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Marylin Delgado

@philosophypills.bsky.social
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Associate Researcher. Former Associate Professor of Philosophy. Author. Ethics. Philosophy of Action. Moral Psychology. Intersection of Epistemology and Ethics. Art. Other interests and concerns. aretea.es | marylindelgado.com

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Indignation is a powerful and unpredictable force, and a potent political catalyst. The energy is strong enough to demonstrate how big a mistake it was to vote against the housing decrees. #Spain #elections2026
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not interested in whether an entity is capable of wakefulness, awareness, self-awareness—consciousness as pure structure, but in the lived experience, personal history, and the biological and environmental mechanisms that make it human.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Identity - New SEP entry plato.stanford.edu/entries/iden... #philsky
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Identity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😲
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
Movie poster for “Underworld: Evolution,” featuring Kate Beckinsale as Selene with glowing blue eyes amid falling snow.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seeing that/seeing as
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a waste of time Dark Matter's episode 5, season 2. Filler content that plays on the audience's confusion and adds nothing to the main storyline of Jason 1, Jason 2, and the other characters.
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ari ☀️ @khoudary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions
Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meanwhile...
Satirical image of a fictitious magazine cover simulating Spanish Hola! magazine (Hello!) featuring Socrates in Athens, with articles on Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, and Kant.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't get why people automatically switch to Autumn mode just because it's September, even when it's still 33°C and not a single leaf has fallen.
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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🟢 Book review Sharing Thoughts (Oxford University Press, 2025), edited by José Luis Bermúdez, Matheus Valente @mthsvlnt.bsky.social & Víctor M. Verdejo @victormverdejo.bsky.social, has been reviewed by Victor Tamburini in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Read it: lix.li/UcLGcu
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Sharing Thoughts: Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication
This welcome collection addresses the question of how to individuate thoughts and their constituents, concepts, to explain intersubjective phenomena such as co…
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On another note... (aside from posts on philosophy of mind by non-experts or two brains jokes)
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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe not my finest quality, but I take more than a little offense at the whole "i respect scientific but not philosophical expertise". I do judge you for thinking that, tbh
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No doubt it's Monday. Bluesky woke up pretty irritated today.
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Mr. Wayman @boundvariable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Domingo de no querer hacer nada.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"...color is not decoration around the facts. It is part of how the facts enter public life. Just as the way we color-code the planet influences what we know about it, this is an epistemic and political practice." www.noemamag.com/the-politics... 8
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The Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMA
Color once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Constative fact
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fiery Embers. Photo taken from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor as the sun rises.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI free will 🙄
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nicely sinister
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#philsky
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What?!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Same. But my anger is rational.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fleetwood Mac and Cheese, The Rolling Scones
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Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut), speaks with Louise Richardson-Self (University of Tasmania), about her book project on Closed-Mindedness & why fixing it sometimes means changing the environment, not just the person in it. AAP's Women in Philosophy series. #philsky @lvself.bsky.social
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Heather Battaly in conversation with Louise Richardson-Self
YouTube video by Australasian Association of Philosophy AAP
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Walking the Walk #philsky
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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#philsky #booksky ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Coming soon ... ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Cover of the forthcoming Routledge book Existentialism: The Basics by Jonathan Webber. Cover image is a photo of a Parisian café in a classic Hausmann block with street chairs and tables. Photo includes the floor above the café, largely obscured by the series' signature hole/ball with the title and author name in, then above it some of the next floor with wrought iron juliette balconies.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped "The collective sense that time is moving faster today than it has in the past has gained enough traction for scientists to start taking notice.” www.noemamag.com/your-percept...
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Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped | NOEMA
We keep marveling at how fast the years go by. The deeper problem is that we’re forgetting them — and losing the quiet, boring moments where memory forms.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Remarkable indeed. Many historians believe the bust (originally painted) depicts Tanit, the chief goddess of ancient Carthage, worshipped by Punic-Iberian communities as the goddess of fertility, creation, and the underworld. Others suggest a real, high-ranking aristocratic woman or priestess.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Timeline cleanse
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Chronovisor" is described as "a mix of dark academia and Umberto Eco-style conspiracy." Critics praise it as "an engaging, cerebral literary thriller that feels analog and transportive, mimicking the deep dive of academic research." #philsky
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How does your brain hallucinate your conscious reality? #philsky
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I would change the cake to just dark chocolate for the occasion.
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What can the world’s languages tell us about the human mind? In this special @manymindspod.bsky.social episode, @damianblasi.bsky.social explores the natural history of linguistic diversity and why cognitive science needs to look beyond English. Check it out 👇
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Map of the soul. Are BTS lyrics philosophical?" Interested in hearing about this.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wisdom, insight, and moral vigilance in a stone
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How Leonardo da Vinci’s Procrastination Contributed to His Creativity www.openculture.com/2026/09/how-...
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How Leonardo da Vinci’s Procrastination Contributed to His Creativity
At the height of their productivity as Beatles, neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon could read or write music notation. Clearly it didn't keep them from making a cultural impact, and as with so muc...
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Objectivity without a subject is an abstract construct, of little relevance — it is the illusion of a science now belonging to the past.” Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’ www.noemamag.com/subjective-p... #philsky
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Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’ | NOEMA
Striving to understand the nature of consciousness.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The paradox of touch aeon.co/videos/repul... #philsky
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‘Repulsion, at the core of attraction’ – on the paradox of touch | Aeon Videos
A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 27/08/2026
I wrote a little something on the value of philosophy for animal cognition. Out now in Science’s Expert Voices column.
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Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones.
When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When reviewer 2 rejects your work because they care deeply about you.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Splendor Solis has drawn the fascination of even such modern figures as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Eco. It also became an important work in the symbolic-cultural universe of Carl Jung..." www.openculture.com/2026/08/the-...
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The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All
When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just scrolling and being very careful with my likes.
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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Heard about cognitive dissonance? Well, meet conative dissonance, where the conflict is not between two beliefs (or such), but between a belief and a desire. The claim is that many examples of the dissonance phenomenon are better explained by this. Open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Conative Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance was originally defined as a “nonfitting relation between cognitions,” which gives rise to an unpleasant feeling. And this unpleasant feeling leads to a behavioral change. My aim ...
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me" Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories (Art Deco mirror by Erté, Paris, 1930)
Decorative round mirror with a bronze frame featuring an elongated figure of a person embracing the mirror.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The problem is when you think about the same bad decision 37 times, and even worse, when you keep making the same poor decision 37 times.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Nature of Free Will in the Age of AI www.noemamag.com/the-nature-o... #philsky #freewill #AI
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The Nature Of Free Will In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
AI puts a new spin on old questions about free will: Is an actor the genuine author of their actions? Are they responsible for their choices? Can they be held accountable for them?
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