Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

3.5K followers 1K following 1K posts

Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈 he/him https://richardpettigrew.com/ Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For? .. more

Videos

Philosophy 39%

Computer science 14%

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard Pettigrew

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

22 200 1K

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22h

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

19 11 110

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out the trick is:

Step 1: come to Albania
Step 2: sit in town square
Step 3: profit

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Small? Yes. Fearsome? Also, yes.

1 12

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Iain Davidson, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 1 more Dorothy Bishop, Iain Davidson, Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard Pettigrew

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

210 2.5K 15K

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Sarandë cat performs Fosse dance routine

Tabby cat with one paw forward in the middle of the Magic To Do routine from Pippin

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

I talk about this a bit in my review of Laurie’s book in Mind, where I’m a bit sceptical. But I don’t know of anyone who’s pursued it positively drive.google.com/file/d/1StGY...

1 2

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

apparently Wyatt Earp could have watched a Disney cartoon while eating a cheeseburger

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Reposted by Dana Howard

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

4 3 25

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 2d

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

5 19 400

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Peter Stewart, Justin Lewis , and 4 more Andrew Scott, Peter Stewart, Justin Lewis, Julia M. Wright, Richard Pettigrew, Larry W. Hunter, Patrick Stokes

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

390 210 2.6K

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

4 33 200

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

Isn’t it wonderful? Had a really lovely day there and at Perast, which also hosted multiple glorious cats

1 1

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

Kotor promised cats, and Kotor delivered

Mysterious black cat sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background, clearly enjoying the limelight as Halloween approaches

Tabby cat hunched and sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background.

Half tabby half orange face with tail like a lemur’s curled in front of them. Looking expectantly but in vain at my pizza slice (out of shot)

1 16

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

A view into the Bjelasica mountains from the Belgrade-Bar night train. Officially, we weren’t supposed to see this, as the train was due to arrive ten minutes after sunrise, but it was five hours delayed, so we passed the whole Montenegrin section in daylight.

A mountainous scene with trees in the foreground and mist, and snow covered peaks in the background

1 4 46

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 5d

And I thought America took the Rawls hagiography too far.

3 16

Reposted by Michael Morris, Ingrid Robeyns, Richard Pettigrew , and 2 more Michael Morris, Ingrid Robeyns, Richard Pettigrew, Elisa Freschi, David Spurrett

Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 8d

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

Memorial Event for Helen De Cruz - Daily Nous

This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46. Remembered not merely as a professor, but as a source of assistance, advice, and kindness for o...

dailynous.com

1 29 89

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew, James A. Benn

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 10d

I wonder if people would understand Plato better if we translated the names also.

If so, get ready for a dialogue about rhetoric between Vigor and Powerful Salvation with interjections by Colt and Beautiful Fame.

2 4 16

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 12d

A moment of Autumnal calm, Loch Tarff #Scotland #Abertarff #FortAugustus www.damianshields.com

10 57 470

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew, David S. Tanenhaus

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 12d

Nature is healing

65 1.3K 5.3K

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

shrieeek.computer @beeep.computer · 12d

Only record of night herons taking an L

2 10

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations, David!

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation.

5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025

This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!

(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

23 47

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 16d

guessing my paper on the necessary and sufficient conditions for coolness, and my explication of coolness_1, coolness_2, and coolness* put me in pole position

1 5

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Martin Paul Eve, Rebecca Tushnet , and 2 more Brigitte Nerlich, Martin Paul Eve, Rebecca Tushnet, Richard Pettigrew, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

kelsey jaffer 👻 @kelatonin.bsky.social · 16d

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 16d

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

www.colorado.edu

28 1.5K 3.4K

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew, Karen L. Cox

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

it's actually really interesting me that no one who goes on about reaching people through social media has even tried to engage on tiktok or instagram.

18 77 1.8K

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21d

Googling are toe prints unique like finger prints:

“There are a few famous cases in which criminals have been caught by using toeprints. The first was at a Scottish bakery in 1952 when a safe-cracker was identified by the footprints he left in flour.”

2 2 19

Reposted by Richard Pettigrew

Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 27d

[at dinner with Tony the Tiger]
"Tony, can you say grace?"
"Yes, but it takes me a bit longer than everyone else".

4 40 190

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 27d

that serve to explain large ranges of phenomena. That disposition sort of accounts for where I landed in philosophy of maths, and epistemology, and increasingly where I land in ethics and political philosophy. I think it would be quite hard to argue me out of that, but I’m not sure.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 27d

think about the big guiding questions. I wonder whether we have quite deep seated dispositions that draws us to certain answers to the big questions, and then we can be moved around within those? I have quite a deep seated disposition towards parsimony and unity. I want rather few theoretical posits