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Coming soon ââ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me :: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) :: ââ contents pages are in the thread below.
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Cardiff Philosophy
14 days ago
đBook launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
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The Existentialist Offensive
16 days ago
24 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience. From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
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Anon Opin
17 days ago
Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
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Stuart Presnell
18 days ago
Police officer, running up to me: "Stop, what's that brown liquid you're pouring into the drain?" Me: "It's 1,000 gallons of untreated sewage" PO: "Phew, I thought for a minute it was a few dregs of coffee"
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Hetan Shah
20 days ago
Post 16 White Paper is out at last
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Post-16 education and skills white paper
Post-16 education and skills reforms to develop a skilled workforce and break down barriers to opportunity.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-16-education-and-skills-white-paper
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Casmilus
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I think it's excessive to remove all his titles. He should have just been downgraded to The Marquis Of Granby, or maybe The Slug And Lettuce.
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âthe accumulated knowledge of generations ⊠is stored in universities as it is stored nowhere else, and it continues to be produced there, patiently and as far as the wide world goes almost anonymously, by generations of scholars in communion with each-otherâ
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The joy of university
For those who are privileged to go to university, they get three years suspended between childhood and the adult world
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-joy-of-university/
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Ian Dunt
about 1 month ago
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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British monarchy encloses 150 acres of public land for their private use.
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âI think itâs selfishâ: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone
Royal coupleâs desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/04/william-kate-face-backlash-no-go-zone-windsor-great-park?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Hunter Walker
about 1 month ago
UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation."
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Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUPâPenn
October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been âinvitedâ to sign a so-called âCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Educationâ by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...
https://aaup-penn.org/statement-by-the-aaup-penn-executive-committee-on-the-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education/
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âAI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.â
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âOpposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessaryâ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm â including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/opposing-the-inevitability-of-ai-at-universities-is-possible-and-necessary
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Rachel Coldicutt
about 1 month ago
Anyway, you do have to wonder what this means for "growth": yesterday's ID proposals are *designed* to make access to work more difficult for people on low incomes, and they come with the side effect of potentially squashing a growing domestic technology sector.
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âAfter nearly a decade of mutilating the country to address the âlegitimate concernsâ about immigration, weâre still being told the precise same nonsense we were told in 2016, or in 2005.â â
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ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
Many people I admire believe firmly in ID cards, or have grown to accept them. This is why they're wrong.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-are-a-terrible-terrible-a4c
about 1 month ago
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âEither we have copyright law or we donât. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they arenât. Weâre either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we arenât.â
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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/sometimes-we-resist-ai-for-good-reasons
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âAI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.â
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âOpposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessaryâ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm â including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/opposing-the-inevitability-of-ai-at-universities-is-possible-and-necessary
about 2 months ago
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Olivia Guest · ÎλίÎČÎčα ÎÎșΔÏÏ
2 months ago
Finally! đ€© Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryâs marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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âAssuming scrubbing-brush man wasnât Banksy himself, though, he inadvertently produced a new work of protest art. The silhouette of the image has seeped into the stone of the court buildings and is at least as powerful as the original image. This could well have been Banksyâs intentionâ
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Everyday philosophy: The irony of erasing Banksy
The street artistâs work leaves an indelible trace in our memories and it will last long after authorities scrub away the paint
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warburton-everyday-philosophy-the-irony-of-erasing-banksy/
about 2 months ago
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Nolen Gertz
about 2 months ago
"Uh, I think it's the wifi..."
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Dr. Nick Posegay
about 2 months ago
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at
hcommons.org
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Cardiff Philosophy
about 2 months ago
#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp) Becky Millar (Cardiff) Lucy Osler (Exeter) 13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September 1.57 John Percival Building Cardiff University Free! All welcome! Register here:
bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
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Lieven Ameel
about 2 months ago
In Vienna for the Railway Aesthetics conference, which takes place in and around trains, including several night-trains on the trajectory Vienna â Bucharest â Istanbul. Program includes a panel at the Royal Salon in Bucharest & visit to the Energy Museum in Istanbul
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Coming soon ââ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me :: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) :: ââ contents pages are in the thread below.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
2 months ago
âIt is important to get this right,â said Vallance. âWe must not get bound down on measuring things that we cannot.â
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...
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Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework
Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick-vallance-hits-pause-research-excellence-framework?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial-daily&spMailingID=31791820&spUserID=MTAyMjQ5OTgxNDY1MgS2&spJobID=2790274272&spReportId=Mjc5MDI3NDI3MgS2
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Hetan Shah
4 months ago
Public First has found higher education is in the top 3 for exports in 102 constituencies demonstrating the essential role universities & international students play. Public First has also found that international students raise living standards in every UK constituency.
