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Is it really philosophy when they didn't call it philosophy?

Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading? | By Martin Lenz (@goingloopy.bsky.social) While there are numerous guides on writing philosophy or on reconstructing arguments, there is next to nothing on reading handlingideas.blog/2025/11/01/w... #reading #PhilosophySky #philsky

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Gandhi’s Talisman. Unfortunately for too many world leaders their doubts are dissolving in a way Gandhi did not anticipate.

Teaching an octopus to play piano #animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

It would have been awful spending years in grad school mastering Hegel's Science of Logic to find out that they were only hiring in Philosophy of Reanimated Corpse.

Mainland mail.

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Don’t let the mindless commercialisation of Guy Fawkes Night obscure its deeper message about celebrating the torture and execution of a seventeenth century religious extremist.

Happy birthday Henri Bergson

"a bit too much fuss" - perfect, from Elizabeth Barnes's paper in the special issue of PQ in memory of Katherine

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New paper! 🥳 "Trust in Mathematics", coauthored with Silvia De Toffoli is out now in Philosophia Mathematica. A thread on what it is about. Please share with anyone who may be interested! academic.oup.com/philmat/adva...

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It’s always Halloween in my soul 🖤

Landscape in oils, possibly finished. #oilpainting #landscape #mountains #workinprogress #irishart

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Surrounded by depravity.

At London’s Savoy Hotel, Monet painted dozens of canvases at once, sprinting between them as fog and light shifted over the Thames. A witness said: “He ran from one canvas to another, in a frenzy, trying to capture the fugitive effects of light before they vanished.”

To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

The recording of my talk about the philosopher Mary Midgley and economics is already online. Thanks to the whole @inparenthesis.bsky.social team & to @philosophellie.bsky.social, @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social, @amytaggart.bsky.social, @iangr.bsky.social for joining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNC...

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Staggering lawlessness.

Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:

don't worry, everything is going according to plan

The recent surge in illegal activity at my local supermarket has been truly terrifying to witness.

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The Sea, the Sea.

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Today's new installment in the Philosophy in China series: Non-Action in the Laozi (Daodejing) The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything? www.historyofphilosophy.net/laozi-non-ac... #podcasts #daoism #daodejing #philsky

Meanwhile in #Ireland… ☘️ #philosophy #PhilPerception

Ordering the market leading 100% Irish beef vegetarian burger from this confusing and illegal menu.

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries. “EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.

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I have to say York’s library is amazing. Completely open to the public. Excellent coffee & salads. Plus I seem to be able to consume the entire environmental philosophy section at my own pace since (1) I’ll never complete my time at the university (being unaffiliated) & (2) no one reads anymore 📚 💙

The Routledge Handbook of Nature and Environmental Aesthetics is now out. Lots of great stuff, including a chapter by me on Beauty and Love of Place. Check it out, and ask your library to get a copy! #philsky

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

If you’re working on underrepresented or non-canonical philosophical themes or figures, now’s the time to polish up your manuscript! 3 months left to submit to the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy. Deadline: January 1, 2026 journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn... #philsky

"Law is both ideal and strategic...If we want to get from here to there, it is straightforward to plot a route if we get clear about the destination. If we start and just want to go to a 'better' place, our course is not clear. Ideal theory directs our practical efforts." - Martha Nussbaum #philsky

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

Who aligns the aligners? #philsky

York is now Venice.

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“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.” ✨ Yes ✨ #philsky

Later today (12:30) I will be tuning into Oireachtas TV (www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...) to watch Prof Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social Mr Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social Prof John Sweeny & Prof @hannahdaly.ie give expert evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee...

Looking forward to attending ‘Mary Midgley Amongst the Economists’ - the upcoming first seminar of @inparenthesis.bsky.social's 2025-6 series 👀 @natjdyer.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social

The Philosophy in China series is back from summer break! Today we look at the significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies. www.historyofphilosophy.net/daoism-polar... #philsky #laozi #daoism #podcasts #hopwag