Deborah Alame-Jones
@alame-jones.bsky.social
Philosopher with particular interest in Wittgenstein, Kant, philosophy of mind, cognitive science - also an animal lover with two adorable dogs.
Excellent piece!
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Excellent piece!
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It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
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I appeared on the Philosopher’s Zone for ABC National Radio (Australia) to discuss my new book.
Love, compassion and gloom: the contradictions of Arthur Schopenhauer - ABC listen
It's been said that the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer should come with a health warning, so stark and pessimistic was his outlook on life. And the man was no less con...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I appeared on the Philosopher’s Zone for ABC National Radio (Australia) to discuss my new book.
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New episode (1174), with Dr. David Bather Woods (@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social). We talk about his great new book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
#1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New episode (1174), with Dr. David Bather Woods (@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social). We talk about his great new book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
YouTube: youtu.be/wBfNN4jSumo
Podcast: bit.ly/49dazu2
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On episode 246, we welcome @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social to discuss the life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, how his father’s suicide shaped him, suffering as the source of compassion, happiness as the negation of pain, and why he believed life is worth living.
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On episode 246, we welcome @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social to discuss the life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, how his father’s suicide shaped him, suffering as the source of compassion, happiness as the negation of pain, and why he believed life is worth living.
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
Full ep: youtu.be/7l9Nk3-mUzw
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The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...
On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”
In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophy—“like the name of the one who burnt down the…
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October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor about his new book. The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment.
I am grateful to my friend and colleague David Peña-Guzmán for this interview at the wonderful Overthink Podcast! It was great to be able to expand on some of the key points of my book on AI with such a nice and intelligent interlocutor.
#AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpN...
#AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpN...
The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: a conversation with Carlos Montemayor
YouTube video by Overthink Podcast
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November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor about his new book. The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment.
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor, author of ‘Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment’. Timely topic!
I am grateful to my friend and colleague David Peña-Guzmán for this interview at the wonderful Overthink Podcast! It was great to be able to expand on some of the key points of my book on AI with such a nice and intelligent interlocutor.
#AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpN...
#AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpN...
The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: a conversation with Carlos Montemayor
YouTube video by Overthink Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Great interview with Carlos Montemayor, author of ‘Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment’. Timely topic!
Great piece!
Conscious Attention as Agency | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theo...
Conscious Attention as Agency
The subjective privacy of consciousness is insufficient to explain how we coordinate action. We succeed at action-coordination because we jointly attend to the world.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great piece!
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Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thanks very much to The Royal Institute of Philosophy for awarding me the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025. Thanks as well to the ERC who funded it, Peter Momtchiloff who commissioned it for OUP, all my LSE team members past and present, and everyone who made the book possible!
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One year of Herald of a Restless World. I’m still amazed by the response and so grateful to everyone who’s joined me in exploring Bergson’s life and philosophy
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
One year of Herald of a Restless World. I’m still amazed by the response and so grateful to everyone who’s joined me in exploring Bergson’s life and philosophy
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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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Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
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Many congratulations to @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Hasok Chang on their election as Fellows of the British Academy. Major recognition for philosophy of science!
July 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Many congratulations to @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Hasok Chang on their election as Fellows of the British Academy. Major recognition for philosophy of science!
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End of the day, @jowolff.bsky.social asked to sum up and reflect at The Public Philosopher, the conference in his honour at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. Brilliant talk about his academic and public career, “It’s more important as a philosopher that people understand what you say”
July 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
End of the day, @jowolff.bsky.social asked to sum up and reflect at The Public Philosopher, the conference in his honour at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. Brilliant talk about his academic and public career, “It’s more important as a philosopher that people understand what you say”
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Videos of two keynote lectures from the BSHP Annual Conference 2025 are now available on our website!
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
Videos and Podcasts | British Society for the History of Philosophy
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July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Videos of two keynote lectures from the BSHP Annual Conference 2025 are now available on our website!
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
The speakers are Catherine Rowett (University of East Anglia) and Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University). Titles in post below.
bshp.org.uk/events/video...
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EVENT!
Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities
Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
@thebshp.bsky.social
@inparenthesis.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social
#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities
Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
@thebshp.bsky.social
@inparenthesis.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social
#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
EVENT!
Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities
Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
@thebshp.bsky.social
@inparenthesis.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social
#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities
Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
@thebshp.bsky.social
@inparenthesis.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social
#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
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Ahead of the Joint Session, The Supplementary Volume has been published and will be available to read open access, free of charge from now through to the end of the conference. You can access the full volume here:
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
#philsky #philosophy
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
#philsky #philosophy
Issues | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Ahead of the Joint Session, The Supplementary Volume has been published and will be available to read open access, free of charge from now through to the end of the conference. You can access the full volume here:
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
#philsky #philosophy
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
#philsky #philosophy
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Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom.
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www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom.
www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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"These whales have so much to teach us and that we are still just scratching the surface of their lives and behavior."
The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Killer whales seen grooming each other with kelp in first for marine tool use
Behavior in orca population off coast of US and Canada captured by scientists using drone observation
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"These whales have so much to teach us and that we are still just scratching the surface of their lives and behavior."
The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
APA PsycNet
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June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
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Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.
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Great to see BBC spotlighting these fab philosophy videos created by @SAPERE_P4C and narrated by Stephen Fry.
Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn
Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies.
#philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2
Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn
Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies.
#philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2
May 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Great to see BBC spotlighting these fab philosophy videos created by @SAPERE_P4C and narrated by Stephen Fry.
Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn
Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies.
#philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2
Watch: tinyurl.com/ytzbvztn
Ideal for teaching #PSHE and #ReligiousStudies.
#philosophy #P4C #philosophyforchildren #KS2
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Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight | Biology Letters
The origin of flight in avian dinosaurs has been historically an ideal framework for
proposing the evolutionary relationship between form and function in limb proportions
under the hypothesis of speci...
royalsocietypublishing.org
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...