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Michael Hannon

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Philosopher at the University of Nottingham. Director of the Aristotelian Society.

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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The refereeing situation is increasingly out of control
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C. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Here's an odd error in Google's website preview text that @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social might appreciate. To add to your "epistemic X" lists, here's an epistemic location: "The Society's events take place at Senate House, University of London - an iconic art deco building located in epistemology."
A Google website preview description for the Aristotelian Society that reads, "The Society's events take place at Senate House, University of London - an iconic art deco building located in epistemology."
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Looking forward to this today! @michaelhannon.bsky.social presents new empirical research — and other exciting talks to follow.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Interesting, although it's compatible with GPT users still being more informed than their non-GPT-using counterparts.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👀 👀 👀
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Coming up June 5th! Open to all. Please register in advance. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @ip-sas.bsky.social
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Factual Polarization and the Politics of Identity
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
philpapers.org/rec/WOOCTA-5 📣 New paper arguing that consent isn't (always) necessary for permissible sex. What is the point of having a permanent job if you don't have spicy takes?
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Elise Woodard, Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics - PhilPapers
No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long-term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go .....
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📣 PPE Seminar tomorrow at the Institute of Philosophy! 🎤 Ella Whiteley (LSE) 🧠 “Striking-salience and exclusion” Can efforts to highlight marginalized voices sometimes backfire? If so, what can we do about it? Join us tomorrow to find out! 📍Details here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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PPE Seminar | Ella Whiteley (LSE): Striking-salience and exclusion
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Remember: always thank the anonymous reviewer. That way readers know they shouldn’t blame you.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Do you want to Exec Committee Member of the Aristotelian Society? We are looking for 3 more committee members to join us as of September 2026. More information available in the link below. Deadline: Friday 27th March 2026. mailchi.mp/42496ca4d18c...
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Adverts: Admin/Web Editor Job and Exec Committee Member Role
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A referee once told me that the empirical work attempted in my paper is done more seriously elsewhere. My paper attempted no empirical work.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is happening at 18.15 tonight in Senate House!
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance." Walter Lippmann was right. And because the world is too big and complex, I’ve tried to assemble key passages from his 1922 book, "Public Opinion," that capture why it matters today. Link below.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Few things make me more despairing about the credibility and future of academic philosophy than reading certain referee reports.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Should we ditch elections, cancel politicians, and hand over decision-making power to a small and randomly selected group of fellow citizens? Here I review the case for and against two proposals: Alex Guerrero’s “lottocracy” and Hélène Landemore’s “open democracy.” Link in first comment.
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Michael (@michaelhannon.bsky.social) and I are putting together a Special Issue on Political Epistemology for Midwest Studies. Deadline for the CFA is October 31, 2025. More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1... Please share with others who might be interested :)
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Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Special Issue
Call for Abstracts: The journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy is putting together a special volume on Political Epistemology. The issue will feature invited contributions from scholars such as Alex Gu...
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I love a good epigraph.
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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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Jess L @jessicaleech.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Happy 100th birthday to Michael Dummett! Dummett was born on 27th June 1925. To mark the occasion, the Aristotelian Society have put together a special virtue issue celebrating his contributions to the Society over his lifetime. Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
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Aristotelian Society Virtual Issue: Michael Dummett Centenary
Guest edited by Professor Ian Rumfitt, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Introduction Michael Dum
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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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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you work in Political Epistemology, consider submitting to this Call for Abstracts for a special issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy. www.politicalepistemologynetwork.com/midwest-stud...
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Midwest Studies — Political Epistemology Network
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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
ESEARCH! "Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference" @michaelhannon.bsky.social challenges the claim that marginalised individuals possess unique epistemic advantages regarding oppression. Read:https://tinyurl.com/ypu8xut2 #philosophy #deference #standpoint #epistemology IMG: varpal
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
So proud of @michaelhannon.bsky.social for receiving a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship! ✨ Even though he’d prefer he were still early career… Project: “Lies of the Electorate: The Role of Insincere Discourse in Politics” www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...
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Mid-Career Fellowships 2024 awards
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Woke up to this. Huzzah! I am pleased to inform you that your submission "Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Tomorrow (Thursday) 4:30pm in Senate House, London. PPE Seminar | Promising to Do Wrong | Erik Zhang (Leeds) www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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PPE Seminar | Promising to Do Wrong | Erik Zhang (Leeds)
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We're delighted share this video about @helendecruz.net's fantastic article, "Friendship with the Ancients," which was published by the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGp4... @apaphilosophy.bsky.social Article here: doi.org/10.1017/apa....
