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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 3, @nicemm.bsky.social argues that moral principles are best understood as being those explanatory generalizations that display the greatest invariance. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Available now! American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 3, featuring contributions by @nirfresco.bsky.social, @loehrgui.bsky.social, @antoninbroi.bsky.social, @nicemm.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/issu...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Nicholas Emmerson @nicemm.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hot off the press, my latest article wades into the quagmire that is debate between generalists/particularists about moral principles. I defend a novel(ish) position which I call "moral invariantism". I'm told it'll be open-access for the next three months at the link below.

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Moral Invariantism

Abstract. Traditional debate concerning the existence of moral principles has been dominated by two opposing positions. Moral generalists maintain that moral principles, characterized as exceptionless...

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Nicholas Emmerson @nicemm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As a former resident of Birmingham, I find this strategy a little rich…

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

straightforwardly, unambiguously evil shit

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share

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Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator

The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

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Finnur Dellsén @dellsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The landscape in #Iceland is just endlessly beautiful 🥰

A hillside in south-east Iceland with low clouds clinging to the tops. There are brown scree slopes with some grasses in places, and more jagged and layered at the top. A deep gulley is seen on the right.

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lava, lagoon and life...

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