New article - open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

New article - open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My book, Why Human Nature Matters, has been reviewed in Res Publica by Aleksandra Knežević link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My book, Why Human Nature Matters, has been reviewed in Res Publica by Aleksandra Knežević link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Masculinity has a place, and that place is the sea.

Happy 98th birthday to Sylvia Winter, author of the thickest book I own.

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

On Monday in Athens! #philsky

Great honour to be awarded the very first prize for Public Communication of Philosophy by the British Philosophical Association! #philosophymatters #philsky

Signed a contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for a Handbook of Philosophical Psychology, co-edited with Lisa Bortolotti, Matteo Mameli & Kengo Miyazono. It covers methodology, mental attitudes, emotions, knowledge & experience and social/political dimensions & I’ll write a chapter on consciousness

A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews. Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type. Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does. philreviews.org

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

I tell you what I'd like to abolish: gravity.

A reminder that I made a starter pack for philosophers who work on intimacy and relationships: go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS let me know if you want to be added! Please share.

"War is not holy; only peace is holy." Pope Leo.

This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism. Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n #TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜 Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩 #Victorian #women #numerousintermediatevarieties 🌈🗃️

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

This week, Anna Mameli, a secondary school student, and volunteer for the Philosophy Garden, reports on a paper recently published in a special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie on philosophy and its benefits in the public sphere. #philsky

Coming up soon: @timcrane.bsky.social and I talk #agency in beautiful Athens! Thanks @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social and @themispant.bsky.social for the invite #philpsy #philsky

Just arrived! This is the third volume @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social and I have worked on together 😎😊

Very well deserved!

Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works" ⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026. 📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way) 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/

I'll be talking about what blame is good for, functionalist explanation and consequentialist justifications in London next Monday. Come along if you're in town! #philsky

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you? Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale. time.com/7380496/why-...

great work by my colleague to be!

Although this was strongly written from the #philsci perspective, I hope it’ll be useful for #philtech, #sts, or #philsky in general. The ubiquity of simulations in natural/social science, medicine, policy/politics, should make them of at least some interest to anyone doing 21st century philosophy.

New Element in the #PhilBio series by Silvia De Cesare—free to download until March 2! De Cesare examines the thorny issue of 'evolutionary progress,' recounting the arguments against and in favor of cashing out this contested notion 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #philsky

This special edition of American Philosophical Quarterly commemorates Nicholas Rescher, former Center Director and Chairman of the Center. The article includes contributions from Center Director Edouard Machery and former Center Director John Norton. #philsci https://ow.ly/hsFo50YkkOw

#OTD 14 Feb. 1793: philosophical anarchist William Godwin published his celebrated love letter to the world, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he envisaged a society based on justice, equality, tolerance, benevolence, & mutual moral accountability. #Valentine’sDay #LoveThyNeighbour

I don’t know why but the US just loves detaining a significant portion of its residents. Once it was mental hospitals (558,922 in 1955). Then prisons. Now as the prison population starts to fall, concentration camps.

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

www.bmj.com/content/392/... Autistic girls & women: By age 20, they were diagnosing pretty much equal numbers of men & women. Huge study, whole population of Sweden born 1985-2020. Not 1 in 10. Not 1 in 4. Not 1 in 3. Equal numbers, just about. 100 years of research, most based on the wrong info.

Just out: Natania Meeker on the role of femininity in French materialist philosophy, as it developed in the eighteenth century. A fine account of women writers who weren't, strictly speaking, philosophers but who recentered pleasure in philosophical terms.

For example. Today I watched this talk on "skilled seemings" to try to understand my experience of bird-watching. Skilled seemings are when things appear to you as a result of expert knowledge, they stand in contrast to ordinary seemings. Neat distinction. #philsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vM...

Really looking forward to reading and reviewing the latest by the great @hdrochon.bsky.social

A very fine octopus encountered at Fly Point (Australia) today. Like an old battleship.

New paper (pre-print) out w/ @twigtechnology.bsky.social : Why don’t all animals use tools? If you’re into critters, game theory, cyborgs, tech, and/or the glories of the natural world, do give it a whirl 🐛🐇🛠️🧰

The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters

and that it is only here and there that the fabric of scientific knowledge betrays any rents. /2x

I’ve had my qualms about Trivers already when it was about evolution.

Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky

Although I was not given funding to publish this OA, if anyone (or any one that you know) would like a pdf of the book, shoot me a message. I'd be more than happy to send it your way. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

This! Thanks @kevinlala.bsky.social

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps

I like how doing philosophy w/ friends turns into a braided stream of views: confluence and collaboration on some; on others, the fun of productive disagreement 😉The special issue brings together a full range of positions on the concept & its future— all great contributions to the debate. #philsky