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Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
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Philosopher and Pro-Rector at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 7h
Philosophers are funny because they'll go all out refuting a claim like "Scientists before and after a revolution might be said to live in different worlds" but just shrug at claims like "Names are magic words that help me know Nixon is necessarily not a robot and kitties necessarily aren't demons."
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Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social · 3d
📣JOB ALERT📣
Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 18h
This way! www.timcrane.com/uploads/2/5/...
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 18h
Thanks! Will read it
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 18h
Thanks ... this was about 20 years ago, I'm not sitting on the fence anymore!
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19h
He certainly isn't :)
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19h
Hey not all of us!
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19h
CEU now in the top 5 Austrian universities, according to the Times -- three of those 5 are medical schools, and the other one is the University of Vienna, the largest German-speaking university in the world @weareceu.bsky.social
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19h
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Erstmals österreichische Uni unter Top 100
In der soeben veröffentlichten neuen Ausgabe des „Times Higher Education World University Ranking“ hat mit der Universität Wien erstmals eine österreichische Hochschule einen Platz in den Top 100 erre...
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?
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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 1d
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 15d
Landscape. Study after Nature, 1876
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Landscape. Study after Nature
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 1d
Very powerful piece
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 1d
My piano teacher said to me, 'you don't disguise your mistakes by playing quietly' and I realised she was right about this, and also that it applies to learning a language: it's very tempting to mumble when you don't know if it is das or der....
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d
‘The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year… Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade’
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America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 24d
New post-doctoral position at Notre Dame
Core analytic/logic/phil math. philjobs.org/job/show/29622
2 year position, $75K annual salary plus $15K expense account. Please apply! (I am chairing this search.)
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 5d
This Isabelle Faust Telemann album is really quite something
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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 5d
This is so gloriously embarrassing
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7d
no excuse for being this bad
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5d
When Renoir's portrait of the politician Jacques-Eugène Spuller was exhibited in 1877, critics were puzzled: 'The drawing of the features in the portrait of our friend Spuller lacks solidity, however his expression is intense, the eyes think, the flesh is alive.'
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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 7d
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social has organized a conference for today in honor of our colleague David Weberman who has recently retired from @weareceu.bsky.social. Congrats, David! The program includes talks by @timcrane.bsky.social, Ferenc Huoranszki and Matt Dougherty. More here:
Interpretation and Understanding
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 7d
Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 7d
This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 8d
1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 7d
This is a great paper
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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 7d
Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 7d
Brilliant. Suggest that Voralberg should be Tasmania and Wien the ACT, then you don’t have to split WA