Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

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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

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Philipp Steinkrüger @psteinkrueger.bsky.social · 12h

When you have trouble organizing your material, always remember Athenaeus.

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Jordan Axt @jordanaxt.bsky.social · 14h

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know that book, but Slow Horses is also very much a very fond satire, or maybe better reimagining.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it seems like there are lots of examples in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor novel, where Gerald the mole (no spoilers!) launches operations he simultaneously thwarts, often rather brutally. We hear about these secondhand from Smiley’s investigations & before we know the Gerald’s identity.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 1d

wait so you're shitposting during your work hours?

me:

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”

www.technologyreview.com

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

Final gathering this term of our Bristol pol theory/philosophy group & have now entirely lost my noticeboard 2 handouts on e.g. statelessness, marginalisation, love, universalism, childhood, & even supreme court judgements. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social

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Michael Bench-Reindeer @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 1d

Gadzooks = God's hooks
Goodbye = God be with ye
Good morning = God's mourning
G'day mate = God's demon bait

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

My family went to Arran every year for our summer holidays until I was eight years old. A truly beautiful place.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

Learning that…

Cor blimey = god blind me
Streuth = god’s truth
Zounds = god’s wounds

World is crazier and more of it than we think.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

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do lions bleet of electric sheep @talkinglion.bsky.social · 2d

Stuck in a leaf pile
food delivery robot
malaise of autumn

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 2d

Reminded today of this very nice compliment from Tom Stoppard (his favorite book of 2020)

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday baking 4 my Monday theorists. Christmas special. Am calling it Glitterball Tiffin 🪩 @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social Maybe also of interest 2 @liamshields.bsky.social. Challenge=always 2 do something that can survive 3h train trip w/out break/melting

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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 2d

I'm researching where Pierre Bayle got his idea from, that the passions can determine us to being virtuous. But, contrary to the usual story of early modernity systematically devaluing the emotions, it actually seems like a fairly common idea (Malebranche, Nicole, La Mothe Le Vayer, Montaigne, etc).

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know the ceiling at the Opéra Garnier, Jo? One of my favourites

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

But if there’s a huge upset in the midterms, that will get reported and gradually his unpopularity will become clear. But I’m still not convinced it’ll be enough.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

My sense is that the realisation he’s weak is only slowly dawning over here. The media doesn’t really report that very much. They report a lot of his actions, and I think people here assume Americans like what he’s doing because he’s largely doing exactly what he said he would & they voted for that.

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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 2d

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

with recently and she was praising Trump for having eliminated illegal
immigration but didn’t seem to have any sense of what that has actually meant on the ground. Hadn’t heard of ICE, nor the boat strikes, nor the El Salvador stuff.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2d

I sort of hoped we might do better solely because people would have had a few years to see the awful effects in the US, but it’s just not clear to me that much of this information gets through unless you’ve got a lot of personal ties in the US, as academics often do. I spoke to someone I volunteer

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

'The Open Window.' (1907) Much like his friend Vilhelm Hammershøi, Carl Holsøe is celebrated for his depictions of sparse interiors, which convey stillness and introspection.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d

Marc Chagall just popping by to wish you a happy Sunday morning.

Orange picture with a line drawing of a horses face on a man’s upper body showing a part of a jacket and glimpse of a man’s face. Also a large red blob middle right.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW I haven’t had this experience at all teaching undergraduates at Bristol. I’m not teaching this year, but did last year and the students were terrific and engaged with the reading.

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John Stuart Chill ☃️ @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3d

Q: What do you call the good life for a cow?

A: moo-daimonia

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

I wouldn’t say I’ve noticed much change in the past fifteen years.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

The title page is a puzzling feature of academic publishing. You enter all the info in Editorial Manager, and then make a Word document of exactly the same information and upload it? Tho as someone who has recently navigated the world of property sales, I can confirm this is not unique to academia.

M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 3d

I’m in that special moment between submitting a paper to a journal and them coming back to me with “Please amend the title page with the following required items we failed to list as necessary on the submission system.”

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

“And the information for which is already included in the data you entered in Editorial Manager”

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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 3d

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