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Lucy Randall

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Senior Editor, Philosophy books and Very Short Introductions, Oxford University Press USA she/ her 📚🏃‍♀️

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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The world is on fire but this week I learned the word "quodlibet."
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society, and it sets the bar high for all future books in the series." ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/resp...
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Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships
Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethic…
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So glad Vox went to @shannonvallor.bsky.social to make the case for believing in humanity in the face of AI-inspired doom 🤖🚒
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 13/03/2026
Why does baseball matter? Because it holds more than box scores—it carries memory, myth, and quiet ritual. Explore the brilliance of the game and the stories that shine beyond the diamond. For fans and newcomers alike. 📖⚾♦️ oxford.ly/4sG3mc9 #Skystorians #BallparkReads #BaseballLife
3D Cover of Out of the Ballpark by David M. Henkin
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 17/03/2026
Discover another way of looking at the ultimate question with Rivka Weinberg's "The Meaning of It All" 💡: oxford.ly/4bgQkMC
The Meaning of It All
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
An arresting excerpt from Rivka Weinberg's THE MEANING OF IT ALL in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy today
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 20/02/2026
⚾️ Batter up. Spring Training is officially on deck, so let’s celebrate with something special… 'Out of the Ballpark' is about to change the way you see the game forever. Want to snag your own copy before publication day? Enter on Goodreads for a chance to win! oxford.ly/4qPf0Ai
A vertical graphic with a large baseball in the center, surrounded by the text “Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball by David M. Henkin” and a Goodreads giveaway announcement from Oxford University Press.
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 24/02/2026
Baseball is more than a game; it’s a global language. 🌏⚾ Historian David M. Henkin discusses baseball's global history, labor struggles, rituals, media, and community, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen 🎧 oxford.ly/4s27lj0
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast with by David M. Henkin author of "Out of the Ballpark"
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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Consider this a book publisher's very important contribution to the ongoing font discourse #FontDebate
Image of characters from the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries paired with fonts
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 16/07/2025
🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research. 🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025 📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice invites abstracts for new articles
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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17/07/2025
“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.
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Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators Are Ignoring Them.
Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
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Erich Hatala Matthes @ehatmat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fantastic to see What to Save and Why reviewed in the New York Review of Books! #philsky
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...
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Web Clipping Print View | Choice Connect
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 05/05/2025
Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life! The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History! Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 28/04/2025
Hi Bluesky! 👋 We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
Oxford Academic is on Bluesky!
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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -  @lucyrandall802.bsky.social #philsky #booksky #women #feminism
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
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Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled
Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Why does my publisher want to change the title of my book? bit.ly/3lP8jCO University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!
Ask UP logo, with tagline: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/03/2025
Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:
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America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Society & Culture Podcast · 28 Seasons · Updated weekly
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alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...
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How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI
The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays! Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
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The best books to give as gifts this Christmas
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in t...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Thanks to Sigal Samuel for this wonderful @vox.com piece on AI illusions of care; grateful also for the mention of The AI Mirror (and for being given the last word!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices
OpenAI warns that its chatbot can breed “emotional reliance.” It’s not just ChatGPT — look at Replika or Character AI.
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
The latest Guide to the Good Life be will out in a couple of weeks. Congrats to @carlosasanchez.bsky.social on BLOOMING IN THE RUINS: HOW MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY CAN GUIDE US TOWARD THE GOOD LIFE global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
A bit over the moon to see The AI Mirror featured in The New Yorker today (alongside the good company of @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social)! www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
The first major review of The AI Mirror came in today from the Financial Times, and I’m really happy the reviewer engaged so fully with the narrative. www.ft.com/content/67d3...
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The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential
Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Nice to hear The AI Mirror briefly mentioned in this episode of the Ezra Klein show with Nilay Patel, which was an interesting conversation about whether generative AI will destroy the informational seed corn of the web, and what might happen next.
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Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the algorithm....
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
My publisher sent me this first photo of my book as a real object in the world and I am unreasonably happy
Book with reflective multicolored cover propped in a sunlit window, with the title The AI Mirror, by Shannon Vallor
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
news you can use
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Heather Stewart and Lauren Freeman on philosophical collaboration blog.apaonline.org/2024/02/07/d...
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Microsoft Word just told me to relax.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
#booklaunch day! Surrounded by family, friends, and colleagues who want to understand AI, but struggle to put the last ten years of furious progress into a systematic, philosophically-grounded framework? I have the perfect stocking-stuffer for you! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Krista K. Thomason @kkthomason.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
MY BOOK IS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TODAY!!!!
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Make sure to keep this in mind as you're making your #APAEastern24 plans, philosophy friends
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
This is awesome www.thecut.com/article/anth...
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
New book alert (we can do this here, right?!): Cameron Buckner's From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence is out now. Long title, long book, but not to be missed! #ai #philosophy global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
very good to see you both today! @rebeccaroache.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
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