Clayton Littlejohn

@cmlittlejohn.bsky.social

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Melbourne based philosopher. Dianoia RIP. Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. Epistemology and ethics. #philsky #melbourne #democrats It ain't easy being blue .. more

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Internal approval to submit an expression of interest for a grant in a competition we're all nearly certain to lose. LET'S GO!

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a fan of Severance by any chance?

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, it's been too long. Might need to rewatch.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

FGTs? (Haven't seen it in ages and ages--great choice)

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favourites

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Will SCOTUS end up saying that Presidential immunity flows down?

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

Hate a bike thief, but especially one who drives an Audi. Couple of pics of a local bike thief at work.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

I hate that he's said something true

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 3d

It would be just my luck if he is but not the one I'd been hoping for

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 3d

Just found out that I have a neighbour named David Byrne and he apparently is in music. It's doing my head in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

Annoyed (again!) that I studied Latin in high school but downloading Duolingo as I type this

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Assistant, Associate Professor or Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montreal - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant, Associate Professor or Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montreal

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live.

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Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

They are also hiring an associate dean of research (I might put my hat in the ring for this) but this one is philosophy or theology so read the ad and see if you'd be a fit.

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Associate Dean (Research), Theology and Philosophy - Vacancy Details

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

ACU is hiring in ethics, too. Speaking just for myself, I'd love it if they'd hire someone who could do a bit of decision theory.

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Normative Ethics/Political Philosophy) - Vacancy Details

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

ACU is hiring in philosophy part 3: candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (History of Ethics) - Vacancy Details

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

ACU is hiring in philosophy. 4 positions. Here's another ad:

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (History of Philosophy) - Vacancy Details

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 4d

ACU is hiring in philosophy. This is one of the four ads they've just posted. I'm hoping they'll appear in better places.

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Epistemology/Language/Mind) - Vacancy Details

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote this poem because of my love of Tim

Your evidence of evidence might mislead. Believe it.
Yearning for the luminous gets you nowhere. I've seen it.
Wagering on whether even or odd be the clock's hand?
Betting without looking might be a good plan.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 5d

11 years ago, Agnes decided she'd cast a critical eye on representational approaches to perceptual experience. Miss Agnes so much. Miss Bill Brewer, too.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 7d

#airbnb just took down my review of a place that turned out to be roach infested after a long fight about reimbursement with the owner. Got the refund after a few weeks, but they don't care about pest infestations (despite local laws) and won't confirm properties rented by people with legal licenses

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 8d

NGL, kind of embarassing that our best fighter pilots can't win bowling trophies

Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 9d

#Donnie
#BoneSpurs

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 9d

#Donnie
#BoneSpurs

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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 9d

My research aims to show that Plato's claim that all knowledge is recollection is equivalent to the view that knowing is a lifelong mining process in which the soul solves hashes in order to uncover existing bits of knowledge thereby adding to the soul's blockchain for recovery upon transmigration.

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Princeton DeCenter Postdoctoral Fellowships: Center for the Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 9d

Not in this one, sadly. I have a few others that fill out the details of this project that I liked a bit better in terms of style, etc.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d

Anyway, have a read. Hope to have more on this forthcoming. The overlap with O'Connor's work on industrial distraction is quite promising. And just excited to have a paper on the value of information (VOI) in this space. As an epistemologist, I'm here to say listen to the decision people, not us

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d

So, swapping the evidence the other way so that they get knowledge providing testimony that doesn't warrant as high confidence as the statistical evidence would be less valuable for their choices.

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d

Thus, it might be accuracy-enhancing disinformation because it ensures that the content (while more accurate) can't play its desired practical function (e.g., giving proof of guilt in a criminal case). However, an agent who is betting would prefer statistics

Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d

Here's a silly example. Let E1 be naked statistical evidence that p. Let E2 be testimonial evidence that p. If evidence is needed to build a case, swapping E2 for E1 would improve accuracy (both over the prior and the alternative evidence) but thwart the effort to build a case.

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