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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You'd think that, if their cushy lives aren't quite is cushy as they used to be, they might also think the same is true of people further down the food chain. But I guess that's not how they became rich.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This and also the fact that extremists on both sides have done what they can to blur the distinctions. It suits Netanyahu if he can portray Western opponents as against the continued existence of Israel; and Hamas benefits too if they can sell their antisemitism as hostility to an oppressive regime.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sure there are people out there who have taken note and are looking for the right opportunity for you.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It can be done. I got my job on the back of a grant I wrote when I was sick. I don't doubt that the FLF panel were more sympathetic to my project because I'd just had a kidney transplant. And several ERC grants take account of career breaks, and are intended to support people returning to academia.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But being on the job market when you can't work full capacity really sucks.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry. I've not seen your updates for a while so haven't been following 😔

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A good start but hardly exhaustive!

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of the words we do have aren't even good. Like, to my ear, 'lethargic' has overtones of self-indulgence and laziness.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surely you would be a good person to write that paper?

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As you said, it also makes for an incredibly blunt diagnostic tool.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And there's also the burnout fatigue where you can sleep for 12 hours and it barely scratches the surface of mental fatigue, where even writing an email feels too hard. Maybe we need more words.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And then sometimes when you've got early stage flu, you can be mentally fairly alert but the thought of having to put on shoes and walk somewhere seems completely unfeasible. And if you work out hard, you can be mentally alert and barely able to get out of a chair (me, today, post gym).

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are so many different ways to be tired it's surprising we only have a couple of words. Because there's also a difference between physical and mental fatigue. When my kidneys failed I could sometimes do three hours the gym just fine, but I couldn't process sentences in conversation.

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Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association @pamba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good news/bad news. PAMBA people now number over 400! But this means we can no longer use Mailchimp to send free emails. Join the new PAMBA Google Group to say up to date with the Philosophy of Animal Minds! groups.google.com/g/pambalist

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PAMBA - Google Groups

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think you may be granting him too much by asking about his underlying assumptions. I think he just doesn't know what he's talking about. An earlier take suggested he thinks that there's only one way to spell out the details of a materialist account of the mind, and it entails that AIs think.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Luck, tenacity, and a lot of hard work. The last one is particularly key for the people who have to publish themselves out of challenging short-term teaching positions 🥹 Having supportive parents who can help with relocation costs goes a long way too.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you don't understand how any of it works, what gives you the confidence to insist that there are only two options?

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oops 🥹 We should do a call! I'm in LA though so I'm still three hours away.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Together is just gorgeous. They're all good but this is my favourite. Curious to see what you'll make of it.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always thought this one is underrated. The first time I watched it, I thought the chemistry was great. (The second time, I wondered why I had thought that, however.)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is it an a priori question whether a captive monkey with a headache has a higher standard of living than a free range chicken with a sore throat? One would hope we'd not have to commit to investigating this empirically.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Maybe we'd not be assigned so much as incentivised to shift focus by grant allocation patterns. Perhaps I could live with that (and the consequent lack of funding). But the confident utilitarians would almost certainly come out on top of the funding pile, despite being basically quite silly.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That strikes me as a bit depressing though. What if we got assigned to work on grounding because the algorithm decided that philosophy of the social sciences is oversubscribed?

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I mean, you present both a conclusion from Sterelny, and his argument for it; and then present a much stronger conclusion without any additional argument. That does kind of suggest that the goal is to get a reaction ...

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm a little bit sceptical. EPP (Econ, Psych, Philosophy) at Warwick is thriving and growing. We've also expanded our PPE program very substantially to offset financial pressures elsewhere. Perhaps Warwick unusual though. Certainly, other universities are under far more financial pressure.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well there are facts about what 'pseudo' means and good enough accounts of the nature of philosophy. If you want to use 'pseudo-philosophy' in a way that is independent of the meanings of 'pseudo' and 'philosophy' go for it, but don't expect others to follow.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I say this because I don't think responding to analytic metaphysicians by saying "You're not doing real philosophy" is any more constructive than when analytic metaphysicians say the same to us.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surely pseudo-philosophy is fake philosophy? But there's a different between philosophy that's unproductive, and philosophy that's not real or bad. You might think that questions about metaphysical angels are stupid and pointless, but that's no reason to think they fail to be philosophy.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the end @walterveit.bsky.social adds: "Most professional philosophers that engage in a priori philosophy don’t just waste their time, space (and trees) ... they produce pseudo-philosophy." Nothing about that second claim in any way follows from the first. Solid ragebait though.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not even close to being Kim's most controversial opinion, but still good trolling.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(As her former PhD student, and the one working most squarely in the field of animal minds, the Hurley memorial talk will be done my me. Unless someone has a better idea, in which case let me know; I'd certainly be receptive to a more glamorous or exciting option.)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're also planning to honour Susan Hurley with a memorial talk, since next year marks 20 years since she died. Susan was professor at the University of Warwick between 1994 and 2005, and did some of her most influential work on animal minds while there.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Note that the event page also contains more information about our keynote speakers. They are below. (Note that Cameron Buckner's name should come with an asterisk because he can't give a final confirmation until nearer to the event.)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

More information can be found on the PAMBA meeting events page below. However, we'll also update our own website with relevant information in the next couple of days. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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PAMBA 2027

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The PAMBA prize winner will be invited to give at keynote talk at the 2027 PAMBA meeting at Warwick and we will cover up to £1,500 of your travel expenses for this trip. The prize PAMBA will also be published in Biology and Philosophy (with thanks to B&P EiC Rachael Brown for making this possible).

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are announcing both submissions for regular talk and poster sessions, and for the 2027 PAMBA prize. The PAMBA prize is for the best paper in any area of the philosophy of animal minds by an ECR (up to five years post-PhD).

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The call for papers for the 2027 PAMBA meeting at the University of Warwick is now live. We will update our own website with more information in the coming days, but in the meantime here is the PhilEvents page. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Call for Papers - PAMBA 2027

CALL FOR PAPERSThe Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behaviour Association (PAMBA) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2027 biennial meeting, which will be held at the University of Warwick on April...

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That's great! I hope it turns out to be helpful.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks Edouard - and for giving us the opportunity to write it!

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A shout out to @adrian-currie.bsky.social, @andrameneganzin.bsky.social et al. In 2024 I reviewed their short intro to the philosophy of paleoanthropology for Philosophy Compass. I thought it was a great, so asked Edouard Machery if we could do one too. That is how this paper came about.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The paper could also work to explain our field to empirical researchers who aren't sure what the philosophers contribute.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We introduce a range of the first and second order questions on which researchers could work; and say something about the methods of the field too.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Unless it's 5+ dribbles, this dataset is too messy.

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