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My @aeon.co article on Mary Midgley ‘So many unmarried men’ is out now - aeon.co/essays/for-m...

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For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors
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February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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How do we assign sizes to subsets of the natural numbers (ℕ)? Sylvia Wenmackers compares the answers given by six formalisms to gain a better understanding of the trade-offs that arise when dealing with such a vexing problem in mathematics👇 riviste.fupress.net/index.php/jp... #philsci #HPS #philmath
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Really great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large.
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The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution
Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr
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January 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen: from the archive to celebrate The Score open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen
❣️ new episodes start in March but here's a new intro and edit from the archive
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January 24, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Always a good sign when you find yourself interrupting your reading to share a nugget with those around you. A rare thing when the author @add-hawk.bsky.social is a philosopher! Thanks to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social for alerting me. Great book!
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Rationality and robust science are actually ways we care.
It's not easy being a philosopher and cognitive scientist in the academic world and still showing your vulnerable side, but it's always worth it. Happy New Year everybody. A post from midnight the last day of 2025.
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Pure consciousness with Thomas Metzinger and Andrea Hiott, Happy New Year ❣️
YouTube video by Love & Philosophy with Andrea Hiott
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January 21, 2026 at 12:02 PM
A Breakfast Room in Florida: Cognition is cognition long before we ever call it that; digital minds do not have this movement open.substack.com/pub/communit...
A Breakfast Room in Florida
place & body bring us to our senses, language & thinking are growing tips of mind and cognition; minds are ultimately immeasurable & precarious; and this is why minds are not (and never can be) digita...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Caring Without Collapsing & 'How Not to Waste a Life'
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Caring Without Getting Burned & How Not to Waste a Life
"those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing"
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January 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Favourite authors mentioned include @tkingfisher.com and @jarodkanderson.bsky.social; Gemma L. Williams still isn't on Bluesky.

Podcasts of the year: @boldpolitics.bsky.social, @lovephilosophy.substack.com and The Rest is Science.

OK that's probably enough tagging. 2025:
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2025 Roundup - Fergus Murray
This has been my third full year of long covid/ME/CFS, and my first full year since I left classroom teaching. It was the year I finally stepped down as Chair of AMASE, although I remain a committee m...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek: Polanyi and tacit knowledge open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek
Listen now | from-to fractals, Michael Polanyi, Indeterminate Future Manifestations, the difference between information and knowledge, epistemological therapy and some laughter and good cheer
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December 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Action at a Distance with Lynn Nadel & Andrea Hiott: Is memory entangled time and space?
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Action at a Distance with Lynn Nadel & Andrea Hiott: Is memory entangled time and space?
Listen now | BONUS EPISODE and writeup: How memory and entanglement might be similar actions. Extra Hippocampus Love this week.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
✐ The Perspective Studio open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
A diversity of contradicting perspectives is not a bug, but a feature of any healthy human society...
The Perspective Studio
A Collaborative Practice for a Fragmented World
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December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Editors' Choice Article from the latest issue:

Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction
– Sara Aronowitz

Abstract in alt text and free to read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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December 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
❣️Episode #78: Exploriing Eros, resilience, and ontological metamodernism, this conversation examines how personal and societal change can be navigated, holding love and power together to create meaningful transformation.
🎙📹♡Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either)
Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either)
Listen now | Eros as world creator, the love beyond it, and ontological meta-modernism with policy advisor and legitimizing agent Jamie Bristow
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December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🎙#77: Evolving Language from Within by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski: By questioning the “either/or” dichotomy and adopting a “both either/or and both/and” mentality, we can tap into the boundless potential of language as a tool for deeper connection and understanding.
Evolving Language from Within by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski
exploring integral consciousness like a Möbius Strip
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December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
🎙Episode #76 is about exploring love through maintenance and the disruptive, delightful, mundane, difficulty of the everyday with David Pontille & @jrmdns.bsky.social 📚 The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength
an invitation to let things matter, and help things last
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November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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New on the BJPS Review of Books:

A Drive to Survive
– Kathryn Nave

Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

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Kathryn Nave, A Drive to Survive | BJPS Review of Books
Matteo Colombo reviews A Drive to Survive, by Kathryn Nave
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November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Care is tension into a new dimension
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Care is tension into a new dimension
As the kaleidoscope turns, love is the paradox holding us.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating

⭐️ From Andrea Hiott
Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating - Topoi
Recent developments in the study of the hippocampal formation call old ideas of representation into question and are forcing a change in the way we understand the study of memory and navigation, openi...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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🔔new paper alert🔔
I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
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Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management
Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵
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The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies
Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🎙Episode #75: A conversation about neural synchrony, how we might model the “third brain” that arises in interaction, and why misalignment matters. With biologist @nicohinrichs.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
Interbrain Synchrony, Human Connection & Hyperscanning with Nicolas Hinrichs
Listen now | What If Connection Isn’t Only About Being in Sync?
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November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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What a fantastic conversation!

Also on YouTube:
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November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM