining about AI?! Come on guys.
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