Pablo Magaña
@pmagana94.bsky.social
Political philosopher | IRC postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin | Animals, future generations, and democratic theory | Also, memes and shitposting.
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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...?).
- 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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I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
I once e-mailed the Solipsistic Society, but never got an answer :(
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I once e-mailed the Solipsistic Society, but never got an answer :(
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Started reading the nth-paper purporting to explore some interesting, apparently general phenomenon, only to end up (without any indication) exploring it *in the specific context of the US* (no attempt to generalize at all). Byee!
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Started reading the nth-paper purporting to explore some interesting, apparently general phenomenon, only to end up (without any indication) exploring it *in the specific context of the US* (no attempt to generalize at all). Byee!
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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Dustin Crummett of the Insect Institute and University of Washington Tacoma about his work on the environmental impact of insect farming. The episode is available below or in all the usual podcast places.
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-244-...
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-244-...
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Dustin Crummett of the Insect Institute and University of Washington Tacoma about his work on the environmental impact of insect farming. The episode is available below or in all the usual podcast places.
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-244-...
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-244-...
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So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked?
Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd.
It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed...
1/n
Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd.
It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed...
1/n
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked?
Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd.
It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed...
1/n
Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd.
It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed...
1/n
My life right now:
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My life right now:
My father has sent me this photo of the dog and now my afternoon is ruined lol 🥲
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My father has sent me this photo of the dog and now my afternoon is ruined lol 🥲
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Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, Matti Wilks, Claudia Suárez-Yera, Carter Allen, Guy Kahane, Luke McGuire, Nadira S. Faber, Antonio J. Rojas-Tejada, María Sánchez-Castelló, Jorge L. Ordóñez-Carrasco, Paul Bloom, 2025
Children morally prioritize humans over animals less than adults do. Is this because children are less speciesist—meaning they place less moral weight on mere s...
journals.sagepub.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
If you work on animals and AI, consider submitting an abstract to this excellent special issue in the Journal of Ethics, co-ordinated by the no-less-excellent Catia Faria (UCM) and Yip Fai Tse (NUS). Reposts also appreciated: link.springer.com/collections/...
link.springer.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you work on animals and AI, consider submitting an abstract to this excellent special issue in the Journal of Ethics, co-ordinated by the no-less-excellent Catia Faria (UCM) and Yip Fai Tse (NUS). Reposts also appreciated: link.springer.com/collections/...
This is hapenning tomorrow. Join us!
Next Thursday, November 20 (at 1pm CET), Andreas Schmidt (U. of Groningen) will present at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures online seminar co-organized by @hugoviciana.bsky.social and me. He'll be talking about "Longtermist Political Philosophy." You're welcome to join us! Info below:
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is hapenning tomorrow. Join us!
Iñigo González-Ricoy and I have published a blog post on New Work in Philosophy where we summarize our recent paper in Legal Theory defending the possibility of legal subjection among non-overlapping generations. Links below 👇
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Iñigo González-Ricoy and I have published a blog post on New Work in Philosophy where we summarize our recent paper in Legal Theory defending the possibility of legal subjection among non-overlapping generations. Links below 👇
What's wrong with people who go to concert to TALK? And I don't mean a few comments here and there. I mean long conversations spanning several songs. Just go to a pub? It's cheapter and you won't be acting like an asshole.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
What's wrong with people who go to concert to TALK? And I don't mean a few comments here and there. I mean long conversations spanning several songs. Just go to a pub? It's cheapter and you won't be acting like an asshole.
Next Thursday, November 20 (at 1pm CET), Andreas Schmidt (U. of Groningen) will present at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures online seminar co-organized by @hugoviciana.bsky.social and me. He'll be talking about "Longtermist Political Philosophy." You're welcome to join us! Info below:
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Next Thursday, November 20 (at 1pm CET), Andreas Schmidt (U. of Groningen) will present at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures online seminar co-organized by @hugoviciana.bsky.social and me. He'll be talking about "Longtermist Political Philosophy." You're welcome to join us! Info below:
link.springer.com/article/10.1... In 2023, over a few beers in Lisbon, Devon Cass and I teamed up to explore whether animals can be subjected to the kinds of wrongs relational egalitarians are concerned with. The result was this paper just published in Philosophical Studies:
Relational equality and the status of animals - Philosophical Studies
Can the ideal of relational equality—or, more generally, the relational approach to justice—be applied to animals? Animals have, across time and place, held different social statuses (e.g. as incarnat...
link.springer.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... In 2023, over a few beers in Lisbon, Devon Cass and I teamed up to explore whether animals can be subjected to the kinds of wrongs relational egalitarians are concerned with. The result was this paper just published in Philosophical Studies:
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Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @rug.nl to the #Philosophy Colloquium later today for his talk, ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence’.
More on this term’s series:
🔗 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/r...
More on this term’s series:
🔗 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/r...
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @rug.nl to the #Philosophy Colloquium later today for his talk, ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence’.
More on this term’s series:
🔗 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/r...
More on this term’s series:
🔗 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/r...
Oh, the Irish Autumn...
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Oh, the Irish Autumn...
The mighty Patterson Hood
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The mighty Patterson Hood
"The inventor of the Gantt chart? Please, open. I just want to have a few words with you."
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"The inventor of the Gantt chart? Please, open. I just want to have a few words with you."
Bowles and Gintis: "[R]ecent developments in microeconomic theory have shown that the self-interested behavior underlying neoclassical theory is artificially truncated: it depicts a charmingly Victorian but Utopian world in which conflicts abound but a handshake is a handshake" lol
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Bowles and Gintis: "[R]ecent developments in microeconomic theory have shown that the self-interested behavior underlying neoclassical theory is artificially truncated: it depicts a charmingly Victorian but Utopian world in which conflicts abound but a handshake is a handshake" lol
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Fee waivers are available for UK applicants interested in reading for a PhD in my department. I'd be happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, especially (but not exclusively) research around animals in moral and political philosophy. Short deadline!
Are you interested in reading for a PhD in international relations, politics, history, or philosophy at Loughborough University? Fee waivers are available for competitive UK applicants starting their studies in 2026.
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Fee waivers are available for UK applicants interested in reading for a PhD in my department. I'd be happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, especially (but not exclusively) research around animals in moral and political philosophy. Short deadline!