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Tony Chemero

@tonychemero.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University. Embodied cognition, AI, social cognition, phenomenology, critical theory. Against fascism. (he/him) New book: cup.columbia.edu/book/intertwined-c…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Karen Ng @karenkyng.bsky.social · 8h
a bit about how i came to philosophy, now up @firstgenphilos.bsky.social www.firstgenphilosophers.com/contribution...
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The Past, the Present, and the Owl of Minerva — First-Gen Philosophers
I was extremely nervous about speaking up in class well into my graduate studies. Having grown up in Toronto, often cited as the most diverse city in the world, the lack of diversity within philosophy...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 13h
Holy shit: I have been married for 30 years!
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks to Scott Aikin for this fun interview. Viewing is recommended especially you want to watch me make a bunch of strange hand gestures. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k76P...
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Vanderbilt Philosophy Interviews - Anthony Chemero
YouTube video by Scott Aikin
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excited for this event in Yerevan. If you are around, come say hello. newsroom.aua.am/event/forsee...,
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FORSEE Research Workshop on Empathy in the Age of AI - AUA Newsroom
AUA Center for Ethics in Public Affairs will host a session exploring empathy in the age of artificial intelligence.
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026
He’s obviously removing all anti-trump leaders ahead of a ‘national emergency’ so they can halt elections and seize permanent control.
Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals
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Matthieu de Wit @dewitmm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow, I did not realize this book is open access... Thank you, @tonychemero.bsky.social and Manuel Heras-Escribano! I am very excited to get started on this. www.routledge.com/The-Selected...
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The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed
The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed brings to light the groundbreaking contributions of one of the most original thinkers in ecological psychology and philosophy of mind. This volume offers reader...
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stanford scientists discover the human brain may actually be two separate organs www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@lmesseri.bsky.social on point as always.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Definitely the most controversial claim in the book.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For the love of God, take this whiny rapist's phone away.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am with Edouard on this. These online systems are broken.
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Listening to this song on repeat today 😭 "I won't let you get away. The justice system might have failed. But tonight I'll paint this town red for those that you took" Never again, never again, never again. youtu.be/Qu63VIeVXiU?...
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Delilah Bon - I Wish A Bitch Would (Lyrics)
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The implications of Chemero’s embodied cognitive science are profound for debates on AI consciousness.”— Abeba Birhane, Nature buff.ly/DUUryiG
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Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception
A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New book! Compiled by Manuel Heras-Escribano and me. Reed’s work was prescient and is definitely still worth reading. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed | Manuel Heras-Escribano, Anth
The Selected Writings of Edward S. Reed brings to light the groundbreaking contributions of one of the most original thinkers in ecological psychology and
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Congrats to @sarahrobins.bsky.social and @felipedebrigard.bsky.social , great philosophers who are also lovely humans.
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It does feel I like this.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thanks @abeba.blacksky.app ! This would be a very different book without conversations with you.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Officially, as of today, I am on leave from University of Cincinnati and starting at Vanderbilt University. I am excited to be starting a new chapter.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is the best response I’ve seen to the so-called “Vanderbilt Report”. Thanks, Vijay, for sharing.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is the sort of thing you find when you share an office pod with @roberttalisse.bsky.social
A copy of ICP: Behind the paint by Violent V.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My time in Nashville may be brief.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Another review, of my recent book along with “The dignity of dependence: A feminist manifesto” by Leah Libreville Sargaent. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2271...
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‘Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other’ by Anthony Chemero,’The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto’ by Leah Libresco Sargeant reviewed by Guy Lancaster
Cartesian dualism, never the strongest of premises, has come in for a right beating in recent years. Evolutionary theory had already broken down the barriers between the animal and the human, and furt...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
First review of new book (that I know of, at least). reviews.ophen.org/2026/07/25/a...
Chunk of text from webpage linked in this message. Key part: “essential reading for anyone interested in cognitive science and questioning the nature of human beings”.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our friend Kim Burleigh made us this fantastic rug, based on her experiments with cellular automata.
Multi-color wool rug with cellular automata pattern
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Okay, now it’s Republicans’ turn to kick out the most prominent rapist in their party
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Important points made here. 👇🏼
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A perfect poem for this day "Let America Be America Again" BY LANGSTON HUGHES www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...
Let America Be America Again
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
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Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers
dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the
stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek
And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
1am the young man, full of strength and hope,
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/06/2026
Trump lost the Iran war and it wasn’t close and everyone knows it and he knows that everyone knows he LOST and so now he’s trying to blame Obama because racism is his only weapon.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Is it bad to feel disillusioned in advance about your soon-to-be employer?
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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 10/06/2026
evidence that a book will exist www.routledge.com/Introducing-...
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Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today
This coursebook introduces philosophy of mind as it is practiced in the third decade of the 21st century to a wide range of readers. It provides any interested student, researcher, or general reader--...
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi Issue here link.springer.com/journal/1124... Our editorial introduction here doi.org/10.1007/s112... @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I finally read this comically bad hit piece on the humanities and social sciences. I would normally dismiss this sort of reactionary garbage, but I am moving to Nashville next month to start working at @vanderbilt.edu. I worry now that I am making a huge mistake.
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Things like that now-circulating Vanderbilt report are written as if analytic philosophers have been in a titanic struggle with Foucault for 50 years. It is more nearly true that they thought they got rid of pragmatism by 1975 and blame its constant return on the French. (Rorty aided this diagnosis)
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Elmo @tim-elmo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
easily the hardest part about academia is maintaining kayfabe
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here is one more podcast interview. I will stop bothering you with these for a while now. The next one I have is scheduled for September with @lovephilosophy.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT0B...
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The Self Is Not Alone: How We Are Shaped by Each Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero
YouTube video by Business Talk
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Fun conversation with Tim Logan from Bodies of Learning here: www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof...
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We are Intertwined Creatures - A Conversation with Prof. Tony Chemero — Good Impact Labs
If you think about which verbs dominate formal education you’ll probably come up with a list like learning, thinking, reasoning, remembering, knowing, and maybe behaving. Now think about what images c...
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Anthony Chemero, author of INTERTWINED CREATURES, talks about how our social connections change the way we understand human nature in an interview with Chasing Leviathan. @tonychemero.bsky.social buff.ly/FoKPwug #FeministPhilosophy #Psychology
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Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero
How does recognizing our deep physical and social connections change the way we understand human nature? University of Cincinnati philosophy and psychology professor Dr. Anthony Chemero joins host…
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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The VRA Was the Nice Version
SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/05/2026
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is a good time to be reading Marcuse. www.marxists.info/ebooks/marcu...
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