‘According to Scanlon, morality does not emerge when we take an impartial, impersonal perspective on humanity; it emerges from the one-to-one relation each of us has with each other individual.’ Thomas Nagel on T.M. Scanlon’s moral philosophy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This event at the Magdalen Grove auditorium on 11 June is going to be quite something. Three artists responding to 100 newly-discovered lines from lost plays by Euripides... www.magd.ox.ac.uk/events/stori...

When I'm reviewing a book or reading a thesis I read it twice, paying particular attention to the claims made in the preface and introduction second time round. It is amazing how often there's a mismatch between what's claimed to be in the rest of the manuscript and what you'll actually find.

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken...” David Hume, Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose work influenced cognitive science & economic theory, born #OTD 1711. Portrait by Allan Ramsay 1754, National Galleries of Scotland

BlueSky/Ecosia combination qualifies you for unofficial membership of The Resistance.

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Next Monday we've got Anil Gomes (Oxford) speaking to us about 'Iris Murdoch on God, Good, and Soul'. Free and open to all. ⏰ 18.15, 11 May 2026 📍Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anil-gomes/

#Bookreview in @science.org! “The future is not a train to wait for but rather a canvas we co-create individually and collectively” #Authors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

Horrah - this is out. Thanks @aristotsoc.bsky.social for asking me to write it. Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

Very enjoyable session for The Royal Institute of Philosophy, online, this evening @triphilosophy.bsky.social Discussing papers by Marcus Singer, Joanna North, W.D. Ross, Igor Primoratz and Alwynne Smart on Evil, Punishment, Mercy and Forgiveness. Topical material!

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Orbán battu par les urnes !!! 💪 Potentiellement le début d'une longue liste de défaites pour l'extrême-droite, le Trumpisme et ses alliés ! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The XXVI World Congress of Philosophy “Philosophy: A Place for Open Dialogue” August 16-23, 2028 University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus Japan wcptokyo2028.wordpress.com/about/

come along if you're in Oxford on April 24: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blava...

BOOM! South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less. THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis. #EnergyRevolution

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The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Register for the Joint Session 2026 before our Early Bird prices expire on Friday! www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se...

Louise Richardson is an invited speaker at this year's @aristotsoc.bsky.social Joint Session. She will be responding to Michael Cholbi (@thatwhichischolbi.bsky.social) in a symposium on Devotion and the Opacity of Grief. sites.google.com/view/2026-jo... #philsky

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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/... "Habermas was, as his friend Thomas Nagel once said, “a figure of hope, emerging from the background of a dark history”. P. Collins 1 April, 2026, "Prospect" magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk

“ The text that has come to light deals with the theory of particle effluvia and sensory perceptions, particularly vision. Analysis of the text has revealed unexpected connections, including the probable direct source of a passage by Plutarch (2nd century), as well as a dialogue by Plato

Picked up almost 1000 followers this weekend, simply because I posted that we should read books together and talk about them. Something is happening out there.

It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.

Next talk in our new European Environmental Philosophy Series (EEPS)! "Framing animals" by Dr. Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 15 May 2026, 1pm-2:30pm CET Register here for receiving the zoom-link: forms.gle/cbyrSAKLdaXi... Further info here: cetep.eu/european-env...

🚨«Workshop: Martin Hägglund. The Meaning of Mortality». 📅 March 30 - April 1, 2026. 🏛️ Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences. 🔗More info at: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/xv-int...

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“ Some of us may no longer be Habermassians, but we learned from, with and against him what it means to keep faith with critique. “ from N Fraser in the LRB

Attention Boston-area Philosophers! With the support of the Harvard Ethics Center, @agholdier.bsky.social, Matt Willis, & I are hosting the Philosophy of Dialogue Conference this Friday & Saturday (3/27 & 28) at Harvard! Free to attend, register here: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/e6x9m...

Rawls distinguished ‘the rational’ - taking the most efficient means to an end - from ‘the reasonable’ - being prepared to modify your claims in the light of claims of others. He believed we all had these two ‘moral powers’. I’m no longer sure he was right.

Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop. CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism — @harvardpress.bsky.social, October 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

If you're an early career researcher (postdoc or advanced postgrad) based in/around London, you might be interested in this workshop on April 20-21! philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Always nice when the physical copy of a book arrives.

This is happening tonight in the Chancellor's Hall! Free and open to all - see you at 18.15 😃

en hora buena, os felicito

Such a towering figure. And what a loss. One of the most impressive intellectual figures of our time and still working on multi-volume projects right up to the end.

I met him 40 years ago and remember him as kind and generous

Enjoyed being interviewed for China Law Journal on 'What Can Scholars Do in the Face of Structural Injustice?' There will soon be a Chinese edition of Structural Injustice and the Law (@uclpress.bsky.social), a book I co-edited w/ @jowolff.bsky.social, with Morning Star Press, a Hong Kong publisher

Cem Özdemir becomes the first Turkish-German to run a state

Elizabeth Anscombe’s article ‘Mr Truman’s Degree’ on her reasons for opposing the award of an honorary degree to President Truman. Its ends with these characteristic words (Encaenia is the event at which honorary degrees are given at Oxford). integrityproject.org/wp-content/u...