Lukas Schwengerer
@lschwengerer.bsky.social
University of Graz; Formerly PI of the Collective Self-Knowledge Project at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Self-Knowledge/Social Epistemology/Philosophy of Technology
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Self-Knowledge/Social Epistemology/Philosophy of Technology
https://lukas-schwengerer.weebly.com/
Traveling to Greece tomorrow for this: politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2...
Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.
Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.
Conference 2025 | Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age
Neurons and Machines: Philosophy, Ethics, Policies, and the Law Conference Programme Preview Programme Download Programme Confirmed Invited Speakers: Vincen ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Traveling to Greece tomorrow for this: politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2...
Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.
Very much looking forward to the conference. Very much not looking forward to 14+ hours of travel to get there.
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NOW ONLINE!
What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day!
Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast.
In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories.
Check it out on
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What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day!
Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast.
In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories.
Check it out on
Spotify buff.ly/YPz92HY
Apple buff.ly/uy9DJsl
YouTube buff.ly/RRhw4jg
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NOW ONLINE!
What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day!
Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast.
In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories.
Check it out on
Spotify buff.ly/YPz92HY
Apple buff.ly/uy9DJsl
YouTube buff.ly/RRhw4jg
What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day!
Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast.
In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories.
Check it out on
Spotify buff.ly/YPz92HY
Apple buff.ly/uy9DJsl
YouTube buff.ly/RRhw4jg
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New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...
#philsky
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brill.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...
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#philsky
New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...
#philsky
#philsky
brill.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New paper of mine on privileged and peculiar access in self-knowledge. Out now in Grazer Philosophische Studien: brill.com/view/journal...
#philsky
#philsky
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New paper ‘What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?’ now published in Marine Policy with my excellent co-authors @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars — preprint available philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26719/
What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?
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November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
New paper ‘What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?’ now published in Marine Policy with my excellent co-authors @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars — preprint available philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26719/
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Gerry Dunne and I have just had our new paper, "Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap", published online by the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap
Philosophy lags behind the social sciences and life sciences in terms of interdisciplinary co-authorship, with 2024 data showing that about one paper in six by philosophers can be classified as int...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Gerry Dunne and I have just had our new paper, "Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap", published online by the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I have a short reply to M. Giulia Napolitano's nice paper on conspiracy theories and propaganda out today:
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Evidence Resistance and the Political Utility of Conspiracy Theories, Keith Raymond Harris
Conspiracy theories have a prominent role in politics, but what is that role and why are conspiracy theories deployed to play it? M. Giulia Napolitano’s (2025) “Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence,…
Conspiracy theories have a prominent role in politics, but what is that role and why are conspiracy theories deployed to play it? M. Giulia Napolitano’s (2025) “Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence,…
Evidence Resistance and the Political Utility of Conspiracy Theories, Keith Raymond Harris
Conspiracy theories have a prominent role in politics, but what is that role and why are conspiracy theories deployed to play it? M. Giulia Napolitano’s (2025) “Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes” discusses the source and extent of the political utility of conspiracy theories. Although I agree with much of the substance of Napolitano’s argument, there are a few points where I’d like to push back or expand on Napolitano’s analysis.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I have a short reply to M. Giulia Napolitano's nice paper on conspiracy theories and propaganda out today:
#philsky
#philsky
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I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in Philosophy
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Research Associate in PhilosophyVacancy Reference: 184814Salary: Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum We have an opportunity for a Research Associ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm hiring! A 2-year postdoc on my ERC project "KNOW-HOW" at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre University of Glasgow. (Deadline for applications 9 November.) Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Details below
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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New paper by @hadeelnaeem.bsky.social on the complexity of pain experiences, and how this makes the use of AI pain-detection technologies liable to generate epistemic injustice. Pain experiences/reports is definitely one of the things I'd like to look at more closely, post-book.
AI and the Complexity of Pain - Philosophy & Technology
Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Pain research documents cases where our disregard of diverse pain experiences leads to epistemic injustices against those who suffer from pain. Automate...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New paper by @hadeelnaeem.bsky.social on the complexity of pain experiences, and how this makes the use of AI pain-detection technologies liable to generate epistemic injustice. Pain experiences/reports is definitely one of the things I'd like to look at more closely, post-book.
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I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
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A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
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blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
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🥁🥳🍾It’s finally out! 📣💃🏻🎉 Needless to say, it’s on a very relevant and timely topic 😉, featuring contributions from EXPERTS in epistemology and philosophy of science.
October 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🥁🥳🍾It’s finally out! 📣💃🏻🎉 Needless to say, it’s on a very relevant and timely topic 😉, featuring contributions from EXPERTS in epistemology and philosophy of science.
