📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

We are now out of in-person places at our workshop, but there's always plenty of room online! Please sign up below to receive the link before the event. If you are still keen to come in person, you can also sign up to the wait list and we will contact you if there is space.

Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!

It’s basically a low-cost way to gas up contingent philosophers, maybe juice a few book sales and article views. If you are a contingent philsphr. who would like an article/book/essay *published in 2025* included fill in this form, ticking the 'philosopher' box contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

The event will be taking place on Jan 14, 9.30-16.30, at The Studio in central Birmingham and online. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Ray Gibbs, Prof. Francesca Ervas, Dr Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, and Dr Francesca Brencio. In-person places are limited so please do register.

New on the BJPS Review of Books: A Drive to Survive – Kathryn Nave Reviewed by Matteo Colombo #philsci #philsky www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

If we can get Letterboxd to open phtsocal stores next, we can have Blockbuster again letterboxd.com/journal/lett...

Maternity leave cover for a health humanities post www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I wish Kevin McCloud would do a Grand Designs episode on this rather than another affluent couple making a house that’s way too big (and super ugly)

We had the second session today of our de Beauvoir reading group on “Old Age” and we talked about old people having sex (you read that right), classism, and Victor Hugo’s bed

Read my post for the APA blog, Rules of Engagement: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/10/r... Arguing that epistemologists can join impactful interdisciplinary projects that contribute to improving social interactions #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philosophymatters

give it 18 months and there will be three papers addressing this salient question

Husserl: launch phenomenology People: "he is sometimes credited as the father of phenomenology" Husserl: am I joke to you?

Today I'm writing about Severance, de Beauvoir and freedom (yes, all in one paper!) The more I think about it, the more in awe of this show I get...

Our new UK study about protective & risk factors in preventing suicide among LGBTQ+ youth is now out! 🌈 We surveyed 9,666 LGBTQ+ youth (13-24), identifying top predictors of suicidality: LGBTQ+ victimisation, conversion therapy, food insecurity, non-affirming school climate doi.org/10.1080/0020...

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

The event is particularly aimed at members of the public, so everyone is welcome! Please do consider coming along!

On April 7th 2026, I'm going to be running a workshop at the wonderful Winterbourne House and Garden on the topic of mental health and role-playing games! You can get tickets to the event here: www.winterbourne.org.uk/whats-on/phi...

Hard relate!

Come and work with me! :D

We've got some amazing speakers lined up and a broad range of topics. It's going to be a very stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion so please join us if you can!

This involved understanding how mental health professionals can support or prevent young people from feeling understood when they seek help. Epistemic injustice in clinical encounters is where one party has more authority and risks the other party’s contribution being sought or valued.

fuck Harry Potter, yes, but also can we get a second one of these films. Everyone wants more Jarnathon!

Big congrats to everyone in team #ProjectEPIC for bringing this together (especially Fred for coordinating us like an expert orchestra conductor!) It was a very cool thing to be a part of and I hope it goes on to shape further health policies!

"A philosophical exercise every month!" That's what I do & review on my blog philosophicalexercises.blogspot.com . Whether it be Contemplation of death, Jhana meditation, Postural Yoga, Befriending the Ancients, etc. I identify cool philosophical practices, I try them & I tell you about it #philsky

Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:

In the second session people only asked me how to get into psychology where people study criminals 😂 Oh well! But I got an excellent q on the fawn and mountain lion video: if the fawn was actually lying, would it still have been an injustice? I told them to study philosophy for an answer instead!

We also talked about epistemic injustice using a video from The Philosophy Garden @lisabortolotti.com and talked about when adults don’t take us seriously!

Running a taster day on Psychology for year 9 students today so naturally I’m teaching them about phenomenology! Opened up to Q&A and one of them asked me how much I earn 💀

In the session, we’ll also talk more generally about the societal obsession with aging women and more!

Bloomsbury are now doing a dyslexia friendly version of one of my favourite books of all time: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/piranesi-... I don't need another copy but at least I have a good reason to get one!

Some spooktober vibes to bless your timeline 🧙‍♀️ 👻 🎃

Be bald, live underground, last forever

How can the ambiguity arising from discontinuity of our self and our illness lead to misunderstanding and alienation? Today's post is by Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) on her recent paper “Prescriptive ‘selves’ and self-illness ambiguity”. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....

We've got so many amazing speakers lined up for this seminar! Please attend if you can!

Exciting news! Our textbook, Philosophy of Education, has been published with Palgrave!! This is a contemporary, up-to-date, not old, male & stale introduction to our field. Please spread the word & order the book for your library! #philsky #academicsky link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕 #philsky

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.

I wrote about internet men having big feelings about my little philosophy columns wellreadherring.substack.com/p/on-writing...

This inevitably means that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will feel like a slow crawl to the weekend No work on Tuesday because it’s my birthday 😉

I’m bossing Monday so far. Work in progress seminar has been organised, emails answered, chapter in Heidegger submitted And I still have time to chill before the EPIC seminar at 1pm 😎

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

I will be running this reading group along with my wonderful colleagues Valeria Motta and Andrew Maile in the build up to our network seminar on "Phenomenology Across the Lifespan" next Spring. Please do join us if you are interested!

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

On September 3rd, we launched our network with an exciting and inspiring event designed for and led by ECRS across the Midlands. If you missed it, you can read our report here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to. doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

My partner likes to leave me romantic notes on the books on my desk 🥰

i was *just* thinking about this too! here it is

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