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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🏓 Ping Pong Philosophy is BACK!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-3h_gNra8 🎙️For the first episode of our second season we’re joined by philosopher Catarina Dutilh Novaes to talk about feminism, academic philosophy, the social dimensions of reasoning, and the racial contract.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes on feminism, publishing academic philosophy and the racial contract I S2 EP 1

Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Professor of Philosophy and University Re...

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In our first episode back, Catarina Dutilh Novaes confessed to us that she was so starstruck by Charles Mills that she couldn’t even speak to him! Has something like that ever happened to you guys? 💬👇 Make sure to check out the first episode of our second season!

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🏓 In our latest episode of Ping Pong Philosophy, Catarina Dutilh Novaes reflects on the ideas that have shaped her thinking, feminism, something she has recently change her mind about, and much more! 🎙️ Watch the full conversation on YouTube and listen on Spotify! 🎧

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Ping Pong Philosophy interview just dropped! I had lots of fun talking to @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social -- so much fun indeed that an interview that should have lasted 15 min. ended up almost 3x longer 😁

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aaaand we are back. For the first episode of the new season I had the pleasure and honour to sit down with @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social for an incredible conversation in which we talked about everything from feminism to paradoxes and democracy in Brazil and in the world at large. Enjoy!!

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m Pablo Rivas-Robledo, a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. I believe that philosophy can also feel fun and accessible, that's why I created Ping Pong Philosophy, a podcast where quick questions bounce back and forth like a game of ping pong🎙️ TOMORROW we launch our second season!

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hello world! @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social is back with a new season on Tuesday. We even got a ping pong table for one of the episodes. Stay tuned and subscribe!!

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the first half of the incredible guests joining us for the second season of the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast 🏓 -Catarina Dutilh Novaes -Martin Stokhof -Gillian Russell -Kit Fine -Tim Button We go live October 6 Don’t miss it!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 03/09/2026

I'm curious about people's workflows when reviewing a paper. How do you do it? My process in the next post...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This paper marks an important milestone for me, because ten years ago when I started working on the theory of metascience, I realized mainstream metascience wasn't going in the direction I initially hoped it would. After the psychology reproducibility project got published, I could not stop

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The good thing with AI generated emails from students is that they don't start with "hey" but with "Sir"

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Some clients think they are helping their lawyers or keeping costs down by drawing up their own documents, but the AI documents are often woolly, riddled with errors and full of irrelevant information, lawyers say.

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Lawyers waste hours checking AI documents produced by clients - DutchNews.nl

Lawyers are facing hours of extra work dealing with AI documents produced by both their clients and opposing legal teams, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Monday. Some clients think they are…

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Igancio @igancio.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

This picture (credits to the creator I don't know) represents the the feelings of living in this world.

Kermir picture with the text
"What radicalised you? Empathy Bro, literally just waiting people to be treated as human beings

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

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Trevor Day (PhD) @trevorkm.day · 04/02/2026

color. lesss gren. id=as slep furious ?

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Hey, but at least you updated rationally.

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Congratulations to Barbara Vetter! Her work is a must read in the theory of modality. She has been crafting her theory over many years and it's great to see a fellow possible world agnostic receive such an award! You can learn more about her work on our podcast! youtu.be/RpVWA9jXG4w?...

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Barbara Vetter on grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and more! I EP 6

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The season finale is here. What a ride. And to end it on a high note, I had the pleasure to meet with my co-supervisro and an absolutely stellar philosopher, Luca Incurvati. In the two years we have been working together I have learned tons, and in this interview I learned even more. Thank you, Luca

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I think it is always a pleasure to know that analytical philosophy is doing well and it is genuinly concerned with philosophical problems that have real world repercusions. That is why it was a pleasure to interview Mari Mikkola for @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social, who is one those.

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Giving talks with slides is just academic karaoke.

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Over the summer I had the chance to go to the SIFA conference and attend the keynote talks. The first day Mario de Caro gave a fantastic talk on Virtue Ethics and AI systems that inspired me to reach him and ask him to do an episode. 24 hours later we recorded this interview. Thank you, Mario.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We now on episode seven, which was actually the first episode we recorded. This was huge, because I was going to interview none other than Filippo Ferrari, who is a mandatory reference when studying issues in the normativity of truth, something that our research project touches on.

