Philosopher at @TUDelft, writing about emotions ⇔ ethical knowledge ⇔ environmental philosophy. Recovering Kant scholar. he/him
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I'm extremely chuffed to announce that my new article 'Moral Experience: Perception or Emotion?' is out now in @EthicsJournal
Available here: doi.org/10.1086/718079
Big up Alice Munro. I read this collection about 10 years ago & I now literally get goosebumps reading the wikipedia synopses, they're that vividly lodged in my memory. I've never read short stories as breathtaking as hers.
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⚠️Two more PhD positions available within our programme at the University of Twente!
✴️a PhD on Reconceiving Rights, Duties, and Wellbeing amidst technological and ecological challenges, supervised by Dominic Lenzi & @JamesHuttonPhil. Deadline: 6 June 📅 utwentecareers.nl/en/vacanci…
This is surprisingly relaxing. Thanks for sharing, @ZooPhilosophy! 🐖🐖🐖 🐖
Cool citizen science project for anyone who likes watching videos of pigs, to help classify data from a project recording natural behaviours in free-roaming pigs
lab.citizenscience.ch/en/pro…
I'm going to carry on taking Huberman seriously (read: eating my blueberries) ∵
-He quickly, humbly admitted his error.
-It's pretty easy to fall into probabilistic fallacies, especially when you're talking without a script & trying to make things sound simple. Who hasn't?
I strive to get things right on the podcast, and if I don’t, I do hope people will point it out. I re-record audio to correct it and post corrections in the show note captions on all platforms and pinned comments on YouTube. Below is the correction now posted for the fertility episode.
At the timestamp related to cumulative probability of pregnancy (2:01:30), I made a math error.
The appropriate equation is 1-(1-p)^n where p is the probability of getting pregnant in a given cycle, and n is the cycle number.
Therefore the equation for this scenario is
1-(0.8^6).
Using the equation, cumulative probability over 6 cycles is 73.8% (rounded to 3 significant figures).
Editing tip: Keep an eye for any paragraphs in your manuscript that deal with things whereof one cannot speak. Passing over them in silence is a great way to keep that word count down! ✅
Me: Here's how to use reasoning to think a bit more carefully about the ethics of technologies.
Engineering students: Can we make this idea of "logically following" more precise? And don't we need more ethical premises to support our ethical premises and so on ∞?🤯
Me:
@TUDelft
Climate action requires technical knowledge & ethical understanding.
Join @JamesHuttonPhil in conversation w/John Broome as they delve into the philosophical underpinnings of climate action:
📅21 May at 17-19 CEST
📍TU Delft | The Hague Campus
esdit.nl/event/but-what-shou…
I'm excited to by welcoming John Broome (Oxford) to TU Delft | The Hague Campus, for an evening of conversation about the ethics of climate action ☀️💨🌊🌳🚄🍎
Please share far and wide 😉
@tudelft @esdit_nl @4TUethics @BehnamTaebi
Absolutely loving @JeffrSebo's 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗦, 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗦. One of those books that simultaneously makes want to (a) spend several lifetimes reflecting on fundamental philosophical questions and (b) change the world.
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Killing birds through horrific factory farm conditions has a downside: you have to walk to pick them up and put them in the bin.
No worries, we've got a solution. Use the Chicken Reaper. It's user friendly! Less walking! Convenient! Call us today, then put your feet up!
I've heard anecdotally that some professors are using LLMs to mark essays. Professors doing this have heard of "jailbreaking", right?
See if you can spot the simple grade-maximizing technique I found that works on GPT3.5... 🤡🤡🤡🤡
How to promote "impactful" humanities research:
UK—Create a massive beaurocratic exercise that pisses everyone off and promotes a reductive, gamified notion of impact.
NL—Ask researchers for advice on issues where human values are pertinent. Create extra grants for such work.
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Imagine being this conceptually confused but thinking that you're in a position to lecture people about misinformation. misinforeview.hks.harvard.ed…
Nice little news story about some of the Climate Ethics teaching I've been doing with a colleague ☺️
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/…
Nice little paper from Deonna & Teroni
-Uses some nice observations about "emotional sensitivities" to defend their view that nonevaluative evidence can justify emos
-Argues that emos give us epistemic goodies due to modulatng attention & are needed for graspng some eval concepts
1 reason I didn't apply for jobs in America is because I didn't want to have to fly the whole fucking time. I'm currently 15months flight free, having taken trains & boats from Scotland to conferences in Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic & a wedding in Hungary. Next up: Lisbon!
Why can't academics give up flying?
We identified cultural, individual, and organizational reasons academics think we can't decarbonize research production.
Especially relevant as more conferences & workshops return to offline-only formats.
nicholaspoggioli.files.wordp…