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#tweetyourview
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I see Simon Jenkins has written his universities article again.
about 1 year ago
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Bob Kopp
3 months ago
âA legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,â they said. âShow me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,â I said.
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#Dorking
4 months ago
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Kate Kirkpatrick
4 months ago
Some photos of former participants in these cultural colloquia: a very young (pre-Beauvoir) Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Paul RicĆur, and Gabriel Marcel
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The Existentialist Offensive
4 months ago
. . Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon! . . To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 ââ Black Skin, White Masks ââ free to download for one week only ::
bit.ly/RethExistFan...
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Aeon Magazine
4 months ago
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanonâs birth, weâre sharing this archive Essay on the existentialist philosophies of Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir, which offer important insights into the nature of prejudice
#FrantzFanon
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Cardiff Philosophy
4 months ago
"People must see themselves as the authors of their own emancipation." Excellent new open-access article on the dangers of externally induced regime change with particular reference to Iran ââ ââ coauthored by Cardiff philosopher Patrick Hassan.
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"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan (keywords: Iran; Regime Change; Anti-Imperialism; Post-Colonial Theory)
Calls for regime change in Iran have surged once again following the June 2025 aerial bombardments by Israel, encouraged by hawkish factions in Washington and Tel Aviv. These military actions, ostensi...
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/when-liberation-becomes-subjugation-the-moral-paradox-of-regime-change-in-iran-by-hossein-dabbagh
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UK Sartre Society
4 months ago
Superb keynote lecture from Betty Cannon to round off
#UKSS2025
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UK Sartre Society
4 months ago
Superb keynote lecture from :: Kate Kirkpatrick ::
@philosofemme.bsky.social
on the influences of various readings of Hegelianism and responses to it in Simone de Beauvoirâs The Second Sex.
#ukss2025
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Kierkegaard on why you need to actually do the work rather than, say, have an AI write your essay for you â
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My take on the toppling of the Colston statue, published five years ago today at
@thequietus.com
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Bristolâs Innovative Sculpture: Plinth, Statue, Water, & Space | The Quietus
Bristolâs latest contribution to the art world has been an instant smash hit. Images of the Colston statue repositioning were beamed around the world, first by social media and then by mass media, tha...
https://thequietus.com/culture/art/colston-statue-bristol-essay/
5 months ago
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Manon Garcia
7 months ago
Iâm very honored that this happened. For me of course, but also because in this time of constant threat against academia and especially against academic philosophy, itâs a little hope that some people see the importance of what we collectively do.
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S. Orestis Palermos
7 months ago
Excited to announce our CfP for this international conference co-organised with colleagues from the Uo Ioannina, Uo Athens, Ionian U, Aristotle U, and FORTH-Hellas. It's on the ethical, legal, and political challenges posed by BCIs, Neurotech, and AI:
politech.philosophy.uoi.gr/conference-2...
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Jo Wolff
7 months ago
When a book falls open at the right page. From Lao Tzuâs Tao Te Ching.
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Here is over there.
#bristol
7 months ago
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âThe powerful do not need free speech protections. They can do what they damn well like. It is the powerless who require them.â â excellent article from
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Progressives are rediscovering freedom of speech
The populists didn't come to defend it. They came to butcher it.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/progressives-are-rediscovering-freedom
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Sleep matters! Highly flammable! Toxic to fish!
8 months ago
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In case itâs helpful âŠ
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Cardiff Philosophy
9 months ago
Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:00-19:00 Cathays, Cardiff Full details ââ
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Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book co-authored by Cardiff University philosopher Dr Sarah Fisher.
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/community/events/view/2897978-book-launch!-meaning-a-very-short-introduction
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Jonathan Calder
9 months ago
Anyone aged 18 and older in Leicester, Leicestershire, or Rutland can sign up to the libraries for free and borrow up to 10 books at a time.
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/all-...
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All Leicestershire's university libraries are now open to everyone
Here's a good news story from the Leicester Mercury : Universities across Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to everyone in the c...
https://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/all-leicestershires-university.html
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The Existentialist Offensive
10 months ago
â The Woman Destroyed â :: Exhibition of HĂ©lĂšne de Beauvoirâs paintings opens in London this Friday. :: Runs until 2nd March.
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âJean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!â The forgotten brilliance of HĂ©lĂšne de Beauvoir, sister of Simone
She was a painter âahead of her timeâ, counting Picasso as a fan. But HĂ©lĂšne de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiv...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/20/helene-de-beauvoir-sister-simone-picasso-jean-paul-sartre?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Excellent discussion of my paper at the philosophy of education group at Birmingham â thank you! â hope I wasnât too distracted by the spectacular views from the seminar room window.
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