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Friendship with the Ancients by Helen De Cruz
YouTube video by Cambridge University Press
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The Applied Epistemology Project @ UNC @unc-aep.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interested in writing applied epistemology for a public-facing audience? Apply to be part of our new working group! It'll meet four times over the summer, followed by a capstone in-person event here at UNC in September facilitated by Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This Thursday Alison Hills (Oxford) will be talking about "Moral Understanding and Moral Motivation" at the PPE series in London. Join us! 📍Senate House (Room 243) 🕐 4:30pm 🗓️ March 20 philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Moral Understanding and Moral Motivation | Alison Hills (Oxford)
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Two months ago, I launched a blog on Political Epistemology, and I've been thoroughly enjoying the writing process. I just published my fifth article, exploring Political Skepticism and Humility. Link in the comments.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
University administrations are largely a scam and should be sized down.
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New Substack post! Why do so many people accept evidence of widespread political ignorance but deny that we can determine who is politically knowledgeable? I look at some explanations. open.substack.com/pub/michaelj...
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I recently started a Substack to try to rediscover the joy of writing. Here’s my third post. I’ve plan to keep writing about knowledge, truth, and politics, so please do consider subscribing! (It’s free.) open.substack.com/pub/michaelj...
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Is There Truth in Politics?
A modest defense.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The types and quantity of errors that get introduced to a manuscript at the copyediting/proofing stage are truly absurd. Our book manuscript now has entire sentences with no spaces between words, for example.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Join us in London next week for Jonathan Benson's @j-benson.bsky.social talk: "Affective Polarization and the Aptness of Partisan Anger".
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Externalist solutions to skepticism are a cop out and you know it.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So excited for this! @elisewoodard.bsky.social and I will be talking about themes from our forthcoming book: www.routledge.com/Political-Ep...
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📢 TODAY: The Politics of Fear 📅 Today | 🕑 2-6 PM | 📍 Senate House 🗣️ Talks by Phil Tinline, Sarah Churchwell, Manos Tsakiris & Jonathan Leader Maynard, followed by a panel discussion. philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Politics of Fear
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Article abstracts should be one paragraph. I'll die on this hill.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I started a Political Epistemology substack, and I decided to begin with an uncontroversial topic. I currently have 3 followers, but I welcome more!
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Social Identity and Epistemic Privilege
Is there an epistemic advantage to being oppressed?
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Epistemic democrats say the legitimacy of democracy depends on its ability to make good decisions. If voters are incompetent, we should abandon democracy. Critics say this is a problem. I say: let's gamble democracy on epistemology! Now forthcoming in Episteme! philpapers.org/rec/HANBDO-4
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Michael Hannon, Betting Democracy on Epistemology - PhilPapers
This paper examines two major challenges to epistemic theories of democracy: the “authority dilemma” and the “epistemic gamble.” The first is a conceptual challenge, suggesting that epistemic democrac...
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now on 🦋 Bluesky 🦋! We aim to publish papers that break new ground, are from diverse philosophical traditions, and are on topics of wide interest. Here are our most recent articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Follow us for updates.
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FirstView articles | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Journal of the American Philosophical Association - Heather D. Battaly
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If you’re in London, come to this at 4:30pm today!
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Join us Monday to discuss "Truth, Expertise, and Democracy." Why are true beliefs essential for democracy? How can truth be weaponized for political domination? 🗓️ Mon, Dec 9 | 2pm ET | 7pm UK 📍 Register: bit.ly/3OJ7Ahc
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you live in London or plan to visit in the New Year, you should book this exhibit. It’s phenomenal.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This Tuesday! 5pm. Senate House.
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This 10,000-word journal article is currently 26,000 words. Should I keep going and write the book, or organize an intervention for myself?
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Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending an LSE event at the Cumberland Lodge, where I spoke with a group of exceptionally bright students about political ignorance and dogmatism. The discussion was based on this: "Are Knowledgeable Voters Better Voters?": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Thrilled to share next year's line-up for the Practical, Political, & Ethical Series!! Co-organized with @michaelhannon.bsky.social & generously supported by the Institute of Philosophy. elisewoodard.org/ppe-seminar-25
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