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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📈 The National Student Survey 2026 results are in and we're delighted to have maintained our consistently strong performance. This year, we're in the Top 5 UK Philosophy departments for positive responses!
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🌐 We've updated our website! The latest information about our research, teaching, and events - plus some bonus photos of us in the beautiful Cairngorms - can be found here:
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Philosophy | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🤖 📚️ "In our view, AI literacy belongs within existing digital literacy requirements [...] The window for acting before the habit becomes the norm is not large." -- Prof Jesper Kallestrup, research student Sriram Raghavan, and UoG's Adam Carter.
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Give our children a licence to think: What AI literacy should look like
WE DO not let teenagers drive without a licence. Even though many can drive a car, driving is consequential enough to require structured preparation: knowledge of risks, demonstration of competence…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📖 'Rethinking Healthcare Improvement' by Vikki Entwistle, Alan Cribb & Polly Mitchell, is now out (and available as a free ebook, with thanks to the Wellcome Trust)! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rethinkin...
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Rethinking Healthcare Improvement
What is 'good' healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🎓 Congratulations to all UoA Philosophers graduating this afternoon! To share a testimonial about your experience that could feature in UoA news pieces and possibly the local press, click here: app.geckoform.com/public/#/mod...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
💬 Our Jesper Kallestrup is speaking at this workshop on Trust, Trustworthiness and AI at the University of Sheffield later this week.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
💬 Our Eilidh Beaton will deliver a talk on attention and political philosophy at this workshop on The Ethics of Immigrant Selection at the University of Reading next week.
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The Ethics of Immigrant Selection Workshop
The Ethics of Immigrant Selection workshop Date: 22nd June, 2026 from 10:00 to 18:00 Location: London Road L22 G06 University of Reading, Reading Details: While the normative literature on migration…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨 New co-authored publication from our PhD student Frank Burr & Prof Mike Beaney now out in Religions. 🗞️ Paper title: In the Beginning Was the Redeeming Word: Tolstoy’s Spiritual Influence on the Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Available open access here:
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🗓️ All are welcome to attend our upcoming workshop, Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective, 11.30am-5.30pm in the Sir Duncan Rice Library. If you plan to join for any part of the event, please inform eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk for catering purposes.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
💬 Earlier this week, Prof Mike Beaney gave a lecture on ‘Chinese Graphic Logic’ at the International Colloquium on the History of Logic (Interlog Network) at Campus Condorcet in Paris.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
💬 Our Jesper Kallestrup is delivering a keynote at this workshop in Rotterdam this week.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A transcript of Prof Mike Beaney's recent interview in Fudan, 'Beyond the Binary: Analytic Philosophy Meets the Chinese Tradition' is now available both Chinese and English. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YGFdAn9Nt6...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📕 💬 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology are hosting a book workshop on UoA Prof. Mike Beaney's "The Joy of Chinese Philosophy" today. Further information here:
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Book Symposium on Michael Beaney’s “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”
AbstractThe activity is a one-day book symposium on Prof. Michael Beaney’s recently published (2026) research monograph on early Chinese philosophy, called “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”. The aim of…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🔎 A concise summary of @eilidhbeaton.bsky.social's latest piece can now be found in New Work in Philosophy! newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/methodolog...
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"Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem" - Eilidh Beaton (University of Aberdeen)
Philosophy, 2026
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our Ulrich Stegmann's chapter in the forthcoming collection, Images of the Plant Humanities, discusses the history of plant morphology - specifically the 18th century insight that different-looking floral organs (like petals and stamens) are actually 'the same' organ. www.abdn.ac.uk/people/u.ste...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🗞️ Our Eilidh Beaton's latest paper, 'Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem' is now out in Philosophy. The paper raises worries for calls to outright reject methodological nationalism - i.e. nation-state-centric ways of seeing.
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Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem - Volume 100 Issue 3
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
💬 Our Mike Beaney will be delivering the GRIPh annual lecture at the GRoningen Institute of Philosophy this evening. He'll be speaking about his recent book, "The Joy of Chinese Philosophy".
