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Pablo Magaña

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Political philosopher | IRC postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin | Animals, future generations, and democratic theory | Also, memes and shitposting. https://sites.google.com/view/pablomagana

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · Nov 12

I am new on Bluesky, so here's a brief (hopefully informative) summary of my research interests:

- The representation of animals and the unborn.
- How (if at all) should theories of political legitimacy take animals into account.
- The "demos" of democratic firms (e.g. workers, stakeholders...?).

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 15h

Dan Kahan's "The Logic of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, and Law" (www.jstor.org/stable/35954...)

The Logic of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, and Law on JSTOR

Dan M. Kahan, The Logic of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, and Law, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 1 (Oct., 2003), pp. 71-103

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 15h

lol

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Tim Meijers @timmeijers.bsky.social · 1d

The Leiden Institute for Philosophy is looking for a new colleague in African Philosophy. Spread the word and/or apply!

careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

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

careers.universiteitleiden.nl

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 1d

Dear grant-designers, I've no idea what "intellectual mobility" is. No metaphors in applications, please. Be poetic at home if you wish. I don't have the time, nor the willingness, to decipher hieroglyphics. Thanks.

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 1d

This is a thoughtful essay, which I recommend. In my neck of the woods, some of the most influential literatures (Parfit & population ethics, animal ethics, longtermism, etc.) make strikingly revisionary claims, with many authors claiming precisely that "common sense morality" is inconsistent/wrong.

Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 2d

This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

If You Want to Critique Analytic Philosophy, It Helps to Know Something About It

A note on Neil Vallelly's essay "Analytic Philosophy Is a Dead End for the Left."

benburgis.substack.com

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/MBQXtnyR5Zc?... I am a simple man. I see a new Waxahatchee live video. I click.

Waxahatchee - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 7d

If this doesn’t end bonobos’ reputation as the hippies of the great apes I don’t know what will. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos

Sonya Pashchevskaya and colleagues document a potentially fatal attack of a male bonobo by a group of females.

www.cell.com

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 9d

Foggy Cádiz

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 13d

Just published: my review of Ethical Omnivores: Better Eating for everyone, by Samantha Noll.

It's good we now have a sustained philosophical defence of this position. But I suggest that there are lots of places where Noll's arguments fall short.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 13d

In this first session, Stefan Schubert (co-author of the recent book “Effective Altruism and the Human Mind”, OUP 2025) will give a talk entitled “Caring for the Future, Caring for All.” You’re welcome to join us. Please find more info. in the link below:

philevents.org/event/show/1...

Caring for the Future, Caring for All

This online seminar series brings together researchers from philosophy, political science, psychology, and related disciplines to explore how humans think or should think about decisions concerning fu...

philevents.org

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 13d

‼️How do we think about future generations? And how should we? On October 9 at 1pm CET we’re kicking off the first of a series of online seminars on “Moral Minds and Ethical Futures: Empirical and Normative Perspectives,” co-organized by
@hugoviciana.bsky.social (U. of Sevilla) and me.

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 18d

Proof that backward causation is real!

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 19d

Fingers crossed!

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 20d

Definitely! Thanks a lot! :)

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks, Rike! Congrats to you as well on your recent book chapter (which I will also read to become more familiar with the debates on compromise you mentioned). A week of good news 🙌

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks, Matt! I hope you find it interesting :)

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20d

My new Centre for Animal Sentience is launching on 30 Sept, and you can read more about one of our priority areas - Animals and AI - in this new blog post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Should you let AI train your dog? The lawless world of AI and animals

Artificial intelligence could transform our relationships with animals, but more must be done to make sure AI works for the interests of other species.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for sharing, Josh! (Also on Twitter/X) 🙂

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Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social · 21d

Coming out soon!
I've written a chapter for this book, where I compare compromise between persons to compromise within a person.
Looking forward to reading the other chapters!!
Many thanks to the editors for putting this together 🙏
@karstenmause.bsky.social

#academicsky

Book cover and details for History and Theory of Compromise, open access, to be published 2026

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 21d

More generally, and whether or not realism is tenable, I think the error-theoretic account these authors suggest is interesting, and nicely illuminates aspects of speciesism. So I am also happy using it a bit more opportunistically (without the realist attachment haha).

Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for reading it! Yes, I think it's fair to say realist ideology critique is a type of error theory, combined with a strong skepticism about moral normativity. I am more optimistic, but my metaethical views are not super stable, so I am happy hedging my bets 😄

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing, Steve! I am still a "moralist" to be honest, but I now think there's a version of realism I can really understand (and that, crucially, seems compatible with anti-speciesism!).

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Pablo Magaña @pmagana94.bsky.social · 21d

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Political realists believe that we shouldn’t criticize political phenomena on moral grounds. If they are right, are animal ethicists in trouble? Can we still criticize speciesist social orders? In this new paper, I argue that we can.

Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24d

Some new theoretical economics papers modelling the implications of AGI on the economy.

These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius), if achieved, would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 24d

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

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