The only person I call King

Bloomsbury purchased Lexington Books so my book has a new website. Check it out here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/medical-s...

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter" goacpr.org

Tell your senators to take a stand against the “No Contempt Clause” act.indivisible.org/sign/senator...

I absolutely loved being in conversation with Samir Chopra, @kkthomason.bsky.social and @jdelston.bsky.social in this panel. I really think it's worth watching if you are interested in so-called "negative emotions"! I learned a ton. #philsky #philosophy

I submitted my piece on a whim to a gender theory contest… and I won! The work is titled Policed Minds: The Assault on Neurodivergent Black Boyhood. You can read it here

I learned so much today from @kkthomason.bsky.social @saraprotasi.bsky.social and Samir Chopra at our APA panel on "bad" emotions. Look for the recording soon on the APA On Demand Video Library! www.apaonline.org/events/Event...

If you are an American Philosophical Association member, come chat about "bad" emotions this Thursday at 10am Pacific! @kkthomason.bsky.social and Samir Chopra are the other panelists, and @jdelston.bsky.social will moderate. #philsky #philosophy

Congratulations to @UMSL Philosophy student Sarah Boslaugh for her presentation prize at this week's UGS! "STIGMA TOWARD PREP IS HIGHER AMONG MEN & ON SUBSCALES REFERENCING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE" (Sarah E. Boslaugh, Brandon Park, & Dr. Rachel P. Winograd) #philsky #UMSLproud

Over the past two years, only 16% of authors in the most elite philosophy journals have been women. Link to full post with details in comments.

Today at 3pm is the final UMSL Philosophy Colloquium: “Explaining Ourselves”, Samuel Dishaw (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louvain University in Belgium). Lucas Hall 205.

Friday and Saturday!

Looking forward to chopping it up with folks at the Critical Humor Studies Association conference this week. criticalhumorstudies.org/conferences/

Coming up! #philsky #medicalsexism #bioethics

Looking forward to giving two talks today and to the student presentations tomorrow! #medicalsexism #philsky #bioethics

If you want to review one of these books, or another that may be of interest to an IJFAB audience, or you have a book coming out, get in touch! www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04...

Looking forward to being the keynote for this philosophy conference--thanks for the writeup addressing my research, Pacific! pacindex.com/2025/04/03/p... #philsky

I have a bad feeling about this...wait, what is a "bad feeling"? Find out more with @kkthomason.bsky.social , @saraprotasi.bsky.social, Samir Chopra and me in my capacity as a member at large with the Virtual Programming Committee of the APA. This panel has been in the works forever! #philsky

Come chat about negative emotions with me, @kkthomason.bsky.social, and Samir Chopra. Thanks, @jdelston.bsky.social, for organizing!

Hey #philsky come to my panel on negative emotions! Organized by the great @jdelston.bsky.social and featuring @saraprotasi.bsky.social and Samir Chopra. It's for APA members only, so pay your dues and join us! www.apaonline.org/events/Event...

My second blog of the APA @apaphilosophy.bsky.social post in as many months is out today. It concerns inequity in medicine and health care with a precision health lens blog.apaonline.org/2025/04/10/m...

Really amazing pieces with neat ideas. It was an honor to judge the prize of someone who I respect so much. ❤️

The 2025 Munson Awards are out! Graduate prize: “Protecting the Partity: In Defense of Companions in Guilt,” by DeWitt 'Witt' Spiller Undergraduate prize: “Rationalityism: A Hierarchy of Discrimination and Oppression” by Eleanor Grissom Thanks to our judge, @tomy.bsky.social! #UMSLProud #philsky

We are looking forward to hosting Dr. Robert Lippert from the National Park Service on Thursday at 1pm in MSC Chamber for Engaged Philosophy Speaker Series. The exhibit will be on view April 1-15 on MSC Bridge #philsky #UMSLproud

What an inspiring event! Join Activism Hour on Tuesdays for more resistance work bio.site/activism

I'll be speaking at this event later this month. More info here: Finding Your Place in the Resistance March 29, 2024, 2:30-4pm ET on Zoom www.ticketleap.events/tickets/gree...

@michciurria.bsky.social is serving as the keynote for the Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy tomorrow at 4pm. Schedule here: www.siue.edu/mwswip/sched...

