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A Great Blue Heron shakes out his silvery plumes. [📹debsandidge]

I reply to Moti Mizrahi's generous review of my book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*, here: social-epistemology.com/2026… Thanks to the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective for hosting this back-and-forth! #AIEthics #philosophy

'There is no worldly truth but mathematical truth. In politics, history, and diplomacy, truth changes from day to day and people get different concepts of right. But mathematics never lies.' -Erwin Schrödinger tinyurl.com/tcxueg9

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Rational Attitudes to Risk by Ittay Nissan- Rozen! Free access available until 15 October at cup.org/3V1kI7V #cambridgeelements #philosophy

Stained-glass staircase with abstract geometry by Piet Mondrian, from the 1900s.

Excellent review of my Marx book by Sabina Vaccarino Bremner onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

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New Issue of Philosophy now available 📚 cup.org/4htblFr

In 1954, Albert Einstein was so upset by the Oppenheimer hearing and the McCarthy era attacks on the loyalty of scientists, that he said that if he were just starting out he'd become a plumber or peddler, instead of a physicist. He soon got an invitation to join a plumbing firm!

Professor Richard Feynman playing bongo. ✍️

To celebrate I'll be releasing five episodes over the next two weeks with interviews on topics I skipped in earlier series. First up, Sappho with Marguerite Johnson! historyofphilosophy.net/podc…

Here’s an introductory essay I wrote on Jon Fosse’s Septology — my novel of the century so far.

Working through copy edits. Should be out in March

Parts 1 and 2 of a recent interview on Mary Midgley with @Philosophellie 3cr.org.au/radicalphilosophy…

Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy public philosophy blog! blog.apaonline.org/2025/05/2…

I’m excited to share that my new book on Mary Midgley is available to preorder! It’s due out December 10: bloomsbury.com/us/mary-midgl… #marymidgley @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyAcad @BloomsburyPhilo @bloomsbury

A new paper in Nature reports that a team genetically altered mice to make them "apallial" (missing a cortex). And then, postnatally, transferred organoids derived from human neural cells into that space. Three months later the cortex was 91.9% human-derived neural cells by volume. While this opens up new avenues for neurological disease modeling and drug discovery, it also raises important ethical questions. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…