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Robbie Morgan

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Ethics Untangled podcast @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Very much enjoying how @robbiemorgan.bsky.social in the photo below looks as if he's had enough of theorising and is about to give it a try. If you're intrigued about touching through, read the blog or listen to our podcast with Robbie and Will Hornett here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...
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29. What is touching through? With Robbie Morgan and Will Hornett - Ethics Untangled
Today's question is one which you might not immediately recognise as important or, so to speak, pressing. The question is, what is touching through? It also might not be immediately apparent why this ...
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Cambridge Philosophy @cambridgephilos.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📜Congratulations to Dr Will Hornett and co-author Dr Robert Morgan @universityofleeds.bsky.social on the publication of 'Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #philsky
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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact
It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their cloth...
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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇 doi.org/10.1111/japp...
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Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps
Police censor drill rap music based on the claim that drill artists incite violence. In this article, I provide a framework for evaluating whether an instance of drill constitutes a speech act of inc...
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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of my recent(ish) favorite papers on epistemic injustice was "Hermeneutical disarmament" by Robert Morgan. It details how meaning change can harm by making us less able to communicate important social facts (see: "woke", "gaslighting", etc.) This public-facing version is also excellent #philsky
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‘Woke’ and ‘gaslight’ don’t mean what you think they do – here’s why that’s a problem
Terms like ‘woke’ and ‘emotional labour’ have lost their original meaning and there’s an issue with that.
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Rosa. @rosadluxe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Registration is open for two events happening 3rd & 4th December at Leeds @idea-leeds.bsky.social! Objectification & Sexualisation: philevents.org/event/show/1... Sex, Deception and Consent: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sex-decept... These events mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.
This is a poster for the first advertised event "Objectification and Sexualisation". The poster lists the speakers: Ana Cláudia Barbosa - Spectral Subjugation: Posthuman Objectification of Women in the Digital Age; Matthew J. Cull - Objectification in Posthumanist Feminism; Regina Fidelis Ilagan - A Consumable Monster: The South East Asian Sex Worker; Matthew Robson - Varieties of Sexual Exclusion; Kate Yuan - Sexual Humiliation as a State Project.
The poster also provides the location: IDEA: The Ethics Centre, 17 Blenheim Terrace, and repeats the link to fuller information (in the main post).
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Sally Latham @sallylatham.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What happens when we misuse medical terms like 'OCD'? This week on the #projectEPIC blog @robbiemorgan.bsky.social writes an excellent post about hermeneutical disarmament. #mentalhealth #philosophy #epistemicinjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/herm...
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Hermeneutical Disarmament
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