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Filippo Ferrari on dualism, reading Kaplan and normativity I EP 7

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Although possible world semantics has become the standard way to treat modality in contemporary analytic philosophy people like Barbara Vetter have pushed to understand it better in terms that are relevant for us humans in the actual world. I got to sit down with her for Ping Pong Philosophy. Enjoy!

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

TOMORROW! 🎙️🏓 A brand new episode of Ping Pong Philosophy drops! This time, I sat down with Barbara Vetter to talk about grounding possibility in the real world, human abilities and why philosophers study anthropology and developmental psychology. You don’t want to miss this one!

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Halfway through our first season! 🏓🎙️ Huge thanks to every guest who’s shared their time and ideas with us in the Ping Pong Philosophy Podcast. There’s so much more to come! Can’t wait for what’s coming next 👀

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For the mid season episode I had the absolute pleasure to intervew one hell of a philosopher, the one and only Massimo Pigliucci. We got to talk about many things, the most fun of those being whether if denouncing pseudo-science for so long has gotten him a lot of hate mail.

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Massimo Pigliucci on panpsychism, reading the Platonic dialogues and answering unsolicited emails

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🏓 One of my favorite conversations this season with Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at CCNY. We got into Stoicism, the tricky line between science and pseudo-science, and why philosophy and science need each other more than ever. 🎙️ Ep 5 of Ping Pong Philosophy drops tomorrow!

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I still think about the joke of letting loose a gorilla in a gorilla costume in a philosophy conference

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Fenner Tanswell @fennert.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New paper! 🥳 "Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica. A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested! academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...

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Trust in Mathematics

Abstract. In this paper we develop a systematic account of trust in mathematics based on Katherine Hawley’s commitment account of trust. We focus on two re

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

For the fourth episode (and one of my favourites so far) I got to interview @lisamherzog.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to listen to her "slightly crazy" takes on political philosophy, going to the opera (which she suggests to all philosophy students) and anarchism. Watch/listen here or on Spotify!

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The publisher who disowns AI will make an absolute killing - it'll be seen as the most independent, trustworthy and imaginative and will be the place to which authors and readers will flock.

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

_Anarchy in th UK starts playing in the background_ No, seriously, this was a great episode. Watch/Listen to it tomorrow!

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Back when I was an undergrad I stumbled upon a video of a certain Franz Berto who boldly claimed that the laws of logic are not only about how we reason in our mind, but that they applied to reality as such. Years later I was able sit down with him for a chat. New episode of Ping Pong Φ out now!

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Tomorrow a new episode of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social will be posted. This time is with the extraordinary Franz Berto, who (to my surprise) would like for modal realism to be true.

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Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

People working on non-deterministic semantics flaunt that they can do modal logic without possible worlds. But do they have a theory modality? Yesterday in Ghent I argued that they do. Thanks for the invite, I met many people who I cite, which now I can call colleagues. #metaphysics #modallogic

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 17/10/2025

Hey Google! How about you the fuck don't?

pop up ad on google search advertising AI help with homework

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🎙️ Had a fascinating conversation with Jennifer Lackey in this week’s episode of Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 Don’t miss it! And if you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the perfect time.

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Can you believe it? I got to sit down with one of my favourite philosophers and ask them about their work. The Jennifer Lackey episode is live tomorrow! Don't miss it.

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

What is an area that philosophers should engage with more? Greg Restall shares with us his thoughts! 🎧 Catch the full conversation on Ping Pong Philosophy! OUT Now in Spotify and YouTube

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Have you watched the very first episode of Ping Pong Philosophy with Greg Restall yet? Did it spark any questions or thoughts? Drop them in the comments. I’d love to hear! 💭 And if you haven’t seen it, now’s the perfect time to check it out! 🏓🎙️

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 09/10/2025

I am just a boy, standing in front of legal scholars, asking them to read any philosophy of science published after Popper

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Pablo Rivas-Robledo @pablorivasrobledo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Same here with logic that is not Alchourrón & Bulygin. It's an uphill battle.

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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