Well done, Kyle! It's been a pleasure watching your work develop since I met you as a wee MPhil. Looking forward to seeing all the wonderful philosophy to come.
Today in @aeonmag Andreas Mogensen and I discuss animal welfare, AI welfare, and probabilistic ethics. We make the case for addressing the moral status of animals and AIs as we address health, climate, and other big issues: with probabilistic reasoning and proportional responses.
Wonderful news: Essays on Longtermism is officially out!
It was a pleasure to contribute to the volume and I'm looking forward to reading the other contributions.
I feel like I've fallen through a wormhole and entered a world in which no one but my family remembers the OG fruit gums. I've asked so many people.
Is this a generational thing? Why have people forgotten such an elite sweet?
@goingawoll@Duderichy I don't know why I've fully, and until now subconsciously, assumed you're at Hertford. Especially puzzling given I have a list of philosophy students at Hertford and you're not on it.
@dioscuri@FeepingCreature@morallawwithin Sure, but many people who think morality =/= axiology think that morality "should have a foot" in axiology (that if morality never tracked axiological concerns then it would be implausible). The same seems true of beneficence, without concluding that beneficence=axiology.
@dioscuri@FeepingCreature@morallawwithin I don't think everyone would agree that beneficence = axiology (I don't). And there are certainly some who don't believe in aggregate axiologies.
Some great news this month!
1) Officially finished my philosophy PhD, examined by Elizabeth Anderson and Paul Billingham.
2) Starting a new job at King's College London in September as an Early Career Fellow at the YTL Centre in the Dickson Poon Law School.
📺Bonus Episode: We asked 12 philosophy students about the highlight of their PhD.
🚨This is also the last episode of the Philosopher’s Nest! @99lewiswilliams have had a blast interviewing grad students and we hope you’ve enjoyed our show. Thank you!
https://t.co/ZsHn4vmdP8
@ejjiott Academics: "we're not pedantic "
Me: "I'd say there are definitely more escalators that escalate than those that don't; I see an upwards escalator without a corresponding downward escalator far more often than I see the opposite."