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Matt Jope

@mattjope.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Interested in social epistemology, trust, risk, AI, scepticism. mattjope.weebly.com

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Frankly, I don't think an airline has any business taking an interest in epistemological scepticism
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
[Werner Herzog voice] this relentless yearning for gold rings propels me forward in spite of the chaos and darkness that abounds in the universe
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Discovered a new type of train passenger. I am sat across from someone who is listening to an audiobook novel on full speaker volume.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Instead of penalties they could: release wolves increase the size of the goals introduce multiple balls
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Chong-Ming Lim @cmlim.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026
Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
Lecturer in Political Philosophy
Lecturer in Political Philosophy
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Looking forward to presenting at this workshop on trust, trustworthiness, and AI in Sheffield this week
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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · 1–2 JULY 2026

TRUST,

TRUSTWORTHINESS

& AI

A  P H I L O S O P H Y  W O R K S H O P

Paul Faulkner
University of Sheffield
‘It’s OK to Believe a Chatbot’

Matt Jope
University of Glasgow
‘Epistemic Responsibility and Artificial Agency’

Alison Hills
University of Oxford
‘Trustworthiness and the Crisis of Trust’

Jesper Kallestrup
University of Aberdeen
‘Epistemic AI: Instruments, Authorities or Experts’

Andy Kirton
University of Leeds
‘Waiting for Godbot’

Ethan Landes
‘Is Trusting AI Conceptually Coherent?’

Hallvard Lillehammer
University of Sheffield
‘Trust, Autonomy and Your Most Intimate Friend’

David Owens
University of Oxford
‘Trusting Authority: Testimony and Command’

Yonatan Shemmer
University of Sheffield
‘Discretion, Trustworthiness and AI’

Attendance is free. To register:

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Centre for Machine Intelligence
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ
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Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just rewatched Do the Right Thing and am shocked to realise the actor who plays Buggin' Out's character, i.e. the one who initially boycotts the Pizzeria, also plays Gus from Breaking Bad
Two photos, one of Giancarlo Esposito in Do the Right Thing and another of him in Breaking Bad
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/06/2026
Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sad to be hearing about this only now, just as tickets have sold out
bbc.co.uk
Endtroducing at 30….. DJ Shadow & The BBC Symphony Orchestra
The legendary DJ and producer DJ Shadow marks the 30th anniversary of his hugely influential album 'Endtroducing…..' by joining forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Enraged to learn, via the NYT mini crossword, that some people use 'alumns' rather than 'alumni'
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Great funding opportunity for a PhD in Philosophy of Education here at Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...
gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Social Sciences - Student funding opportunities - Postgraduate Research - Latest PhD opportunities
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another fire going on in Hollyrood Park
Photo of Edinburgh skyline on a sunny evening, showing Calton Hill and Arthur's Seat in the background, with smoke billowing up from Hollyrood ParkClose up of the fire showing thick grey smoke rising from the hillside
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Damn, I was looking forward to delving into the rich tapestry of nuanced issues
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise
By Emily Herring

