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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Breakups hurt, upend our lives, and change how we relate to each other but have been curiously neglected by philosophers. Our workshop next month aims to look closer at this often messy part of life. Here is the fantastic line up.

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Excited that this is now out! I offer child-centred account of the value of "company-keeping" relationships between children and adults (e.g., fun aunties, visiting grandparents, friendly neighbours), highlighting how they can promote independent agency and mitigate undue shame in children

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social) To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This was fun to record! We discuss Murdoch's early 1950s contributions to the philosophy of mind, Gilbert Ryle, and themes of privacy, interiority, "the real", and individuality in her work.

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(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A quick reminder, this is happening tomorrow!

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I miss the good old days when taking a sick day just meant getting someone to cover my shift at the restaurant. There's no one to cover my shift at the philosophy factory.

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Have philosophers written about fun? Not pleasure, play, or humour-- but having fun, finding fun, doing things just for fun. My search only turned up 2 sources (McKee, Chakrabarti) #philsky

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Philosophers are sommeliers of language. I spend so much of my days mulling over words, taste-testing synonyms, assessing pairings of concepts and qualifying phrases, etc. (Collingwood was right that philosophical clarity is served when we "go to school with the poets").

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Exciting news! This free to download text does a wonderful job exploring @irismurdoch.bsky.social 's views on the value of the individual as a commitment to the spirit (rather than the dominant post-WII form) of Liberalism #philsky #philosophy

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Never has the importance of seeing reality as it really is been more important, For Iris Murdoch, "goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world" For #IWD International Woman's Day: www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/m...

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Iris Murdoch: the virtue of paying attention – Irish Philosophy

"There is, of course, such a thing as Irish intellectual thought"

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Chris Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Friends: I am very happy to share with you all another exciting episode of The Young Idealist Series. In this episode Dr. Kathryn Lawson (King's University College, Halifax), discusses the life & philosophy of Simone Weil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUE... #Weil @katelawson.bsky.social

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP! Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Quartet Conference coming up this summer! Full details on the poster. 👇

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.” Remembering Iris Murdoch, who returned her borrowed stardust on this day in 1999

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Salvation by Words: Iris Murdoch on Language as a Vehicle of Truth and Art as a Force of Resistance to Tyranny

“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.”

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about Iris Murdoch (and my recent book on her early philosophical writings) with Christopher Satoor from The Young Idealist (who's in the midst of a series of similar videos on the life and work of women in the history of philosophy!) #philsky #philosophy

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Pardubice Centre for Ethics research seminar kicks off this coming Tuesday, 2pmCET! All talks can be attended virtually via the permanent zoom link here: centreforethics.upce.cz/en/research-... #philsky #philosophy

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Coming up in July at @univie.ac.at - a Murdoch Summer school for PhD students! Full details via the link and poster. pace.phl.univie.ac.at/the-philosop...

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My phd supervisor once told me to stop writing to preempt attacks from imagined interlocutors so dense and uncharitable they could barely be credited with reading. It was liberating.

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Twin-volume alert: Hoping two vols – some 6 lb of solid research – on women #philosopers in the #19thCentury will leave a mark on the field. Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social and Alison Stone for their superb editorship. Challenging a male-dominated canon, one page at a time. #philsky #books

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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Welcome back to campus to everyone teaching this term! Unlock "hidden philosophers" with the New Voices in the History of Philosophy podcast. Perfect for enriching your syllabus with "lesser-known" thinkers. #Philosophy #AcademicResources #TeachingTools open.spotify.com/show/4IjLIcT...

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New Voices in the History of Philosophy

Podcast · Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy · New Voices is a podcast from the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy Partnership, funded by the Social Sciences and ...

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

New Year, new cover reveal! Here's what our @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of American and British Women #Philosophers in the #19thCentury will look like, and we're thrilled! Women philosophizing about metaphysics, #ethics, #gender, #aesthetics, politics, #logic, race, religion, education...

