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Philip Ebert

@philipaebert.bsky.social
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Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹

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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Excited that our paper on "Varieties of Risk Pluralism" is out. It was a lot of fun to work with Nikolaj Pedersen on this project that we initiated in 2020 with the start of our Varieties of Risk Project. Its more a framework paper and aimed at shape more debates. academic.oup.com/mind/article...
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Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Abstract. The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper noti
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New paper: you could call it my first attempt at branching out into the ethics of risk communication, or even my attempt at bringing avalanche risk communication to the philosophical masses ;-) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The ethics of communicating voluntary and personal risk - Synthese
Risk communication raises ethical and theoretical challenges about when and how communicators may go beyond merely informing individuals about the risks they face. While these issues have been widely ...
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Looking forward to be participating at a workshop entitled “Forecasting Rare and Severe Events: Behaviour, Verification, and Judgment” at St Andrews organised by Ian Durbach from the Stats Department—wildly interdisciplinary event. This will be fun
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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Fourteen excellent new papers up at Imprint, including this paper by Anthony Reeves on the moral importance of due process, as well as papers by @neilwwilliams.bsky.social, @devinsanchezcurry.com, @frankphilosophy.bsky.social, @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and many more.
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Great paper by Xintong Wei a former Postdoc on our varieties of risk project on the symmetry thesis in a reason-based normative framework. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Why Normative Risk Matters for What We Should Do Morally - Erkenntnis
When we deliberate about what to do morally, we often run two types of risk. One type of risk results from having incomplete or false information about empirical facts, such as the effectiveness of do...
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Professional Update: I have decided to accept an offer ('Ruf') from the @unisalzburg.bsky.social starting 02/2026. I’m really 'chuffed’ and grateful having been offered the opportunity to join such a great department and also excited to relocate to this beautiful area of Austria
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Had a great three days in Lisbon with great talks at the Commemorating #Frege conference. Huge thanks to the organisers Bruno and Joan who managed to host the event in the beautiful Academy ofScience building. I have to come back.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky
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Lecturer in Philosophy (2216) - Birkbeck, University of London
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Do I know anyone in Amsterdam who could take our dog for 21 days. No joke. Somewhat desperate situation.
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Finished with my talk at the General Assembly of the European Avalanche Warning Services. Time to address my swim-work balance at Hotel Seggauberg in Styria…
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Is anyone using LeChat and how does it compare to ChatGPT?
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It be amazing if the EU and individual European countries would invest now more into education. It is a very opportune time.
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For philosophers and interdisciplinary researchers working on #risk, this CfP for a collection with the journal Synthese might be of interest: link.springer.com/collections/...
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Philosophy of Risk: Beliefs, Values, and Decisions
In a world characterized by the challenges of climate change, new technologies, globalisation, and growing instabilities, risk is increasingly relevant both ...
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A good quote from the economist: ‘officials set the tariffs using a formula that takes America’s bilateral trade deficit as a share of goods imported from each country and halves it—which is almost as random as taxing you on the number of vowels in your name.’
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Really excited to see this paper published (and in such a cool journal). The research was “triggered” by a conversation with avalanche forecasters and evolved into a cool interdisciplinary project. #avalanche #riskcommunication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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End user and forecaster interpretations of the European Avalanche Danger Scale: A study of avalanche probability judgments in Scotland
We investigate Scottish end users' and professional forecasters' risk perception in relation to the 5-point European Avalanche Danger Scale by eliciting numerical estimates of the probability of trig....
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A great and challenging paper by @dariomortini.bsky.social identifying a “folk conceptual gap between the subject matter of these experimental studies and the conceptual repertoire we can reasonably expect lay people to possess" — a (supposed) gap that applies to my earlier work. go.shr.lc/41naOx1
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Epistemic justification and the folk conceptual gap | Episteme | Cambridge Core
Epistemic justification and the folk conceptual gap
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Philip Ebert @philipaebert.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just went to a talk about REF2029. It was suggested that REF 2029 is an exercise that presents itself as channeling the spirit of Ted Lasso but in fact is just a form of Hunger Games. Not far off in my view.
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