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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 27d

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 30

Here the link to the published paper (Open Access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ecological perspectivism: understanding perspectival realism through ecological psychology - Synthese

Synthese - Perspectival realism claims that scientific knowledge is always situated into a vantage point. We argue that ecological psychology offers a suitable framework to develop perspectival...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 27

Perspectival Realism + Ecological Psychology = Ecological Perspectivism

"Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities."

#PhilSci #PsycSci

Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 26

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 26

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · Aug 22

'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Ahead of print

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Aug 1

NDPR review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-... "If the principal entanglement at the heart of this book is that between art and philosophy, its main insight—and one, appropriately enough, that engagements with both art and philosophy bring into view—is that pretty much everything is tangled up."

The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us Who We Are

One of the features of philosophical discourse that distinguishes it from most other branches of scientific and humanistic enquiry is the lack of widesp...

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Jul 25

The principles of charity and good faith are prima facie applicable, yet they should not prevent us from recognizing that there are foolish or malicious individuals in this world.

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · Jul 14

Study finds #AI tools made open source software developers slower. But then AI was never about saving time, but doing a highly skilled job with unskilled labour. #AIHype apple.news/AlEakH6o2Rr2...

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Jul 14

This has to stop: "According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sempre bom lembrar e pontuar a falta de limites para a hipocrisia dos extremistas da direita na sua "defesa" da liberdade de expressão.

Agência Pública @apublica.org · Jul 12

PERSEGUIÇÃO POLÍTICA | Em 2019, reportamos como universidades brasileiras se tornaram campo de ataques e ameaças contra professores identificados como ‘’de esquerda’, durante o governo de Jair Bolsonaro. A violência no ambiente acadêmico fez professores buscarem ajuda em rede internacional.

Professores universitários ameaçados procuram ajuda para fugir do país

Pesquisadora de organização Scholars at Risk afirma que tem sido procurada por professores ameaçados que querem deixar o país temendo pela própria vida.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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Michelle Bastian @mhbastian.bsky.social · Jun 22

Yup!

"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jun 22

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad.

Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly

Wild piece:

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

www.404media.co

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · Jun 15

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · Jun 9

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 5

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬

In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Hand holding a copy of "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" by Kathryn Nave. The cover is blue with orange text and features a geometric design at the center.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · May 23

Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900
Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished
Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies.
Deadline: October 10, 2025
www.duchateletprize.org
#HPS

Homepage for Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics with famous painting of Du Châtelet by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · May 19

The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · May 5

Remembering the smug AI hype man who in 2023 told me that factuality/confabulation would be a solved problem by summer 2024, tops. I told him that you can’t fix a problem that is also at the core of what the machine does well. He laughed at me, then got kinda quiet

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 5

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful

A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Mar 31

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

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Robin McKenna @rbnmckenna.bsky.social · Mar 24

My paper (w/ Hrishikesh Joshi) on why listening is A Very Good Thing is now officially published. It argues, among other things, that critical and constructive listening is crucial to maintaining the epistemic commons. It's open access.

doi.org/10.1111/phpr...

The duty to listen

In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively...

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm sorry, this is awful.

Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Mar 17

A desk rejection is sometimes inevitable, given the high number of submissions a prestigious journal receives. However, we from the Global South have every reason to suspect that bias might also be among the implicit reasons for such empty feedback.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Mar 13

the most powerful & wealthiest corporations whose business models relies on theft, rights infringements, environmental destruction, aggressive data collection & surveillance say that the regulatory guardrails developed to tame them are a “step in the wrong direction”

www.politico.eu/article/goog...

EU rules for advanced AI are step in wrong direction, Google says

Google and Meta are leading the charge against a “code of practice” governing tools like Gemini, ChatGPT and Llama.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Mar 7

ProPublica is one of the best independent tech journalism outlets out there doing an amazing job keeping big tech accountable. glad they're hiring more people... apply if you fit the bill

Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · Mar 6

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅

Come join us!

Computational Journalist

New York, New York, United States

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Ben Young @benyoung.bsky.social · Feb 10

For those interested in books about smell, taste, and flavor I made a short (eclectic) list of recommendations
shepherd.com/best-books/s...
#philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste

The best introductory books on smell and flavor

Benjamin Young shares the 5 best books on smell and flavor. Have you read What the Nose Knows?

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