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Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Very much worth a dash from work to Oxford to hang out with my favourite @philosophellie.bsky.social Then to @ballioloxford.bsky.social for a spectacular public lecture from @peterwest23.bsky.social #DorothyEmmet #EpiphanyPhilosophers #philsky #philosophysky www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 13/02/2026

Explore a curated collection on ten women who served as Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, and the scholarship that defined their leadership: oxford.ly/4rpXpzK @aristotsoc.bsky.social

Explore a curated selection of presidential addresses by women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, spanning nearly 100 years.

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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Check out our brand new Virtual Special Issue: "Ten Women Presidents of The Aristotelian Society" The first ten Inaugural Addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, from 1930-2001. academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philosophy

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Peter West @peterwest23.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Ellie Robson (@philosophellie.bsky.social) and I edited a new virtual special issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 'Ten Women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society' 10 papers from the first 10 women to be president of the AS are all available open access here: tinyurl.com/ufy9ncn9

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Dr Grace Lockrobin @gracelockrobin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We were pleased to welcome as one of our key note speakers @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social who spoke about the work of the philosopher Mary Midgley. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The recording of my talk about the philosopher Mary Midgley and economics is already online. Thanks to the whole @inparenthesis.bsky.social team & to @philosophellie.bsky.social, @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social, @amytaggart.bsky.social, @iangr.bsky.social for joining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNC...

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Nat Dyer: 'Midgley amongst the economists'

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists

Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.

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(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

With the help of scholars, we're mapping historical/philosophical connections to the Wartime Quartet. Our latest Margaret Macdonald - written my philosopher Oliver Spinney. You can read it on our website! www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/quartet-biog...

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Mapping Connections Mapping Connections | In Parenthesis

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Iris Murdoch Review 16 (2025) Cover and Contents Reveal! This year is a North American Special Edition. Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/memb...

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989. Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

So saddened by the death of Jane Goodall who described herself as “not a scientist but a naturalist”

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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

U. Göttingen has launched Bildersturm, a major research project addressing the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. It aims to overturn traditional images of the discipline by highlighting women philosophers and establishing new role models for the future: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/670560.html

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Verbundprojekt Bildersturm – Frauen in der Philosophie sichtbar machen und neue Vorbilder etablieren - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025

Looking forward to attending ‘Mary Midgley Amongst the Economists’ - the upcoming first seminar of @inparenthesis.bsky.social's 2025-6 series 👀 @natjdyer.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

One of the first philosophers to write about #climate change, Mary Midgley, was born on this date in 1919. For our episode earlier this year, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore Midgley’s ideas about #animals and the Gaia hypothesis: youtu.be/yraIY5Uhb98 #PhilSky #WiseWomen

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Mary Midgley: Roving Philosophical Report

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Super excited for this! The first talk ‘Midgley Amongst the Economists’ is on the 22 October by @natjdyer.bsky.social

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

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Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers

The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

At Elizabeth Anscombe’s house in Cambridge 👸 I recommend the Wartime Quartet tour of Oxford available here: open.spotify.com/show/1p37fcZ... @inparenthesis.bsky.social

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

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Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“As we get set to re-broadcast the start of our #WiseWomen series, head over to Philosophers Corner to read the blog about that first episode exploring the life and though of Hypatia of Alexandria” | @philtalkradio.bsky.social philosophytalk.org/blog/ancient... #Hypatia #philsky

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Ancient Renaissance Woman - Philosophy Talk

In her time in the 4th century, Hypatia was one of the most famous philosophers in Alexandria, and indeed in the ancient world. She studied so many different things—mathematics, astronomy, philosophy—...

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Wonderful to be on this podcast and talking about Midgley on Animal Ethics!!! Thanks for having me Nigel 🤓

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Just released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com

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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Are you planning a philosophy conference in the UK? The deadline for our next round of conference is 1 September 2025, you can apply for up to £500. More info below! #philsky #philosophy www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/editorial/co...

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Conference Grants – The Aristotelian Society

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

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(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Just back from beautiful laid-back Lund. What a smorgasbord of brilliant work on Quartet(+) figures @lunduniversity.bsky.social, incl from MtQ's @philosophellie.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This Sunday KALW will air the final episode in season 2 of our #WiseWomen series, exploring the moral #philosophy of Philippa Foot. The series has been a remarkable two-year journey, from Hypatia of Alexandria in 4th-century Egypt to Foot and the "Oxford Quartet" of the mid-20th century. 1/

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY! Ian James Kidd argues there can be pessimism without despair and nihilism. Time to rethink pessimism! t.co/lJ7RkWcoPq #philosophy #pessimism #despair #nihilism #antinatalism

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Guy Longworth @guylongworth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Updated SEP entry: J. L. Austin. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aust...

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The APA is saddened to note the passing of Professor Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929–2025). MacIntyre was 1984–1985 Eastern Division president. He was Rev. John A. O'Brien Senior Research Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame. www.apaonline.org/news/701948/... Photo: Sean O'Connor (CC-BY)

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’m excited to be part of a workshop at Notre Dame Philosophy Forum next Thursday - presented a co-authored paper with Sophia Connell on Midgley’s zoological Aristotelianism! maritain.nd.edu/events/2025/...

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Lunchtime Workshop: 20th-Century Women Philosophers and Aristotelianism

Please join the History of Philosophy Forum for a lunchtime workshop during which Ellie Robson, a 2025 Summer Writing and Research Grant awardee, and Pe...

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m currently visiting Notre Dame University - History of Philosophy Forum, working on some Aristotle, Aquinas, and 20C virtue ethics!! Excited to be in Indiana & head to Milwalki for a talk by @peterwest23.bsky.social next week! #philsky #philosophy

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Peter West @peterwest23.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The view from the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, where @philosophellie.bsky.social and I are spending the next few weeks as Summer Fellows at the History of Philosophy Forum @notredame.bsky.social

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ahead of this Sunday's episode on Mary Midgley, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore Midgley’s ideas about animals and the Gaia hypothesis with @philosophellie from King's College London and Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Project Director of "Philosophy in the Wild." youtu.be/yraIY5Uhb98?...

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Mary Midgley: Roving Philosophical Report

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on George Eliot, who translated Spinoza's 'Ethics' and was also a significant philosopher in her own right - written by Clare Carlisle:

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George Eliot (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Reaching the final weeks of editing a 10 chapter collected volume for Palgrave MacMillan - ‘Midgley on Moral Philosophy and Ethics’ 🤯 Which means rereading 10 amazing chapters featuring Midgley on: wickedness, naturalism, Gaia, myopia, environments, the self Authors below! #philsky #philosophy

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Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Wonderful symposium session on #MaryMidgley at @thebshp.bsky.social annual conference. Firstly the brilliant @philosophellie.bsky.social #SophiaConnell on Midgley’s Zoological approach to Aristotle’s Ethics. Followed by equally fantastic @enricogalvagni.bsky.social on Hume & Midgley on the study 1/2

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Two great talks on Midgley today by Miranda Boldrini and Chiara Pellegrini 👏

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"She received an aggressive response from her editor." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @philosophellie.bsky.social & @aeon.co! Read/subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z aeon.co/essays/for-m...

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For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays

For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors

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