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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have you seen the more recent one? It's perhaps even more galling

Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Critics say it is "exciting, engaging, accessible, careful, gentle, and deep", and that it shows how "philosophy can be useful and illuminating for students and general readers alike"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tbh, it's unclear to me which is less accurate as a description of Burnham's Labour: "Socialist" or "Unabashed"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yup - will send you some references during work hours tomorrow, but one way this turns up is in the lit on political lesbianism

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Refusing to explain why I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox as radical anti-imperialist praxis.

Screenshot of Latour: Providing an explanation is, in a nutshell, working at empire-building; the more powerful an explanation, the larger the empire and the stronger the material in which it is built. What we admire in powerful theories we should also admire in freeways, multinational corporations, satellite networks, weapon systems, international banking and data banks. If we do not admire these achievements, there is no basis for using a double standard and letting the 'powerful theories' stand apart and alone be worshipped"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They're all having way more fun than us over in the philosophy of mathematics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Math Proofs, Gender Proofs | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Math Proofs, Gender Proofs

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I redid the section on social construction in the Stanford Feminist Metaphysics article last year, and I am once again tapping the sign:

Text from a Stanford Encyclopedia Entry: As such, many feminist metaphysicians have argued that a necessary part of feminist praxis will involve debunking claims that gender and other such categories are i) natural, ii) inevitable, and iii) without need of justification. (Note that, contrary to a popular misconception, claiming that something is socially constructed is not about claiming that that something isn’t real! Social constructionists broadly tend to be realists about the things that get socially constructed,

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Alex Madva @madva.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social! Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

esteemed colleague: the problem with contemporary academia is relativism Me: Holy shit! metaethical noncognitivism? EC: LOL no...no not those relativists Me: So....neocarnapian metametaphysics? EC: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? EC: Oh, you know the ones

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Is this hybrid or just in person?

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Burnham isn't interested in instituting a Bavarian Bolshevist form of economic planning??

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Surely this is more a job for Neurath!

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's forthcoming in a volume called Trans Philosophy in a Time of Crisis, hopefully out early next year!

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Children as Commodity and Changeling: Gender Disappointments and Gender Disappointment" philpapers.org/rec/CULCAC-3 👀👀

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Reviewer's report: "I couldn't figure out if the author was in the pocket of big card, or just addicted to Balatro"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The next one is on the 29th, where we'll focus on parental leave, and especially how organisations can facilitate a better experience for trans (and other) parents

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm reminded that I should promote these more: myself, Fiona Woollard and Jules Holroyd run free workshops on inclusive language in various aspects of perinatal care. Aimed at care practitioners, but all welcome! engagedphilosophy.org/inclusive/

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Inclusive Language and Practice in Perinatal and Postnatal Care

Project Resources Register for a workshop About the Project Centre Co-director Jules Holroyd (University of Sheffield, they/them), with affiliate member Matthew Cull (Trinity College Dublin, they/t…

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

They might like to check out Edinburgh's centre for technomoral futures: www.technomoralfutures.uk

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Keir Starmer seeing this and immediately demanding that Labour take a tougher stance on "Kids being up past 8.30pm" to demonstrate how much more 'serious' they are.

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"In trans philosophy there are no morals etc etc"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The new issue of TSQ is out, and somebody thought it would be a good idea to let philosophers be in charge of it: read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/13/2

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Volume 13 Issue 2 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I will say, I was for some time very puzzled by the politics of a vocally anti-trans birthing group who also kept posting praise of 'FTM's

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's a really cool book and it should be a great conversation about doulas, what the hell is going on with California, and anxiety around birth.

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you're in or near Edinburgh this Sunday, please do come along to Tills Bookshop, where I'll be interviewing Andrea Ford about her new book, Near Birth: Contested Values and the Work of Doulas. theasa.org/conferences/...

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Near Birth

Why should you care how babies are born?

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's a very old rhetorical strategy we developed as a way of legitimating our empire. The politeness and the civility has always been a cruel facade, to hide (often from ourselves!) the violence and exploitation we exported.

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Does anyone have a Times subscription? I need access to an old article they wrote about me and some collaborators!

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That sounds fab! It was so lovely!

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Have you ever wondered about how feminists should approach the fact/value distinction? Boy, have I written a paper for you! “Should Feminists be Humeans? Facts, Values, and Barriers to Entailment”, out now, open access in Synthese. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.com

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This August at TCD we're running a workshop on feminist philosophy, social ontology, and the corporation. It's a really exciting lineup of speakers, including keynotes by Carol Gould, Vanessa Wills, Naima Hamrouni, and Jade Fletcher. Please email me at cullm@tcd.ie if you'd like to attend!

Poster for Feminism and the Corporation: Radical Metaphysics, Radical Politics?
Poster text:
A two-day workshop on feminist philosophy, social ontology, and the corporation at Trinity College Dublin, August 13th and 14th 2026.
Please email cullm@tcd.ie for registration.
Speakers:
Carolina Berrutti (Vienna)
Jade Fletcher (St Andrews)
Carol Gould (CUNY)
Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR)
Wishy Kane (Arizona State)
Sitian Liu (Guangxi University)
Kenneth Silver/Matthew J. Cull (TCD)
Luciana Soria (Barcelona)
Ellen Vieira de Paiva (Maranhão/TU Berlin)
Vanessa Wills (George Washington)
Supported by the Horizon ERC grant Corporate Moral Progress

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This image of me and a Deleuze scholar from the International Deleuze and Guattari conference a couple of years back is of course entirely unrelated.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

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First two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in historic moment

The first two transgender MSPs have been elected to the Scottish Parliament ...

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Brb, just submitting "'Gerroff my land or get a taste of my epistemic shotgun': a defence of the post-capitalist transition England's limits on a epistemic right to roam" to @rosadluxe.bsky.social's next Just Theorising conference

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Hang on this joke analogy might actually have legs

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Not being restricted to only epistemically camping in designated epistemic campsites will have its detractors I'm sure - "Does this mean someone can camp in my epistemic back garden??"

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Given their respective right to roam laws, would you prefer to live in an epistemic Scotland or an epistemic England?

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If you're looking for something to get you through the long weekend, here's an interview for Embrace the Void on epistemic injustice, primary harms/wrongs, hermeneutical injustice, and whether appealing to the notion of epistemic injustice helps defend or undermines the notion of objective truth.

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🚨Only after few days left to apply to this opportunity at Edinburgh. A fully-funded PhD studentship on a project about COVID-19 vaccine and memories. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Plaid do not stand candidates in Scotland.

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Yeah totally - no issue with the broader project at all, I just had a Diogenes moment reading the pithy version!

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Matthew J. Cull @matthewjcull.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I don't see how the analogy works, but yes you're right, I think the pithy definition is vulnerable to all number of plucked chickens from the world of computing!

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