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The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
Michael Beaney will discuss how Chinese philosophy helps us to uncover and interrogate some of the most basic assumptions of Western philosophy.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We welcome expressions of interest in the 2026 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Our internal triage deadline is 8th June 2026. Interested candidates should reach out to their prospective mentor & sabine.freitag@abdn.ac.uk ahead of this deadline. Info ➡️ www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/fellows...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🗓️ Reminder: THIS WEEK!
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
⛰️ Last weekend Philosophy students and staff visited Ballater for the annual Reading Party. The weekend included walking the Seven Bridges and Sgor Buidhe, talks by students and staff and the (in)famous philosophy quiz. #PhilosophyMatters
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📖 Join us this Thursday 19th March for a public lecture by Michael Beaney celebrating the publication of his new book, The Joy of Chinese Philosophy. The event is open to all. Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/confucius-in...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
💬 Last week, our Stephan Torre presented this (fabulously-titled) paper at the Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop. www.unige.ch/lettres/phil...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🤖 💭 Check out this workshop on AI Epistemics taking place at the Onassis Library in Athens, co-organised by our Jesper Kallestrup via his Digital Knowledge Project.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
💬 🇳🇴 Our Eilidh Beaton is in Oslo today giving a talk in the Dynamic Territory seminar series. She'll be presenting her work on methodological nationalism, forthcoming in "Philosophy".
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DynamiTE Seminar: Eilidh Beaton (University of Aberdeen) - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🗓️ Save the date! Our Jesper Kallestrup is hosting a workshop on the Ethics & Epistemology of AI on Friday 27th March. Contact jesper.kallestrup@abdn.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🎓 Postgraduate Fair | Tomorrow! 📍 Elphinstone Hall | ⏰ 11am–6pm We’re looking forward to welcoming prospective and current students and alumni. Didn’t register? No problem — registration is still open, or just come along. Full itinerary & register: bit.ly/4jRNPD9
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📣 Aberdeen Philosophy students: The ABDN Shadowing Scheme is now open for applications. This is an opportunity to engage in one day of work experience in the public sector, law, or real estate. Deadline 19 Feb, more info here: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/expe...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
📖 Check out our Beth Lord's chapter, "Spinoza and the Galenic Idea of the Human Body", in this new OUP edited collection, Spinoza on the Human Perspective.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
💭 Our Jesper Kallestrup is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Glasgow this semester. He'll be working in the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre on the ERC-funded KNOW-HOW Project, led by Adam Carter. More info on the project here:
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Know How Research | epistemology
KNOW-HOW is a major research project funded by the European Research Council which develops a comprehensive framework for understanding know-how and its place in a wider web of concepts we rely on to…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🗓️ Save the date! Our Aberdeen Philosophy PGRs are hosting a conference on "Imagination, Fiction, and Extended Reality" this time next week in the Duncan Rice Library. Talks are open to all.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📣 Call for abstracts! We're seeking one more speaker to complete the lineup for our upcoming workshop "Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective". Further details available on the PhilEvents page below. Submission deadline: Friday 20th March Contact: eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk
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Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen invites submissions for its upcoming workshop, “Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective”. This one-day workshop will…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🎓 Postgraduate Fair | Meet the Academics 📍 Elphinstone Hall 📅 17 Feb | ⏰ 11am–6pm Discover postgrad pathways, conversion programmes, and online and on-campus study options. Register: bit.ly/4jRNPD9 #AberdeenPGFair #AberdeenPostgrad #NextStepAberdeen
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🎉 Congratulations to our graduate student Dr María Bibiloni, who recently passed their PhD Viva with a thesis entitled "A Decolonial Criticism of Content-Based Theories of Slurs".
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📣 From 1 January 2026, our Mike Beaney will be taking up a Visiting Chair Professorship in the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at PKU.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🗞️ Check out this new open-access special issue on historical and cross-cultural "deep epistemology" in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Edited by our Mike Beaney, with Karyn Lai.
