Are you interested in African Philosophy? I’ve made my notes and the course content available here: www.alexguerrero.org/africanphilo...

Just yesterday I discussed academic writing with students and distinguished Passable prose - academic tone & norms; very teachable Good prose - getting your points across well; teachable but requires a lot of practice Stylistic prose - life long quest, beyond the reach of most of us. Read a lot!

Philosophers I'm the book review editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy. We have a pile of books looking for reviewers. If interested in reviewing a book in ethics/political/social/action/moral psychology, that came out in 2023, 2024, 2025, or 2026, please keep reading. And please share this!

Donald Trump declared making more than 22,000 stock transactions in 2025, according to the FT analysis. His immediate predecessor, Joe Biden, made 13 transactions over four years. In his first term, Trump made 517. ft.trib.al/ld3ItuQ

Looking for a book cover for /Fitting Happiness/ (suggestions for themes welcome!). Amongst some better options, I was amused to discover this messed-up diagram: www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/...

Officially out on Thursday but these arrived today. So happy with how it looks. 🎉

What do you learn at university? 1. The difference between considering an idea for purposes of evaluation and advocating it. 2. The distinction between evaluating an idea and evaluating the person who proposes it. 3. The tension between ‘big picture’ and ‘fine-grain’. Skills, not (only) facts

I have a personal bias in favour of numbered sections. I think that they make cross-references easier and, more importantly, they make it possible to univocally identify citations when citing from a book/an e-book/a not yet laid out version of the same book. Page numbers are much less reliable.

"Today, on your way home, look at the “green” light on a traffic signal. It’s not green." [...] "But don’t bother taking a picture. It won’t work." Got to try this! moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Open letter about philosophy job losses at Nottingham. Please consider signing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yes, self promotion sucks, academics, but if you don’t do it nobody will find out about your work. The point is to publish and be read, not publish and hope you are discovered by fate, lifted out of a humble and pure obscurity so that you may be both famous and retiring

We need the concept of an anti-tragic event.

In my book I have a theory about fitting attitudes, which is that fittingness corresponds to facts about when the outputs of that attitude are permissible. Should I call this: 1) "FTP", Fittingness Tracks Permissions 2) "FITNOP" FIttingness corresponds to NOrmal Permissions 3) ?

In my book I have a theory about fitting attitudes, which is that fittingness corresponds to facts about when the outputs of that attitude are permissible. Should I call this: 1) "FTP", Fittingness Tracks Permissions 2) "FITNOP" FIttingness corresponds to NOrmal Permissions 3) ?

Next book on fitting fervor, or the fervible?

Incredible!

Beyond my book on happiness, I've been working away on /The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Desire/. The volume has 35 entries from many fantastic talented people, on a vast range of topics - wellbeing, decision, action, neuroscience, animals, pleasure, love, economics, AI, and more.

Yay. Very pleased to have contributed in a small way to this superbly edited volume, which will undoubtedly be a fantastic resource.

Beyond my book on happiness, I've been working away on /The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Desire/. The volume has 35 entries from many fantastic talented people, on a vast range of topics - wellbeing, decision, action, neuroscience, animals, pleasure, love, economics, AI, and more.

I've finally found some time to get back to work on my book. It's always a nice feeling when the finish line is in sight: it should be complete by the end of the year. alexgregory.name#HAPbook

This is a nice account of (some of) the value of the humanities, especially philosophy: napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...

I'm always impressed how @wiglet1981.bsky.social generously promotes *others'* successes on here and Facebook - it seems only fitting to congratulate him in turn on this fantastic honour! An excellent choice for Oxford.

“It’s just common sense!” Bertrand Russell:

I mean, the food here looks fairly edible in the context of something made in the front seat of a van, and there is some serious skill here in not cutting, poisoning, or burning anyone involved.

The first page obviously is quite different from the last, though no two adjacent pages differ

Learn to read, with Sorites

Oh no :(

Perfect! But we can perhaps add: and then you wonder whether it goes at all.

Marking season. Annual reminder that marking sixty 2000-word essays is akin to (harder than?) reading a hefty novel and writing out a review of every single chapter, maintaining consistent attention to detail each time. This is not at all easy or quick.

The metaphor "Killed two birds with one stone" seems a bit.. dated. On looking it up, I discover that some have proposed replacing it with "fed two birds with one scone". Lovely!

Do the ultra-rich have personalised number plates? Or would doing that that risk being mistaken for someone of a lower class, someone who has to prove their wealth?

For the fastest 5k of his marathon (35-40k) Sawe ran it in 13:42. That would be the course record on almost every parkrun in the UK. That pace is just so hard for ordinary runners to comprehend as a marathon pace.

Autonomously peeling an apple, from Sharpa. This company continues to produce the most impressive autonomous dexterous manipulation videos in the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.08122

There’s a lot of noise in politics but if you want to understand why we’ve had 8 Prime Ministers in the last 20 years and no leading politician has a positive approval rating, you might want to check out this chart

Philosophy of cog sci job at Sheffield - 3yr post. Get in touch if you have questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU853/l... #philsky #Philosophy

If you’re still expected to do 8 hours work, and now you don’t have to do the parts that you could do on autopilot, it’s not surprising the result is more intense.

I made a philosophy cryptic crossword for our postgrad reading party last week. A few people asked about it, so I shared it with @dailynous.com, and it's now available on the Heap of Links: dailynous.com/wp-content/u... So if you're a special kind of nerd, check it out! #PhilSky #CrypticCrossword

I'm hiring again!! Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp - to work with me! Deadline: March 20, 2026 More info on PhilJobs

My review of Allan Hazlett's excellent book. /The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism/. The book is really great and I do recommend it highly. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...

New article: Alex Gregory, "Take In Your Hen: Fittingness and Hedonic Adaptation", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 4. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim... Abstract in alt text. #philsky

Eleven new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @domlopes.bsky.social, @alexgregory.bsky.social and @daniwenner.bsky.social. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/

"Take in your hen: Fittingness and Hedonic Adaptation" is now available, open access at @philimprint.bsky.social. Come for the Julia Donaldson reference, stay for the question of whether hedonic adaptation is irrational. journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

Book blogging, pt8. Ch8 explains Barbara Fredrickson's /Broaden and Build/ theory of happiness. It's a great theory - intuitive and insightful. I explain how this theory neatly meshes with the theory of fittingness to deliver my view of when happiness is fitting. alexgregory.name#HAPbook

My growing take on AI: Right now it's good but only at things you aren't good at. Don't use it to help you with cutting edge research or to improve your special talent. But do use it to learn distant subjects you don't know at all, or improve your abysmal skills at things you've never learned.

Book blogging, pt7. What the heck is fittingness? Chapter 7 offers a systematic theory, which promises to (a) show why fittingness is worth caring about (i.e. solve the RKR problem), and (b) help us identify the fittingness condition for any given attitude in a principled way. This chapter=ambitious

Book blogging pt6. Ch6 discusses strategies for gaining happiness. We cannot be happy at will, but only in light of its seeming fitting. This connects to familiar claims about "wrong" vs "right" kinds of reason. It also explains various facts about happiness, such as why toxic positivity is toxic.

Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice

Book blogging, pt5. Ch5 of the book discusses the comparisons we make and that bear on happiness - with the recent past, or our expectations, or with our neighbours. I say that some comparisons are more apt than others. Along the way, I endorse the view that "good" only ever means "better than...".

Highly relevant when you read people talking about a genetic component of happiness.

rewriting a paper rejected by Analysis