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

Buying all the books my grandfather wrote at the Rare Books Fair even though I already have them 💙 📚

#sold ✍️ #philsky

St Andrews Philosopher Alex Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social was invited onto BBC Free Thinking to discuss his recent thoughts, research and book on Against Identity You can hear the interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... And Alex's book is here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203... #PhilSky

The amount of agricultural land is shrinking, which is good news, but we need it to shrink much more www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New paper from Dr Kian Mintz-Woo discussing what philosophers can contribute to the policy process. doi.org/10.1111/japp...

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky (Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

Extract from my new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, which launches today, is now published on @thejournal.ie, via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

My poor neglected apple tree 😩 🍎 🍎 🍎

(paywall? the article is also on my blog here: hannahdaly.ie/2025-09-04-G...)

I've just seen something described as "mellow dramatic", which sounds like an Aristotelian mean to aspire to if ever I heard one

🚨 Deadline approaching! Submit your abstract (max 300 words) for the 10th SWIP Ireland Conference by 1 September 2025. 🗓️ When: 5–6 Dec 📍Where:Maynooth University 🧠 What: Ways of Knowing 🎓 Early-career prize: Maria Baghramian Prize 💫 More info on our website! www.swip-ireland.com/events

Tomorrow is the last Sunday of our summer break! Lots to look forward to next month: Sept 7: Ariane Schneck on Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia Sept 14: Polarities in Daoism Sept 21: Early Cartesianism Sept 28: Femininity in Daoism All on www.historyofphilosophy.net! #philsky #podcasts

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Time to shine

“dubious - discuss”

Applications are invited for the post of temporary 48-month Postdoctoral Research Associate within #UCD School of #Philosophy. Further details, along with a link to apply, may be found at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilJobs #PhilSky #MoralPhilosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #BMoral #IrishResearch

French philosophy was doomed from the start because you can't write "I argue that" in French

“When nature heals, it revives everything it once nurtured – livelihoods, traditions, biodiversity."

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my latest with @newrepublic.com liberalism isn't the 'referee of politics'. it's a player, & it must win newrepublic.com/article/1992...

I'm loth to put weedkiller on the dandelions for fear of hurting two adolescent rabbits who like eating them.

one of the many reasons I'm grateful for my philosophy education is that it helped me figure out, at a young age, how to begin to process work like Peter Singer's without going completely insane

Overwhelming urge to sit here and consume an unhealthy amount of gothic literature 🖤💙📚

Call for papers for a conference I'm hosting in London in May 2026 - Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #philsky

One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social #Midgley

Online Seminar Series on Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change, organized by @juliejebeile.bsky.social & others ⤵️ femphiloclimate.ch/events/ #philsci ⚒️

if you teach political philosophy, are you changing your course content/focus in light of *gestures at everything*? if so, how? #philsky #poltheory

New podcast episode - a run through four thousand years of African philosophy with @histphilosophy.bsky.social & @chikej.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/africana

Being a monk seems an underrated career option: mostly reading & contemplation in dark, quiet, cold places.

Two of the novels I read this summer, Süskind’s 'Perfume' and Yuzuki’s 'Butter' both tell stories of murder and revolve around intense sensory experiences. That got me thinking about how little philosophy seems to care about smell and taste app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/140442...

Philosopher robin who likes to sit with me in the garden and read, but only if it’s about animal ethics.

Don't forget, Genghis Khan didn’t go to university and he united the mongol tribes and conquered much of Asia

🚨 New journal alert! 🚨 We hear it's a great one 😉 And there's an open CFP for the next volume: journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

Call for papers for a special issue of Disputatio on expertise:

I recently uncovered my old Kindle & all its long lost wisdom. Annoyingly this book isn’t actually about justice for hedgehogs at all. This kind of false advertising should really be illegal ⚖️ 🦔 #philsky

Donald Davidson published on James Joyce, Elisabeth Camp edited a book on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Are there other examples of analytic philosophers of language engaging with literature like this?

Visiting the library & asking if any of the philosophy books I’ve requested are available in digital format: “No, unfortunately those books are too old and…not very popular.”

From Oscar Wilde's review of an English translation of the Zhuangzi in 1890. #philsky #daoism #OscarWilde

Julian Friers' wonderful painting of a brown bear and golden eagle on Cave Hill transports us back to Belfast's wilder past. Yesterday, a pair of buzzards were circling and calling nearby as we sat on the edge of McArt's prehistoric promontory fort, looking down on the city.

Actors within the energy transition often are blinded by the brilliance of clean technologies but miss insights from political science, history, philosophy etc, to understand power shifts (in the political sense) and the dynamics of deep transformation.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

“When a privileged group tries to consider extensions of privilege, quite special difficulties arise about being sharpsighted. The notion that one has already drawn a correct and final line at which such extensions must end cannot be trusted at all. It is not trustworthy over animals.” -Mary Midgley