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/

Yes. But the traditional news media has its flaws, too. It can be exclusive and ignore important insights. And that's where the co-creational news media model comes in as a promising alternative to both: toolkit.publicinterestnews.org.uk.

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/

Sharing another review of my recent book on political legitimacy. With many thanks to @marcel-jahn.com! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

"Like a latter-day Socrates . . . [Nguyen] advocat[es] a kind of playful rebellion against rules and metrics. . . . I give this excellent book five stars." @financialtimes.com reviews C. Thi Nguyen's new book, THE SCORE, on sale next week. www.ft.com/content/9446...

With heartfelt thanks to Amanda Greene for her generous and insightful review of my book on political legitimacy! academic.oup.com/mind/article...

Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

This is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...

The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether' Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

youtube version of political legitimacy with @fabiennepeter.bsky.social youtu.be/4evuGHKJpCY

Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford. Please repost and register now! @blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality

Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume. Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response. academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...

Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information. We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇

Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit. For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...

Our toolkit for co-creational news media has launched! Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...

The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy ⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/

Karyn Lai on the Zhuangzi on human diversity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'“Political leaders in those moments of deep economic insecurity have two options. One is to acknowledge the environment that they’re in. We’re in a globalised world.....Or....You choose blame. Blame the other, blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions, blame.".'

We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky

Final Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

If you always wanted to know what moral socialism is about, now is the time to find out! I am so delighted to be giving this year’s Eva Colorni memorial lecture, joined by Amartya Sen @ LSE. 11th June 5pm, free but registration required. I hope to see many of you there!🌹

Foundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there! #Philosophy

NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Next Monday, Vid Simoniti is speaking at the Aristotelian Society. Come along for his talk 'Thinking without Knowing: a Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism'. Draft paper on our website! 📍 Senate Room, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 on Monday 19 May 2025 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

Frisbee Sheffield is speaking at the Aristotelian Society next Monday! Come along for her talk 'Socrates and Dialogue as the Greatest Good'. Draft paper & abstract on our website! 📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... #philosophy #philsky

Unless I'm missing something, it seems like the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, is now published online - so if you or your institution has access to Oxford Academic you'll be able to read and download all the chapters:

Join us next Monday (28th April) for the next Proceedings talk by Léa Salje from Leeds University. Léa's talk is entitled 'Artspeak'. Her draft paper is available on our website! 17.30-19.15 Institute of Eduction, 20 Bedford Way, Room 642 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

We had 33K people tune in to this conversation. Here it is for people who couldn't catch it live. "Rebellions are built on hope." With @hcrichardson.bsky.social How Trump's Greed, Grift, and Racism Are Collapsing America's Democratic Experiment open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Are you a student wanting to attend the Joint Session this year? If you're eligible, you can apply for one of our student subsides here: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se... Deadline: 10 May 2025 #philosophy #philsky

It was great! www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian... The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.

"Gatsby is the story of a culture responding, however dimly, to the reality that its moral energies have begun to fail. … Gatsby is prophetic not for advancing a political theory of decline, but for capturing the emotional logic of a society in thrall to raw power."

On Saturday 12 April at 5pm local time, there is a panel on the co-creational model for the news media: come and explore how public participation in the creation and dissemination of news can improve the quality of news and help democracy.

It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.