Anita Leirfall

Your Deep Expertise Is Why Nobody Knows Your Name x.com/acagamic/sta... #science #philsky

"AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such"

Lack of Attitude Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of belief, proposing that belief ascriptions serve as useful models of unconscious dispositions rather than ref

Kati Farkas and I have a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude', in a superb new volume edited by @eschwitz.bsky.social and @msgjonhere.bsky.social The paper is open access and available to download here: academic.oup.com/book/62410/c...

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

Touché!

What we really need is a change in the publication/credit system.

There are too many papers, fewer reviewers (with increasingly few remaining, biasing review), overworked editors, and journals holding up an artificial gatekeeper bottleneck and charging money for it. This is not about "quality".

AI isn't a dual-use technology, it is inherently violent <p><em>When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “a liar with a god complex” over fears that his company’s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boun...

«When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “a liar with a god complex” over fears that his company’s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boundary between civilian and military technology no longer exists.» iai.tv/articles/ai-... #AI #surveillance

I knew, of course, that William Whewell first coined the word “scientist,” but I had no idea that the idea remained so controversial that Nature was still weighing in on the appropriateness of the term at least as late as 1925.

https://www.nature.com/articles/115253a0.pdf

#HistSTM #PhilSci #STS

Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science Our Master (MA) program in Logic and Philosophy of Science was founded in October 2012. It is an international MA program of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at L...

The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...

New on the Archive:

Szubart, Tomasz (2025) What are musical emotions? A proposal for a functional–teleosemantic approach. ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, 15 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 2084­–1043

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27467/

We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!

Video abstract for Melissa's and my new Element, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project! #philsky #philsci #scicomm 🧪

Daniel Kostić, PhD What is your current role and how did you get here? I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). This is a purely...

In the new @eenphilsci.bsky.social blog I tell my origin story, my current projects, and some of my struggles. eenps.weebly.com/blog/daniel-...

Thank you @annaalexandrova.bsky.social and @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social for inviting me to share it.

#philsci

JOB OPPORTUNITY.

Apply to work for us as an Administrator/Web Editor. This is the perfect flexible job for a grad or PhD student. See the link below for more information! Pass along to your students.

Deadline: Friday 27th March

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Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci

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Title card for Mindscape AMA podcast episode.

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | March 2026. We talk about quantum gravity and the early universe, the Umwelt of a cat, junky AI-written papers, and whether public debates serve a useful purpose. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

An excellent source! #WiseWomen

Two-Year Post-Doc in Ethics of AI and Emerging Technologies #philsky

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it.

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years. No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/synchr...

The BSA Postdoc Award is open again!

We invite applications for a two-year postdoctoral award in philosophical aesthetics, to the value of £30,000 per year, to start in the Autumn term in 2026. Find out how to apply here: british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po...

#aesthetics #philosophy #postdoc

Laughing at Darkness: Bataille’s Theory of Laughter From the archive: "Laughing at Darkness: Bataille’s Theory of Laughter", by Tung-Wei Ko

From the archive: "Laughing at Darkness: Bataille’s Theory of Laughter", by Tung-Wei Ko #Philosophy #Philsky

Emmie Malone, Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem - PhilPapers There are many paradoxes of aversive or painful art. We enjoy being disgusted, scared, sad, and stressed in engaging with art in a way that we don’t, for instance, on the ...

found out that my article, "Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem," was accepted in Contemporary Aesthetics! It's all about metal, hardcore, and screamo (and secretly metaphilosophy)! You can read the preprint here! philpapers.org/rec/MALPSA-8

Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x) in semantics & philosophy of memory (SEER project, 3 years)

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

Constantine Sandis, Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land. London: Anthem Press. 2025 Click on the article title to read more.

A really nice review by Ruby Main of my @anthempress.bsky.social book, Wittgenstein on Other Minds, published this week in Philosophical Investigations

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Hegel on History, Politics and Philosophy This collection reviews Hegel in relation to history, politics and philosophy showing how Hegel is to be understood as a historical thinker.

My book Hegel on History, Politics and Philosophy is just published. Essays, old and nw, with the last essay dealing with Hegel today. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Very pleased to receive my copy of the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism, for which I co-wrote a chapter with the wonderful Daniele Moyal-Sharrock.

The book is an excellent addition to any library👇

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It)

Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It) | By Elay Shech www.templeton.org/news/plato-w... #Plato #Socrates #dialogue #AI #LLM #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional ...

Come to Europe, friends!
The European Research Council (ERC) has just confirmed increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe. Drop me an email if you want to know more.

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Indeed.

Interested in the evolution of human language? Check out our new paper in @science.org where we synthesize latest findings and outline a multifaceted, bio-cultural approach for studying how language evolved. Super proud of this work, and hoping it leads to exciting new research! tinyurl.com/ykacvanp