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Nigel Warburton
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Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books. .. more

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Nigel Warburton is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of books in the genre, but he has also written academic works in aesthetics and applied ethics. .. more

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 10h
And the dog ate his homework?
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The White House said that bruising on President Donald Trump’s left hand stemmed from him hitting it on the signing table during a Board of Peace event in Davos, Switzerland, earlier in the day. https://cnn.it/4r9hMkp

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CNN @cnn.com · 16h
The White House said that bruising on President Donald Trump’s left hand stemmed from him hitting it on the signing table during a Board of Peace event in Davos, Switzerland, earlier in the day. https://cnn.it/4r9hMkp

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d
A better version of- the other one makes it looks as if I cut and pasted ‘ego’ (because that’s the search term I used in photos)

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d
How do ordinary people end up aiming guns at people’s eyes? @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...
Everyday philosophy: How do ordinary people become evil?
Dehumanisation, obedience and lack of empathy: what drives people to commit the worst acts imaginable
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 3d
Should someone maybe adjust the dose?

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 5d
They’ve got us trapped and they don’t care that we’ve only just got our heads above the rivers of shit they’re flooding our lives with

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Everyday philosophy: How to stop AI slop from killing the internet
Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 6d
"Perception is a process of inference, not an account of ‘reality'"

Anil Seth (@anilseth.bsky.social) in conversation with Nigel Warburton (@nigelwarburton.bsky.social).

#philsky #neuroscience #philofperception

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Perception is a process of inference, not an account of ‘reality’ | Psyche Videos
Anil Seth explains why our conscious experience is a world we build from the inside out, rather than from the outside in
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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 7d
In this Aeon Original video interview, Nigel Warburton speaks with the neuroscientist and Aeon author Anil Seth, winner of the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, about what consciousness is and how our understanding of it has shifted in recent decades @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Perception is a process of inference, not an account of ‘reality’ | Psyche Videos
Anil Seth explains why our conscious experience is a world we build from the inside out, rather than from the outside in
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 7d
How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more
When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 7d
Congratulations to Aeon author Anil Seth, winner of the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition for his essay, ‘The Mythology of Conscious AI’. In this Aeon essay, Seth approaches the study of consciousness not by asking why it exists, but by asking how it works
The hard problem of consciousness is a distraction from the real one | Aeon Essays
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 8d
On Slop and Shittification - my column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/everyday-phi... h/t Cory Doctorow
Everyday philosophy: How to stop AI slop from killing the internet
Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 8d
I really like the way you gently show him the way out of his ahistorical fly bottle

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations to Philosophy Bites interviewee, Aeon essayist, and author of Being You, Anil Seth, for winning this major prize for his essay on AI and Consciousness berggruen.org/eu/news/2025...
Berggruen Institute
Ideas for a Changing World.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 8d
1/ I am truly honoured and completely delighted to have won the 2025 Berggruen Essay Prize (English), for my submission “The Mythology of Conscious AI” @berggruen.org @noemamag.com berggruen.org/eu/news/2025...
Berggruen Institute
Ideas for a Changing World.
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 9d
great review of Anthony Gottlieb's book on Wittgenstein by Nigel Warburton in the TLS (paywall) @philosophybites.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h...
His critique of pure raisin
Most biographies and memoirs of Ludwig Wittgenstein show, rather than say, that he could be a jerk. Some writers excuse his behaviour because he was so clearly a genius, others because he had a specia...
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 9d
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 9d
"The more automated the world becomes, the more people crave connection they can trust. This is true in every industry. People want honesty. They want perspective grounded in lived experience. #Trust has become one of the rarest forms of capital." #AIEthics

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Staying Creative and Human in the Age of AI
If AI has taught me anything, it’s the danger of drifting into mental autopilot.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 10d
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY 💡 Read @nigelwarburton.bsky.social's column on BBC's Waiting for the Out: the hit new drama on the dehumanising life behind bars
The philosophy behind the BBC’s Waiting for the Out
Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 10d
The philosophy behind Waiting for the Out. An interview with Andy West @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...
The philosophy behind the BBC’s Waiting for the Out
Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars
www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 11d
The best non-specialist Philosophy books of the decade @fivebooks.com? fivebooks.com/category/phi...
The Best Philosophy Books of the Decade - Five Books Expert Recommendations
It’s a golden age for popular books about philosophy, as the challenges of modern life encourage people to seek wisdom from those whose job—at least in principle—is to seek it. Whether it’s new reflec...
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 11d
Yours too! That garden is special. I was lucky enough to get it to myself on one visit