Rhys Ting
@rhysjamais.bsky.social
A former qualitative researcher in public health nutrition policy making the leap into philosophy. [MPH → MA]
3rd-culture thing & skeet bricoleur
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From the new issue:
Biochemical Functions
– Francesca Bellazzi
Abstract in alt text or free to read here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
Biochemical Functions
– Francesca Bellazzi
Abstract in alt text or free to read here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
From the new issue:
Biochemical Functions
– Francesca Bellazzi
Abstract in alt text or free to read here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
Biochemical Functions
– Francesca Bellazzi
Abstract in alt text or free to read here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
#philsci #philsky
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Next week is our special (online) Christmas Lecture with Lawrence Blum! Come along!
'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy'
17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy'
17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
News | In Parenthesis
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Next week is our special (online) Christmas Lecture with Lawrence Blum! Come along!
'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy'
17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy'
17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
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🧪I’ve just posted my new article on Substack (free, but subscribe/like). Can we ever have a biological theory of everything? Information theory might explain our purpose (to propagate our genes). Simultaneously, an energetic vision of life has emerged.
#philsky #science
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#philsky #science
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Toward a Biological Theory of Everything
Understanding the Nature of Life: The Battle for Supremacy Between Information and Energy
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December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🧪I’ve just posted my new article on Substack (free, but subscribe/like). Can we ever have a biological theory of everything? Information theory might explain our purpose (to propagate our genes). Simultaneously, an energetic vision of life has emerged.
#philsky #science
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#philsky #science
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Frank Ruda – The Courage to Be Anxious: Heidegger's "Weg/Da" Game
Online, 12 December 2025
PRISM Talk Series - Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries on Society and Mind
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/11/f...
#Philosophy #Phenomenology #Heidegger
Online, 12 December 2025
PRISM Talk Series - Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries on Society and Mind
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/11/f...
#Philosophy #Phenomenology #Heidegger
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Frank Ruda – The Courage to Be Anxious: Heidegger's "Weg/Da" Game
Online, 12 December 2025
PRISM Talk Series - Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries on Society and Mind
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/11/f...
#Philosophy #Phenomenology #Heidegger
Online, 12 December 2025
PRISM Talk Series - Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries on Society and Mind
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/11/f...
#Philosophy #Phenomenology #Heidegger
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"Vallor proposes an evocative central metaphor: AI functions less like an alien cognizer than like a mirror that both reflects and distorts our epistemic and moral practices."
New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jaehoon_lee_...
New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jaehoon_lee_...
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"Vallor proposes an evocative central metaphor: AI functions less like an alien cognizer than like a mirror that both reflects and distorts our epistemic and moral practices."
New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jaehoon_lee_...
New in review, Jaehoon Lee reviews Shannon Vallor's The AI Mirror: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jaehoon_lee_...
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Open access précis of Rahel Jaeggi book on progress in the journal Analyse & Kritik #philsky
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December 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Open access précis of Rahel Jaeggi book on progress in the journal Analyse & Kritik #philsky
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Friends & Colleagues: I am so excited to share my most recent episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series On Classical German Philosophy & Post-Kantian Thought. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, with Distinguished Prof. of German, Dr. Rolf Goebel, UAH.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjev...
#adorno
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjev...
#adorno
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Friends & Colleagues: I am so excited to share my most recent episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series On Classical German Philosophy & Post-Kantian Thought. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, with Distinguished Prof. of German, Dr. Rolf Goebel, UAH.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjev...
#adorno
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjev...
#adorno
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Dr. Willow Verkerk has recently co-edited a book titled Homo Mimeticus III, which has now been published.
Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc
You can read the accompanying interview here:
buff.ly/S8PgOYs
Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc
You can read the accompanying interview here:
buff.ly/S8PgOYs
Homo Mimeticus III | Leuven University Press
New interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine Malabou This is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Dr. Willow Verkerk has recently co-edited a book titled Homo Mimeticus III, which has now been published.
Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc
You can read the accompanying interview here:
buff.ly/S8PgOYs
Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc
You can read the accompanying interview here:
buff.ly/S8PgOYs
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New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
Happy watching!
Henriikka Hannula "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework"
YouTube video by Centre for Philosophical Studies of History
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November 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
Happy watching!
