Reposted by Yuri CathHenri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026[Untitled] (Illustration for the Poem "Soupir"), 1932 botfrens.com/collections/48/content… 0169
Reposted by Yuri CathJames Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We're hiring! NTU Philosophy has three tenured/tenure-track openings. Our department is friendly, collaborative, and a great place to do research. Happy to answer questions if you're thinking of applying. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #philjobs #PhilSky #AcademicJobs 0157
Reposted by Yuri CathJames Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026📣 Workshop: The Semantics and Format of Episodic Representations. 11–12 Jan 2027. NTU Singapore. Philosophers and psychologists working on memory, imagination, and mental representation. Schedule and details: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve... #philsky #PhilMind #CogSci 183
Reposted by Yuri Cathtenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Delft University of Technology (@tudelft.nl) is hiring: Postdoc in the Epistemology of Moral Experiences in Technology #postdoc #philsky #ethicsoftechnology 111
Reposted by Yuri CathUniversity of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy @ucphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We’re hiring for two positions! One is TT in Ancient, the other an open-rank TT position in mind, science, or ethics. Please share widely! See more on PhilJobs: TT Ancient: philjobs.org/job/show/32273 Open-rank Mind, Science, or Ethics: philjobs.org/job/show/32265philjobs.org Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati An international database of jobs for philosophers 13325
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I feed but never satisfy, I filter but never purify. What am I? 011
Reposted by Yuri CathYuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 27/09/2025It's that one day of the year when I watch an AFL game and try to make sense of what is going on.media.tenor.coma woman says " you got to embrace the chaos you have to " in a dark roomALT: a woman says " you got to embrace the chaos you have to " in a dark room 021
Reposted by Yuri CathJoanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm speaking ONLINE in about 8 hours! law.mpg.de/event/how-an... All welcome, but registration required. TBH it is more about human agency than digital sovereignty, sorry.law.mpg.deHow and Why Maintain Human Agency and Digital Sovereignty - Max Planck LawThis talk attempts to communicate a clear model of how generative and more conventional AI are built; that they express capital and existing human culture, not personality; how they can best be deploy... 2105
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Big congrats to Bhanuraj Kashyap for winning the 2026 AAP Media Prize!! 🎉 Bhanuraj started last month as a post-doc at La Trobe on the ARC "Virtual Reality and Knowing What It Is Like" grant I lead. We're stoked to have his philosophical and media skills on board for the project. 030
Reposted by Yuri CathSebastian Watzl @sebastianwatzl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026just FYI. This is a good paper re aliens vs robots (or LLMs). journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl... What holds for consciousness, I think, holds for intelligence as well: that the system is trained to mimic intelligence cancels the behavioral reasons to think it itself is intelligent.journals.publishing.umich.eduThe Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot ConsciousnessOn broadly Copernican grounds, we are entitled to assume that apparently behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial entities ("aliens") would be conscious. Otherwise, we humans would be inexplicably... 11183
Reposted by Yuri CathAdam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026📚 Our Cambridge Element on Mental Fictionalism is out now and available free until 19th October! 📚 Download it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... @keithfrankish.com @universitypress.cambridge.org #philsky #philmind #philpsy #cogsci 2226
Reposted by Yuri Cathlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Government has spent years arguing in court that elderly Quakers sitting down and holding placards about Palestinian Action are, in fact, terrorists who must be treated as such. Meanwhile their reaction to these people is to stress that they understand their "reasonable concerns". Infuriating. 414546
Reposted by Yuri CathChris Cousens @chrisjcousens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can’t get enough Philosophy of AI? Enjoy speech act theory? Then you’ll love my new paper ‘Artificial Speakers, Artificial Speech Acts?’ (now accepted at Phil Quarterly). philpapers.org/rec/COUASA-2philpapers.org 172
Reposted by Yuri CathAidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This short piece on Robin McKenna's 'Non-Ideal Epistemology' is finally in an issue of @ijps.bsky.social (it unfortunately got left out of the special issue it was written for).tandfonline.comPessimism and Optimism in Non-Ideal Inquiry EpistemologyMcKenna’s version of non-ideal inquiry epistemology combines pessimism about the epistemic capacities of individuals with certain forms of optimism about the influence of social institutions on our... 1123
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I was down about the state of the world today, but then I was reacquainted with the fact that the world contains olive bread, and that helps a bit. 180
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Interesting new paper by @chrisjcousens.bsky.social and Paul-Mikhail Podosky #philsky 010
Reposted by Yuri CathDr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had a great time chatting to Heather about her current research on closed-mindedness!! 062
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The PhD scholarship has a good stipend and some other attractive benefits. And the successful applicant will have a chance to engage with the other CIs on the project (Tim Bayne, Mary Walker, Margot Strohminger), our post-doc (Bhanuraj Kashyap), and related grant activities (seminars/workshops). 001
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If the successful applicant has a Philosophy proposal then I will be the main supervisor, and if it is instead a Computer Science proposal then the main supervisor would be my La Trobe colleague and fellow CI Richard Skarbez @rickskarbez.bsky.social 100
