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Nat Hansen
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Philosopher at the University of Reading (UK) working on new wave ordinary language philosophy, experimental semantics and pragmatics, and some aesthetics.
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
Experimental philosophers: what do we do with this?
joshmccrain.bsky.social Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 4d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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xphilosopher.bsky.social
The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!
xphijournal.bsky.social Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 9d
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi

We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.

Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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journalphp.bsky.social
Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy
Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning
Calling all researchers in experimental philosophy, cognitive psychology, and experimental linguistics to submit work on verbal reasoning!
think.taylorandfrancis.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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bakaari.bsky.social
amazing review essay alert! a pleasure to read, to edit, to work with @nathansen.bsky.social ✨
September 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
nathansen.bsky.social
I wrote about two recent books that offer advice on how to pay attention to art in the midst of *gestures broadly at everything*

Thanks to the awesome editors at the
@mid-theory.bsky.social
for their interest in this piece, they’re great to work with!
September 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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liao.shen-yi.org
Yes, I think there have been more and more good subdiscipline open access journals. They are all worth taking seriously!!

A partial list:
liao.shen-yi.org/openaccess/

I've also tried to, individually, submit more to these journals.
Open Access Journals (That I Like)
A partial list of 'platinum' or 'diamond' open access journals in or near philosophy
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September 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
nathansen.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this essay J.D.! Goodreads should hire you guys to make data viz for readers—it'd be appealing to have graphs like this on profile pages
Figure from the paper: Figure 9. Another self-identified eclectic reader, who “love[s] reading just about anything.” The chart represents the number of books she read in each of 10 time segments (2010-2021), with colors indicating their distribution across major genres. Figure from the paper: A self-identified eclectic reader, who “loves any kind of books.” The chart represents the actual number of books she read in each of ten time segments (2011-2021), with colors indicating their distribution across major genre clusters.
September 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
nathansen.bsky.social
Kind of what the book I’m working on is about
loadofbunk.bsky.social Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · Aug 29
Can you imagine how powerful J.L. Austin would have been if he had access to an LLM?
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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jdporter.bsky.social
Really excited to see this piece come out! Studying eclectic readers has been a fascinating and extremely rewarding challenge. We wound up operationalizing both genre and eclecticism in ways that (classic DH stuff here) point to the limits of both concepts.

culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...
culturalanalytics.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.
Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally
The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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uehiro.ox.ac.uk
We're delighted to welcome @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social to the position of Senior Researcher in Moral Psychology and Design Bioethics, at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
Read more about Kathryn here: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ka...

#morality #emergingtech #ethics #welcome
July 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/ap...
Appel à propositions/Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS
Appel à propositions/Call for papers for an International Centennial Conference : Stanley Cavell at 100 (Paris, Rome, Boston, 2026)
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July 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
This is how the book opens:
1. Epistemic Everything Everywhere All at Once A recent pattern in academic philosophy over the past 20 or so years has involved relentlessly adding the word ‘epistemic’ in front of almost every other word. Examples include: epistemic infringement; epistemic apprenticeships; epistemic oppression; epistemic failure; epistemic vices; epistemic atonement; epistemic weaponry; epistemic injustice; epistemic phariseeism; epistemic slurs; the epistemic apocalypse; epistemic health; epistemic inoculation; epistemic complicity; epistemic dehumanisation; epistemic appropriation; epistemic trespassing; epistemic violence; epistemic rights; epistemic death; epistemic exploitation; epistemic redlining; epistemic reparations; epistemic sanity; the epistemic IKEA effect; epistemic apathy; epistemic shamelessness; epistemic utopia; and epistemic exhaustion. This trend shows no sign of slowing down; on the contrary, it can seem like we’re only a short distance along an exponential curve, with new additions to the list almost every week.
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Limedyke 1, Trinity County, CA
🗺40.5249, -123.4169 🧭356° ⛰4678 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16660
July 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...
July 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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xphilosopher.bsky.social
If you have a pain in your foot, is the pain something in your mind? Or something in your foot?

Experiments from Emma Borg and colleagues indicate: People can see it either way - either as something in your mind or as something in the world

Do any other concepts work in that same way?
Is Pain “All in your Mind”? Examining the General Public’s Views of Pain - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
By definition, pain is a sensory and emotional experience that is felt in a particular part of the body. The precise relationship between somatic events at the site where pain is experienced, and cent...
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July 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Rockpile 1, Sonoma County, CA
🗺38.7189, -123.0539 🧭226° ⛰1335 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11024
July 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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jdporter.bsky.social
This is an incredible dataset, and it's a lot of fun to play around with it on the Post45 site!
post45data.bsky.social Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jun 25
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

doi.org/10.18737/552...
June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"Even when a term has been captured, this doesn’t need to be the end of the story. ... strategies of appropriation and collective creativity that marginalized groups have long engaged in."

www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

@floresophize.bsky.social and Nico Orlandi on semantic fights.
When Words Are Stolen
The real stakes of semantic fights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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ethanlandes.bsky.social
I tried to coin the phrase "footnote papers" for papers like this that people feel the need to acknowledge but don't feel the need to actually engage with.
June 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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guylongworth.bsky.social
Updated SEP entry: J. L. Austin. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aust...
J. L. Austin
June 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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No one can stop you from rating the likert scale
November 6, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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liao.shen-yi.org
I thought this preprint was informative, if worrying. I don't think I have understood the age-period-cohort problem well, even though it's an old problem.

In particular, it got me worried about the apparent time hypothesis we have been using in studying a certain kind of language change.
dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 27
PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>
Arrested Development meme. People have suggested empirically solving the APC problem just by applying the right model to the right data Well did it work for those people Not, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... ...but it might work for us.
May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥
Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”.
It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles.

Editors and Editorial Board below.

More information coming soon...
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM