I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social) To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

This was fun to record! We discuss Murdoch's early 1950s contributions to the philosophy of mind, Gilbert Ryle, and themes of privacy, interiority, "the real", and individuality in her work.

A quick reminder, this is happening tomorrow!

I miss the good old days when taking a sick day just meant getting someone to cover my shift at the restaurant. There's no one to cover my shift at the philosophy factory.

Have philosophers written about fun? Not pleasure, play, or humour-- but having fun, finding fun, doing things just for fun. My search only turned up 2 sources (McKee, Chakrabarti) #philsky

Philosophers are sommeliers of language. I spend so much of my days mulling over words, taste-testing synonyms, assessing pairings of concepts and qualifying phrases, etc. (Collingwood was right that philosophical clarity is served when we "go to school with the poets").

Exciting news! This free to download text does a wonderful job exploring @irismurdoch.bsky.social 's views on the value of the individual as a commitment to the spirit (rather than the dominant post-WII form) of Liberalism #philsky #philosophy

Never has the importance of seeing reality as it really is been more important, For Iris Murdoch, "goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world" For #IWD International Woman's Day: www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/m...

Friends: I am very happy to share with you all another exciting episode of The Young Idealist Series. In this episode Dr. Kathryn Lawson (King's University College, Halifax), discusses the life & philosophy of Simone Weil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUE... #Weil @katelawson.bsky.social

CFP: (Not) Caring to Know: Vice Epistemology meets Situated Affectivity, at the University of Pardubice. Abstracts due May 1st philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy

Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP! Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice

Quartet Conference coming up this summer! Full details on the poster. 👇

“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.” Remembering Iris Murdoch, who returned her borrowed stardust on this day in 1999

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about Iris Murdoch (and my recent book on her early philosophical writings) with Christopher Satoor from The Young Idealist (who's in the midst of a series of similar videos on the life and work of women in the history of philosophy!) #philsky #philosophy

The Pardubice Centre for Ethics research seminar kicks off this coming Tuesday, 2pmCET! All talks can be attended virtually via the permanent zoom link here: centreforethics.upce.cz/en/research-... #philsky #philosophy

Coming up in July at @univie.ac.at - a Murdoch Summer school for PhD students! Full details via the link and poster. pace.phl.univie.ac.at/the-philosop...

My phd supervisor once told me to stop writing to preempt attacks from imagined interlocutors so dense and uncharitable they could barely be credited with reading. It was liberating.

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy can now be pre-ordered direct from @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Twin-volume alert: Hoping two vols – some 6 lb of solid research – on women #philosopers in the #19thCentury will leave a mark on the field. Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social and Alison Stone for their superb editorship. Challenging a male-dominated canon, one page at a time.    #philsky #books

Welcome back to campus to everyone teaching this term! Unlock "hidden philosophers" with the New Voices in the History of Philosophy podcast. Perfect for enriching your syllabus with "lesser-known" thinkers. #Philosophy #AcademicResources #TeachingTools open.spotify.com/show/4IjLIcT...

New Year, new cover reveal! Here's what our @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of American and British Women #Philosophers in the #19thCentury will look like, and we're thrilled! Women philosophizing about metaphysics, #ethics, #gender, #aesthetics, politics, #logic, race, religion, education...

Applications for our tuition-free Ethics and Political Philosophy MA programme at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice) are now open. 🕛Deadline is on 28 February 2025 #philsky #philosophy

Henri Bergson died on this day 1941. He died in Nazi occupied Paris from pneumonia he contracted waiting in line in the cold to register as Jewish. In the weeks after he passed, strange details about his final moments started emerging🧵

Important research for a WIP paper on fun aunties: reconnecting with my own childhood fun auntie, Barb (and her funny hairless cat). A bit less dancing to the Beach Boys than when I was a kid (and quite a lot more wine)

At my parents house for the holidays; I think I've heard more of Tom Selleck's father-cop-knows-best voice than my own dad's over the past week.

Call for papers for an upcoming undergraduate conference on ethics and political philosophy at the University of Pardubice--abstracts due by January 17th! #philosophy #philsky

Prepping to teach my last class of the semester. "The end is in sight"--who's ever consoled or energized by that? The closer I get to the end, the more I resent whatever's coming between me and the finish line.

My article "Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality" is up (OA)! Good news: country music and chick-flicks are fine! Bad sentimentality involves not just a retreat from difficult realities (kids growing up, hometowns changing) but an unwillingness to come back down to earth when it counts #philsky

A reviewer recently asked me to eliminate all contractions from an article (they'll, can't, it'd, etc.). Is that level of formality really still expected in academic writing? (In the end I couldn't do it. I'm a folksy rural Canadian--there are limits to how fancy I can pretend to be).

Publication alert! My colleagues at the Centre for Ethics here in Pardubice have assembled this collection on the philosophy of environmental emotions with a focus on grief, hope, sense-making, relationships, and place. #philsky

My colleague, Laura Candiotto, presenting her recent work on philosophy of love, "Eros In-between and All-around" #philsky

The latest issue of the European Journal of Philosophy is now published. It includes my article on 'Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemology'. #philsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680378...

The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Last chance to get in your submissions to the 60th anniversary #philosophy of #education #conference PESGB Oxford Uni, March 2025! www.philosophy-of-education.org/annual-confe... If you enjoyed #PESAConference2024 check this out!!

An unreliable source has told me it would be nice if I brought my ukulele and played Christmas tunes at the office holiday party. I feel like I'm being set up to be That Wonderwall Guy.

ICYMI: The Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project invites proposals for papers on neglected figures or themes in the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, to be presented at at McGill University, June 6-8, 2025. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements

My article "Love's Realism: Iris Murdoch and the Importance of Being Human" is now open access! In it, I distinguish Murdoch's view of love from the Qualities View and Velleman's Personhood view, and interpret love's 'realism' as about the other's humanity (vulnerability and individuality) #philsky

The time has come to obsess over what #philosophy book I'm going to take back with me to Canada for the holidays! (Meaning: read for 5 minutes on a flight before passing out, never touch while I'm home with my family, and hate myself for wasting limited luggage space on).

This looks super interesting! Includes a contribution from my Pardubice colleague Kamila Pacovská (if you're interested in phil of love, I highly recommend her 2018 "Love and the Pitfall of Moralism")

Just read and love, Sara Ruddick's response to hardline readings of Iris Murdoch: "Knowing a fantasy is unreal, and if real, forbidden, I can then indulge in it and derive strength and endurance for attention. The fantasy acts like a medicine which allows me to breathe deeper though artificially."

Tomorrow afternoon (2pm CEST), Jan Slaby will be giving a talk entitled “The Unfelt in Society: Affect, Power and the Ecological Crisis” at our Pardubice Centre for Ethics research seminar. Feel free to drop in online if you're interested: centreforethics.upce.cz/en/research-... #philsky

Call for papers for a special issue of Synthese on Susan Stebbing's influence on contemporary philosophy

New to #philsky and feeling like a late adopter (I have a high pain tolerance). I'm a philosopher at the Centre for Ethics in Pardubice (CZ), interested in moral psychology (love, sentimentality), history of philosophy (20C), and philosophy of childhood. Here's my favourite pic of Iris Murdoch!