Yuri Cath
@ywcath.bsky.social
Philosopher at La Trobe Uni (views mine) in Naarm/Melbourne. Thinking about practical knowledge, knowledge of experience, and other stuff I lack. Originally from NZ. He/him
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/ycath
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Yuri Cath
@ywcath.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Knowing What It Is Like
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowing What It Is Like
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My first book is out! And you can download it for free for the next 4 weeks. It's on knowing what it is like to do something (what kind of knowledge is this, how do we acquire it, and when if ever can we share it with other people). #philsky #philosophy #epistemology doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...
#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...
#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...
#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...
#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy
Mark Schroeder has joined BlueSky #philsky
I'm a philosopher interested in how our understanding of what it is to be a person can shape our understanding of the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and conflict of all kinds. Looking for new ways to connect three years after quitting X.
#FirstDayOnBluesky
#FirstDayOnBluesky
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Mark Schroeder has joined BlueSky #philsky
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Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy
#philsky
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Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy - LSE Review of Books
Dogwhistles & Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul & Safe Havens for Hate by Tamar Mitts explore how extremism thrives online & the limits of content moderation.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy
#philsky
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#philsky
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This week at The Junkyard: A post by Raquel Krempel junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
What is it like to have aphantasia? — The Junkyard
A post by Raquel Krempel Imagine an apple. Nothing happened? You probably have aphantasia. This is a common way of introducing and thinking about aphantasia. On the web, images such as Figure 1 (bel...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This week at The Junkyard: A post by Raquel Krempel junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/11...
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The Call for Papers for the 2026 Formal Epistemology Workshop is up now! Come join us in June in beautiful Boulder! Deadline for submission: January 15. Please spread far and wide!
Formal Epistemology Workshop
The Formal Epistemology Workshop 2026 will be hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Philosophy as part of the CU Boulder Morris Colloquium Series.
It will take place at the Univ...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The Call for Papers for the 2026 Formal Epistemology Workshop is up now! Come join us in June in beautiful Boulder! Deadline for submission: January 15. Please spread far and wide!
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Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.
The social origins of consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the
ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness.
We offer three arguments...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.
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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.
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We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky
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🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What motivates mental fictionalism?
Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm happy to report that I've been promoted to Associate Professor!
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm happy to report that I've been promoted to Associate Professor!
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
A big thanks to my referees for their time in reviewing my work, to many different colleagues at La Trobe for their support, and to the many great mentors in philosophy I've had over the years.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Throwback to the best carved pumpkin I ever carved. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Throwback to the best carved pumpkin I ever carved. Happy Halloween!
I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I wanted a Cartesian ghost costume this Halloween, but I couldn't find one anywhere.
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Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.
Philosophers Among Recent Discovery Grant Winners - Daily Nous
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their p...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.
Stoked to see that the ARC Discovery Project on which I am lead CI got funded!! 🎉My awesome co-CIs are Richard Skarbez (LTU), Mary Walker (LTU), Margot Strohminger (ACU), and Tim Bayne (Monash). We have exciting plans incl international collaborations, a conference, a post-doc, and a public event.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Stoked to see that the ARC Discovery Project on which I am lead CI got funded!! 🎉My awesome co-CIs are Richard Skarbez (LTU), Mary Walker (LTU), Margot Strohminger (ACU), and Tim Bayne (Monash). We have exciting plans incl international collaborations, a conference, a post-doc, and a public event.
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Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Pleased to see that this is out because it tackles a question that keeps us all up at night: if we're looking after 100 kids, we're certain 99 of them did something wrong, and we seem to have individualised evidence to believe each kid is guilty, what do we do?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rxx4x...
A haunted house for academics consisting of nothing but darkness and a cruel sounding voice repeating every beltting reviewer 2 comment you ever received on a paper.
A haunted house for academics but every room is just another committee you have to serve on before you can leave.
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A haunted house for academics consisting of nothing but darkness and a cruel sounding voice repeating every beltting reviewer 2 comment you ever received on a paper.
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The Indispensability of Intuitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Indispensability of Intuitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Free from 22nd October 2025 - 5th November 2025
#philsky #pistemology
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I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in Philosophy
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Research Associate in PhilosophyVacancy Reference: 184814Salary: Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum We have an opportunity for a Research Associ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
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#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
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#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
LLMs can be harmful, even when not making stuff up
This is a guest post by Joe Slater (University of Glasgow). Provided by author It is well known that chatbots powered by LLMs – ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. – sometimes make things up. People have s…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
Looking forward to giving this talk later this week for the philosophers at the Uni of Melbourne on virtual reality and 'what it is like' knowledge.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Looking forward to giving this talk later this week for the philosophers at the Uni of Melbourne on virtual reality and 'what it is like' knowledge.
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I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
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October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
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Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; thomasmetzinger.com) will give a talk titled “Introduction into the Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) research program” on Friday, Oct 17, 15:30-17:20 Taipei time.