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A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
How life begins and where it might happen again
A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began. Instead of trying to replay Earth’s exact history, the issue’s authors lo...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
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What does it mean to say the animal is "poor in world" along with Heidegger? @raeandruth.bsky.social takes a close look at this, showing that his privative method has some legs. I love seeing her take on Derrida and Krell and hold her own! #philsky
Heidegger's captivated animals
Addressing Derrida's objections
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November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What does it mean to say the animal is "poor in world" along with Heidegger? @raeandruth.bsky.social takes a close look at this, showing that his privative method has some legs. I love seeing her take on Derrida and Krell and hold her own! #philsky
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My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Science Denial
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Science Denial
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November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Performativity in Science: Past and Future
Performativity is the capacity of science to exert influence on the very phenomena it seeks to describe, for instance, when an economic prediction of a recession creates expectations which, in turn, ....
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October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
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New Element in the #PhilBio series—free to download until Nov 17! Is disease an objective biological fact or a value-laden construct? Peter Takacs argues for a hybrid view that unites both sides under an evolutionary notion of dysfunction👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci #evosky
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New Element in the #PhilBio series—free to download until Nov 17! Is disease an objective biological fact or a value-laden construct? Peter Takacs argues for a hybrid view that unites both sides under an evolutionary notion of dysfunction👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci #evosky
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Issue #85 is now live! With writing on materialism, analytic philosophy, the paradox of clothing, and the sublime. Dive in~ #philosophy #philsky epochemagazine.org/issues/85/
October 2025 | Epoché Magazine
A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly
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October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Issue #85 is now live! With writing on materialism, analytic philosophy, the paradox of clothing, and the sublime. Dive in~ #philosophy #philsky epochemagazine.org/issues/85/
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What happens when you take a handful of scientists and philosophers, stick them in a 500-year-old church in the middle of Tuscany, and ask them to redefine "intelligence"? I had the transformative experience of finding out. nautil.us/what-is-inte...
What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence? At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What happens when you take a handful of scientists and philosophers, stick them in a 500-year-old church in the middle of Tuscany, and ask them to redefine "intelligence"? I had the transformative experience of finding out. nautil.us/what-is-inte...
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Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
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In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
After Marilynn Johnson's talk this Thursday, our research seminar will already continue next week (30.10) with @hhenriikka.bsky.social's online talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework". More info and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
All welcome!
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework
www.oulu.fi
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
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New book drop 📚 Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
Our visual feature created with authors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Ling Li details life inside huge scam factories using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
👉 scam-factories-life-inside....
Our visual feature created with authors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Ling Li details life inside huge scam factories using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
👉 scam-factories-life-inside....
October 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New book drop 📚 Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
Our visual feature created with authors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Ling Li details life inside huge scam factories using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
👉 scam-factories-life-inside....
Our visual feature created with authors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Ling Li details life inside huge scam factories using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
👉 scam-factories-life-inside....
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October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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New publication by Leo Bich and Laura Menatti in Biological Theory! 🧬
The paper explores homeostasis and health, challenging the view of regulation as stabilization and proposing one focused on the capacity for change.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The paper explores homeostasis and health, challenging the view of regulation as stabilization and proposing one focused on the capacity for change.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change - Biological Theory
All living systems need to regulate themselves and coordinate the activities of their parts to maintain themselves under changing conditions. Historically, homeostasis is one of the central ideas that...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New publication by Leo Bich and Laura Menatti in Biological Theory! 🧬
The paper explores homeostasis and health, challenging the view of regulation as stabilization and proposing one focused on the capacity for change.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The paper explores homeostasis and health, challenging the view of regulation as stabilization and proposing one focused on the capacity for change.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨 New paperback alert! 🚨
Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone, brings refreshing new insights to Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil's philosophies and their continued relevance.
Order now: https://bit.ly/47ng3AI
Read a preview: https://bit.ly/476hrXq
#philsky
Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone, brings refreshing new insights to Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil's philosophies and their continued relevance.
Order now: https://bit.ly/47ng3AI
Read a preview: https://bit.ly/476hrXq
#philsky
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🚨 New paperback alert! 🚨
Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone, brings refreshing new insights to Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil's philosophies and their continued relevance.
Order now: https://bit.ly/47ng3AI
Read a preview: https://bit.ly/476hrXq
#philsky
Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone, brings refreshing new insights to Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil's philosophies and their continued relevance.
Order now: https://bit.ly/47ng3AI
Read a preview: https://bit.ly/476hrXq
#philsky
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D'Angelo is dead at age 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer
D’Angelo Dead At 51
Terrible, shocking news: The great soul artist D’Angelo, one of the most gifted and mythic musicians of his generation, has reportedly passed away. TMZ reports that pancreatic cancer was his cause of ...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
D'Angelo is dead at age 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer
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Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...
Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...