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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thrilled to welcome our three new PhD students at @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social! Particularly delighted that two are my first PhD students, Mustafa Khuramy and Alex McQuibban, both fully funded through competitive scholarships. Find out more about our new students and their great work here:

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TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today marks the beginning of Ireland's EU Presidency! Watch our video series 'Ireland as EU President' at the link below & see what Ireland can bring to the table over the next six months. www.tcd.ie/ssp/research... @tahayasseri.bsky.social @farbod-a.bsky.social @tcdeconomics.bsky.social

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

What can philosophy contribute to how Ireland should approach the EU Presidency? I suggest it sheds light on a key for the future of cooperation in the EU: curiosity. But not just any kind of curiosity will do. Member states need the kind we find between lovers. Check out the video to see why!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A real honour and privilege to have organised and chaired the 2026 Donnellan Lectures. As I said introducing her, Ruth's work combines the highest commitment to argumentative rigour with an unwavering desire to pursue questions that matter to us all deeply. We were very lucky to have her here!

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Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hard choices in life, law, and AI: the 2026 Donnellan Lectures wrapped up last week at Trinity. Huge thanks to Professor Ruth Chang @ox.ac.uk for a brilliant series, and to everyone who came along and took part in the discussions. #Philosophy #TrinityCollegeDublin

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Had a wonderful time at this! Thanks so much to @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social for having me, and to everyone involved for a great event. Do check out the rest of this series! And I hope to have many more opportunities to do more philosophy with the fantastic people of Dublin again soon!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you are in Dublin and have ever felt conflicted about art by immoral artists, then we've got a panel for you! Come along and hear – amongst other much more interesting speakers – me on that topic at the IFI; details below!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

And please share as widely as possible!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If you have any questions about the posts, please do reach out to me and ask! (Full disclosure: I am one of the hiring leads for these posts.)

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🎺If you can teach Introductory Logic, or the History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, or Modern), then come and by my colleague! The Dept. of Philosophy at @tcddublin.bsky.social is looking for *two* Teaching Fellows (3 year posts). For full details, see: universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

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Teaching Fellow in Philosophy (x2) | University Vacancies Ireland

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

'Children across development find some widely shared aspects of morality to be impossible to change...[that] not even God could change fundamental moral principles.' – Reinecke & Solomon (2023). Discuss. [A fascinating paper for anyone in meta-ethics!] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Children deny that God could change morality

Can moral rules change? We tested 129 children from the United States to investigate their beliefs about whether God could change widely shared moral …

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📣Come and be my colleague! We are hiring two new Assistant Profs in the Dept. of Phil. at Trinity College Dublin: in Value Theory, and in Hist., Phil., and Ethics of Science. I can’t recommend working here enough! Please share with anyone interested – any questions, do get in touch. Ads below!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Gen. AI has created, or worsened, serious problems for higher education. But the conditions that enabled such damage have almost nothing to do with AI. They are what went wrong when anyone thought that you go to university ‘just to get a piece of paper.’ Any serious solution must recognise that.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Even the Campanile at Trinity is in the festive spirit, not to be outdone by the new tree on campus!

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Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

✨ New research from the Department. "Divinely Prescribed Evil and Moral Knowledge in Islam and Beyond" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social . Published in AGATHEOS – European Journal for #Philosophy of Religion, Vol 2, No 3. Read it here ⬇️ publicera.kb.se/aejpr/articl...

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Mohammad Saleh Zarepour @mszarepour.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here is the symposium I guest edited for *Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion* on Amir Saemi's book, *Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond*, with excellent contributions by I. Aijaz, F. Akhlaghi, R. Audi, and L. Brown, to all of whom I am deeply grateful.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

For a downloadable and sharable PDF version, please see here: 1000wordphilosophy.com/wp-content/u...

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

❓Does God’s existence follow from the fact that something exists? The great Persian philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) thought so. In 999 words, I explain why here! I hope students and teachers of the phil. of religion, history of phil., or metaphysics might find this helpful. So please do share!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Really looking forward to this and chatting with @quiteclare.bsky.social about the ethics of transformative and other hard choices!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 08/05/2025

Resources for #philosophy on Bluesky (updated) 1. Feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #PhilSky & common hashtags bsky.app/profile/did:... – low-traffic announcements feed 📢 2. Starter packs go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ ¹ go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 ² 3. Lists bsky.app/profile/did:... ¹ bsky.app/profile/did:... ²

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

An issue of the Monist has just appeared devoted to Ibn Sīnā/Avicenna! A great lineup of authors, and I'm honored to be part of it, having written a paper with Michael Noble about the reception of the idea of the Active Intellect. academic.oup.com/monist/issue... #philsky #avicenna #ibnsina

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Volume 108 Issue 3 | The Monist | Oxford Academic

One of the oldest and most important journals in philosophy. Publishes quarterly thematic issues on particular philosophical topics which are edited by leading philosophers in the corresponding fields...

