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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 · 18/09/2026

We need a 'Joe Rogan of the Left' of the left

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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 · 30/07/2026

Congratulations, Dr O'Gara!

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Where were you for the Pope Francis puffer jacket event?

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Did you consider simply telling more lies to cover up the first?

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It was not The Glass Bead Game, if that's what you're asking

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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...

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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

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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

I'd be curious to know whether he had a favourite film. He'd have been a formidable Desert Island Discs guest.

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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I had always assumed Lord of the Rings was a canonical text of the technology-is-not-value-neutral literature

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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 · 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 Park

Close 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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Matt Jope @mattjope.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wanna feel old? Those spheres are now cabinet ministers

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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 background

Bandcamp 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 red

Screenshot 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

Alt text: headshot of a man wearing a suit and tie. His bio reads: Lord True, Conservative, Life Peer.

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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

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