In this new @ctp-leeds.bsky.social blog, Dr Andrew Kirton shares why we shouldn’t be too quick to outsource our writing jobs to AI. As he argues, if we use GenAI to think and write we do lose something. Find out what it is in this blog. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-theor...

The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

Frances Darling - 'Epistemic Reparations and Disability', forthcoming and open access at Phil Studies:

Exciting news: my monograph is now available on Cambridge Core! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

What can a shallow pond teach us about our moral obligations to strangers? On the latest @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode, David Edmonds joins Jim to explore the story behind Peter Singer’s famous thought experiment — and why it still provokes such fierce debate today.

'Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals', a new blog by Matilda Carter , author of RELATING TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AS EQUALS 📚 https://cup.org/487ky35 #bioethics #medicallaw

Found Polanski’s comments on social care ill-judged, but the point he seemed to be trying to make was broadly right. Social care is work. Hard work. And not everybody has the necessary personal qualities and interpersonal skills to do it.

Each January, IDEA the Ethics Centre hosts an informal colloquium on Biomedical and Health Care Ethics at Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. Find out more here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday. It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill. It’s had almost no media coverage. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Great blog post by IDEA's Matilda Carter on Power, Status and the Dementia Care Relationship. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...

Wrote about my history in dementia care and my motivations for working on my forthcoming monograph. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...

Should relational egalitarians always oppose stigma? I argue no. Where stigma is unwarranted, relational egalitarians should oppose it. But where it is *warranted*, it is at the very least unobjectionable and, in some circumstances, may even be obligatory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you like your mind extended and your equality relational, my new paper in Synthese is for you. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Don't miss our new handbook: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics An authoritative guide to care ethics: what it is, debates within the field, and the contributions it can make to contemporary issues. Learn more: bit.ly/45LEA0z Preview: bit.ly/4lxyCpG

So pleased to see the Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics available in print!

Join us next month for this fantastic conference!

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics appears to be available to all those whose institutions have subscribed to Bloomsbury Collections. Mine hasn't. But it's exciting nonetheless. www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

Had a great chat with the committee of UCL's Minorities and Philosophy chapter recently, setting out the case for viewing mental disabilities as neutral with respect to well-being. You can take a listen here (or on Spotify, if you prefer). soundcloud.com/user-2185781...

Had a fantastic time hosting this group of speakers, over the last two days, to talk through normative questions raised by our ageing societies. Thanks to all who attended too; it was a lovely way to cap off my time here in Glasgow!

One thing I feel pretty confident I will be teaching writers for years to come is that your process has to be what works for you and not what anyone else is telling you is the way to do it. Years into my MFA, I FINALLY have my process and it is so against what most people teach.

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

Whatever genuine fears of insincere actors exploiting accommodations exist, I do not believe the British public will comfortably bear the consequences of punishing all trans people to stop them. Call me a sentimental liberal, but I believe the cruelty of the new position ensures it will not hold.

As good a time as any to recirculate this article I published in 2022…

Backing down from the Pip freeze is not good enough. Maybe I could stomach the UC changes, but tightening the qualifying criteria for Pip further is a cowardly and cruel way to meet the Government’s self-imposed fiscal rules.

Used to be an avid Marr show viewer as a student but haven’t tuned in regularly for years. Why does it look so cheap now Kuenssberg has taken over? The backdrop makes it look like she’s filming in a student union basement. Was this a gradual or a sudden decline?

New article in open access with Analytic Philosophy. In this piece, I pull apart arguments about the nature of justice and the nature of equality in relational egalitarian literature, giving an account of a relational approach to justice that need not necessarily be egalitarian.

Pre-orders of the collection I edited for Bloomsbury on care ethics are now available. So excited to have found a home for some fantastic contributions from across our international scholarly community!

Love it when I spend months making torturously slow progress on a draft paper, then finish it rapidly and by surprise. It happens nearly every time, but you try convincing me of that when I’m in the thick of writing one paragraph every three hours.

In 2023 alone more than 1 million people registered Lasting Powers of Attorney. But this is a tale about concerns relation to one legal firm in Essex and 30 cases involving Mr Hiller and his firm, Craybeck Law A disturbing pattern of events: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I expect there are significant framing effects here. Consider: “Under FPTP a party needs to win in the majority of constituencies to get a majority in Parliament. Under PR, a party can win with a majority of votes even if they come from a smaller number of constituencies. Which would you prefer?”

1) What it means to relate to one another as equals given our vulnerability, interdependence, and reliance on supportive configurations of shared spaces to pursue our interests and realise our values. 2) The implications of a distinction between subjectivity and consciousness.

"Councils are today calling for the needs of hundreds of thousands of working age adults and life-long disabled people requiring social care not to be overlooked in government plans for a National Care Service."

New article published (with genuine open access!!) in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy! www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

There’s been a noticeable uptick in politically-charged work on dementia in sociology and psychology in recent years. I’m halfway through this book and feeling even more strongly that philosophy is far behind other disciplines on this.

The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2023 Essay Prize Topic: Methodology Prize £2,500 and publication in Philosophy. Deadline 31st January 2024. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...