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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Will be presenting my new book on Italian Thought soon in Amsterdam. People around Amsterdam on 9 December more than welcome! ash.uva.nl/content/rese...

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies?

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Adam Tamas Tuboly @tuadam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am happy to say that our volume on the history of value-laden ideals of science is out today! I am grateful to the wonderful contributors for their really nice chapters! First of its kind, check it out! www.routledge.com/Histories-of...

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Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science: Philosophical Perspectives

This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a...

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

❗️A bunch of really cool papers that puts the discourse on values in science in historical perspective. Étienne Raduly and myself wrote chapter 10 on the philosophy of Charles W. Morris: “Value as Meaning and as Behavior” 🦫🦫🦫

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

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The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas

An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars,

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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The book launch today was great and I'm excited to check out Sander's book, especially the later chapters on the culture wars!

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My review of Lorenzo Feltrin’s Workers and the World just appeared in @theoryculturesociety.org . If you ever wanted to know how to update Hardt and Negri’s Empire for the age of economic polycrisis and counterrevolutionary stagnation, Feltrin’s book is a good start.

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Review: Lorenzo Feltrin, ‘Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My and Jack Casey's open access paper 'The ethics of artificial intelligence in sport' has just been published in AI & Ethics. We argue that the use of AI in sport risks changing a sport's cluster of excellences, with a focus on the role of the football manager. shorturl.at/vhLp9 #philsky

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The ethics of artificial intelligence in sport - AI and Ethics

What reason, if any, is there to object to the use of Artificial Intelligence in sport? While the existing literature has investigated several issues about the ethics of AI in sport, these studies hav...

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The book will be launched with an online symposium featuring comments by Richard Creath, Christian Damböck, @profess.bsky.social, and @bweatherson.bsky.social, hosted by @flpadovani.bsky.social *Online Book launch* Wed. Sep. 9, 17.00-18.30 CEST (UTC+2) Registration: tiny.cc/haa9101 (2/3)

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Registration book launch Logical Positivism

Book launch: Logical Positivism: An American History Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Time: 17.00-18.30 CEST (UTC+2) Location: Online

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is happening now - everyone is welcome to come along!

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My paper on agonistic workplace democracy has recently received a home in the latest issue of Review of Social Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Alex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Could Germany ban Meta's AI smart glasses? @hateaid.org have launched a criminal complaint against Meta, after the Federal Network Agency claimed the glasses are not intended for covert filming. I share some thoughts about the case and wider misogyny these glasses are used for. #tech #philosophy

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down in a month. That really feels like the end of an era. There are multiple potential explanations for its downfall. 1/6 www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/...

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Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My review of Cecilia Rikap’s wonderful The Rulers is out in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social . I mainly talk about her theory of corporate power and Big Tech today and what that means for our current political challenges. But please, read the book since my review cannot do it justice!

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Second day of the Descartes Lectures in Tilburg. With keynote lectures by @serenekhader.bsky.social and responses by @kdpham.bsky.social , @nescio13.bsky.social and Lorna Finlayson. All talks on oppression, decolonization, and political philosophy! All been amazing so far 😁

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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stoked to find out today that the paper I've co-authored with @lucyosler.bsky.social, "The (Under)diagnosis of Endometriosis: Epistemic and Affective Injustices in the Medical Niche", is officially forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social edited by @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social & @eabyrne.bsky.social 🤩

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Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A pleasure to publish this on endometriosis and affective injustice! 🙌🏻

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yesterday was Day 1 of Descartes Lectures with amazing @serenekhader.bsky.social ! Particularly illuminating was her analysis of oppression as “social inclusion in unequal terms,” explaining why oppressed groups may comply with the society that’s oppressing them @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My new paper 'Athletes as Political Representatives' published open access in @sportethicsandphil.bsky.social. It focuses on the form of athletic political representation that I find most interesting: when athletes represent the political through their athletic performances l1nq.com/8lelt16 #philsky

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Athletes as political representatives

Athletes are often claimed to be representatives of a wider community, whether that be their club, their nation or humanity as a whole. But in what sense exactly might athletes be understood to be ...

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨 New paper out 🚨 “Plebeian cooperativism: Reconciling workplace democracy with the iron law of oligarchy” in @polstudies.bsky.social Grassroots democracy at work is oft criticized for creating new hierarchies, but I argue that contestation from below can arrest the tendency for democratic decline.