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

📚Delighted to share that I've accepted an invitation to write a book: a Cambridge Element on *Truth in Ethics* for Cambridge University Press! Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

❓Would it be wrong for someone to stop you from making a major life choice? 📽️ For a 90-second answer, check out the video below! 🔗 For a little bit more, you can also check out my paper published Open Access in Analysis: academic.oup.com/analysis/art... ⏳Hoping to say more soon!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The details of the call are through the link below; please share with anyone who might be interested! Note: the applications are very competitive and each member of staff is permitted to support at most one candidate per scheme. 2/2 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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LISTSERV 16.5 - PHILOS-L Archives

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin are calling for expressions of interest in two great funding schemes - one for full PhD funding, and one for postdoctoral positions, both through Research Ireland (our main state research council). 1/2

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Many congratulations to Enda for winning this award! I was very happy to nominate him for it after his doing a fantastic job TA-ing Topics in Philosophy II A for us - TA-ing on transformative experience and the philosophy of death. Congrats to all winners and nominees!

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The Philosophy Bites podcast has a new website (with transcriptions) - over 300 interviews with leading philosophers philosophybites.com

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Philosophy Bites Podcast

Top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Along the way, I identify what needs to be done for a view like Amir's to be made more plausible – whilst doubting this can be achieved – and an interesting lacuna in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion about Islam that deserves much more attention!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Saemi offers an ingenious 'ethics-first' solution: take these morally controversial Scriptural passages to include not moral permissions and requirements, but legal ones. I argue that this solution will not work, specifically for a Muslim or, indeed, any theist.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The topic is the problem of divinely prescribed evil: how, if at all, a theist can reconcile their belief that Scripture is the word of God, and that their moral judgements are reliable, with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit and require evil actions.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Delighted to be able to share this new forthcoming paper: my part of a book symposium on Amir Saemi's excellent 'Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond', edited by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour for Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. philpapers.org/rec/AKHDPE

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Farbod Akhlaghi, Divinely Prescribed Evil and Moral Knowledge in Islam and Beyond - PhilPapers

Can one who takes Scripture to be the word of God, and who takes their independent moral judgements to be reliable, reconcile such beliefs with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit ...

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The topic is the problem of divinely prescribed evil: how, if at all, a theist can reconcile their belief that Scripture is the word of God with, and that their moral judgements are reliable, with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit and require evil actions.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The difference between falsifiability as a logical criterion and as a methodical practice perfectly illustrated.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thinking about the word 'professor': 'profess' can mean to express a quality or belief especially when it is not true or sincere, or to affirm one's faith in, belief, or allegiance to something. Sometimes, it can feel like language itself is making a joke.

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My first Trinity Monday where we celebrate the election of new Fellows and Scholars of the College. A massive congratulations to them all - especially to our new Philosophy Scholars that I had the pleasure of examining!

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

An honour to chair, and speak at, Philosophy Today 2025: six public lectures, 200 tickets sold out, and a fantastically engaged and interested audience who so kindly gave us their attention and time, coming with excellent questions every night! Please join our newsletter below for future events:

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Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Do you think there is anything incoherent in saying ‘some stories are better than how they’ve been told’?

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My longterm project on #IrishPhilosophy was the subject of an article in #PhilosophyNow. philosophynow.org/issues/160 I also write this introductory post about the blog. irishphilosophy.com/2024/02/06/i...

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Issue 160 | Philosophy Now

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A rare and wonderful sight of a great UK philosophy job. Please spread widely to colleagues worldwide. Area of Specialization: Ethics and/or Political Philosophy Would be an advantage to be able to teach Ethics of AI Tenure-track Application deadline: 10th March 2025 #philsky

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Lecturer in Philosophy (2078) - Birkbeck, University of London

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 04/02/2025

🚨 NEW FEED FOR ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY ON 🦋! 🚨 PhilSky＋ includes all posts tagged with #PhilSky or #PhilosophySky PLUS posts from over 150 philosophy-related organisations and groups AND posts from 1300+ philosophers (and growing) that use common #philosophy hashtags. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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