Our very own Dan Lehocky will be giving a talk during the WhyPhi hour 3/19 12:30-1:45 in the MSC Chamber entitled “The Importance of Indecision.” Contact me to read the slides in advance of his talk. We hope you can join us! #philsky #umslproud

Dr. Annah Bender and I have been working on an interdisciplinary project with survivors of intimate partner violence and their approach to justice. You can read about it this week in the Blog of the American Philosophical Association: blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/11/w...

We are so excited to host Lea Brandt (MU) today 3-4:30pm in MSC Chamber for her talk, "Bedside Bioethics: Shared Understanding in Times of Moral Ambiguity" at UMSL Philosophy. Join us! #philsky #UMSLproud

The 19th Annual Gateway Graduate Conference is April 26! Papers due 3/29. Graduate students, please submit and come visit St. Louis! The theme is philosophy of language philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky

Week 2 of the 2025 Central Division meeting starts tomorrow! #APACentral25 sessions will be held Thursday, February 27–Saturday, March 1. Register now! https://www.apaonline.org/2025central

Our Black History Month celebration at #UMSL Philosophy Department is today at 5pm! We'll be serving soul food from Adina's Vegan Cuisine and have invited Rev. Michelle Higgins to speak. Join us! #philsky

Congrats, #UMSL Philosophy MA grad Laura Miller on the publication of her book, AI Ethics in Action: A practical guide to building modern organizations through purposeful, ethical AI innovation! #philsky

Looking forward to Wednesday's Why-Phi hour! Elizabeth Jackson (SLU) will be in conversation with Eric Wiland about Pascal’s wager and epistemic permissivism Wednesday, February 26, 12:30pm, Millenium Student Center 313 (free pizza)

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has launched a new prize to recognize excellent books that bring the history of philosophy to a broader public audience. The prize's inaugural winner has just been announced...

Looking forward to this session today at the C-APA #philsky

Presented today with Dr. Annah Bender on Missouri's terrible policy not to let pregnant women get divorced and the ways in which it connects to IPV and #medicalsexism at the Central APA. Virtual APA has had some snags but very impressive feat overall #philsky

Check out #UMSL #Philosophy MA graduate, Lav McKittrick-Sweitzer's C-APA session tomorrow (1.8.T Teaching Hub: High School Philosophy Program 2 Friday February 21st, 9:55 - 11:50 CST) #philsky

Looking forward to seeing #UMSL Philosophy undergrad Eleanor Grissom's poster at the C-APA tonight. (1.6.T Teaching Hub Student Research and Faculty SoTL Poster Session Thursday February 20th, 6:55 - 8:10 CST)

Congratulations @michciurria.bsky.social for your the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize, announced at this year's Central Division of the APA! #philsky

Due to @UMSL’s move to remote learning today, Minorities and Philosophy will be meeting at 12:30 on Zoom (authentication required). Hope you can make it! We’ll be discussing and making posters for the Department of Philosophy's Black History Month Celebration umsystem.zoom.us/j/95354279617

The 2025 APA Central Division Meeting will include 5 sessions that are free and open to the public—no registration needed! Visit https://www.apaonline.org/event/2025central for more information. #APACentral25

Due to #UMSL shifting to remote, our Women and Gender Minorities and Philosophy (Gender Pals) meeting today is on Zoom in 20 minutes 12:30-1:30pm. UMSL login is required. Hope you can make it! umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Announcing the Munson Prize, which is being revived after a brief hiatus! All submissions will be sent out to be externally refereed. All currently enrolled #UMSL students are eligible to submit. Deadline 3/30/25

Thank you @michciurria.bsky.social for assigning my (unpublished!) work and inviting me to speak to your students. What a thoughtful and dynamic classroom you have fostered!

Minorities and Philosophy at UMSL Department of Philosophy is hosting a Black History Month celebration on February 25th at 5pm with guest speaker Reverend MichelleHiggins. We'll have pizza! Join us!

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Excited to be the keynote at Pacific University's 27th annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference! CFP below. Send your students!! www.pacificu.edu/about/events...

I cannot overstate just how good my experience was at NASSP's conference last year — the deadline for 2025 abstracts is March 1st!