This is horrible. Nottingham is a lovely department (I visited there six months ago) with some terrific philosophers. bsky.app/profile/crai...

I really find it baffling and incomprehensible how it has turned out that being against genocide has become a controversial position, a contested culture-war issue. What is wrong with people?

What happened to Tarzan? When I was little BBC2 would show Tarzan films of a Saturday afternoon. Or Lassie films. Then late at night, Hammer Horror. Or intense 1970s psychodrama... And Soon the Darkness, Sunday, Blood Sunday, Running Scared. All forgotten now. Who Am I to talk to about culture?

Political taxonomy is a funny game full of false oppositions. In the best sense of ‘conservatism’ anyone who is not a rogue or a fool is a conservative. Exactly the same is true of ‘liberalism’. And plausibly also of ‘socialism’. There is nothing remotely dissonant about professing all three.

彈琴 泠泠七弦上， 靜聽松風寒； 古調雖自愛， 今人多不彈。 劉長卿 Zither music Notes rising from seven strings clear And serene as a cold wind among pine trees. Like a much loved old song That no one plays any more. Liu Changqing

Sitting at home nursing bruised rib and feeling sorry for myself I was cheered up by this nice review of my little book by one of the world's coolest philosophers. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On AI and moral expertise. The only kind of moral expert worth bothering with is someone who excels at the business of being a human being living a human life. And only a human being can be good at being a human being.

"Both Lenman’s and Bramble’s contributions to the book are excellent: thought-provoking, innovative and engaging. In light of these virtues, I highly recommend the book! Very nice review by Olle Blomberg. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I love Finland.

I'll be talking about what moral aspiration can and cannot be in Helsinki today. blogs.helsinki.fi/mpp-seminar/

Books by Lenman are like the proverbial number 52 bus. You wait for ever and ever, then two come along at once.

Really enjoyed the Fifth Groningen Metaethics Workshop. Grateful to Bart Streumer and Daan Evers for organising it and doing me the great honour of inviting me to speak

If anyone fancies doing my job for three years... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH928/l...

微雨夜行 漠漠秋云起 稍稍夜寒生 但觉衣裳湿 无点亦无声 白居易 Night Stroll in a Fine Rain Still autumn night, high cloud. It is a little cold now. My clothes are getting wet. The falling rain makes no sound. Bai Juyi

凉州詞 葡萄美酒夜光杯， 欲飲琵琶馬上催。 醉臥沙場君莫笑， 古來征戰幾人回？ 王翰 A Song of Liangzhou The wine cups sparkle in the night. Bring more! The luteplayer sits on horseback urging us on. Don’t mock us lying on the sandy ground drunk. How many soldiers ever make it home? Wang Han

春曉 春眠不覺曉， 處處聞啼鳥。 夜來風雨聲， 花落知多少。 孟浩然 Spring Daybreak I was asleep and missed the spring sunrise, This morning full of the singing of birds. The night was loud with wind and rain. The storm Left who can say how many broken flowers. Meng Haoran

Full line-up for Groningen workshop now out. Behrens (Bielefeld), Berinstein (Pittsburgh), Bex-Priestley Leeds), Fránzen (Umea), Gamester (Leeds), Lenman (Sheffield), Schmidt (Humboldt). Good to see the steady advance of Yorkshire towards metaethics world domination. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Guess where I will be in May! Moominsummer Madness! blogs.helsinki.fi/mpp-seminar/...

Come to Groningen in April! philevents.org/event/show/1...

I’m overjoyed to learn I have a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for the period 2025-2028 to carry out my writing project “Moral Knowledge and Democratic Community: An Essay on Ethics and Expertise”.

OUP have published a feature on my new book at their blog. blog.oup.com/2024/12/mora...

I'm doing another Philosophy at the Showroom film + little talk gig this week. The talk will probably be a bit rubbish but the film is ever so good. So be sure to come! www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/philosophyse...

New book from OUP. academic.oup.com/book/58124