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Exciting news: today marks the official launch of my ERC Advanced Grant, KNOW-HOW. I’ll soon be advertising the first of several postdoctoral positions. The initial post — a 24-month postdoc based at Cogito—will begin in Spring 2026.
👉 https://www.knowhow-research.com
Lots more to come—stay tuned!
👉 https://www.knowhow-research.com
Lots more to come—stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Exciting news: today marks the official launch of my ERC Advanced Grant, KNOW-HOW. I’ll soon be advertising the first of several postdoctoral positions. The initial post — a 24-month postdoc based at Cogito—will begin in Spring 2026.
👉 https://www.knowhow-research.com
Lots more to come—stay tuned!
👉 https://www.knowhow-research.com
Lots more to come—stay tuned!
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For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
Dario Mortini, Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion - PhilPapers
Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For those who might be interested: I have a new paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis. It's about whether linguistic data on hedging support the popular knowledge norm of assertion (spoiler: it's not so clear that they do).
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
philpapers.org/rec/MOREHA-6
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New paper in AI & Society on why we should be worried about persuasive AI technologies even if you are, like me, sceptical that we are about to enter a world of AI "hyper-persuasion".
philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2
philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2
Robin McKenna, Sophistry on Steroids? The Ethics, Epistemology and Politics of Persuasive AI - PhilPapers
This paper examines the ethical, epistemological, and political implications of persuasive AI technologies. Recent research suggests that AI is roughly as persuasive as humans in many contexts. Should...
philpapers.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New paper in AI & Society on why we should be worried about persuasive AI technologies even if you are, like me, sceptical that we are about to enter a world of AI "hyper-persuasion".
philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2
philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2
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Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...
Thinking Together
AbstractWhat would it be for one person to think with another? How should we understand the idea of people thinking together and so sharing their thinking
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September 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thinking Together, freshly published version. academic.oup.com/book/60759/c...
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New paper on what it is to ask a question.
TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question.
philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ
TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question.
philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ
Joshua Habgood-Coote, Asking a Question is a Proposal in Shared Inquiry - PhilPapers
What is it to ask a question? We might think about asking a question as the expression of an interrogative attitude towards a question that articulates the speaker’s aim of resolving ...
philpapers.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New paper on what it is to ask a question.
TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question.
philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ
TLDR: teachers' asking, self-directed asking, and shared agenda-setting asking require us to rethink what it is to ask a question.
philpapers.org/rec/HABAAQ
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I have a new paper accepted in Grazer Phil Studies, you can find the accepted draft here: philpapers.org/rec/TANIIT-5
This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest
This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest
Guido Tana, Innkeeper! Is the Wine Good Here? Phenomenal Conservatism and the Arbitrariness Problem - PhilPapers
Phenomenal Conservatism is an internalist theory of justification that upholds the idea that justification arises from a distinct picture of epistemic warrant based on seemings. Recently, it has enjoy...
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August 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I have a new paper accepted in Grazer Phil Studies, you can find the accepted draft here: philpapers.org/rec/TANIIT-5
This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest
This was accepted after I protested the initial verdict after two rounds of reviews. When you think the referee hasn't done their job properly, it's totally ok to protest
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It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)
August 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This got published in the early view section of Analytic Philosophy.
It took two years, but finally it's out, and I'm pretty happy with it.
No OA because IUSS Pavia doesn't have agreements in place now, but drop me a line if you need a published copy.
This got published in the early view section of Analytic Philosophy.
It took two years, but finally it's out, and I'm pretty happy with it.
No OA because IUSS Pavia doesn't have agreements in place now, but drop me a line if you need a published copy.
Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
This paper analyzes and objects to the anti-skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This got published in the early view section of Analytic Philosophy.
It took two years, but finally it's out, and I'm pretty happy with it.
No OA because IUSS Pavia doesn't have agreements in place now, but drop me a line if you need a published copy.
This got published in the early view section of Analytic Philosophy.
It took two years, but finally it's out, and I'm pretty happy with it.
No OA because IUSS Pavia doesn't have agreements in place now, but drop me a line if you need a published copy.
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My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu
My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu
Radically Embodied Introspection
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August 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu
My piece (with Zuzanna Rucinska and Thomas Fondelli) on introspection and radical embodiment is finally out on Topoi - you can read it for free below rdcu.be/ez3Wu
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Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025.
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Please share with others who might be interested :)
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Please share with others who might be interested :)
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Special Issue
Call for Abstracts:
The journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy is putting together a special volume on Political Epistemology.
The issue will feature invited contributions from scholars such as Alex Gu...
philevents.org
August 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025.
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Please share with others who might be interested :)
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Please share with others who might be interested :)