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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 16h

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot... #philsky

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 7d

In recent decades, scholars have examined various facets of Avicenna’s #logic. But how did Avicenna himself conceptualize logic—its definition, status, and purpose? PhD student Shahab Khademi explores this question in a new paper! 👇📃 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #histphil #HPS

Avicenna on the Meaning of Logic: Revisiting Five Major Works

Avicenna's logic has gathered much interest in recent decades. However, one significant point that has hitherto been frequently neglected is what logic means to Avicenna in the first place. Conside...

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · 13d

LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education.
Deadline: 15 November 2025:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 4d

The philjobs link is here, FYI:

philjobs.org/job/show/29994

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 5d

Leiden University is hiring:
Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 2d

Are you curious about what computational methods can offer to #HPS? Then check out the edited volume by Grant Ramsey & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social, published by @upittpress.bsky.social, showcasing key tools, questions, and investigative perspectives 👇📕💻 upittpress.org/books/978082... #philsky #DH

Book cover of "The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), edited by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (KU Leuven). The design features a circular, data-inspired visualization with red and blue network patterns radiating from the center, suggesting computational and dynamic structures in science.

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Dr Chris Earl (MOL-BIO) @drcsearl.bsky.social · 5d

🧪Is Richard Dawkins wrong about the nature of life? And is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"? That's what's in my new article. It's free to read and subscribe, and it features audio narration (read by me) for those who prefer it.

#science #philsky #evolution #biology #philosophy

Is Richard Dawkins wrong about the nature of life?

Is it time to abandon the metaphor of "The Selfish Gene"?

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

We think of dimensions as central to reality. The 3D of space—up & down, forwards & backwards, left & right—we take for granted. Some hold time as a fourth. But critics maintain dimensions aren't fundamental to the universe, and instead are a way of viewing the world. iai.tv/video/dimens... #philsky

Dimensions of the unknown

We think of dimensions as central to reality. The three dimensions of space — up and down, forwards and backwards, left and right — we take for granted. Some hold time as a fourth. But critics maintai...

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

The computer scientist Daniel Spielman likens research to gambling. “It’s a big endorphin rush when you think you’ve solved something. And even if the usual outcome is that you’re wrong, that feeling of excitement is motivating.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-computer... #science #philsky

The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs | Quanta Magazine

Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

«In this paper, I critically discuss Cappelen’s arguments for the abandonment of “democracy” and “democratic” in political theory specifically.»

Philosophy at the Open University @ouphilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

📣Democracy Double Bill from Philosophy at the Open University!📣

Dan Cavedon-Taylor explores how deepfakes and AI video may (not) threaten democracy
doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Mark Pinder counters a recent argument by Herman Cappelen for abandoning the term
doi.org/10.1007/s442...

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 2d

New reviews of philosophy books, new philosophy podcast episodes, new and revised entries at online philosophy resources...

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Daily Nous

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes… (If we missed anything, let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Legal ...

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult | By C Thi Nguyen aeon.co/essays/why-i... #echochamber #philsky

Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

László Krasznahorkai | The Art of Fiction No. 240 |
Interviewed by Adam Thirlwell www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7... #Krasznahorkai #NobelPrize #literature

László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

William Blake and Werner Heisenberg, radical poet and pioneering quantum physicist, shared the same fear: that science, while enabling us to intervene in the world ever more powerfully, was at the same time cutting us off from reality itself. iai.tv/articles/hei... #Blake #Heisenberg #philsky

Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science's "single vision" | Mark Vernon

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 3d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10... #women #philsky

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 3d

"Hannah Arendt and Exile " by Anna Argirò (Keywords: Refugee; Nation-state; Sovereignty; Human rights; Plurality) | By Anna Argirò www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/hannah-... #Arendt #exile #philsky

Hannah Arendt and Exile

Hannah Arendt’s experiences of exile, from Nazi Germany to the U.S., shaped her reflections on statelessness, belonging, and the limits of the nation-state. In this essay, Anna Argirò explores Arendt'...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 5d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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Sally Latham @sallylatham.bsky.social · Mar 26

Beyond excited to finally share this project! I am so proud to be co-creator and education consultant on this show.

Narrated by the incredible Stephen Fry, Fantastic Philosophy aims to help children develop critical thinking and oracy.
#PhilosophyMatters ##philsky

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articl...

Fantastic Philosophy: Primary philosophy teaching resources

In this illustrated series narrated by Sir Stephen Fry, a community of animals living in a fictional savannah try to navigate some tricky philosophical questions. Aimed at pupils studying at KS2 level...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 7d

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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Victor Gijsbers @victorgijsbers.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Leiden has an opening for an assistant professor in African and Comparative Philosophy. Please send it on to anyone who might fit the profile!

https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistant-Professor-in-African-and-Comparative-Philosophy-%280_8-1_0-fte%29/16036-en_US

Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy (0.8-1.0 fte)

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 6d

The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact

The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-and... #science #academia #philsky

The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact

The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6d

In 1947, some Hollywood stars including Henry Fonda stood up to anti-communist witch hunts.

Now, Jane Fonda and artists like Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal and Billie Eilish are reviving their organization — the Committee for the First Amendment — to defend free speech again.

buff.ly/B79gBQX #polisky

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 7d

Babies love peek-a-boo because it plays with their developing notion of object permanence. V-JEPA, an AI model recently built at Meta, similarly exhibits “surprise” when its predictions of the real world fail to match its observations. www.quantamagazine.org/how-one-ai-m... #philsky

How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment | Quanta Magazine

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

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