Wrote a short piece for the IAI, on my recent paper on black holes and global energy! Contrary to title, I don't claim to have the messy truth behind black hole physics, but I do think we can move (and ppl are) from idealized global approaches to quasi-local approaches, in search of deidealization.

Daniel Waxman (NUS) is giving a talk entitled "If You’re Happy, Clap Your Hands!" at NTU on 9 Oct 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

Ina Jäntgen (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) is giving a talk entitled "Measuring Effectiveness to Inform Decision-Makers" at NTU on 26 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

Winnie Sung has been awarded the MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant (Call 1/2025) for her research project: Epistemic Blinkering.

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Final Call: We are hiring for multiple positions (open rank and open area).

Hard deadline for applications: September 30, 2025.

See here for more details: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Clint Hurshman (NUS) is giving a talk entitled "Clinical nudging as informing" at NTU on 18 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University) is giving a talk entitled "Grief Utterances" at NTU on 11 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

A new translation of excepts from the Mencius and the Xunzi by Winnie Sung in A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy (edited by Mohammed Rustom).

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Yafeng Shan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) is giving a talk entitled "Understanding in the Social Sciences" at NTU on 04 Sep 2025. All are welcome! More details can be found here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

My paper w/ Bosco Garcia (UCSD) & Harman Brah (UCLA) on the 'problem of atypicality' for LLM-powered psychiatry is now published at the Journal of Medical Ethics! Just as GPT5 is touting capability as "active thought partner"...

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A new publication by Eugene Chua (with Craig Callender)

'The Toll of the Tolman Effect: On the Status of Classical Temperature in General Relativity'

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We are hiring Nanyang Assistant Professors. Successful candidates will be offered a tenure-track appointment, a reduced teaching load for the first few years, and a start-up grant of up to S$1 million.

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Talks from the 2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics workshop held at NTU Singapore, co-organized with @wmyrvold.bsky.social, are now available on YouTube here: bit.ly/yt-ftd2025

Thanks again to all participants for attending the workshop and contributing to the lively and fruitful discussions! :)

Happy to share that my recent paper on confabulation is now published as part of the Eurasian Memory Meeting topical collection in the Asian JP:
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We are hiring in Philosophy at NTU!

Open rank and open area call for tenure-track/tenured positions: philjobs.org/job/show/29338

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