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Towards a deep epistemology: knowing in historical and cross-cultural context
This article makes the case for a deep epistemology, an epistemology rooted in the epistemic experiences and philosophical debates from across the full range of historical periods and global cultur...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
💬 🇨🇳 Our Mike Beaney has given a series of lectures on analytic Chinese philosophy, cross-cultural epistemology, and Wittgenstein over the past 6 weeks. Institutions he has presented at include Shanxi, Tsinghua, Wuhan, Hubei, Fudan, and Zhejiang Universities, PKU, SEU, & a Conference in Xiamen.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📖 Our Mike Beaney's The Joy of Chinese Philosophy is now out & available open access. It introduces some central ideas & themes in ancient Chinese philosophy through analysis of the happy fish dialogue in the Zhuangzi, one of the two founding texts of Daoism.
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The Joy of Chinese Philosophy
This book introduces some central ideas and themes in ancient Chinese philosophy through a detailed analysis of one famous passage – the happy fish dialogue – in the Zhuangzi , one of the two…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📣 The University of Aberdeen is offering 3 AHRC Doctoral Landscape funding awards for doctoral studentships across the arts and humanities. Prospective Philosophy applicants can contact eilidh.beaton@abdn.ac.uk. Further info:
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AHRC - Research Council Awards | Scholarships | The University of Aberdeen
Explore scholarships, bursaries and funding options at Aberdeen for undergraduate, postgraduate and international students to support your studies.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
💬 Our PhD candidate Frank Burr is giving a talk at the University of Potsdam's graduate conference on Wittgenstein's 1929 Lecture on Ethics this weekend. He'll explore Wittgenstein's use of "the supernatural" in his lecture, as read through a Tolstoyan lens.
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The LOE Centenary Project
The LOE Centenary Project seeks to re-evaluate Wittgenstein’s 1929 Lecture on Ethics, and to reconsider its place in his thought about ethics, language, and education, its significance for…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🗞️ Our Jesper Kallestrup has been on a publishing streak! Here's a roundup of some of his latest papers.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🗞️ Check out these two new papers from our Mike Beaney on his translation of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", in dialogue with Jaap van der Does and Martin Stokhof. www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view... www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
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View of Responding to the ‘Satz’-challenge: A reply to Martin Stokhof and Jaap van der Does
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🗞️ How should states respect and protect the family life of refugees? Our Eilidh Beaton and co-author Matt Lister survey several questions and issues worthy of further discussion in their chapter in the newly published Handbook of Migration Ethics.
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Refugees and Family Unification
The topics of refugee protection and family migration have both received significant attention in the philosophical literature. However, until recently, issues at the intersection of these two…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
💬 This time last week, our Mike Beaney gave a talk on "Integrational Creativity and Resonant Witchcraft" at a workshop on "Creative Imagination from Art to Science" at the University of Geneva.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🗓️ Save the date! This upcoming Wednesday, LMU Munich's Michele Giavazzi will deliver the next talk in our colloquium series. He'll argue that existing accounts of voter incompetence betray an unduly apologetic attitude toward democratic citizens.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
💬 Today, our Fed Luzzi is giving a talk entitled 'Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition' at CEPPA, University of St Andrews. He'll argue that we should abandon the norm of excellence in favour of the norm of sufficiency. Further details:
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Events for September 2025 – CEPPA
Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
💬 Today, our Sandro Guli is delivering a talk entitled "Social Roles, Recognition, and Social Nature" at Wuhan University. Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
💬 Today, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social is presenting at the Digital Duplicates workshop in the Centre for Bioethics at the National University of Singapore. The title of her talk is "Avatars and Dementia".
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Events - Centre for Biomedical Ethics – School of Medicine, National University of Singapore - CBmE
Digital duplicates are AI built representations of people, trained on personal texts, images, and choices so they can speak, decide, and create in ways that resemble real persons. The Digital Duplicates...
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📣 Our @paulasweeney.bsky.social has been appointed Associate Editor of the new open-access journal, JME Practical Bioethics! The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.
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Homepage | JME Practical Bioethics
An international open access, peer-reviewed journal, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group, dedicated to publishing bioethics research and covering urgent global issues such as…
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
💬 Our Ulrich Stegmann is presenting at the European Society for the Philosophy of Science in Groningen today. He'll explore how responses to pre-evolutionary homologies might reveal insights about relationship between lay and scientific cognition.
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European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Programme
EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2) philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...
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