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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 14h

The Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy series really hasn't done anything about the gender disparity in its author line up yet huh

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 15h

Heard a rumor on the playground. Too new to be in the encyclopedia, so where else can you go for evidence?

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was surprised how much more I got out of reading the original trolley problem paper than I expected. There’s a lot there that isn’t preserved in the short overviews.

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have a great time in Australia! Definitely try to get over to Melbourne once you're settled. It's a great city.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Usually I get sent grant proposals and conference papers too. This number was just journal articles.

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Being against using Wikipedia as a credible source at its inception seems like a good attitude, since it needed time to establish that it was a reasonable source as it was significantly different from other resources at the time

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not to take away from your assessment of the APA, but isn’t the claim about bankman-friend’s parents false? It looks like they’re both legal scholars and only one did any ethics work.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's fun having a hobby that you're okay with doing at the level you do it. I have one of those too. Whenever friends find out about it, they almost all say "why aren't you better at this?" I don't need to be. I'm happy with my silly little hobby as it is.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does articles of interest not have an account on here?

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

can you imagine the chaos if someone brought an iced coffee into a hotel room? If they spilled it, you could be on the hook for carpet cleaning!

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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

Based on some other tweets by him, I think he means a soul or something like that.

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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 · 20/09/2026

I've read 10. I'm surprised at the choice for #1. I'd say Dune could be in the top 25, but putting it at the top seems like a stretch.

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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

I'm very sorry that happened to you. Senior people harassing job candidates is really loathsome. I mean, harassing anyone like that, but especially junior job candidates.

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

For people at the intersection of professional philosophers and fans of world flags

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't know about all pdf readers, but on Mac, both Adobe and Preview have a 'return to previous page' command that will pop you back to where you were

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you do your latex carefully, every reference to the thesis has a backlink to the page with its definition

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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 · 09/09/2026

One other thought is that cardinality isn’t a great metric for complexity. Maybe you could a comparison based on quantifier alternation complexity. The initial facts are all atomic sentences, say, so they contribute no complexity. Then you can just look at the complexity of the laws in prenex form.

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

Maybe the way to do the comparison is by relations among classes of models of the systematization

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

Why can’t you compare the systematising laws over a given base of facts? It’s not clear to me why the base facts must be included in a comparison

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s totally fine to change your research focus to follow your interests (“pivot” as they say). In fact, it’s good, since it’ll help prevent burnout.

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

A lot of the people uploading do not seem to be directly affiliated with professional academia

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

You'd have to ask the people in charge of PhilPapers. My guess is that they can't afford enough people to do the approvals

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

I can keep it out of the category. I can't flag it for deletion as far as I can see

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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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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I reckon most philosophers have asked themselves that question

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

In hindsight, I think I came out alright from that one.

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

Asked in an interview, it can be an invitation to say more about the relation between your work and other topics. It can also be hostile and there is no response that will satisfy.

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