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is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, a wine buff, a gourmet and a sailor

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A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X

Epistemic Environmentalism Epistemologists are increasingly interested in epistemic environments. This marks a departure from a very specific case and agent-centred approach to epistemology, which …

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Here is part 2 of Lukas Schwengerer' series of posts on intellectual virtues on line for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 2

In my last entry, I praised the advantages of intellectual virtues in an online environment. This time, I briefly consider why too much of a focus on intellectual virtues might not be the best solu…

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Lukas Schwengerer "Intellectual Virtues Online" for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Intellectual Virtues Online – Part 1

For the second year in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked misinformation and disinformation among the top global risks. And few places provide more opportunities for spreading misinformatio…

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Spencer Paulson "Digital Techonology and Cognitive Scaffolding" on Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Digital Technology and Cognitive Scaffolding

There is much ambivalence about digital technology. On the one hand, it makes many tasks much more efficient than they would otherwise be. We can do a quick internet search to find a phone number i…

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Some of you may be interested in this post about humility and oppression by Laura Callahan on Open for Debate. #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

A Careful Call for Humility

Sit down. Be humble. – Kendrick Lamar, “Humble”   Humility is a virtue, right? Many people think so. Many think: we should be mindful of our limitations. We should take care to keep in view th…

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Part 2 of Ian James Kidd on pessimism for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 2)

In part one, I argued that the conceptual core of pessimism is the twin judgments that the human condition is very bad and likely to remain so. However, this does not deliver a full philosophical d…

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A great post by Ian James Kidd on Pessimism for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Being pluralistic about philosophical pessimism (Part 1)

There are many vernacular senses of pessimism. Familiar images of half-empty glasses go with elaborate talk of ours as ‘the worst possible world’. Pessimistic people might be praised as resolute tr…

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Alex Worsnip on psychologising explanations for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion

Justice Samuel Alito, of the United States Supreme Court, professes to be an “originalist” about the interpretation of the law. The originalist approach, roughly speaking, says that judges should a…

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Çağla Çimendereli on translation techonologies and linguistic injustice for Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

An Existentialist Challenge to the Babel Fish

Could advanced translation technologies solve linguistic injustice in the world? Activists and scholars hear this question being asked quite often, and sometimes with a slight skeptical tone sugges…

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Welsh Museums Fed.@WelshMuseumsFed10 Feb 2025
The impact of austerity on museum in Wales “between 2009 - 2019 the total expenditure on local government museums in Wales fell by 31% in real terms” Museums and Austerity - Museums Federation Cymru See full report via link museumsfederation.cymru/muse…

Museums and Austerity - Museums Federation Cymru

Over the decade from 2009 to 2019 total expenditure on local government museums in Wales fell by 31% in real terms.

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New Cambridge Element The Metaphysics of Gender by @ediazleon is now free to read for 2 weeks! cup.org/3QaC7FB #cambridgeelements #philosophy
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Felix Bräuer "Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism" on Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Data Figleaves: Statistics and their Power to Conceal Racism

If you have followed the 2024 US election coverage, you have likely come across the term “migrant crime”. A term coined by Donald Trump to refer to an alleged crime wave spurred by Joe Biden’s bord…

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Matthieu Queloz@matthieu_queloz3 Feb 2025
New book out #OpenAccess from @OUPPhilosophy: The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought to Need. It offers a framework for questioning the authority of concepts over our thought and conduct. Read it here: academic.oup.com/book/59533

The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought and Language to Need

Abstract. Philosophy strives to give us a firmer hold on our concepts. But what about their hold on us? Why place ourselves under the sway of a concept and

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New Cambridge Element On Believing and Being Convinced by Paul Silva Jr. is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/4gfK32Q #cambridgeelements #philosophy
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New Cambridge Element Bayesian Models of the Mind by Michael Rescorla is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/4hnpkeP #cambridgeelements #philosophy
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How can a Vice-Chancellor not understand the nature of a subject taught in her own university and use her misunderstanding of the situation as grounds to close that subject down? Yesterday, the VC of @cardiffuni was on the Today programme. I have transcribed her words. /
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Rik Peels "Terrorism and Evil" on Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Terrorism and Evil

On 1 January of this year, an American man drove his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans (Louisiana, US). Fifteen people were killed and dozens of others injured. The perpetr…

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Jules Holroyd "Oppressive Praise" on Open for Debate #philosophy blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

Oppressive Praise

Think about the last time you expressed praise. For me this is easy. As a parent of young children, I do it multiple times a day. ‘How kind you are, sharing your teddy!’ ‘Aw, it sounds like you wer…

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Some of you may be interested in this excellent post by @Agrowoh for Open for Debate #philosophy #philsky blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openford…

The “affective” in affective polarization

Public opinion in many contemporary democracies shows increasing signs of polarization. In particular, animosity and dislike across political lines have become increasingly characteristic of Wester…

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