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Ed Gibney @edgibney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gosh I really liked this. I’ve been feeling burnt out on moral praise and blame debates but Miranda Fricker had a nice approach. I really liked the way she called the determinist position of “no blame for anyone” a metaphysical argument for a natural / social situation. Wrong tool. #PhilSky

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G.E.Moore considered the names George and Edward so ugly he insisted his wife call him Bill.

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Q92. Which philosophy book had a book written about it before it was even officially published?

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Q91. Who wrote: “There is no shallow end in the philosophy pool”?

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A few weeks after The Selfish Gene was published, Kenny took part in an event with Dawkins at Balliol organised by Denis Noble. There, he is said to have mocked the idea of replicators by asking Dawkins: “If all I knew about English was its alphabet, how could I possibly understand Shakespeare?”

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It wasn't really that the BBC wouldn't find it - but frustration at how difficult it was to get philosophy programmes commissioned. After Philosophy Bites appeared, it became easier!

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Phlexible Philosophy @phlexphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Would you ruin your £200 Nikes to save a drowning child? Most say yes. So why don’t we donate that same money to save a child dying across the world? @davidedmonds100.bsky.social breaks down one of the most powerful thought experiments in philosophy. Episode Link👇 youtu.be/ymK8WuQdGms?...

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

90 years ago today. The Murder of Professor Schlick

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Q.90. Which philosopher wrote: “I believe that there is only one excuse for a lecture: to challenge. It is the only way in which speech is better than print.”

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

(Thank you.) Here's the latest Philosophy Bites, on humans and 'mattering'.

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Patti Smith’s M Train. Pretty cool

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Three tasty Bites. Carissa Veliz on AI and predictions philosophybites.com/podcast/cari... Monima Chadha on Buddhism and Responsibility philosophybites.com/podcast/moni... and at Social Science Bites, Daniel Yon on the scientific brain www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/06/dani...

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Carissa Veliz on Prophecy - Philosophy Bites

Predictions aren't quite what they seem to be, according to Carissa Véliz, author of the book Prophecy. They often are intended to persuade you of the inevitability of a certain outcome, and may be se...

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Q.89. Which philosopher wrote: ‘If someone has mastered one subject, it usually has made him a complete amateur in most other subjects; but people judge just the reverse ..”

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Q.88 “We really live in a great time for thinking, with Einstein, Freud and Wittgenstein all alive, and all in Germany or Austria, those foes of civilization,” said which philosopher?

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Don't worry - nobody's paying you that much attention. The latest Social Science Bites is with Tom Gilovich, covering, among other things, The Spotlight Effect.

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hilarious. The reggae version of Wittgenstein’s Poker!

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Blue Corridor at Eton has pictures of famous alumni - like these 4

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on this date in 1889. For our episode back in 2007, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Zoe Corneli, to look beyond the philosopher at #Wittgenstein the man with @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, co-author of "Wittgenstein's Poker." youtu.be/j0Ze4lFwc9o?... #PhilSky

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Roving Philosophical Report

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/04/2026

Just finished the audiobook of @davidedmonds100.bsky.social's biography of Derek Parfit. Very much enjoyed it, both for the personal angle and the accessible summaries of various philosophical debates. I guess now I have to add "Wittgenstein's Poker" to my list, because that one also sounds great.

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Parfit

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism

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Sage @sagepub.com · 22/04/2026

"Which piece of social science research has most inspired or influenced you?" Host @davidedmonds100.bsky.social asks this question to every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast. Hear @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social and more answer: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/whos...

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Q.87. Which philosopher wrote, "If I have a philosophy of life, it is to keep living until I drop. "

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Philosophy Bites podcast has now had over 50 million unique episode downloads!

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Looking forward to speaking about public philosophy this evening with my Philosophy Bites co-podcaster ⁦‪@DavidEdmonds100‬⁩ 7.30pm London #GoodPhilosophyMatters 2026 - British Philosophical Association bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma...

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#PhilosophyMatters 2026 - British Philosophical Association

British Philosophy Fortnight EVENTS | STUDENT PRIZES | RESOURCES | 2025 ARCHIVE #BPF2026 is: Monday 16th to Sunday 29th March 2026 BPA Events Please note, all these sessions will be filmed and ...

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The conversation turned to the applicants for a chair at Oxford. Sir Peter [Strawson] groaned about one applicant: “Do I really have to read his boring book?” he asked; to which Sir Freddie [Ayer] replied: “I don’t see why, he didn’t even go to a proper school.” Anecdote from S.Haack (RIP)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Tomorrow (8 Mar) at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/5v3kZzk

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

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PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Next week, 8 Mar at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/5v3kZzk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If you’re in Oxford this weekend, don’t miss this free event in the Philosophy in the Bookshop series I run @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Maclure @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Finishing reading @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the Vienna Circle: “At some stage two FBI men visited him at his home. To show that he was no Russian spy, [Philipp] Frank went to his bookshelf, took out a copy of Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism,

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Otto Neurath should be much better known. "May I say one word about phraseology...please do not speak of ‘experiment’, it is the very life of people at stake...and using some people as experimental material for other people is against my feelings. Let us call it a social venture. That is better."

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The latest Social Science Bites - on Indian democracy with LSE anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

On Holocaust Memorial Day: how attempts to understand the Holocaust created social psychology www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Science of Evil

How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“For heaven’s sake, a logician should not be asked to write a history or an autobiography, unless he is a genius like Russell.” Fair point Carnap, fair point..

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

35 years later and still not explained

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tomorrow (21 Jan) at 7:00pm GMT, Stony Words hosts @davidedmonds100.bsky.social for a book talk on Death in a Shallow Pond! Hear about the fascinating history of Effective Altruism from it's inceptive thought experiment and how it changed the way we understand poverty. Get tickets: buff.ly/JvqLvRS

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