Philosopher at VU Amsterdam and ACEPS, University of Johannesburg
Author of 'Reason and Power in Argumentation' (2026), 'The Dialogical Roots of Deduction' (2020) & 'Formal Languages in Logic' (2012) (all @universitypress.cambridge.org)
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
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Just got a package from OUP to compensate me for reviewing work. I guess it’s pretty clear what my current research interests are 😀
My new book now has a cover! I'm very pleased with how it turned out 🙂
On my way to Groningen for a PhD defense! Back to the good old times of working on the train 😀 (I *hope* I still have the required concentration skills...) It's been almost 8 years since I moved to VU Amsterdam, but Groningen, and the Philosophy Faculty in particular, still feels like 'home' 😊
I'll be in Warwick at the end of June for their yearly continental philosophy graduate conference, this year with the theme 'Tracing Genealogy'. The submission deadline is May 6th, so there's still time to send in your paper 😊
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/phil...
My first contribution as ACEPS Research Associate will be a talk (online) on the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paulo Freire, based on joint work with Solmu Anttila, on May 7th. I think the talk is open to externals too, details here 👇
www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/u...
The PhD dissertation that I will examine is very interesting! An ameliorative analysis of the concept of empowerment, including a fascinating genealogical chapter on how the concept changed overtime.
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"This book is a textbook example of what a non-ideal theory of staged rationality should look like." writes Scott Aikin at Vanderbilt University.
Author: @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social
Publisher: @cambup-scieng.cambridge.org
P. date: 11 Nov. 2026
I'm now officially a member of ACEPS, the African Institute for Epistemology & Phil. Science at UoJ 🥳 Under Veli Mitova's leadership, ACEPS is doing great things for epistemology & phil. science in terms of challenging Eurocentric & colonial legacies in these areas: www.uj.ac.za/faculties/hu...
We shouldn't be calling chatbot mistakes "hallucinations", "bullshit", or preferably by any other mental metaphor. Here's why by @reginafabry.bsky.social and me:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
'Tracing Genealogy' is the 2026 Continental Philosophy Conference organised by graduate members of the Warwick Philosophy Department to be held on 29 and 30 June 2026. Keynote speakers: Catarina Dutil...
“Empowerment” has become one of the most widely used words in contemporary feminism. It appears in social media, advertising, corporate culture, and political debate. Yet as the term has become more popular, its meaning has shifted. Where empowerment once referred to collective struggles to challenge and change oppressive social structures, it is now often used to describe individual confidence, choice, or self-expression—even when those choices take place within unequal conditions.
Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...
