This The Boston Globe piece by José Muñoz (José Manuel Muñoz) is the first popular press article I've seen on "hyperscanning" – research on the synching of brain activity during social interaction. (Have there been others?) The field is extraordinarily interesting.. 1 bostonglobe.com/2024/08/17/opi…

If you ask people a philosophical question, you won’t find that they all give the same answer. You’ll find different people giving different answers. Why is that? In this paper (in press at Ergo), I argue for a new answer to this traditional question philpapers.org/rec/KNOCIG-2

Philosophers: spread the word! THREE permanent jobs at StAndrews Philosophy: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Aesthetics/Metaethics. Links here: Philosophy of science: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/38… Epistemology: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/40… Aesthetics/metaethics: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/58…

Linguists, a famously non- confrontational bunch and well-known for trying not to anger anyone, especially not each other.

Four years ago, we published our little book The Philosopher Queens. Yesterday, three young women came up to me after my lecture and told me it was the reason they chose to study philosophy. I think that's mission accomplished!

"Where to find the wonder that gives meaning to life" | with Helen De Cruz | NPR

See the Wonders of Bird Engineering in These Photos of Intricate Nests | Smithsonian Birds’ nests are widely variable, ranging from woven baskets to hammocks made from saliva to a spot of mud on the ground, just sparsely lined with grass. smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

You can read a preprint of my paper "Friendship with the ancients" on PhilPapers here -- I argue for the longstanding practice of making "friends" by reading the works of ancient authors. This paper was fun to write! philpapers.org/rec/DECFWT

Collector discovered Isaac Newton’s lost personal copy of Opticks David DiLaura called his discovery "a once-in-a-collector’s-lifetime event." arstechnica.com/science/2023/0… #Newton #Opticks

A Note on Critical Social Ontology | Powers, Capacities & Dispositions | By Ruth Groff (⁦rg⁩) …pacitiesanddispositions.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/a-n…

I asked my Media Studies students how many of them read Twitter. Not use Twitter, just read it. The average came out to 0.57%. 100% had public or anonymous 1) TikTok and 2) Reddit accounts. About half actively used Instagram. But yeah Twitter's for old people.

here's a summary (very early) of my project, if you're interested to learn more! janabacevic.net/research/under…

The value of our values When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’ | by Alexander Prescott-Couch ⁦(Alex Prescott-Couch⁩) #Nietzsche #values aeon.co/essays/nietzsc…

New Open Access article: "Mind the Guardrails: Epistemic Trespassing and Apt Deference" by Neil Levy and Russell Varley tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very happy to receive my contributor's copy of this beauty.

Josh Shepperd of all the websites, reddit is the thing that my students and I most connect over. it's the only one topic driven and not dominated by individual identity. I wrote about it a bit in my book. (free pdf!) researchgate.net/publication/33…

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe. quantamagazine.org/the-first-nucl… (via Quanta Magazine)

Only people with fish surnames are allowed to write biographies of French philosophers it turns out

Quantum collapse holds the key to consciousness Stuart Hameroff argues that by studying anesthesia we’re able to understand what goes away in the brain when the light of consciousness is switched off. He finds the answer in quantum processes in the brain. iai.tv/articles/quant…

How Natural Are We? | The New Yorker The philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith (⁦Peter Godfrey-Smith⁩) believes that we needlessly divide ourselves from the world we inhabit. | By Joshua Rothman newyorker.com/culture/open-q…