iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dunno where Travis got access to a transcript from my seminar

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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This might be the wrong website to ask this, but we're discussing Just War Theory in class this week and I cannot reason myself out of the view that it's all post facto rationalisation to benefit leaders doing whatever they want. Am I being too cynical?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Clearly, the correct philosophy for analyzing swarms of AI agents is Brandomian scorekeeping.

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jeffhelzner.bsky.social @jeffhelzner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok, let’s all take a step back and remember that Stancil doesn’t even list philosophy of mind as an AOC.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23/09/2026

Looking for takes by TCS (Theoretical Computer Science) senior academics/researchers about AI and their discipline/research values. E.g., essays, detailed blog posts. (Specifically TCS: there is a lot from Maths, but while adjacent there are enough differences in culture it's worth distinguishing)

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've hit my 20th referee request for the year! It's sort of an arbitrary number, but it feels significant.

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 20/09/2026

We spent $100m building a robot that can pirouette at 5000 rpm and performs Swan Lake beginning to end in 30 seconds. Ballet is solved.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pleased and a little sad to have finished the entire archive of @ouropinions.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social. Looking forward to whatever comes next!

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I just saw my first AI-generated referee report, which is a bummer

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 18/09/2026

It feels like extremely low hanging fruit so it's probably been picked. But has anyone done the Dennett design / physical / intentional stance with LLMs as minds or whatever? Reference?

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is very niche. If you have a PhilPeople profile and you click on web analytics, you get a page showing traffic to your profile. Below that is a list of the locations by IP address, and the list includes a little image of the flag of each country your visitor is based in and you can see the tld.

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Department of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational Linguistics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

if you haven't taught R.M. Hare's "What is Wrong With Slavery" you're missing out tbh. they don't make em like this anymore

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am looking for a recent paper discussed here about ai, cognitive offloading, and deskilling. I remembered TICS but I can't find it. Help!!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What would I read if I wanted the best possible case for taking seriously Bruno Latour and the notion of non-human agency?

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m amazed that this is just 10 years old. I thought it had been around much longer

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

southern cognitive scientist: I study how folks reckon

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CJ @virmalised.us · 13/09/2026

I loved texifier for my ipad for live editing -- what can do this on linux? (I did read a list of features and programs) (Feel free to also plug your favorite window manager)

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm an editor at PhilPapers, so I approve suggestions for adding papers to one of the categories. There's been a huge increase in obvious AI slop uploaded to the database. I'm surprised that more isn't being done to stop it.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Replying to emails is a trap! The people just reply back. It's bullshit.

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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

RIP Neurath, you would have loved IKEA's building manuals.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The Perception of Rhythm in Language" by Anne Cutler (1994), Cognition 50, 79-81 it has the rhythm and rhyme of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/ha...

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As with @ethanlandes.bsky.social, and anyone working in formal stuff, I have also been asked a lot how my work is philosophy. The most amusing time was when someone aggressively asked me “how is the liar paradox philosophy?” Im not sure what his conception of philosophy was that ruled the liar out.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’d say either Wittgenstein or Quine to see how 20th century analytic philosophy would develop

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This paper has the best images of a logic paper I've ever seen. More pac-man in logic!

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(guy who got a job right out of grad school with no publications in the 80s and who got tenure publishing in journals when they got like 50 submissions a year by mail) Academia needs to recommit to excellence and high standards

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

you shouldn’t say that Macbeth murdered Banquo because he “wanted” to be king and “believed” Banquo was going to reveal him. Macbeth doesn’t “want” or “believe” anything, he’s just a fictional character played by an actor reading a script

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does anyone have recommendations for an app for writing markdown on Mac?

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Viktoria Knoll @grauesuppe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣Philosophy friends and colleagues! We have an open 6-year postdoc position in theoretical feminist philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphilosophy, and/or metaphysics. 📅Starting April 1, 2027 🚨Application deadline: November 2 Please share and circulate widely! #philsky #feministsky #PhilJobs

uni-saarland.de

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026

"This is a paradigm shift. It’s like Plato’s cave. You sit in a dark room, watch images projected on a screen, and then stay there and enjoy more images. That’s what Plato’s cave is all about. At least, that’s what I’ve gathered from the modules." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

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Our University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge

“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef...

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

did one of my mutuals talk about having a discussion on the first day of class where they collaboratively set up an AI policy with their students? thought there was a post out there but not finding it

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Does anyone have a pdf of Andrzej Wroński, “Intermediate Logics and the Disjunction Property,” Reports on Mathematical Logic 1 (1973), 39–51?

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Do I have any phonologist followers? I've been trying and failing to suss out the difference in US vs UK patterns of stress in multi-part proper names. Am I imagining it, or: US speakers will put heavy stress on the first word: "GREEN bay" UK speakers weigh both roughly equally: "GREEN BAY"

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What’s a good reference for the theorem that there are uncountably many intermediate logics that have the disjunction property?

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#academicsky What is an edited book chapter you're particularly proud of or you think deserves more readers? #celebratebookchapter I think that my favorite chapter in a volume is the one where I put forward my view about the variable-sharing property in relevant logics. philpapers.org/rec/STAVAR

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#academicsky What is an edited book chapter you're particularly proud of or you think deserves more readers? #celebratebookchapter This chapter on Ida B. Wells is actually my favourite thing I've ever published, it in some sense most encapsulates my schtick: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...

liamkofibright.com

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line

We speak of birds singing. When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn't singing. Finally someone said to me, "All right, don't call it singing, call it something else"
'. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chris Pang's "On the Categoricity of Some Non-classical Logics" was just published in Studio Logica. This paper came right out of the undergraduate research project Chris did with me his senior year. It was great fun supervising this! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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On the Categoricity of Some Non-classical Logics - Studia Logica

This paper concerns the categoricity problems, or Carnap’s problems, of some non-classical logics. I first review the categoricity theorems of LP and K3 proved by Tabakci (2024) and give a counterexam...

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just realized I can move the book project folder to the published folder…

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the CV of failure has failed. we need to make it work again

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today is publication day for my book, "Relevant Logics: Implication, Modality, Quantification"! It's a comprehensive overview of ternary relational frame theory for relevant logics and their modal and quantified extensions. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

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Relevant Logics

Cambridge Core - Logic - Relevant Logics

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don’t make me tap the chart

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