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Constantine Sandis
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Director @lexacademic.bsky.social | RSA Fellow
Research Associate @uehiro.ox.ac.uk | Distinguished Visiting Scholar @waidecenter.bsky.social | Visiting Prof @herts.ac.uk

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Constantine Sandis is a Greek and British philosopher and entrepreneur. Having worked on philosophy of action, moral psychology, David Hume, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, in 2013 he became Professor of Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and co-founding Director of the author services firm Lex Academic. .. more

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My apologies for being in anyone's starter pack, like that unwanted U2 album we were all trying to remove.

Can’t NATO just send him one of these and be done with it?

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“They’re firing people because of AI, and then three weeks later they hire a team in India because the labor is so much cheaper.”
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
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“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com

'The present may, indeed, seem full to us, but if we have filled it with play, etc., the appearance of fullness will be confined to the present. Memory will find it empty'.

Kant on occupation

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To celebrate World Logic Day, we are offering free copy-editing for any paper that successfully solves the liar paradox.

It’s also the name of Greece’s largest private hospital, because the name means ‘to heal’.

Me irl when I’m told the argument in my draft MS is weak

I’m so proud of him!

Cancel culture run amok

The Finnish Institute at Athens and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens welcome paper proposals for the conference Wittgenstein and Ancient Philosophy, in Athens on 29.6.-1.7.2026.

❗️ The deadline for proposals is 31.1.

More information finninstitute.gr/en/kalenteri...

I'll take my chances

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Entries for our Uehiro Essay prize in Practical Ethics are due by 19th Jan! Open to all UK PG and UG students. T&Cs here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/uehiro-oxfor...
Shortlisted papers will be invited to a final event in Oxford & considered for the @practicalethics.bsky.social

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Annual Uehiro Essay Prize 2026
YouTube video by Uehiro Oxford Institute Channel
youtube.com

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New vacancies: 2 Career Development Research Fellows to support teaching on the MSt in Practical Ethics. This post would be suitable for those with a PhD in #AIEthics, #neuroethics, #Philosophy of #Psychiatry or #DataEthics.

Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV975/c...

#jobvacancy #hiring #workwithus

🤣🤣🤣

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Plato must be turning in his grave (that they haven't banned the theatre major).
MAGA restoration of "Freedom of Speech" progressing according to plan I see

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Going to mourn by watching all 439 minutes of Sátántangó in one sitting

Classic utilitarian nonsense

What will it take for people to realise that AI is just bullshit on (ecologically disastrous) stilts?

www.forbes.com/sites/larsda...
www.forbes.com

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Also new today, my fourth piece of advice on writing about history of philosophy: about focusing on the primary text instead of secondary literature (and how to use secondary literature when you do use it).

www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...

#philosophy #philsky #writingtips
Rules for Writing 4: The primary text is primary | History of Philosophy without any gaps
This overlaps with a point I made in the previous series of “20 rules for doing history of philosophy,” but I’m going to say something similar here because it is so important.
www.historyofphilosophy.net

My most controversial seasonal takes:

1) Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
2) Home Alone 2 is better than the original
3) Jaffa cakes are biscuits

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Season's greetings, everyone! We are staying open throughout the holidays for your proofreading needs.

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Season’s greetings, peasants

Thrilled to see this @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
volume out — and to have contributed a chapter co-written with Danièle Moyal-Sharrock!

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

😹😹😹😹😹

Not sure but for some reason he recently started walking around like this

Our first cat, Meno, captured here on the day he discovered Marx and Engels and subsequently tried to overthrow us

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📖 🎄 Looking for something to read (or gift) over the Christmas break? 🎁

If so, do consider one of the titles from this year's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy shortlist.

Find the list here:

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This 1973 wine bottle in the Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
(@maacambridge.bsky.social) is making me feel old and strange

Video highlights from the @triphilosophy.bsky.social awards ceremony for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy

youtu.be/kEXJ0QrqEl4