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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 28/09/2026
Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkO...
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Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish
YouTube video by International Center for Consciousness Studies
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice. I look forward to checking this out. Is this another Greenland cruise?
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd wanted before, in a paper, to make heavy weather of the popular-fact that the ocean "isn't really blue". But then I checked available reflectance databases. It IS blue. So I don't get why the pop-idea persists. That its specular reflection of the sky accentuates the blue doesn't mean it isn't
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's hilarious. But he ain't wrong! I wonder what Samuel Kimpton Nye thinks about the switch. How do you tag people on here
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I said it before, I'll say it again: the *stuff* of life? It's *out there*, not within. Open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Giving color reductionism its due - Philosophical Studies
Pautz (2003, 2013a) argues that to secure for colors’ reducers structural match with the colors-as-perceived, the reductionist turns colors (inappropriately) into mere relations to numbers, those used...
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Who's your vote
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Tommy Blanchard @tommyblanchard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about blindsight. I'd always accepted the standard narrative that blindsight is a dramatic dissociation between awareness and sight. But looking at the details, I'm unsure it tells us any more about consciousness than the more typical experience of barely being able to see in a dark room
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Blinded by Blindsight
Can you see without being aware? The condition "Blindsight" is often reported to show we can, but it isn't as simple as it's often portrayed
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature
How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
British Philosophy Fortnight 2026 is almost upon us! It runs from Monday 16th to Sunday 29th March 2026. Details of events nationwide, free to all, are available at bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma... #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2026
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#PhilosophyMatters 2026 - British Philosophical Association
British Philosophy Fortnight EVENTS  |  STUDENT PRIZES  |  RESOURCES  |  2025 ARCHIVE #BPF2026 is: Monday 16th to Sunday 29th March 2026 BPA Events  Please note, all these sessions will be filmed and ...
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm easy. I like the chart toppers from 15 years ago. Weezy, Yeezy, Drizzy, Em, aaaand... Hov
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Very cool :) I remain jealous
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ahhh I'm jealous. I was there maybe 6 years, and I regret never going to one
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Sorry to hear it. Had a similar situation just last week, where my future hinged on the speed of a group of bureaucrats. Got a letter I needed from them in the nick of time—but only after hearing from two or three different further groups of bureaucrats that I was probably too late
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Philosophy jobs at @UofGlasgow: one will last until mid-2029, the other until mid-2030. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Lecturers in Philosophy (LTS)
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Lecturers in Philosophy (LTS)Vacancy Ref: 184794Salary:Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint two fi...
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Jess Sutherland @jtsuth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We’ve officially relaunched on here, X, Instagram and TikTok! Check out our channels and follows us!
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Yeah. So far I've been a fan of points in this spirit (like Trevor Noah's, at a recent NYC gig of his). Also. As I know it (but maybe it's propaganda I've fallen for), MbS is styling himself SA's Ataturk. So reward the man with some dick jokes!
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
when do the xs compose a y
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Skimmed a piece of Alex Bird's recently, where he gives an info-based version of the energy-bound answer to the special composition question, and I'm feeling similarly. Maybe functions give us everything of metaphysical value
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Margarida gave a fantastic talk. If anyone asks, I'll be telling them organisms are energy-binded metabolizers
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
They're available on my American account, in Switzerland
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hahah. Shame the show's all wrapped up. That could have happened
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
It blew my mind, too. But it also made me think he's cooler than I'd given him credit—which was a mistake. It is she who's way less cool
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
It's not obvious that the lovers of spectra haven't (misguidedly) conceptually engineered categories of individuals into existence, in which case the legislating-out is no cruelty. But who cares, we can justify compassion for our unique friends otherwise than by doing bad science
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
And Wittgenstein. Frenetic user. They come even after periods
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
F Scott Fitzgerald I remember being an em-dash fiend too. Maybe they overtrained the models on our coolest writers
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"If you’re speaking only about gametes, everyone understands that [an] egg isn’t a woman and [a] sperm isn’t a man. We have to rethink a little about what we’re talking about." Why isn't this a super misleading evasion, one that implies a jokey mischaracterization of the main binary view
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I concur
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
God damn it, I meant "isn't for it to *be* politics" Why can't I edit posts on blue sky
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Also. I wonder how neatly their case for the racism, sexism of biology transposes to physics. Chemistry. Thermodynamics
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Still. Seems like an awfully lax employment on their part of 'political'. Looks like the 'political' of that cliche of literature departments, "the personal is political"
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I don't think they'd deny science and politics are distinct. For science to be, even unavoidably, political isn't for it to *be* science
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Kael McCormack investigates the best account for the attitude of #desire: doi.org/10.1080/0951... 2/14
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What is the attitude of desire?
I defend a view of the attitude of desire against a close rival. Both views are versions of “the guise of the good” thesis. The guise of the good says that a desire for P involves P appearing good ...
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Jess Sutherland @jtsuth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Launching Friday 4th July! Find us wherever you get your podcasts
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Dimitri Coelho Mollo @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025
Call for postdoc applications! We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå. Deadline for applications is May 26th. More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]
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Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience @uofg-cspe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us.
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@macpherson.bsky.social Did you hear about this?
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
More grist for the mill of an earlier self with slightly different interests: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Naïve realism and supersaturated hue - Synthese
Naïve realists have yet to successfully discharge the problem of supersaturated hue, afterimage-experiences as of hued surfaces that are beyond-maximally saturated. The experiences are a problem for t...
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Inducing experience as of supersaturated teal otherwise than by the usual afterimage technique—and confirming it with color matching tasks? Pretty freakin nifty
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Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hell yeah
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dude. I saw it again maybe 10 years ago. Couldn't believe how funny it was
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Qualia were never what made life worth living. It's always been about...color! —And they're objective New paper out with Philosophy of Science. Enjoy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The attractions of “object colors” | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
The attractions of “object colors”
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What about: lots of social problems are economic (in nature); these 🖥️ could figure out economics in a planck second (or whatever). Society solved
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New Yorker did too. Article, anyway. The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus
Democratic members of Congress are fed up with their party’s discourse on identity, but they can’t get on board with Donald Trump’s campaign to destroy D.E.I.
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I enjoyed this, but can't shake that the simpler reading of LW's journal scribblings is that he holds it against WS that his poetic language doesn't invite an analogue of the familiar thought "This movie [/play/poem] couldn't have been made any other way". ("*Anything* is permitted.")
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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I am building up a metaphysics of science starter pack! Please let me know if you want to be added or of anyone I should add 💫 #SMS go.bsky.app/MQSP9oQ
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you're up for including metaphysics of specifically color science, please do add me
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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a movie poster for the rocketeer shows a man in a suit flying through the air
ALT: a movie poster for the rocketeer shows a man in a suit flying through the air
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Godspeed, Seyed. I got to season 2 and I can't finish its first episode (one of the handful of episodes Lynch himself directed). Did families sit together and watch this stuff in the 90s?
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Feeling the need to tap the mic, check if it's on, etc
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Will Sharp @willsharp55s.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hopefully a good sign. But I've got way more followers (philosophers, even, not even bots) here than I had there, and yet my posts are getting zero reactions. They got way more love on Twitter (and not just from bots)
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