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Fabienne Peter

@fabiennepeter.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor, University of Warwick. DPVC. Research: political philosophy, moral philosophy, social epistemology. She/they. www.fabiennepeter.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions
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‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions
The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history
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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I nearly missed it, but today is 70 days to publication of When Things Get Personal. Chapter seven explores issues about to whom and how we give credit - what we admire or are proud of people for. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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When Things Get Personal
How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally
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Greg McElwain @gsmcelwain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m excited to share that my new book on Mary Midgley is available to preorder! It’s due out December 10: www.bloomsbury.com/us/mary-midg... #marymidgley #philsky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great discussion yesterday on how the BBC might become more co-creational. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/blog/co-crea...
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Co-creational BBC: could ‘engage’ be the BBC’s newest public purpose?
Campaign and Communications Manager Beckie Shuker reflects on our recent roundtable: 'The beating heart of our nation: toward a co-creational BBC'
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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🔥 Key researcher, Cathy Mason, was recently re-featured in the Editors' Picks Week Aeon Weekly @aeon.co, where their editors selected Essays that have stood out to them with themes and ideas worth revisiting. Read the essay 'Why love matters most', below👇️ #philsky #irismurdoch #love
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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Next Monday we've got Anil Gomes (Oxford) speaking to us about 'Iris Murdoch on God, Good, and Soul'. Free and open to all. ⏰ 18.15, 11 May 2026 📍Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anil-gomes/
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Yes. But the traditional news media has its flaws, too. It can be exclusive and ignore important insights. And that's where the co-creational news media model comes in as a promising alternative to both: toolkit.publicinterestnews.org.uk.
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Co-Creational News Media Toolkit
Our toolkit gathers tips and good practices for co-creational news media.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works" ⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026. 📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way) 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Sharing another review of my recent book on political legitimacy. With many thanks to @marcel-jahn.com! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Fabienne Peter: The Grounds of Political Legitimacy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-887238-2) £63.00. 246 pp. - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -
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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
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Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"Like a latter-day Socrates . . . [Nguyen] advocat[es] a kind of playful rebellion against rules and metrics. . . . I give this excellent book five stars." @financialtimes.com reviews C. Thi Nguyen's new book, THE SCORE, on sale next week. www.ft.com/content/9446...
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The Score by C Thi Nguyen — more than a numbers game
A subtle and stimulating philosophical examination of scoring systems and what really matters
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
With heartfelt thanks to Amanda Greene for her generous and insightful review of my book on political legitimacy! academic.oup.com/mind/article...
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The Grounds of Political Legitimacy, by Fabienne Peter
There are words that come up so often in public debate that we lose track of their meanings, especially once they have been weaponized. A prime example is
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Liam Shields @liamshields.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
The University of Manchester has been celebrating 200 years of achievement in research-driven learning, development and innovation: this has included investing in our prestigious Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships. The scheme represents a major University investment of £28 million to recruit and fund more than 200 early-career researchers between 2025/26 and 2026/27.
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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...
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Bryan W. Van Norden @bryanvannorden.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...
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Wisdom of China: Laozi
YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether' Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays
As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight
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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky
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Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers
The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...
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Daniele Lorenzini @danlor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Kantian moral change
Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
youtube version of political legitimacy with @fabiennepeter.bsky.social youtu.be/4evuGHKJpCY
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Political Legitimacy with Fabienne Peter
YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast
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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford. Please repost and register now! @blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods
For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 12/08/2025
The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
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Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume. Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response. academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...
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Runaway Reasons
Abstract. This chapter raises a challenge for a common claim, which is that reasons are the mark of the normative. The claim tends to be accepted even by d
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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 10/07/2025
Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information. We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
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Eliz Mizon @elizmizon.com · 10/07/2025
Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit. For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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New toolkit helps journalists build trust through public collaboration
The project provides a roadmap for news organisations seeking to bridge the gap between elite journalism and social media chaos, offering a third way that prioritises both truth and community engageme...
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our toolkit for co-creational news media has launched! Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
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PINF Launches New Toolkit for Collaborative, Accountable and Caring Journalism
Jonathan Heawood, Executive Director of PINF, introduces new framework designed to reshape trust, participation and truth in the media.What do you get when you put 50 experts in a room to talk about t...
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Jess L @jessicaleech.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
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Issues | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 20/06/2025
Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
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Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy ⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Karyn Lai on the Zhuangzi on human diversity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ancient Chinese text of the Zhuangzi teaches us to reject entrenched values – and treasure the diversity of humanity | Karyn Lai
The Zhuangzi prompts us to reflect on the shallow attitudes of those who want to draw attention to what some people lack, rather than what they might have
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
'“Political leaders in those moments of deep economic insecurity have two options. One is to acknowledge the environment that they’re in. We’re in a globalised world.....Or....You choose blame. Blame the other, blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions, blame.".'
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‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky
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Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy
Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Final Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025
Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...
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Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If you always wanted to know what moral socialism is about, now is the time to find out! I am so delighted to be giving this year’s Eva Colorni memorial lecture, joined by Amartya Sen @ LSE. 11th June 5pm, free but registration required. I hope to see many of you there!🌹
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The Idea of Moral Socialism
The Idea of Moral Socialism event page
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Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Foundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there! #Philosophy
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Foundations of Morality Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of foundational questions about morality. We are open to perspectives from both metaethics and normative ethics, addressing questions such as: W...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Next Monday, Vid Simoniti is speaking at the Aristotelian Society. Come along for his talk 'Thinking without Knowing: a Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism'. Draft paper on our website! 📍 Senate Room, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 on Monday 19 May 2025 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Frisbee Sheffield is speaking at the Aristotelian Society next Monday! Come along for her talk 'Socrates and Dialogue as the Greatest Good'. Draft paper & abstract on our website! 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philosophy #philsky
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The Proceedings – The Aristotelian Society
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Unless I'm missing something, it seems like the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, is now published online - so if you or your institution has access to Oxford Academic you'll be able to read and download all the chapters:
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The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology
Abstract. Interest in social epistemology and work in this area have exploded in recent years with the publication of a vast quantity of exciting and wholl
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join us next Monday (28th April) for the next Proceedings talk by Léa Salje from Leeds University. Léa's talk is entitled 'Artspeak'. Her draft paper is available on our website! 17.30-19.15 Institute of Eduction, 20 Bedford Way, Room 642 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️
Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance. Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We had 33K people tune in to this conversation. Here it is for people who couldn't catch it live. "Rebellions are built on hope." With @hcrichardson.bsky.social How Trump's Greed, Grift, and Racism Are Collapsing America's Democratic Experiment open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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How Trump's Greed, Grift and Racism Are Collapsing America's Democratic Experiment
Historian Heather Cox Richardson joins The Left Hook to discuss how the Trump Administration reflects America's tradition of the aristocracy abusing capitalism and racism to exploit the masses.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Are you a student wanting to attend the Joint Session this year? If you're eligible, you can apply for one of our student subsides here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se... Deadline: 10 May 2025 #philosophy #philsky
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Student Subsidies – The Aristotelian Society
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