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Our ARC project investigates the idea that VR is an ‘empathy machine’. The PhD project will need to relate in a broad way to the themes of the grant project. Proposals will be considered for both Philosophy PhD proposals and Computer Science PhD proposals... 100
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026📢 A La Trobe PhD scholarship attached to the ARC Discovery grant I lead is now open for expressions of interest. #philsky Details in link below, scroll down to'PRO-2414109 - Virtual Reality and Knowing What It Is Like', and more info in 🧵... www.latrobe.edu.au/research/gra...latrobe.edu.auProject-based graduate research scholarshipsproject-based scholarships page 175
Reposted by Yuri CathDr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'll be presenting some new research at the “Narrative, Imagination, and Well-Being” workshop on 25/9/26 with the Macquarie University Minds & Intelligences Research Centre, organised by the excellent @reginafabry.bsky.social Register: events.humanitix.com/workshop-nar... #philosophysky #philskyevents.humanitix.comWorkshop: Narrative, Imagination, and Well-BeingThis workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being. 044
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A very interesting set of reflections here on the relations between philosophy and therapy from philosopher turned psychotherapeutic counsellor Liz McKinnell. Would be great for students to show them how phil applies outside the classroom. #philsky liztherapydurham.wixsite.com/therapy-prac...liztherapydurham.wixsite.comYOU MAY BE DOING PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT REALISING ITBefore I became a psychotherapeutic counsellor, I spent many years as an academic philosopher. When I changed careers, I sometimes wondered how much of that old life would follow me into the therapy r... 082
Reposted by Yuri CathAidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/12/2023This was my Sistine Chapel 822840
Reposted by Yuri CathKnowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026👉️ Today at 10am! Key Researcher Philip Ebert ( @philipaebert.bsky.social ) gives a plenary lecture on "Varieties of Risk" at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/9VHxI9X #philsky #SOPhiA2026 #risk @unisalzburg.bsky.socialsophia-conference.orgVarieties of RiskPhilip Ebert University of Salzburg The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in da… 021
Reposted by Yuri CathBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Very embarrassing for me, a guy who never wants anyone to read his papers ever, but I published a paper in 2023 about how any view of achievement that sees humanoid robots (or cars or plans) as threats to human sporting achievements is a very silly view of achievement philpapers.org/rec/KARHAA-2philpapers.org 8475
Reposted by Yuri CathThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questionstheguardian.com‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questionsThe author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history 45919
Reposted by Yuri CathBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Australia is getting absolutely pantsed by Bangaldesh in the cricket, and I for one am here for it 8655
Reposted by Yuri CathCrow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026I think about this a lot. 7895102495
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Another productive day in academiastatic.klipy.comBalthazar Marmotte Plays Frog Bog Arcade GameALT: Balthazar Marmotte Plays Frog Bog Arcade Game 040
Reposted by Yuri CathDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. Such an ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day. 118939
Reposted by Yuri CathRNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 17/07/2026📢 A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world's most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.rnz.co.nzMāori word 'kaitiakitanga' named world's most beautiful by language app 0239
Reposted by Yuri CathLisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 28/07/2026A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophythink.taylorandfrancis.comPhilosophy through Art, Games, and FictionCan we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz. 27245
Reposted by Yuri CathRegina Fabry @reginafabry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I am delighted to share that the thematic collection of Topoi that I edited with the brilliant Emily Hughes is now complete. Read 20 excellent articles, plus my editorial introduction, on the “Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration.” #philsky link.springer.com/collections/...link.springer.comPossibilities and Limitations of Self-NarrationPaper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration. This special issue aims to ... 0132
Reposted by Yuri CathKnowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026👀 Job opportunity! Key Researcher, Benjamin Schnieder's research group Phlox (buff.ly/0mEPyhR) is looking to employ a 'University Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics' for an initial contract of 6 months. You'll also actively collaborate with us at KiC! Job details 👇️ #philsky #jobopp #viennajobs.univie.ac.atUniversity Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: MetaphysicsUniversity Assistant postdoctoral, AOS: Metaphysics 153
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Totally agree that diff academic disciplines taking pot shots at each other helps no one when the cuts come. Was just having fun with this person's philosophy taunting. 030
Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This stings a little until you recall that one of the things those Philosophy people just made up was Sociology. 3161
Reposted by Yuri CathJames Openshaw @openshaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026A new paper out (open access), co-authored with Chris McCarroll. We presented this at the first Eurasian Memory Meeting in Taipei (March 2024). Thanks to many for questions and comments. Nice to see it finally out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comWhat Memory Teaches: Experiential Knowledge, Imagination, and Accuracy in Remembering - Review of Philosophy and PsychologyThis paper clarifies and then indicates a conflict between, on the one hand, influential and longstanding ideas in the epistemology of imagination and, on the other, an emerging view of the accuracy c... 092