Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3CaV97M

Alexander Bird: The Structure and the Necessity of the Natural Laws The Royal Institute of Philosophy youtu.be/6vmbZA3R9uc?...

📌 Our next Colloquium! Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 3:40 pm – 5:20 pm | CEU 'Individual climate obligations and the collective' with Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge). 🌎 More info buff.ly/2FKHKw9 #Philevent #climatechange #seeuatCEU #philcolloquium #philsky

When we are recollecting a story, what discerns all are other memories from being forgotten or merely being inaccessible at that moment? Today at The Memory Palace, Jessie Munton discusses what constitutes forgetting and its many uses in our lives. thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/is-forgett...

I'm only a quarter of the way through, but what a banger of a book. Dense academic prose interspersed with everyday examples for understanding, amusement, and surprise. Bravo. Pity it's > $100, but I that's academic publishing for you.

The University of Cambridge is very proud to be recognised as a University of Sanctuary. This move acknowledges a commitment to providing a welcoming environment for those displaced by conflict who are granted asylum in the UK. Discover more 👇 https://bit.ly/3MPBcMO

👇👇👇 cool new paper Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/arti...

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speakers for the 2026 Symposium will be Antoinette Scherz (The University of Stockholm) and Sarah Fine (The University of Cambridge).

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

Very excited to share our fourth "explainer video". (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on ignorance, featuring a script by Jessie Munton! Please share & consider using in teaching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOj3...

Check out @jessiemunton.bsky.social's excellent explainer video on ignorance (with @unc-aep.bsky.social ) @stjohnscollege.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOj3...

'What we need to understand is why common knowledge of something morally execrable isn’t enough to result in co-ordinated social action.' Jessie Munton: Can communal beliefs be reconciled with empirical facts?

🙌Huge congratulations to Lea Bourguignon, Junior Research Fellow @trincollcam.bsky.social, on the successful completion of her PhD @lsephilosophy.bsky.social , 'On Being Justifiable to Others: Act Contractualism, Numbers, and Justification'. leabourguignon.com

Join our upcoming Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social 🗓️ Monday, 9 February, 12pm (London time) 📍 LSE Campus and Zoom 🎲 Title: "The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game" 🔗 Abstract & Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

Prof Angela Breitenbach will be a symposiast at the 2026 Joint Session at the University of Reading @aristotsoc.bsky.social aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-se...

📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge: www.phil.cam.ac.uk/jobs/british...

📣 British Academy International Fellowships 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge: www.phil.cam.ac.uk/jobs/british...

Great title. Might get it just for that. And munton is a great philosopher too.

✨ There's lots to look forward to in 2026. Why not come along to one of our #London #Lectures? 🏛️🎤 🎟️ Book tickets for these and other #philosophy events at buff.ly/8xNGjEm

We are delighted to announce that the BSPS will be running a doctoral scholarship competition in 2026! The competition will open in February, and the deadline will be 27 March. www.thebsps.org/funding/doct...

📌 A reminder that the Department of Philosophy currently has two tenure-track Assistant Professor posts open. Closing dates: 19 & 30 Jan 2026. Details below 👇

Hearty congratulations to Dr Samuel Cole on the successful completion of his PhD, 'Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens' (supervised by Clare Chambers and Sarah Fine). 👏 @darwincollegecam.bsky.social philpeople.org/profiles/sam...

Nominations are now open for the Trust’s Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which are awarded in six broad subject areas and worth £100,000 each for two to three years. Deadline: Wednesday 14 May 2026, 4pm. 🔗 For more details, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-lever...

Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

This was a lot of fun!

Last week, I was lucky enough to visit Cambridge to speak in the Seminar on Contemporary Political Thought. Huge thanks to Sarah Fine, @profclarechambers.bsky.social, and @tobiasmueller.bsky.social for the invitation. (The picture is me at the beautiful Peterhouse; Antoni Mikocki gave me a tour!)

Are you a Cambridge UTO or CTO working in the arts, humanities, and social sciences? Join our thriving community for a term and have the opportunity to advance a major research project in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment ⏳ Apply by 12pm on 19 Jan 2026 https://bit.ly/48ggnjZ

🚨Two TT posts in Social and Political Philosophy🚨 @maastrichtu.bsky.social | #PhilosophyJobs #Hiring #academicjobs @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @philjobs.org vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3566...

A terrific term at the Moral Sciences Club, with talks by Michael Potter, Christine Korsgaard (pictured with Lia and George), Léa Salje, Megan Blomfield (pictured with Alexander Bird), Andrew Ma, Hasok Chang, & Lucy O'Brien, all led by wonderful club secs Eirini and Tatiana!

Endorsing this book eagerly. Really important ideas about how to evaluate what is salient to us

🎉Warmest congratulations to Dr Jessie Munton on the publication of her book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention (OUP) 📘 @jessiemunton.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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A terrific term at the Moral Sciences Club, with talks by Michael Potter, Christine Korsgaard (pictured with Lia and George), Léa Salje, Megan Blomfield (pictured with Alexander Bird), Andrew Ma, Hasok Chang, & Lucy O'Brien, all led by wonderful club secs Eirini and Tatiana!

📢JOB: #PhilJobs The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. See the full advert here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN866/a...

Want to know how to move your ideas beyond academia to shape society? 🧰 Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products 5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm 🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M

📢JOB: #PhilJobs The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026. See the full advert here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN866/a...

📣 Warmest congratulations to PhD student Alice Hilder Jarvis on the publication of 'No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism' in the Journal of Applied Philosophy @christscollegecam.bsky.social Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last day of Do Ho Suh's Walk the House exhibition @tate.bsky.social Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project

🙌Hearty congratulations to Christopher Benzenberg. He completed his PhD, 'The Power of Reason: Kant’s Empirical Study of the Mind' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach). He is a postdoc at the Univ. of Notre Dame’s History of Philosophy Forum.

🧠 Jessie Munton reflects on ignorance, forgetting, and why not knowing is as important to philosophy as knowledge. Jessie Munton’s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust 👉 linktr.ee/joinexpediti... #PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

"Attention is the beginning of devotion." Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

🙌Sending congratulations to @pablohh.bsky.social, who completed his PhD on 'Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge' (supervised by Richard Holton and Jessie Munton) and has taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at CONCEPT at the University of Cologne. www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch

🙌 Huge congratulations to @alex-fisher.bsky.social , who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. alex--fisher.weebly.com

#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November #HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs

🙌Warmest congratulations to Alexander Hutterer, who completed his PhD on 'Knowledge and Cognition in Kant' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach) and has taken up a Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early Career Research Fellowship at Univ of Chicago @gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

🎭 Come and see Cambridge MPhil Philosophy student Dom Andrew perform in 'Lukewarm Goo', at the Corpus Playroom, 29 Oct - 1 Nov www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/com...

Lauren Berlant reading group 📚 Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4nFi9C0