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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · May 11

Curious? Check the paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Climate scientists as trustees in public reason: the legitimacy of political institutions amid non-epistemic values

Addressing global challenges like climate change requires both national action and international collaboration. However, it remains unclear under what conditions international institutions, such as...

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · May 11

Instead, we suggest that their legitimacy is derived from the appropriate role of climate scientists as trustees, who must be held accountable through mechanisms governed by public reason.

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · May 11

Can international institutions tackling climate change derive their legitimacy from the epistemic authority of climate scientists? In our new paper, Antoinette Scherz and I argue that the presence of non-epistemic values in climate science challenges this view.

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Apr 24

Philosophers often claim everything deserves to be questioned, ever question has a place in philosophy. Until you start talking about intimacy and people shy away. Next year, I will start teaching a research master course entitled 'Politics of intimacy'.We will be asking the uncomfortable questions!

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Apr 7

Simon Kräuchi reviews my book 'Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage' for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Laura Garcia Portela: Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · Mar 26

One piece of advice for anyone on the #philosophy job market: have a website. It doesn’t have to look great, but people will look it and use it to get a sense of your interests and credibility as a candidate even if it’s not a formal part of the application process. So it needs to exist. #PhilJobs

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Mar 15

I never even considered going to the US. I'd have rather dropped academia ^^

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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · Mar 10

Today strong support for our colleagues at @unileiden.bsky.social & @Hogeschool Leiden
United we stand against an anti-democratic and anti-academic government
@AOb @fnv.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @LSVb and many others

🟥Stop the budget cuts on higher education in 🇳🇱

DOE HET NIET 🟥

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Philipp Steinkrüger @psteinkrueger.bsky.social · Mar 5

I'd slightly extend this rule: if the task can actually be achieved using an LLM, this signals that the task in question is unnecessary (looking at you, university administrators).

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Feb 6

That's a great idea!

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Feb 3

For those early-career scholars in my network interested in Environmental Philosophy and Animal Ethics: come join us at the VEPSS Summer School! vepss.eu/programme/

An ideal place for networking and exploring new topics and ideas! I'll be lecturing there, together with other great philosophers!

Programme 2025 – HomeExpandToggle MenuExpand

vepss.eu

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Jan 27

Because you know how to write essays and do philosophy. When you are trying to teach students how to do those things in order to be able to assess how good Chat GPT generated stuff is and they hand in essays written by Chat GPT, it is very infuriating...

Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Jan 24

Paper copies!

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 23

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 22

As of now, I’m Ambassador of the horizon2020 project AURORA! Looking forward to new project initiatives to encouraging citizens to change their behaviour and attitudes towards energy.

www.aurora-h2020.eu/es/ambassado...

Laura García-Portela - AURORA H2020

www.aurora-h2020.eu

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 22

In my dreams today, seriously, I submitted my dissertation in a block of cheese. The text was printed on the cheese. Interpretations?

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 22

Obviously, it is degraded, at least if you assume that you have control over your life but no control over your dreams

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 21

Degraded in comparison to what? I’d rather dream 5 years (without pain) than die. Simply because I know what dreaming feels like but not dying (and I cannot go back from a dead state, I assume)

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · Dec 19

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Dec 18

This seems right to me, & could also be an argument against the tiresome 'great man' theory of history: "Against two-tier philosophy" open.substack.com/pub/helendec... The article on blandness by @axdouglas.bsky.social linked to in the piece is also very interesting.

Against two-tier philosophy

I have been meaning to write something about my health.

open.substack.com

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 16

I was amazed to see that, in Switzerland, cars stop even if you are jaywalking. In Spain jaywalking is very common, but obv no one stops. They expect you to adapt your pace not to be killed... In Switzerland is the opposite!

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 15

Do they want, really? That’s something that worries me a lot. The pressure to do something along those lines seems so high because it is hype atm.

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miyo peck-suzuki @mpsuzuki.bsky.social · Dec 10

The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website:

oxgradconference.wixsite.com/oxfordgradco...

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Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 7

Nothing wrong with that except for the awkward situation when I speak with Spanish students at the university, most of which come from well off families

Laura Garcia-Portela @lgarciaportela.bsky.social · Dec 7

Fun fact: Since I do not use Spanish in formal contexts anymore (except when I write in Spanish), my default Spanish jargon is my most informal one, which is the kind of working-class slang used in my neighbourhood.

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