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...

I'm really excited to finally be able to share this after months of work - our new Project EPIC report on the epistemic determinants of health. With over 20 contributors, we make the case for incorporating this new framework into existing determinants of health models: bci-hub.org/documents/ep...

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...

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...

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...

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

An absolutely fantastic article by @axdouglas.bsky.social at @aeon.co . aeon.co/essays/how-t...

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

Hilda Oakeley was the (acting) Head of Department at King's College from 1925-30 and Head of Department in 1931. @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social Read more about her in this 2015 blog written by Emily Thomas: feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/i...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iris Murdoch on Love @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/for-i...

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

“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

This looks fantastic!

Call for papers for a conference I'm hosting in London in May 2026 - Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #philsky

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

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

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...

Excited for this!

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

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

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/

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

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

Upcoming workshop on Susan Stebbing and Mary Midgley: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @philosophellie.bsky.social Ian Kidd Karl Egerton Me

A lovely obituary written for Alasdair MacIntyre written by one of his former grad students www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...

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)

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/...

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

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

@philosophellie.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social

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?...

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:

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

Some serious Midgley happening at the BSHP 2025 conference yesterday @enricogalvagni.bsky.social & @gsmcelwain.bsky.social #philsky

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

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

"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...

"Everyday thinking – the thinking by which we live – does not just need to be described and recorded, it needs also to be criticized, to be examined, to be taken seriously, even in its most lurid or odious manifestations." -Mary Midgley, The Ethical Primate

Getting towards the end of term & I’m teaching Midgley on human nature!! @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social I do hope my students appreciate my graphics 🥲 #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social

These are some of the books I'm thinking with today @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @gsmcelwain.bsky.social @wendysalkin.bsky.social @matthewblongo.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social It would be odd not to share this in 'public' given the topic.

"Is philosophy like plumbing? I have made this comparison a number of times, wanting to stress that philosophizing is not just grand and elegant and difficult, it is also needed. It isn’t optional." -Mary Midgley, Utopias, Dolphins and Computers

A new radio interview with the lovely Beth Matthews from Aussie Radio, 3CR 😁 We chat about why Mary Midgley said philosophy is like plumbing and Midgley's views on evil #philosophy #philsky www.3cr.org.au/radicalphilo...

Call for Paper - Deadline Extension: 30th March 2025 Wittgenstein & Feminism.