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Huub Brouwer @huubbrouwer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@dicktimmer.bsky.social and my paper ‘Against the Desertist Case for Minimal Thresholds’ was just published by the Journal of Social Philosophy. You can check it out here, in open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Against the Desertist Case for Minimal Thresholds

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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Introducing 'A Genealogy of Italian Thought' 💭 Dario Gentili analyses the genesis of Italian thought through the history of the political and theoretical conflicts in Italy from the 1960s to the present. Learn more: bit.ly/4fwHGu8

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Moving on to chapter 10 of my summary of Cecilia Rikap’s The Rulers. This chapter is on automation and the impact of Big Tech and AI on the future of work. Prepare for some doomsaying. 1/6

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chapter-by-chapter summary of Cecilia Rikap's The Rulers with today chapter 3. Here, Rikap compares IBM to today's Big Tech companies to see how we moved from old-school monopoly capitalism to today's networked capitalism. 1/5

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Very pleased to see the cover of my first book — hopefully out in a few months! Although the design is Peirce-centred, I tried my best to put the guy in relation to Scottish, English, German, and other American philosophers & psychologists. Enjoy! #Peirce #psychology #pragmatism #hps #philosophy

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#SPSP kicking off today in Cambridge! Looking forward to a very packed 3-days of talks 😁

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Starting a new run of chapter-by-chapter summaries. Currently reading the fascinating The Rulers by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social from @versobooks.bsky.social . Today I’ll start with the introduction. 1/5

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When yoy bump into yourself in a Cambridge bookstore.

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought by Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois & Stijn De Cauwer

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*blush* got caught in action presenting on C.W. Morris and institution building as a kind of philosophy of science in practice! Behind me a fragment of his correspondence with Neurath. #philosophy #spsp

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Breaking: SPSP 2028 is going to be in Bogotá, Colombia!

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Philosophy in action as I talk about Silvia Federici and environmental politics at the Society for Italian Philosophy conference in Edinburgh. (And I love the accidental colouring effect on my slides).

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You know you’ve made when your book appears at a conference on someone else’s slides.

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought in the presentation of Nidesh Lawtoo at Society for Italian Philosophy conference

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Philosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tilburg MA student Charlotte De Lange just published her first paper in Philosophical Psychology 🥳 It's about grieving the loss of your former self as an outlaw emotion and a narrative practice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Self-grief after trauma: outlaw emotion and narrative practice

Philosophical discussions of grief have mainly focused on bereavement and the loss of others, while philosophical accounts of trauma have primarily focused on disruption of the self, embodiment, an...

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Philosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind ( @ispsm.bsky.social ) is organizing its yearly web conference. With Jimena Clavel Vazquez from Tilburg Philosophy as one of the organizers. Submit your abstracts and proposals here 👇 www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

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ISPSM Conference 2026

4th Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Congratulations Charlotte de Lange, a Philosophy MA student at @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social, for publishing her excellent paper 'Self-grief after trauma: outlaw emotion and narrative practice' in @journalphp.bsky.social! You can read it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky

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Alex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I spoke to @lukebrunning.bsky.social about my research on deepfakes and online authenticity for the new Ethics Untangled blog by @idea-leeds.bsky.social: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/deepfakes-an... Sign up to the blog above for more interviews and insights from my fantastic colleagues at IDEA.

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here is an article @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social and I wrote about how political apologies may prematurely consigning injustice to history. psyche.co/ideas/good-a... #philsky

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Philosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Job alert 🚨2-year post-doc position in the Tilburg philosophy department on linguistic justice with a focus on online hate speech that is amplified by AI technologies. career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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Job opening: Postdoc researcher (2 years, 1,0 FTE) (23929)

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

On this day, 50 years ago, Der Spiegel published an interview with Heidegger - 5 days after his death. Heidegger holds a prominent place in the history of the philosophy of technology: with a phenomenology of tool-use in Being & Time (1927) and later with The Question Concerning Technology (1954).

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I was recently interviewed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about ratings and reviews on Airbnb. Why are ratings so consistently high and positive on the platform? Was quite proud of myself as well that I managed to do the whole interview in German. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/a...

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Vermieter bei Airbnb unter Druck: Fünf Sterne oder nichts

Der Druck auf der Airbnb-Plattform ist groß: Vermieter wollen deshalb schlechtere Bewertungen vermeiden. Für Nutzer wird es schwieriger, die passende Unterkunft zu finden.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wrote a piece for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social about the recent Canvas hack and what we Europeans should learn from it. With more hacking capabilities on the horizon (Claude Mythos), we should invest in digital sovereignty and technodiversity to avoid US-dominated technological monoculture.

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De toekomst is gehackt

Moeten we ons verwachten aan een toekomst waar elke universiteit of andere instelling in een handomdraai gehackt kan worden?

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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Found myself defending relativism in a Wittgenstein seminar yesterday and today I discover that this just came out 😁

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Will be talking tomorrow about political theology and the body in Leuven with Elettra Stimilli. Elettra’s paper is really cool, so I hope to live up to it! hiw.kuleuven.be/nl/nieuws-ag...

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Lecture: The Theologico-Political Body

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Spotted by a friend in a London bookstore 🥳 “An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” by Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, and myself.

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Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Upcoming Workshop: Husserl, Sellars, Intentionality | 12 May 2026 | KU Leuven and online A joint project event by the Husserl Archives and the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science. Speakers below; more information and (free) registration at husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev

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