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Richard Pettigrew
@wiglet1981.bsky.social
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Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

https://richardpettigrew.com/

Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For? .. more

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 17h
maybe i am going insane

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 21h
New blogpost: Formal Methods in
Philosophy.

This is an entry I wrote five years ago for a handbook, but it hasn’t come out yet, so I figured it might be worth posting here. It’s sort of a paean to formal methods in philosophy. The idea was to give a sense of the variety and power of these methods.
Formal methods in philosophy
This is an entry I wrote five years ago for a handbook, but it hasn’t come out yet, so I figured it might be worth posting here.
open.substack.com

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d
Ha! I saw your original post just after seeing the Tate post elsewhere and thought, oh boy did Liam call that

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d
Also, it turns out nothing is set in Prestonpans, but apparently the new Frankenstein is partly filmed at Gosford House, which is just along the road.
Scene from Frankenstein filmed on the steps of Gosford House. A grand stone staircase with people in period dress.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d
I can’t figure out whether they just found the name so utterly perfect they couldn’t resist using it and completely changing the reality or something else. I wouldn’t have thought it was such a nice name in the first place?

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d
A Castle for Christmas is set in ‘Dunbar’, which is near where I grew and it’s where my mum taught primary school for thirty years. However, in the film, a town of 10,000 people situated next to a nuclear power station has become a hamlet of 300 people with quaint stone bridges over babbling brooks.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d
A movie that takes place where you're from

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Chad, Remover of Belkans @hoffnungobliteratr.bsky.social · 1d

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d
😆

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, thanks so much for showing me this "Art". Just what I needed - to be drawn more deeply into the World of Illusion.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d
A movie that takes place where you're from
Movie poster for CRY BABY (1990)

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d
any filmmakers on here interested in remaking Falling Down (1993) but instead of a traffic jam on a hot day the catalyst is trying to log in to editorial manager on literally any sort of day whatsoever?

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d
The final sentence here is just pure poetry

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d
And through it aaaaall
She offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I’m right or wrong

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
Hey look at that

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 2d
Nice example of Simpson’s Paradox in this post.

Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but

(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.

blogs.fangraphs.com/your-final-p...
Your Final Pre-Robo-Zone Umpire Accuracy Update
This is the last time we’ll get to judge umpire accuracy without the ABS challenge system. Where do umpires stand, and how might we expect their accuracy to change once the robots get involved?
blogs.fangraphs.com

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 2d
Shamelessly nicked from Kris McDaniel over on Facebook: the book review that will make your weekend.
Watch Honest Review of Perspectives on Pragmatism Book on Amazon Live
Dive into the world of pragmatism with The Munro’s! Discover why this book's unique perspective, from classical to contemporary, is a must-read for curious minds and project seekers.
www.amazon.com

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Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 2d
Between Wilmington and Lullington, November 2021

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Muppet Ewa Island @ewacat.bsky.social · 3d
Is there a collective noun for devils

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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 3d
Heron has arrived. On the River Kelvin in Glasgow, below Belmont St bridge. #birds
Heron stands on a rock in the river Heron, wings outstretched, about to land on a rock in the river. Heron, wings outstretched, about to land on a rock in the river.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d
66% decline in five years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kent bug splat survey shows 'troubling' fall in flying insects - BBC News
A new 'splat' survey shows bug numbers have plummeted, but experts say this can be reversed.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 3d
"Domestic cats finally crossed the Alps with the Roman conquest of Gaul"

Huh. I never really thought about the connections between animal populations and military campaigns before

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d
accuracy-first epiceries
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4d
it's really fun to try to make collective decisions with your colleagues when you're in the "collective decisionmaking is formally impossible" field

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 4d
This is a very real ad I had to see and now so do you.
inexplicable cake stand with golden 3-legged (LEGGED) base and blown glass clown face dome that's surprisingly punchable

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 4d
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4d
Charles Darwin discovered that worms can't hear the bassoon

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6d
I’m in my mid-forties and, during my entire adulthood, the relentless haranguing, stereotyping, scapegoating, chastising, bullying of Muslims has been a central part of British public life.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d
Cannot adequately express to outsiders how insane it is to think the UK is characterised by "Islamoleftism". Just, absolutely, not a thing, not at all representative of our governing ideology, nor of the ideology of the left factions that exist as any serious presence within our politics.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 6d
Beautiful cover for Carlotta Pavese's forthcoming book