🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a

Really enjoying Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels so far!

Kevin Lala in Dialectical Systems reflects on the impact philosophers have had on his approach to biology, especially his new book Evolution Evolving. I know the first guy he mentions quite well 👀

The University of St. Michael’s College offers heartfelt congratulations to Professor Mark McGowan on being elected to the Royal Society of Canada. A much-deserved honour for a pillar of St. Mike’s.   rsc-src.ca/en/news/royal-…

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Check out this great element on “teleology” by Matt Tugby!

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Philosophy The position begins Aug. 1, 2025 and is renewable up to three years. Application Deadline: Nov. 1, 2024 historyofphilosophy.nd.edu/news-events/ne…

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

Forthcoming Oct 21st, 2024. Art, Nature, & Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe. "This volume underscores the interdisciplinary impact of Goethe’s thought and work. Of particular note is Goethe's unified & non-reductive account of nature, human education, social life, & reason."

My biography of French philosopher Henri Bergson is out in the US in ONE MONTH! Pre-order to find out about his family ties to Proust, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, and why he caused the 1st ever traffic jam on Broadway hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emily-h… Basic Books

A lovely review of my book in Publishers Weekly "This scintillating debut depicts Henri Bergson (1859–1941), the Belle Époque philosopher of “flux,” as a countervailing force against turn-of-the-century certainties about technological progress" publishersweekly.com/9781541600942

Join us tomorrow for the 2024 Christianity and the Arts Lecture presented by Tomson Highway, best-selling author, playwright, musician and director. stmikes.utoronto.ca/event/the-2024…

My son has arrived

If you are a Bertrand Russell enjoyer, don't talk to me or my son ever again

Bergson supported the idea of evolution but was critical of how it was studied, arguing that the evolutionary theory of his time overlooked the historical and creative capacities of living beings New monograph by Dr Mathilde Tahar dialecticalsystems.eu/publications/n……

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Something to brighten up your doomscrolling!

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Vertebrate paleontology has an ontogeny problem. I think I've solved it. NEW PREPRINT and THREAD 🧵 (link to preprint at the end) (Picture from Tetrapod Zoology, images owned by authors cited therein)