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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 3d

Small brain: most counterfactuals are false
Waking brain: all counterfactuals are true
Glowing brain: all counterfactuals are meaningless
Galaxy brain: P⊃Q

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PRBG_Aesthetics @prbgaesthetics.bsky.social · 3d

Still Life (2005)

Developed by Microïds Canada.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 3d

Today I had the strangest nightmare: I was doing stand-up comedy, but all I could talk about were the content of my articles.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 3d

On the occasion of my birthday, my good friends have decided to indulge me with my favorite avant-garde black metal album

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 11d

Reminder that we are seeking submissions to a rad special issue! Send us your coolest papers that apply a feminist lens to the mind and to cognitive science! Deadline is January 15. #philsky hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia

Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...

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Oskar Matute @oskarmatute.bsky.social · 9d

Los pisos turísticos ilegales no pueden seguir campando a sus anchas mientras las instituciones se limitan a pedir y rogar a las plataformas.

Hay que prohibirlos por ley. El martes tenemos la oportunidad de empezar a poner fin a este negocio que gentrifica los barrios.

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OSKAR MATUTE explica la Ley para prohibir anunciar y contratar alojamientos turísticos ilegales

YouTube video by EH Bildu Congreso - Senado

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Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social · 16d

For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).

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Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers

Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 NEWS! Our senior member Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social has a new book chapter out!

📖 Chapter: Representing or Shaping Reality? What Class Can Teach About Woman
📚 Book: New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering – Volume 2
🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Congratulations!

New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering - Volume 2

This book develops novel connections between conceptual engineering and a variety of fields and methods in analytic philosophy.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 11d

We’re already in Seville for the 11th Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy. Find us giving talks or debating arguably interesanting bullshit over coffee! eventos.us.es/124755/detai...

XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA). This event aims to bring together scholars working within the Analytic tradition of Philosophy. The 2025 edition will take place at t...

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Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 11d

Off to Seville for the Congress of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy today — a very rich programme of talks over three days spanning many areas of philosophy.

XI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica

XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA). This event aims to bring together scholars working within the Analytic tradition of Philosophy. The 2025 edition will take place at t...

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Marco Portillo @raciondeser.bsky.social · 11d

Sevilla now ❤️

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 11d

The XI SEFA Congress starts!

We’re proud to see so many METIS members: Javier González de Prado, Losner Briones, Paloma Atencia Linares, Marco Portillo, Neri Marsili, Umberto Rivieccio, Ignacio Sánchez Moreno, Laura Delgado-Verges, Laura Delgado, Claudia Picazo & Sophie Keeling.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Darío! This sounds very reasonable! I take note

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 13d

👋 NEWS! 🚨

Senior member Dario Mortini @dariomortini.bsky.social , Maria de Maeztu postdoc @ub.edu @logos-group.bsky.social , has just published a new article – congratulations! 🧠✨

➡️“Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion”
📖 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - Erkenntnis

Erkenntnis - Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A...

link.springer.com

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks! Noted!

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 17d

Useful!

Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 17d

How the hell does one prepare for a PhD viva?

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Marco Portillo @raciondeser.bsky.social · 19d

Milan now ❤️🇵🇸

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Spanish Revolution @spanishrevolution.bsky.social · 20d

Aborto prohibido en 22 estados, activistas perseguidos, prensa domesticada, gerrymandering extremo y juicios arbitrarios.
EE.UU. cumple la mayoría de indicadores de una dictadura, aunque mantenga urnas y tribunales.
La fachada sigue en pie, pero el régimen ya es autoritario.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 24d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share that the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History is out! And humbled to see my article “Women in South Sudan” included among entries written by so many African Studies scholars that I look up to 🙏🏿

Link: oxfordre.com/africanhisto...

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 25d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 27d

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4mf5i7O

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters

Spain's La Vuelta cycling race was halted in Madrid on Sunday afternoon as cyclists were entering the city after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters in the Spanish capital's centre.

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Mundo Saharaui @carlos1951.bsky.social · 26d

Israel ha cometido genocidio en la Franja de Gaza, concluye Comisión de la ONU | Independent investigation – United Nations Human Rights noteolvidesdelsaharaoccidental.org/israel-ha-co...

Israel ha cometido genocidio en la Franja de Gaza, concluye Comisión de la ONU | Independent investigation – United Nations Human Rights

GINEBRA – Israel ha cometido genocidio contra los palestinos en la Franja de Gaza, afirmó hoy en un nuevo informe la Comisión Internacional Independiente de Investigación de la ONU sobre el Territo…

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