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Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

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Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️‍🌈 he/him https://richardpettigrew.com/ Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For? .. more

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 2h

When people used to ask on Twitter which historical figure would have been a main character there most often, it always struck me Pierre Bayle was the clear choice

Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 2h

I find it hard not to admire how committed Bayle was to annoying people and provoking controversy at every point in his life

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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 2h

I find it hard not to admire how committed Bayle was to annoying people and provoking controversy at every point in his life

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 2h

It sounds silly but this new précis of The Edge of Sentience is one of my favourite pieces of my own writing. Yes, it's true, you could get chatGPT to summarize my book (and it's open access, so you literally could) - but I do it better! www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

Abstract of Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3h

Then I present my favoured account, which adapts Rachel Fraser’s account of the wrong of aesthetic injustice. I argue that this allows us to see that certain putative stock examples of testimonial injustices in fact do not fall under the concept.

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3h

Abstract: In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the concept of testimonial injustice, as well as the existing accounts of this characteristic wrong, and I argue that the latter don’t work.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3h

This is now out in the special issue of The Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice that Mona Simion edited.

What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...

What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?*

Abstract. In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the con

academic.oup.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h

Officially published today! Link in Alt Text.

(Fifth book with my name on (including new editions) published in the last two years, but who’s counting?)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uncollected-writings-9780198927570?cc=gb&lang=en&

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 8h

bro just assume the axiom of choice it's fine

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Beyond parody

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 1d

unclear why quince is imprisoned in their garden in the first place

Note on garden wall reading ‘free quince from our garden’

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 3d

[in mary poppins court]
clerk:call the witness for the prosecution
*spoonful of sugar walks in*
medicine: oh, shit

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

Corfu cat

Orange cat stares haughtily at the camera with a magnificent ringed tail wrapped about his feet. The sky is blue, the sun bright, and he has recently supped on some kibble from an indulgent shopkeeper.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 5d

Huge win for Blofeld

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 7d

Turns out the trick is:

Step 1: come to Albania
Step 2: sit in town square
Step 3: profit

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 7d

Small? Yes. Fearsome? Also, yes.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 7d

Sarandë cat performs Fosse dance routine

Tabby cat with one paw forward in the middle of the Magic To Do routine from Pippin

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 8d

I talk about this a bit in my review of Laurie’s book in Mind, where I’m a bit sceptical. But I don’t know of anyone who’s pursued it positively drive.google.com/file/d/1StGY...

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 8d

apparently Wyatt Earp could have watched a Disney cartoon while eating a cheeseburger

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 8d

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 8d

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 11d

Isn’t it wonderful? Had a really lovely day there and at Perast, which also hosted multiple glorious cats

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 11d

Kotor promised cats, and Kotor delivered

Mysterious black cat sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background, clearly enjoying the limelight as Halloween approaches

Tabby cat hunched and sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background.

Half tabby half orange face with tail like a lemur’s curled in front of them. Looking expectantly but in vain at my pizza slice (out of shot)

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 11d

A view into the Bjelasica mountains from the Belgrade-Bar night train. Officially, we weren’t supposed to see this, as the train was due to arrive ten minutes after sunrise, but it was five hours delayed, so we passed the whole Montenegrin section in daylight.

A mountainous scene with trees in the foreground and mist, and snow covered peaks in the background

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