Richard’s Substack
Richard PettigrewMy personal Substack. I write here about the parts of philosophy I'm thinking about. Currently, I'm thinking more & more about political philosophy, but for the past decade I've worked in epistemology and rational choice theory, so that will come up too!
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Lifelong learning and the Aims of Higher Education
Last Thursday, I gave the annual Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology, a public lecture hosted by Northeastern University London. Below is the text. While I didn’t realise it at the time, my generous respondent, Christoph Sch...
Why it's better to be more coherent
If Isack is 20% sure the bird in front of him is a white-browed coucal, and 40% sure it’s a black coucal, and certain that, if it’s a coucal, it’s one of those two, but 80% sure it’s a coucal, his beliefs are incoherent, and we think that’s...
Verity and Episto: a dialogue on the value of understanding
Beinn a’ Chrùlaiste, Glen Coe, Scotland
[The bells have chimed, Auld Lang Syne has had its annual outing, and in the wee small hours of the first day of 2026, the conversation between Verity and her friend Episto turns towards philosophy.]...
Bayesianism when learning isn't straightforward
Occasionally, you come across a paper you like so much, you feel the need to evangelise about it. So it is with ‘Bayes is Back’, a recent paper by Alex Meehan and Snow Zhang in Philosophical Review that I’ve been studying as I write a new b...
Formal methods in philosophy
This is an entry I wrote five years ago for a handbook, but it hasn’t come out yet, so I figured it might be worth posting here. It’s sort of a paean to formal methods in philosophy. The idea was to give a sense of the variety and power of...
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