Cover of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Applications for our tuition-free Ethics and Political Philosophy MA programme at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice) are now open. 🕛Deadline is on 28 February 2025 #philsky #philosophy

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Henri Bergson died on this day 1941. He died in Nazi occupied Paris from pneumonia he contracted waiting in line in the cold to register as Jewish. In the weeks after he passed, strange details about his final moments started emerging🧵

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Important research for a WIP paper on fun aunties: reconnecting with my own childhood fun auntie, Barb (and her funny hairless cat). A bit less dancing to the Beach Boys than when I was a kid (and quite a lot more wine)

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

At my parents house for the holidays; I think I've heard more of Tom Selleck's father-cop-knows-best voice than my own dad's over the past week.

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Call for papers for an upcoming undergraduate conference on ethics and political philosophy at the University of Pardubice--abstracts due by January 17th! #philosophy #philsky

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Prepping to teach my last class of the semester. "The end is in sight"--who's ever consoled or energized by that? The closer I get to the end, the more I resent whatever's coming between me and the finish line.

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My article "Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality" is up (OA)! Good news: country music and chick-flicks are fine! Bad sentimentality involves not just a retreat from difficult realities (kids growing up, hometowns changing) but an unwillingness to come back down to earth when it counts #philsky

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Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality - The Journal of Ethics

In this paper, I challenge standard views of the moral badness of sentimentality defended by art critics and philosophers. Accounts based on untruthfulness and self-indulgence lack the resources to bo...

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A reviewer recently asked me to eliminate all contractions from an article (they'll, can't, it'd, etc.). Is that level of formality really still expected in academic writing? (In the end I couldn't do it. I'm a folksy rural Canadian--there are limits to how fancy I can pretend to be).

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Andreas Vrahimis @avrahimis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The latest issue of the European Journal of Philosophy is now published. It includes my article on 'Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemology'. #philsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680378...

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European Journal of Philosophy: Vol 32, No 4

Click on the title to browse this issue

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

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Call for Abstracts | EPSSE

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

An unreliable source has told me it would be nice if I brought my ukulele and played Christmas tunes at the office holiday party. I feel like I'm being set up to be That Wonderwall Guy.

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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

ICYMI: The Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project invites proposals for papers on neglected figures or themes in the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, to be presented at at McGill University, June 6-8, 2025. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My article "Love's Realism: Iris Murdoch and the Importance of Being Human" is now open access! In it, I distinguish Murdoch's view of love from the Qualities View and Velleman's Personhood view, and interpret love's 'realism' as about the other's humanity (vulnerability and individuality) #philsky

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Love's realism: Iris Murdoch and the importance of being human

Defenders of two Rationality Views of love—the Qualities View and the Personhood View—have drawn on Iris Murdoch's philosophical writings to highlight a connection between love and a “realistic” pers...

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The time has come to obsess over what #philosophy book I'm going to take back with me to Canada for the holidays! (Meaning: read for 5 minutes on a flight before passing out, never touch while I'm home with my family, and hate myself for wasting limited luggage space on).

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This looks super interesting! Includes a contribution from my Pardubice colleague Kamila Pacovská (if you're interested in phil of love, I highly recommend her 2018 "Love and the Pitfall of Moralism")

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just read and love, Sara Ruddick's response to hardline readings of Iris Murdoch: "Knowing a fantasy is unreal, and if real, forbidden, I can then indulge in it and derive strength and endurance for attention. The fantasy acts like a medicine which allows me to breathe deeper though artificially."

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Tomorrow afternoon (2pm CEST), Jan Slaby will be giving a talk entitled “The Unfelt in Society: Affect, Power and the Ecological Crisis” at our Pardubice Centre for Ethics research seminar. Feel free to drop in online if you're interested: centreforethics.upce.cz/en/research-... #philsky

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Lesley Jamieson @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

New to #philsky and feeling like a late adopter (I have a high pain tolerance). I'm a philosopher at the Centre for Ethics in Pardubice (CZ), interested in moral psychology (love, sentimentality), history of philosophy (20C), and philosophy of childhood. Here's my favourite pic of Iris Murdoch!

Iris Murdoch writing at a desk, surrounded by cigarette smoke

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