Keith Frankish
@keithfrankish.com
Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor, Sheffield University. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα.
Website: https://www.keithfrankish.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KeithFrankish
Website: https://www.keithfrankish.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KeithFrankish
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Keith Frankish
@keithfrankish.com
· May 12
In philosophy, if you think the answer's obvious, then you haven't understood the question.
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Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
Douglas Adams! thou shouldst be living at this hour
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Douglas Adams! thou shouldst be living at this hour
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The more I look at @petemandik.bsky.social‘s comics (dailynous.com/tag/mind-chu...) the more I want to watch a cartoon visualized by him.
Mind Chunks - Daily Nous
dailynous.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The more I look at @petemandik.bsky.social‘s comics (dailynous.com/tag/mind-chu...) the more I want to watch a cartoon visualized by him.
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The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...
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No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5
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Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
An interesting 1955 discussion about translation between E. V. Rieu and J. B. Phillips, who had both translated the Gospels into modern English. www.bible-researcher.com/rieu.html
Translating the Gospels: A Discussion Between Dr. E.V. Rieu and the Rev. J.B. Phillips
Classical scholar E. V. Rieu and J.B. Phillips discuss the principles they used in translating the Gospels.
www.bible-researcher.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
An interesting 1955 discussion about translation between E. V. Rieu and J. B. Phillips, who had both translated the Gospels into modern English. www.bible-researcher.com/rieu.html
Roger Moore telling anecdotes about his time as The Saint. Not a bad way of passing 50 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmUY...
The Saint, Bond, and Miss Piggy: An Audience With Roger Moore (Extended Interview)
YouTube video by Century 21 Films
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November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Roger Moore telling anecdotes about his time as The Saint. Not a bad way of passing 50 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmUY...
Philosophers described by Peep Show
YouTube video by JP
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November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Let us remember those who suffered and died in the horrific wars of the twentieth century, and let us honour them by committing ourselves to defending the peace and justice they fought for. Photo shows my great uncle (left) and grandfather (right).
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Let us remember those who suffered and died in the horrific wars of the twentieth century, and let us honour them by committing ourselves to defending the peace and justice they fought for. Photo shows my great uncle (left) and grandfather (right).
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ive pushed all my drafts to KDP! some of them i want to publish next year tho but dont they look cute all together like that I almost want to make crossovers
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ive pushed all my drafts to KDP! some of them i want to publish next year tho but dont they look cute all together like that I almost want to make crossovers
He is looking down on us
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
He is looking down on us
I don't know who will be the Democratic candidate in 2028, but I do know what their campaign song should be.
youtu.be/ifwtWF485HU
youtu.be/ifwtWF485HU
Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Live in London 2008)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I don't know who will be the Democratic candidate in 2028, but I do know what their campaign song should be.
youtu.be/ifwtWF485HU
youtu.be/ifwtWF485HU
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The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Can't remember the last time I had Tripe à la Mode
Menu at the Café Royal on Regent Street, June 1942. Only three courses allowed and Kipper sur Toast a mere 2 shillings…
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Can't remember the last time I had Tripe à la Mode
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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My brilliant, funny daughter! Maybe she can't string two sentences together but she's fully qualified to help you fix your back pain and posture! Check it out! Free Walking Toolkit! (plus bloopers!) - Space Alexander Technique youtube.com/shorts/KfCES... via @YouTube
Free Walking Toolkit! (plus bloopers!) - Space Alexander Technique
YouTube video by jlmsings
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November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My brilliant, funny daughter! Maybe she can't string two sentences together but she's fully qualified to help you fix your back pain and posture! Check it out! Free Walking Toolkit! (plus bloopers!) - Space Alexander Technique youtube.com/shorts/KfCES... via @YouTube
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there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence
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There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence
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Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped
please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped
If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.
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I appreciated the debate yesterday about how to interpret the results of the cognitive dissonance replication study
Scroll up to read the points made by researchers on both sides
Scroll up to read the points made by researchers on both sides
The whole idea about the paradigm we tested is that manipulation choice rules out the alternative explanations, so it can provide support for the theory, but we didn't find that. We only found effects that can be explained by alternative processes. (Also, I read the paper since I wrote it)
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I appreciated the debate yesterday about how to interpret the results of the cognitive dissonance replication study
Scroll up to read the points made by researchers on both sides
Scroll up to read the points made by researchers on both sides