On a painting of young 19th-century men looking drunk and sad around a table with cigarettes and drinks
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Temporary philosophy job at Glasgow: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
jobs.gla.ac.uk
Lecturer in Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Metaphysics (LTS)
Job Purpose   To contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate pr...
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The OG ballmaxxing
Isn't it logically possible that the universe should have contained nothing by two exactly similar spheres? We might suppose that each was made of chemically pure iron, had a diameter of one mile, that they had the same temperature, colour, and so on, and that nothing else existed. Then every quality and relational characteristic of the one would also be a property of the other. Now. if what I am describing is logically possible, it is not impossible for two things to have all their properties in common. This seems to me to refute the Principle.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If you're looking for something to get you through the long weekend, here's an interview for Embrace the Void on epistemic injustice, primary harms/wrongs, hermeneutical injustice, and whether appealing to the notion of epistemic injustice helps defend or undermines the notion of objective truth.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Looking forward to heading back up to Aberdeen this Friday to give a talk at this workshop
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A 🧵 of iconic closing sentences of influential books in philosophy: 'And that's the 411 on what matters.' - Derek Parfit, On What Matters vol. 3 'Not the first sex, not the second sex, but a secret third thing.' - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For a refutation of Nagel's view, see Streuper (2026)
Cover image for What It’s Like to Be a Bat by Finn Streuper, featuring multiple black bat silhouettes in varying shapes and sizes arranged on a light backgroundBandcamp page for Finn Streuper's album 'What It's Like to Be a Bat.' Shows the pre-order details, with the vinyl album priced at €10.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.
We face two urgent challenges concerning consciousness and AI. Challenge One is that millions of users will soon misattribute human-like consciousness to AI friends, partners, and assistants on the basis of mimicry and role-play, and we don’t know how to prevent this. Challenge Two is that profoundly alien forms of consciousness might genuinely be achieved in AI, but our theoretical understanding of consciousness is too immature to provide confident answers one way or the other. Centrism about AI consciousness is the position that we must take both challenges seriously. The two challenges interact in ways that make this difficult. Steps to address Challenge One might undermine attempts to address Challenge Two by portraying the idea of conscious AI as impossible or inherently unlikely. Conversely, attempts to address Challenge Two might lead to higher levels of misattribution from ordinary users. This “manifesto” attempts to construct mutually consistent strategies for addressing both challenges.
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Mona Simion @msimion.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Call for Abstracts The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge invites contributions to its 2026 conference (Exeter College, University of Oxford, 2nd-4th 09 2026). bstk.org.uk/events.html Please submit abstracts (500 words, suitable for blind review) to info@bstk.org.uk by April 30 2026.
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Joe Slater @drjoeslater.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm organising a workshop in Glasgow in May, about how people should respond to ethically tainted sporting events. I've just made a PhilEvents page. If you've got any questions about it, send me an email! philevents.org/event/show/1... #PhilSky #PhilosophyOfSport #Ethics #Boycotts
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Boycotts and Beyond: How should we respond to ethically compromised sporting events?
Major sporting events can be ethically charged. They may be hosted by fascist regimes, as a way to gain a perception of legitimacy on the world stage. Notably, the 1936 Olympic games was hosted by Naz...
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Change (2024) Change 2: the Changening (2026)
Labour Party 2024 Manifesto poster showing Kier Starmer in black and white next to the word 'change' in redScreenshot of Guardian News article. The image shows Kier Starmer holding a portfolio. Headline reads: "Kier Starmer must lead 'moment of change' after Labour turmoil, says Ed Miliband.
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Keith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ
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Keith Harris, Epistemic magnetism - PhilPapers
An agent’s epistemic prospects depend on a combination of that agent’s individual characteristics and features of that agent’s epistemic environment. Such factors cannot always be cleanly separated. O...
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Keith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
EPISTEMIC Insane Clown Posse
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
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Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just found out there is a Tory peer whose name is Lord True. Must be embarrassing for him anytime he gets things wrong.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Started new job last week as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow. First lecture today on the regress problem went well, though I did discover there's a limit to the number times I can say the word 'infinitism', ironically.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy take-your-plant-to-work day for those who celebrate
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.
Me looking at the camera and smiling, holding up a copy of my book Epistemic Injustice An Introduction
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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
PITCH: Biblical era Home Alone with Herod going the houses around trying to slay childer but getting caught in all sorts of traps.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 14/12/2025
I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Upon reflection, I acknowledge it was a mistake to enter the LHC wearing a purple dinosaur costume and roller skates. This was a moment of poor of judgement and not reflective of my profound commitment to citizen science. I will be taking time away from my youtube channel and from social media.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:
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Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I am just now learning that Gil Scott-Heron did the voiceover for the "You've been tangoed" ads in the 90s
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‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads
‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
And just like that, the notes could, in fact, note the noted.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
On a train down to England and noticed random guy sitting next to me is writing a paper on truthmaker semantics. We are legion.
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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Everyone should be allowed one turn each on the Large Hadron Collider, just to check the results for themselves
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)
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Declan O'Gara @declanogara.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY
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