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Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social · 2d

📣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

Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Check out the master thesis published in the digital collection of APhil.
The latest addition is Diego Castañon's "From Practical Knowledge to Forms of Life: Toward an Account of the Unity of Animal Action", suppervised by Josh Shepherd
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diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handl...

Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona: From Practical Knowledge to Forms of Life: Toward an Account of the Unity of Animal Action

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 11d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BatR...

When does Science go Wrong? Issues with Common Sense & Folk Ideology | Edouard Machery

YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 11d

👋 Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) will be in Barcelona in November for the BIAP workshop "Evidence and Methodology in the Cognitive Sciences"🧠
His forthcoming book asks whether we should trust science!🤔
AND! He'll do a public lecture at the Ateneu Barcelonès
See his interview below!
@biap.bsky.social

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 15d

We wish our 2025-2026 students all the best for this academic year! 💻📚📔

May this year be the key for a great future! 🗝️
👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 21d

👋 NEWS! Edgar Aguilera, BIAP María de Maeztu postdoctoral fellow, has a new book out:

📚EPISTEMOLOGÍA JURÍDICA: Cuestiones, debates y propuestas actuales, Zela, 2025

🎉 Many congratulations, Edgar!

LINK: www.academia.edu/142959976/EP...

EPISTEMOLOGÍA JURÍDICA: Cuestiones, debates y propuestas actuales, Zela, 2025

Mi incursión inicial en el campo de la epistemología jurídica se dio a través del contacto con la obra de Larry Laudan y de Jordi Ferrer. Con este volumen pretendo rendirles un modesto pero sincero ho...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 21d

📣 Congrats to Cathlene Centeno (APhil 2023–24) for winning 1st prize 🥇 for the Best Master’s Thesis from the Spanish Society for Logic & Philosophy of Science
👩‍🎓 #Philosophy #Logic

Many APhil teaching professors are active members of BIAP! 🌟

APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 21d

📣Cathlene Centeno, APhil alumna, won the first prize for the best Master thesis of the Spanish Society for Logic and Phil Science 🥇👩‍🎓🍾🥂

@biap.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social @slmfce.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 21d

Here's the announcement of the prize: solofici.org/resolucion-d...

Resolución de la convocatoria de la SLMFCE al Mejor TFM 2023-24 | Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España

solofici.org

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 21d

Her thesis, "The Problem of Expert Appraisal: Metacognition and the Rationality of “Thinking for Yourself", was supervised by Thomas Sturm. You can read it here diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handl...
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Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona: The Problem of Expert Appraisal: Metacognition and the Rationality of “Thinking for Yourself”

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 21d

📣Cathlene Centeno, APhil alumna, won the first prize for the best Master thesis of the Spanish Society for Logic and Phil Science 🥇👩‍🎓🍾🥂

@biap.bsky.social @filosofiaub.bsky.social @slmfce.bsky.social
@logos-group.bsky.social

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · 22d

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La Universidad de Barcelona abrirá un periodo extraordinario de preinscripción en el Máster en Filosofía Analítica para 2025-26 entre el día 18 y el día 25 de septiembre.

Sólo para candidatos con titulaciones de universidades españolas! 🖖 El enlace se compartirá en breve

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Sep 2

👋NEWS! We’re delighted to announce that our former senior member Daniel Gregory has joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab (@vlc_lab) as a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher.

👏 Congratulations, Daniel, on this fantastic achievement!
@logos-group.bsky.social

Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎯Daniel Gregory just joined the Valencia Philosphy Lab as Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral researcher.

Welcome, Daniel!

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 29d

👋💡 BIAP Open Philosophy Blog 🌍

📝 Our senior member Riin Kõiv (UB) just shared a new blog post on her open access article:

📖 “Genetically caused trait is an interactive kind”
Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Volume 13, Article 31 (2023)

🔗 Read it here: openphilosophy.blog/can-genes-ca...

Can Genes Cause Because We Know They Cause?

Image attribution: Riin Kõiv This is a post by Riin Kõiv (University of Barcelona).Imagine being told that personality, performance in math, substance addiction, or excess body weight has gene…

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 28d

👋 Exciting news!
Several BIAP senior members will be teaching this academic year in the APhil Master’s in Analytic Philosophy 🎓✨
aphil.ub.edu/teaching-staff

📅 Classes begin September 22 – don’t miss it!
👉 Follow @aphil.bsky.social for updates!

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · Sep 8

👋This is a reminder that students accepted in the master in Analytic Philosophy for the academic year 2025-2026 can now register (complete the matrícula).

Classes start on September 22.

