Justin Caouette, Ph.D.
@justincaouette.bsky.social
Philosophy Prof | Research: Ethics; Free Will; Agency; Virtue Ethics; Moral Responsibility; Punishment; Enhancement; Moral Obligation; Moral Psychology; Emotion; A.I. Ethics; Metaphysics; Epistemology.
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? features in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers
www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com
My interview with Cliff over at ‘What is it like to be a Philosopher?’ (2022)
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What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court #philsky #philosophy #socialontology
What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court
<p><span>Do judgment-aggregation paradoxes prompt social scientists to posit irreducible “group agents”? We test this claim using the U.S. Supreme Court’s exper
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December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court #philsky #philosophy #socialontology
What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children?
#philsky #philosophy #education
#philsky #philosophy #education
What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children? (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method," said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on Plato's theory of forms, after taking part in a demonstrat...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children?
#philsky #philosophy #education
#philsky #philosophy #education
The Central APA program is out and I'll be giving a talk on Saturday morning at 9am. I'm eager to reconnect with some friends I haven't seen in years and meet up with others I don't get to see often. Although Chicago in February isn't perfect, I'm sure it will be a fantastic time. #philsky
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The Central APA program is out and I'll be giving a talk on Saturday morning at 9am. I'm eager to reconnect with some friends I haven't seen in years and meet up with others I don't get to see often. Although Chicago in February isn't perfect, I'm sure it will be a fantastic time. #philsky
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For those applying to the visiting fellow or postdoctoral positions and unable to access our site, the direct links to apply can be found below.
Visiting Fellow - https://ow.ly/uIna50XBrjT
Postdoctoral Fellow - https://ow.ly/uc9T50XBrjU
Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
Visiting Fellow - https://ow.ly/uIna50XBrjT
Postdoctoral Fellow - https://ow.ly/uc9T50XBrjU
Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
For those applying to the visiting fellow or postdoctoral positions and unable to access our site, the direct links to apply can be found below.
Visiting Fellow - https://ow.ly/uIna50XBrjT
Postdoctoral Fellow - https://ow.ly/uc9T50XBrjU
Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
Visiting Fellow - https://ow.ly/uIna50XBrjT
Postdoctoral Fellow - https://ow.ly/uc9T50XBrjU
Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
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My colleague @proflos.bsky.social and I have a new publication: "What's So Great About Consistency?"
Have a look!
#philsky
philpapers.org/rec/MARWSG
Have a look!
#philsky
philpapers.org/rec/MARWSG
Carlos Mariscal & David Rondel, What's So Great About Consistency? - PhilPapers
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December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My colleague @proflos.bsky.social and I have a new publication: "What's So Great About Consistency?"
Have a look!
#philsky
philpapers.org/rec/MARWSG
Have a look!
#philsky
philpapers.org/rec/MARWSG
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Latest papers: Pia Campeggani, Marco Viola & Marco Marini presents experimental evidence that gender double standards significantly shape evaluative perceptions of men and women professors among philosophy students in Italian universities #philsky #philpsy doi.org/10.1080/0951...
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Latest papers: Pia Campeggani, Marco Viola & Marco Marini presents experimental evidence that gender double standards significantly shape evaluative perceptions of men and women professors among philosophy students in Italian universities #philsky #philpsy doi.org/10.1080/0951...
What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court #philsky #philosophy #socialontology
What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court
<p><span>Do judgment-aggregation paradoxes prompt social scientists to posit irreducible “group agents”? We test this claim using the U.S. Supreme Court’s exper
papers.ssrn.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court #philsky #philosophy #socialontology
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. x.com/nathanjrobin... #AI #education #university #PhilosophySky #philsky
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. x.com/nathanjrobin... #AI #education #university #PhilosophySky #philsky
Nathan J Robinson on X: "Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: https://t.co/TAUD4R7gxK https://t.co/phfbEFv0OO" / X
Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: https://t.co/TAUD4R7gxK https://t.co/phfbEFv0OO
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December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. x.com/nathanjrobin... #AI #education #university #PhilosophySky #philsky
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. x.com/nathanjrobin... #AI #education #university #PhilosophySky #philsky
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"Parasocial Relationships With #AI Inspire Cambridge Dictionary Word Of The Year — And Warnings From Experts": starmagazine.com/parasocial-r... #ethics #tech #health
Parasocial Relationships With AI Inspire Cambridge Dictionary Word Of The Year — And Warnings From Experts
The Cambridge Dictionary 2025 Word of the Year is “parasocial,” a term long used to describe the one-sided relationship between an obsessed fan and a celebrity, but which is now used to describe one-s...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Parasocial Relationships With #AI Inspire Cambridge Dictionary Word Of The Year — And Warnings From Experts": starmagazine.com/parasocial-r... #ethics #tech #health
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My book *Knowing What It Is Like* is 1 year old today! 🎂A couple of highlights from its first year out in the world:
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My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
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December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My book *Knowing What It Is Like* is 1 year old today! 🎂A couple of highlights from its first year out in the world:
#philsky
#philsky
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New paper of mine—I’ve been a huge fan of Rob Hopkins’s paper “How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony” (J. Phil 2011) since it came out. This is my attempt to slightly tweak and polish his “Unuseability Pessimism” to harness its full power.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New paper of mine—I’ve been a huge fan of Rob Hopkins’s paper “How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony” (J. Phil 2011) since it came out. This is my attempt to slightly tweak and polish his “Unuseability Pessimism” to harness its full power.
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🚨 Call for papers: Close personal relationships and AI technologies.
Great opportunity for global perspectives on the philosophical implications of Close Personal Relationships and AI-driven technologies (from Chatbots to robots). Please share! (Reach out if interested).
#AIethics / #philtech
Great opportunity for global perspectives on the philosophical implications of Close Personal Relationships and AI-driven technologies (from Chatbots to robots). Please share! (Reach out if interested).
#AIethics / #philtech
Global Philosophy: Global Perspectives on Technology and Close Personal Relationships (CPR)
This special issue invites globally diverse perspectives on the moral, cultural, and technological dimensions of close personal relationships. In particular, we invite authors to consider variants on ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-n...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sid...
ocrampal.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-n...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery
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November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Our seventh @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium talk is Friday 11/21 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Brad Armour-Garb from the University at Albany—SUNY will argue “In Defense of the Actuality of Legal Gluts”. www.unlv.edu/event/defens...
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Our seventh @UNLV.edu #Philosophy #Colloquium talk is Friday 11/21 at 3pm in BEH 107. Prof. Brad Armour-Garb from the University at Albany—SUNY will argue “In Defense of the Actuality of Legal Gluts”. www.unlv.edu/event/defens...
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New book - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen Darwall
#philsky #moralphil
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#philsky #moralphil
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Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Cambridge Core - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
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November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New book - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen Darwall
#philsky #moralphil
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#philsky #moralphil
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I have recently been thinking about whether deep self views can help with some of the tricky issues surrounding autonomy and responsibility in the context of mental I'll health. My pessimistic preliminary conclusion is No. I'll be presenting on this on Friday.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
Philosophy Special Interest Group Annual Conference 2025: Autonomy and responsibility in psychiatry and mental health care
Detail page.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I have recently been thinking about whether deep self views can help with some of the tricky issues surrounding autonomy and responsibility in the context of mental I'll health. My pessimistic preliminary conclusion is No. I'll be presenting on this on Friday.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
Reposted by Justin Caouette, Ph.D.
I have recently been thinking about whether deep self views can help with some of the tricky issues surrounding autonomy and responsibility in the context of mental I'll health. My pessimistic preliminary conclusion is No. I'll be presenting on this on Friday.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
Philosophy Special Interest Group Annual Conference 2025: Autonomy and responsibility in psychiatry and mental health care
Detail page.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Seven exciting free-access book reviews in our #vol38issue8! Follow the thread to know more #philsky #booksky #philpsy
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Seven exciting free-access book reviews in our #vol38issue8! Follow the thread to know more #philsky #booksky #philpsy
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