Simone Picenni

I'm co-editing a Synthese special issue on the relationship between traditional, naturalistic, and social metaphysics, called "The Aims and Methodologies of Contemporary Metaphysics". Check out the CFP below if you work on meta-metaphysics! The deadline is September 30th

9/ Musk made his endorsement of Trump on July 13, 2024. The analysis suggests that Musk did more than merely give verbal support for Trump, but also changed X's algorithm on the same date to systematically promote his own and other prominent pro-Republican acounts. /end

@JDHamkins Beautiful!

Here is my solution. By the fixed-point lemma, there is a sentence ζ asserting "for any proof of a contradiction in ZFC, there is a smaller proof in PA of ¬ζ". This is a Pi_1 assertion in arithmetic, and I claim that PA proves the equiconsistency, Con(ZFC) ⟷ Con(PA+ζ).

It is a theorem that there is a sentence ζ in the language of arithmetic, such that the theory PA+ζ is equiconsistent with ZFC over PA. That is, PA proves the equivalence Con(ZFC) ⟷ Con(PA+ζ). Challenge: Who can express such a sentence ζ? What does it say?

Just had a fantastic chat about functions, kinds, biochemistry, genetics and even virtue ethics with Ricardo from @TheDissenterYT 💫 The video will come out in a couple of months on his channel. Really honoured to have joined the many great philosophers he has interviewed!

In June, I started my new job as postdoctoral researcher for the @ERC project @Assembling_Life at @UniOslo. I will be studying self assembling processes in biochem and many other things. So happy to be part of this fantastic team and great department! 🦋 hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/…

🦀🐝🧠🤖 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 PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.

I'm co-organising a meta-metaphysics conference on the aims of metaphysics at Bristol @PhilATBristol this November, with @Pyro_Peru and Tommaso Soriani. You can find all the info and the call for abstracts on our website: sites.google.com/view/aims-meta…. Please help us spread the word!

So excited to be again at @PTRBirmingham for this Early career Women in Philosophy on Epistemic Injustice workshop. Thanks to #ProjectEPIC, @lisabortolotti and @wellcometrust! I am presenting a work with @simone_picenni on EI and right to science. @Assembling_Life

Her related preprint here describes some of the work. deborahkant.org/wp-content/upl…

Non classical, feminist and social epistemology covered (3/4): 6) Virtue epistemology 7) The value of knowledge 8) Standpoint and social models of knowledge 9) Epistemic injustice 10) Epistemic injustice and the right to science, work in progress of @simone_picenni and I

If you are interested into her research - super crucial for all those branches of philosophy considered inaccessible for minorities - have a listen to this podcast episode from @login_project open.spotify.com/episode/6tibKi…

Can one bring together logic and feminism? How can we create a more inclusive environment in a field where this seems to be an impossibile challenge? Amazing talk by Sara Uckelman on this at @unibirmingham and @PTRBirmingham organised by @simone_picenni 💫

@sekowskik @PhilATBristol Thank you, Krzysztof!

Thrilled to share I successfully defended my #PhD thesis 'Exact Truthmaking, Hyperintensionality, and Paradoxes' with Profs. Michael Glanzberg and Richard Pettigrew as examiners! Passed the viva with no corrections at @PhilATBristol! Just too happy about this achievement! 1/2

@PabloDopiFer @tedynenu @FranciBellazzi Thank you so much, Pablo!

Deeply grateful to Michael and Richard, to my supervisors Johannes Stern, Philip Welch, Gil Sagi, and the TRUST team: @tedynenu , Thomas Schindler, Poppy Mankowitz, Xinhe Wu. Overflowing with love and gratitude for my rocks @FranciBellazzi and Maddi, who made this possible! 2/2

What impact do the biological sciences have on the philosophical questions pertaining to free will and agency? I had the pleasure of hosting this great debate between Prof. Kevin Mitchell (@WiringTheBrain) and Prof. Robert Sapolsky. Link below!

Excited to report that @ChikeJeffers and I have now submitted the manuscript for the book version of HoPWaG: Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century! Very grateful to have such a brilliant co-author for this important volume.

Three variations on Tarski. Let me present three variations of Tarski's theorem on the non-definablity of truth. The first is proved in Gödelian style using Gödelian methods; the second is Russellian; and the last is purely Cantorian. But all express the nondefinability of truth.

Wonderful piece!