Welcome to the new cohort of students!🥰

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@filosofiaub.bsky.social
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Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social · Jun 23

The debate on propaganda in times of war, organized by @flampert.bsky.social with the @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social project at CEU in Vienna

Fabio Lampert @flampert.bsky.social · Jun 23

A 'Knowledge in Crisis' (@knowledgecrisis.bsky.social) public philosophy event at CEU in Vienna:

Propaganda: Shaping Narratives in Times of War, with philosophers @teresafm.bsky.social, Volodymyr Yermolenko & historian @jcaf.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkzH...

Propaganda: Shaping Narratives in Times of War

YouTube video by Knowledge in Crisis

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · Jun 19

👋 UB PhD student Marc Lara is participating at the Grad conference below!
@filosofiaub.bsky.social
@biap.bsky.social
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SLMFCE @slmfce.bsky.social · Jun 19

⌛ Cuenta atrás para el comienzo de la VI Conferencia de Graduados de la SLMFCE!

🗓️ 23-25 de junio de 2025
📍 UNED (Madrid) | Formato híbrido

✨ Conferencia plenaria: Rob Hopkins (NYU).

+ info y programa completo: solofici.org/vi-congreso-...

#SLMFCE2025 #PhilSky #PhilSci @uneduniv.bsky.social

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José Luis Martí @jlmarti.bsky.social · Jun 19

The third Barcelona Workshop in Political Theory has just started at Universitat de Barcelona, with a paper presented by Rafael Vázquez García. Looking forward to a long-day workshop!

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congratulations, Niccolò!!!

BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Jun 10

🎓 PhD Defence Success! 🎓

We’re thrilled to share that BIAP student Niccolò Rossi @logos-group.bsky.social @ub.edu was awarded his PhD on June 5, 2025.

Congratulations, Niccolò, on this fantastic achievement! 🎉👏
@aphil.bsky.social

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APhil @aphil.bsky.social · May 21

📢 Professor Manuel García-Carpintero, Philosophy UB, is giving the Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture at University College, Oxford @ox.ac.uk 🌟
Prof. García-Carpintero founded APhil, and coordinates our PhD program
@biap.bsky.social @logos-group.bsky.social

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/the-gareth-e...

The Gareth Evans Memorial Lectures

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · May 15

A conference on Misinformation and Disinformation on 19–20 May at CEU!
We’ll be joined by excellent speakers: @sachaltay.bsky.social Quassim Cassam, Justin McBrayer, Anne Meylan, Jessica Pepp, Verena Wagner, @danwphilosophy.bsky.social and @kraymondh.bsky.social

More details here: buff.ly/0CB8IdH

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · May 14

💡 BIAP Open Philosophy Blog 🌍

🗣️ New post by senior member Andrés Soria-Ruiz (UB) on his article:

📖 “I Know How to Withstand the Skeptic”, published in Synthese, Issue 205(97), February 2025.
👋 Open access to the article: t.ly/hUIru

👉 Read the blog post here: openphilosophy.blog/i-know-how-t...

I Know How to Withstand the Skeptic

This is a post by Andrés Soria-Ruiz (University of Barcelona). Think of the following: for all you know, you could be living in a computer simulation. Your friends might be so-called “Non-Player Ch…

openphilosophy.blog

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Apr 30

🌏👋 Outreach Activity!

Upcoming debate with our senior member & outreach leader
@teresafm.bsky.social (UB, member of @logos-group.bsky.social)

🗣️ Title: Novilínguas

🗓️ Date: May 11, 2025

📍 Place: Lisbon

🕕 Time: 16:00

🔗 More Info: t.ly/yCwbz

Novilínguas – Lisboa 5L

Lisboa 5L é uma iniciativa da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa para promover a língua, a literatura, os livros, as livrarias e a leitura na cidade. Nasceu da ideia de criar um Festival Internacional de Lite...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Apr 30

📌 This event will be held in Spanish!
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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Apr 30

👋 Don't miss this!

🧠On May 13 at 17:00 (CET), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, will present his book 'Chance in the World' (OUP, 2019), which recently won the prestigious Lakatos Award 2024!

📝 ONLINE. Register here to follow via Zoom: t.ly/Jl3UY

➡️ Further info: t.ly/d2G1C

#LakatosAward

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨 REMINDER! 👋

🌍 World Congress on Evidential Legal Reasoning – Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week

📅 2–6 June 2025

‼️ Last days to register! (open until 15 May)

BIAP is collaborating in the organization of this major event.

🔗 Register now:
www.gironaevidenceweek.com/en/home.html
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Home | Girona Evidence Week

The 2nd edition of the Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week will be held in Girona from 2 to 6 June 2025.

www.gironaevidenceweek.com

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