📣 📨 New on The Computational Philosopher: a post on Margaret Cavendish and counterfactual knowledge transfer in 17th-century intellectual networks, using simulations built on the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon dataset. @peterwest23.bsky.social 🔗👉 computationalphilosopher.substack.com/p/computer-n...

Peter West reviews Andreas Vrahimis's book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy in #HOPOS. Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Richard Pettigrew's (@wiglet1981.bsky.social) 2026 Daniel C. Dennett Lecture is now up on youtube!

Feels like the wartime equivalent of watching the 6 foot + striker who's only good for one thing warming up on the sidelines www.latimes.com/california/s...

New substack on (sigh) AI: peterwest1.substack.com/p/so-much-ai

'Won', but not 'won enough' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

New substack post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

'Susan Stebbing on Logic and Analysis' (ed. S. Chapman) is now out in the Philosophers in Depth series. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Daniel C. Dennett Lecture at Northeastern University London, with Richard Pettigrew (@wiglet1981.bsky.social) is this Thursday! Find more information and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daniel...

🚨 Three week alert! 🚨 On February 19th, Richard Pettigrew will deliver the Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture & Technology at Northeastern University London Lecture title:'Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education' Register online/in-person here: tinyurl.com/yc6uax8s #philosophy

Check out our brand new Virtual Special Issue: "Ten Women Presidents of The Aristotelian Society" The first ten Inaugural Addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society, from 1930-2001. academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philosophy

too many 'noisy words' out there, everyone quieten down

ok not to be a philosophy asshole but what does Mr. Jones think preparation is?

I attended the Northern Seminar in Late Modern Philosophy last year and it was excellent - do submit especially if you have ideas for work on women in the 'late modern' era #philosophy #philsky

Ellie Robson (@philosophellie.bsky.social) and I edited a new virtual special issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 'Ten Women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society' 10 papers from the first 10 women to be president of the AS are all available open access here: tinyurl.com/ufy9ncn9

We're really excited to have Richard deliver our second annual Daniel C. Dennett lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London @northeasternu.bsky.social @nulondonphilos.bsky.social More info/registration (online and in-person) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-daniel...

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