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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 13h

As promised all newsletter income has been donated. walterveit.substack.com/p/300-dollar...

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$300 Dollars For Charities

Thanks! :)

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Friends of nature! I've written a new essay on the recent (alleged) discovery of a new penguin species. Please share! 🐧 walterveit.substack.com/p/scientists...

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Scientists Discover New Penguin Species - Or Did They?

Hype and truth in science communication

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wrote a new blog post challenging Bryan Caplan's recent criticism of effective altruism. walterveit.substack.com/p/bryan-capl...

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Bryan Caplan vs Effective Altruism

Pseudo-Philosophy vs Arguments, Reasons, and Evidence (And an Invitation to Debate)

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Philosophy friends! Is prayer self-defeating? I wrote a new essay defending the view. Please share your views. walterveit.substack.com/p/prayer-is-...

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Prayer Is Self-Defeating

Unless you’re dogmatic

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Philosophy friends! Must all philosophers be radical naturalists? I wrote a new essay defending the view. Please share your views. walterveit.substack.com/p/why-all-ph...

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Hugo Viciana @hugoviciana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Disagreement is necessary for healthy epistemic communities. And effective altruists disagree all the time. And that’s good! They literally come from all spheres of the political compass, which is why they are also perhaps targetted from all sides"

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friends! I'm looking for critical reader feedback for two book drafts. If you're interested comment below or on substack. walterveit.substack.com/p/two-new-bo...

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tbf the LSE philosophy department has a great motto that pretty much matches what I call for: "The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant."

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Philosophy friends! Is a priori philosophy a waste of time and space? Here's a new essay. Please share your views. walterveit.substack.com/p/most-a-pri...

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Philosophy friends! I wrote a new essay, no doubt controversial, on whether philosophy is dead. Comments welcome. walterveit.substack.com/p/is-philoso...

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Is Philosophy Dead?

Scientific Philosophy and Unscientific Philosophy

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Philosophy friends! I wrote a new essay titled "Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo" - please share your thoughts walterveit.substack.com/p/analytic-p...

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Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo

With shout-outs to Lily Hu, Christoph Schuringa, John Rawls, and Jason Brennan

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Philosophy friends. Could the love/hatred for polemics be due to neurodiversity? I wrote an essay to find out. Please share your thoughts. walterveit.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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The End of Polemics?

Neurodiversity, High vs Low Decouplers, and the Subtext of Discourse

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophy friends. I wrote a new blog post on a common problem in philosophical writing, i.e. logic-chopping. walterveit.substack.com/p/philosophy...

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Philosophy Versus Logic-Chopping

A Shared Problem of Online and Analytic Philosophy

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New paper: Webb, L.E., et al. (2026) Balancing the animal affective scales - Can the methodology of human affect balance be translated to other sentient species? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Redirecting

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New blog post: Is it unethical not to donate to charities? walterveit.substack.com/p/is-not-don...

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Philosophy friends. I wrote a follow-up essay on the modern crisis of philosophy and how we can fix it. Please share your thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

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The Two Kinds of Philosophers (And Why We Only Need One)

Of swallows and moles, growing up, and the future of philosophy

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm delighted and honoured to share that I've taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of Animal Cognition! This journal has shaped how we think about cognition across species. Huge thanks to Debbie Kelly for 10 years of vision and leadership, and for all her guidance during my time as associate editor.

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I wrote a new short-form essay on Philip Goff's attack on Hume substack.com/@walterveit/...

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Reason is the Slave of the Passions

Philip Goff versus David Hume

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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#philsky #science #ethics #education Read Walt's latest piece to learn possible ways to SAVE PHILOSOPHY DPTS so you can ponder why this spectacular underwater sea beasty appears as if it's the most exquisite flower in a garden somewhere.

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Philosophy friends. How can we save philosophy departments from being closed? See my new essay. Please comment. walterveit.substack.com/p/much-of-ph...

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Much of Philosophy Today is Self-Indulgent

Can philosophy be saved?

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I wrote a short essay on what atheists should believe walterveit.substack.com/p/the-atheis...

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The Atheist's Guide to Reality

enjoying life without illusions

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New blog post on a much neglected issue. Comments appreciated! (link in first post) open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

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How the Culture War Kills Babies

Who thinks of the children?

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've been thinking about this since Dennett died, so I hope you'll give it a read. I appreciate any comments! walterveit.substack.com/p/what-every...

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About 'New Atheism'

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Death of the Public Intellectual

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Probation confirmed! 🥳 (The UK's version of tenure with less legal protections)

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Philosophy friends. Do we still need moral philosophers? See my new essay. Please comment. walterveit.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New blog post on the plight of moral realism: open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New publication: Browning, H. & Veit, W. (2026). Evolution, time, and the observer. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 49:e170. doi.org/10.1017/S014... (downloadable on my website)

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Evolution, time, and the observer | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Evolution, time, and the observer - Volume 49

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Finally visited Jeremy Bentham's auto icon. As a utilitarian that's almost a little pilgrimage.

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Science for Animal Welfare @scifaw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We are excited to start sharing some of the speakers taking part in the UFAW Centenary Conference 2026. Among them are two of this year's UFAW award recipients. We look forward to sharing more speakers and programme highlights in the coming weeks. 🔗 ow.ly/305Q50YYZCP #SciFAW100

Woman in a dark blazer standing in a barn with cows with the words, "programme, day 2. Working in animal welfare: a journey form farm girl to scientist. UFAW Centenary conference 2026"

Woman wearing a grey owl-printed t-shirt with the words, "programme, day 1. The challenge of interspecies welfare comparisons. UFAW Centenary conference 2026"

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

After taking a year-long course, I've officially become a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 😊

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Does anyone have access to this paper? brill.com/view/journal...

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Intelligent

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New paper alert! Schuck-Paim C, Alonso WJ, Hartcher K, Chiang C, Pereira PA, Veit W, Mendl M, Nicol CJ and Lecorps B (2026) The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals. Front. Anim. Sci. doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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Frontiers | The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals

Pain is not solely a function of tissue damage but can be strongly shaped by environmental context. Its perceived intensity, duration, and likelihood—the cor...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Come to Oxford to see me give a public lecture on shrimp and the evolution of consciousness on the 11th of March! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-armour...

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The Armoured Shrimp and the Evolution of Consciousness

Royal Institute of Philosophy public lecture by Walter Veit

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Made an appearance on one of youtube's largest philosophy channels. Joe Folley's Unsolicited Advice. Give it a watch! youtu.be/o1Fusxds1Lk?...

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Why Modern Philosophy is Broken | Walter Veit

YouTube video by Unsolicited advice

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I wrote a new essay responding to Eric Schwitzgebel: Is Diversity Intrinsically Valuable? If you can provide me with better arguments for the existence of intrinsic values I'd be happy to be convinced. walterveit.substack.com/p/is-diversi...

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Is Diversity Intrinsically Valuable?

On the merits of thought experiments in philosophy and a reply to Eric Schwitzgebel

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