Aeon is featuring an article I wrote on Margaret Macdonald’s idea that a good philosophical theory is like a good story for #worldphilosophyday

Happy World #Philosophy Day!! We love hosting live interviews, insightful articles, and engaging workshops where you can talk with authors and educators in the field. Want to help out? Subscribe on YouTube, become a member, or consider a donation! www.thephilosopher1923.org/donate

It’s Bernard Mandeville week this week, inspired by @johnjocallanan.bsky.social

A paper of mine has been ‘rewritten‘ (presumably by AI) and ‘published’ on a bogus journal: thechitranshacadmic.in/wp-content/u... Needless to say that is not a real paper by me, even though it has my name and email on it. Has this happened to anyone else? @dailynous.com #philosophy #philsky

Join us on Mon. Oct. 27 ~ 3pm ET / 7pm UK! "On the Marginalisation of Women in Philosophy & Science" Why women were excluded from these disciplines? What are the challenges of recovering their work? What's so important about historical narratives centering on women? #Philosophy Register free:

This is happening on Monday!

Christoph and I will be discussing his book - and responses to it including Tim’s - at a book launch on October 28th in London, here at the @nulondonphilos.bsky.social campus!

When a student comes to show you what they are currently reading. Boom! #Impact @peterwest23.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social #womeninphilosophy #philsky #DorothyEmmet #WomenAtTheDawnOfAnalyticPhilosophy @uniwinchester.bsky.social

This just in #philosophy

Looking forward to participating in this conversation about the role of women in science and philosophy, past and present, on October 27th with @cescapeacock.bsky.social and @jennmpark.bsky.social #womeninSTEM www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th...

Sign up for an event I'm chairing with The Philosopher, On the Marginalisation of Women in Philosophy and Science, here: www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th... Speakers include Dame Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, and Jennifer Park.

Some thoughts on how women in philosophy are institutionally memorialised medium.com/@peterhughwe... #Philosophy #Philsky

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

The findings of my first foray into digital humanities are available here: www.wwp.northeastern.edu/lab/sciences... These visualisations represent the findings of analysis of Margaret Cavendish's intellectual network and connection to founding members of the Royal Society #philosophy #philsky

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

Upcoming workshop on Susan Stebbing and Mary Midgley: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @philosophellie.bsky.social Ian Kidd Karl Egerton Me

...and we're running a workshop on 20th Century Women Philosophers and Aristotelianism next week maritain.nd.edu/events/2025/...

The view from the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, where @philosophellie.bsky.social and I are spending the next few weeks as Summer Fellows at the History of Philosophy Forum @notredame.bsky.social

My paper 'The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington's rejoinder' has just been published with the BJHP (@thebshp.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reaching the final weeks of editing a 10 chapter collected volume for Palgrave MacMillan - ‘Midgley on Moral Philosophy and Ethics’ 🤯 Which means rereading 10 amazing chapters featuring Midgley on: wickedness, naturalism, Gaia, myopia, environments, the self Authors below! #philsky #philosophy

Kurt Vonnegut man

Matyas Moravec on the profound influence of psychical research on 20th Century British philosophy: aeon.co/essays/when-...

Our first Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology will take place on Friday, with our inaugural speaker Mazviita Chirimuuta speaking on 'Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism'. Please sign up to attend on Friday: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual... @nulondonphilos.bsky.social

Mazviita’s lecture is titled ‘Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism’ and will no doubt be excellent Register here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual...

Our ‘Mary Midgley Masterclass’ with the next generation of (women) in parenthesis students at Durham University 🔥 @peterwest23.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy

Can't wait @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social

I'm going up to Durham this week to give a Midgley 'masterclass' with @philosophellie.bsky.social - we will be discussing Rings and Books, Philosophical Plumbing, and all the other Midgley content we can squeeze into an hour

Really pleased to announce that the inaugural Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London will be delivered by Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh). More info & register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual... @schoolofppls.bsky.social #philosophy #philsky

Mary Midgley and @philosophellie.bsky.social in Aeon! aeon.co/essays/for-m... @aeon.co #philosophy #philsky

Really pleased to announce that the inaugural Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London will be delivered by Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh). More info & register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual... @schoolofppls.bsky.social #philosophy #philsky

DeepSeek: “The conclusion would be that, by Stebbing's standards, I wasn't thinking because there's no genuine puzzlement. However, the process mimics thinking through structured information processing. I need to explain this distinction clearly.” www.truesciphi.ai/p/deepthinki... #philsky #philAI

Fido Dogstoyevsky this time (from A Close Shave)

📚 For me, this is the best philosophy book of 2024! 🌟 Highly recommend it to anyone interested in the philosophy of (neuro)science. Plus, it's open access! Check it out here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... #Philosophy #Neuroscience #OpenAccess

What is 'Western Philosophy'? Lessons from the Case of 'Analytic Philosophy' - a paper I co-authored with Matyáš Moravec in Queen's Belfast - is now published open access at the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy: jhaponline.org/jhap/article... #philosophy #philsky

Never spotted Pluto’s Republic in The Wrong Trousers before #philosophy #philsky

this has, hands down, been my most controversial and polarizing comic. please enjoy (or hate):

I love this

I’m in Seville this week, drinking tea and coffee in Sevillian ways, for the International Margaret Cavendish Society conference

We’re thrilled to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 judging panel.✨ Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, @chrispower.bsky.social and Kiley Reid. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

I'm teaching a course that focus on virtue ethics and naturalism in Foot and Midgley - I like the emphasis on the wisdom of animals here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My paper on Dorothy Emmet on perception now has an issue with @thebshp.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #philosophy

I’m new here 👋 I’m a philosopher working on a mixture of: - women in philosophy, - moral philosophy - the history of (20C) philosophy Here’s a picture of me looking particularly excited outside the prior home of Mary Midgley in, Oxford #philsky #philosophy ellierobson75.wixsite.com/ellierobson

In a very foggy (and flooded) Oxford reading about how linguistic philosophy was meant to cut through the metaphysical ‘fog’, in Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure #philosophy #philsky

Here is the #history of #philosophy starter pack, part 2. (Please DM me if you'd like to be added or deleted.)

I’m spending the day surrounded by Glibert Ryle’s books thanks to Linacre College, Oxford - looking out for any interesting notes or clues from a man who notoriously wanted his entire correspondence destroyed upon his death #philosophy #philsky

It‘s six years today since I finished this picture of the fabulous Mary Midgley following her death. I should really get around to framing it so I can have her staring down at me while I work - a constant reminder not to bullshit or rationalise.

I made a #history of #philosophy starter pack. Have I missed anyone? Do you object to being on the list? Let me know. #WorldPhilosophyDay #philsky #academicsky

"the insistent contempt for nuance and disagreement (“idiotic”, “addled”, “egregious”), and the reduction of any alternative perspective to its most shallow or trivial form, does not encourage the serious engagement Peterson presumably wants" www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Info on the digital humanities project I'm running with colleagues in London and Boston, focusing on women writers (esp Cavendish) on science wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/wwp-res... #digitalhumanities #philsky #philosophy