Matt Jope

@mattjope.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Interested in social epistemology, trust, risk, AI, scepticism. mattjope.weebly.com

Image of a poster that reads: UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · 1–2 JULY 2026 TRUST, TRUSTWORTHINESS & AI A P H I L O S O P H Y W O R K S H O P Paul Faulkner University of Sheffield ‘It’s OK to Believe a Chatbot’ Matt Jope University of Glasgow ‘Epistemic Responsibility and Artificial Agency’ Alison Hills University of Oxford ‘Trustworthiness and the Crisis of Trust’ Jesper Kallestrup University of Aberdeen ‘Epistemic AI: Instruments, Authorities or Experts’ Andy Kirton University of Leeds ‘Waiting for Godbot’ Ethan Landes ‘Is Trusting AI Conceptually Coherent?’ Hallvard Lillehammer University of Sheffield ‘Trust, Autonomy and Your Most Intimate Friend’ David Owens University of Oxford ‘Trusting Authority: Testimony and Command’ Yonatan Shemmer University of Sheffield ‘Discretion, Trustworthiness and AI’ Attendance is free. To register: School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities Centre for Machine Intelligence
Two photos, one of Giancarlo Esposito in Do the Right Thing and another of him in Breaking Bad
Photo of Edinburgh skyline on a sunny evening, showing Calton Hill and Arthur's Seat in the background, with smoke billowing up from Hollyrood Park
Cover image for What It’s Like to Be a Bat by Finn Streuper, featuring multiple black bat silhouettes in varying shapes and sizes arranged on a light background
Labour Party 2024 Manifesto poster showing Kier Starmer in black and white next to the word 'change' in red
Picture of a houseplant sitting in a seat on a commuter train
An image from an airplane safety guide showing an adult and child. The adult is holding the child in one hand and inflating the child's life jacket with the other, blowing into what looks like a flute but is presumably supposed to be the inflatable blowhole.
Screenshot of a webpage showing a couple of dropdown menus, including one for 'location' in which 'Antarctica' is selected. Below are menus for 'My AOS' and 'My AOC.'
Poster for a philosophy workshop. The text reads: "Experts and Laypeople in the Digital World University of Aberdeen, 50-52 College Bounds CB009, AB24 3FX, Aberdeen May 27th, 9.45-15.30 If you wish to attend online, please contact the organisers e.cavasin.22@abdn.ac.uk 9.45 Welcome Coffee 10.00 Carline Klijnman (University College Dublin) Who Knows? The Epistemic Crisis as Public Credibility Dysfunction" 11.30 Coffee Break 11.45 Spencer Paulson (University of Glasgow) The Scaffold and the Gallow 13.15 Lunch 14.15 Keith Raymond Harris (University of Vienna) The Enemy of the Good Laypersons, Experts, and Allegations of Conspiracy 15.30 Coffee Break 15.45 Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University) Context Collapse and online expertise
A scene from the film The Princess Bride. Three characters (Mandy Pantinkin as Inigo Montoya Wallace Shawn as Vizzini and Andre the Giant as Fezzik) look down upon the viewer.
Photo of Edinburgh Old town during daytime in thick fog/haar and not a single person in sight. The David Hume statue looms over the scene in the foreground, with the buildings behind gradually fading into the fog.
A still from the film A Muppet Christmas Carol, in which Bob Cratchit (Kermit) and his wife (Mrs Piggy) open the door to Bob's boss Scrooge (Michael Caine)
Screenshot that reads: 'Matt Jope: the Aristotle of Bluesky Philosopher by trade, meme mord by necessity - Matt's feed is a joyful chaos of ethics and absurdity. "A curious blend of intellectual rigour and playful nonsense, like Kant in a clown suit."'
The Drake meme in which the top photo shows him pulling away in disgust next to the words 'social epistemology of the internet' and the bottom photo shows him smiling encouragingly and pointing to the words 'digital knowledge'
A poster with a picture of a rocky coastline reads: Risk Workshop. University of Helsinki. 8th of December. Metaphysics, Ethics, and Epistemology of Risk. The Structure and Nature of Risk. Speakers: Agnes Baehni Matt Jope Jaakko Hirbelä Lilian O'Brien Ninni Suni Venue : Unioninkatu 10, Metsätalo, room 10.
Arial photo of the lower part of the Hudson River at night with the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan lit up by lights
A photo of the Edinburgh skyline showing rooftops, a church spire, and Arthur's Seat all reflecting the evening sunset
A statue of Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh with a yellow traffic cone placed atop his head
A photo of me and Cathy Macdonald in the BBC Radio Scotland studio enjoying a cuppa
A PowerPoint slide comparing tweets mentioning cats with tweets mentioning covid vaccination. One of the tweets says "cats are widespread."
Portrait of Davi Hume by Allan Ramsey
Man with striking resemblance to the monopoly man above caption that reads "HMRC investigating tax affairs of one of Tory party's largest donors"