Jonathan Birch

Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 7h

The human desire to communicate with animals is as old as it is universal. Today, that ancient dream might be closer than ever, thanks to rapidly evolving AI. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits

Even if we could speak to animals, should we? | Psyche Ideas

AI could satisfy our deeply held desire to talk to other creatures. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 9h

The précis launches an *open book review symposium* in the journal Animal Sentience. Anyone can submit a review commenting on any aspect of the book. Please do! Those reviews will themselves be open access along with my responses. It's openness all the way down!

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 9h

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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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 1d

I'm intrigued by the near-identical branding to the 1997 video game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tr...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997 video game) - Wikipedia

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Ellen Clarke @ellenclarke.bsky.social · 2d

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Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy

Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 2d

Reflecting on how streaming is the one domain of human activity in which we millennials have coordinated effectively to impose our values on other generations.

Billboard Hot 100 showing top 10 places all occupied by Taylor Swift.

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Eline Kuipers @elinekuipers.bsky.social · 3d

I have finally added my chapter on Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Easter Eggs, which appears in "Taylor Swift and Philosophy" as part of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, to PhilPapers. The 13th seemed the perfect date to do so ✨ philpapers.org/rec/KUIEOT

Eline Kuipers, Eyes Open: Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Easter Eggs - PhilPapers

Taylor Swift is (among other things) famous for her ingenious way of hiding announcements and references, and is known to hide these Easter eggs in almost everything she does and creates. ...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds. David Chalmers, Reality+. You have to decide if they are an animal person or a computer person.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d

Historians have far more cultural visibility across the board, right and left.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d

Analytic philosophy has never achieved the kind of cultural relevance that would prevent attacks based on pure ignorance, and I guess that's our failure. The equivalent would be a critique that goes "Historians: how their stupid obsession with the past stops them imagining radical futures."

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 5d

Lanky , leggy , and beautiful ! Your #FoxOfTheDay shared by @mawgdn

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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · 6d

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell

<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

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Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu.bsky.social · 6d

Seems that the Nobel peace prize is increasingly de-linked from its original concept - an award to whoever has “done the most or best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 6d

The Nobel committee is always playing 3D chess. Giving the prize to Obama in 2009 looked idiotic but 16 years later it's caused a US president to think about peace for almost an entire week.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 7d

It has been said: start an email with normal human pleasantries and only later get to your request for work.

But I say unto you: no, get your request into the first line so I can see it in the preview without having to click anything.

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