Matt Jope
@mattjope.bsky.social
Philosophy postdoc at the University of Aberdeen. Interested in epistemology of testimony, trust, risk, AI.
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Matt Jope
@mattjope.bsky.social
· Jun 11
Matthew Jope, Trust, Risk, and Mere Vulnerability - PhilPapers
Many philosophers of trust endorse the idea that trust is inherently risky. This raises the question of how exactly we ought to understand the relevant notion of risk. Should we understand ...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
I am just now learning that Gil Scott-Heron did the voiceover for the "You've been tangoed" ads in the 90s
‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads
‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I am just now learning that Gil Scott-Heron did the voiceover for the "You've been tangoed" ads in the 90s
And just like that, the notes could, in fact, note the noted.
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
And just like that, the notes could, in fact, note the noted.
On a train down to England and noticed random guy sitting next to me is writing a paper on truthmaker semantics. We are legion.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
On a train down to England and noticed random guy sitting next to me is writing a paper on truthmaker semantics. We are legion.
Everyone should be allowed one turn each on the Large Hadron Collider, just to check the results for themselves
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Everyone should be allowed one turn each on the Large Hadron Collider, just to check the results for themselves
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Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)
We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.
There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
September 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)
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Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...
link.springer.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY
July 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KOKO A DULL BOY
New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything
July 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New study shows that given infinite time monkeys crippled by lack of meaning and purpose in life, refusing to type anything
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As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.
❓Who does Nigel Farage work for?
Since 2024 election:
£93,904 — MP salary (8.7%)
£981,173 — outside income (91%)
GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k)
www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...
Since 2024 election:
£93,904 — MP salary (8.7%)
£981,173 — outside income (91%)
GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k)
www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...
July 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.
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My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...
July 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
My current not-very-informed-but-its-the-best-I-got take on the electorate in rich western democracies right now is that they really really hated post-pandemic inflation and did the typical thermostatic public opinion thing where they just blamed whoever was in power for that. So far so normal...
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"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts
The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. Against this simplistic picture, we emphasise that misplaced trust in expertise plays a crucial ro...
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation
This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This paper is now out in PPR. In it, I argue against the widely held assumption that trust is inherently risky, showing that we can often be 'merely' vulnerable, where this need not entail an associated risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals:
"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals:
"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"The BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy
In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In case of emergency, play jazz flute to your ventriloquist dummy
Inspired by the success of the 'strictest headteacher in Britain' I am henceforth committing myself to becoming Britain's meanest postdoc
June 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Inspired by the success of the 'strictest headteacher in Britain' I am henceforth committing myself to becoming Britain's meanest postdoc
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Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519...
If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...
@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...
@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study
braiduk.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Happy to share that our Landscape Study on Responsible AI has just been published: zenodo.org/records/1519...
If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...
@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
If you can't be bothered to read the whole thing, we even summarized it for you: braiduk.org/the-responsi...
@braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
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🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
June 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
philpapers.org/rec/JOPTRA
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