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

THREE lectureships available in the Music Department @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsmusic.bsky.social — see advertisements in the thread below.

Dr Daisy Dixon's new book –– DEPRAVED: The Story of Dangerous Art –– an analysis of the varieties of immoral art and the ways that we should respond to it –– is now available to preorder! Waterstones are offering a 25% discount until 20 February – used code FEB26: bit.ly/Dixon-DSDA #philsky

Runciman's Rawls: in which I voice my complaint about how David Runciman chooses to misrepresent Rawls in order to provide a foil for his own views about how political philosophy should be done

If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Please consider signing to save modern languages at the University of Leicester. c.org/qJG7FzshHV

Good news - we have a new ERC-funded 4-year PhD Studentship at the University of Edinburgh, based in Philosophy and our Centre @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, supervised by Dr Emily Sullivan; the project applies philosophy of science to assessing ML's epistemic & social value. Apply by 16 March!

Call for abstracts for this great looking conference from the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC). salzburgethics.com/emrc-confere... Deadline for abstracts March 15th! #philsky #philosophy

✨ Big welcome to the BMoral team, Pietro! We are so excited to have you join us as our new PhD Researcher! Pietro's PhD research focuses on the relationship between Hume and Catharine Macaulay (an outspoken critic of Hume!). 🚀 #NewHire #WelcomeToTheTeam #Teamwork #BMoral #UCDPhilosophy #Philosophy

Couldn't be more excited for the first PPE talk of the year, ft. the iconic Caro Flores (@floresophize.bsky.social) discussing "Moral Panics!" 📆: Thurs, Jan 29 ⏱️: 4:30 - 6 PM 📍: Senate House, Room 264 More details here: philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Series info: elisewoodard.org/ppe2026

The International Social Ontology Society (ISOS) has awarded six small grants this year to support member-led workshops that promote innovative research and collaboration in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/2026-workshops

Book blogging, part 1. How happy should you be about the present state of the world? This is a coherent question. It is also neglected: the literature on norms for emotion almost never discusses happiness. This is effectively the gap the book aims to address. alexgregory.name#HAPbook

Excited for our spring 2026 Penelope Mackie Research Seminar series! #philosophy #research #seminar #colleagues #think

Playtimers braved the weather to make a truly great session. We ranged from propositional truth to individual truths, exploring if truth resides in objects or our minds, or some combo; its relation with beliefs, judgements, values; are there absolutes or transient truths, & what’s the difference?

Our ace colleague Matthew Duncombe is speaking at @durham.ac.uk Philosophy today on the Horns Paradox! Matt's website: tinyurl.com/4wr7xpsn Talk details: tinyurl.com/yeb997my #philosophy #paradoxes #logic #ideas #talk

Morrissey has just started a US tour, so our counterattack is already underway.

What steps is the Labour government taking to establish safe routes to the UK for Iranians facing persecution and death?

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

📣JOB ALERT📣 Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Philosophy/Religion at University of Leeds. We are looking for an academic at Philosophy/Religion interface to run our Liberal Arts BA programme. Closing date: 01 February 2026. More info at: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #Philosophy #PhilosophyJobs

The deal is, if the government is not constrained by the law, then the citizens are permitted to change the government.

In December @drhmccabe.bsky.social appeared on BBC East Midlands Today to discuss research she’s co‑leading to support a Home Office study on forced marriage prevalence. The findings could shape future policy and policing by establishing vital baseline data. ℹ️ Read more here🔗 tinyurl.com/5bkhpsst

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

🚨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...

Finally submitted the revised edition of this 🥳. Very excited to get on with choosing a new cover.

I hope this trend will continue and that the academic community here on @bsky.app will keep growing. Since joining, I’ve found an abundance of inspiring research projects, articles, and scholars. #AcademicBluesky #AcademicSky #Research #Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

📣Come and be my colleague! We are hiring two new Assistant Profs in the Dept. of Phil. at Trinity College Dublin: in Value Theory, and in Hist., Phil., and Ethics of Science. I can’t recommend working here enough! Please share with anyone interested – any questions, do get in touch. Ads below!

🎁 We're giving free access to 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking. 📜🔓 Today's #philosophy paper is The Ethics of Punishment, by W. D. Ross (1929). ➡️ Access the free paper here: buff.ly/ZAMAwkn

It's going to be up to us, non-US based members of the international scientific community, to pick up the slack. We need to somehow find the desire and develop the infrastructure required to make it happen.

Published today - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar' edited by Philip Schofield, the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Available in hardback, paperback, and as a free open-access PDF from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Only 14% of care leavers enter higher education All people who have experience of children's social care have low participation rates, significantly lower than free school meal children who don't have experience of children's social care Among those without experience of care or FSM, 56% attend HE

Thrilled to be included in this list of the best philosophy books of 2025 @fivebooks.com @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

hey #feministsky - who's writing or has written things you've found valuable about platonic friendship between men & women? #philsky

From healthcare to the justice system, children are held to different standards - but why, and when is it justified? 'Consenting Children', co-edited by UOIs Lisa Forsberg, explores the ethical and legal debates around autonomy, responsibility, and children’s best interests.

A call for papers for a special issue of Phenomenological Perspectives, on Social Constitution Through Affectivity. Deadline 20th of March 2026. For details, see: ojsnew.lexis.srl/index.php/Ph...

Our research seminar today is given by Emily Thomas on "Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, and Temporal Experience" 🌎@UoNHumanities A1 ⏲️ 3-5 Web: emilythomaswrites.co.uk/about/ #philosophy #research #time #space #historyofphliosophy #temporalexperience

Want a new textbook on the Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, for less? Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨

BSET 2026 Leeds, 13-14 July Call for papers, deadline 1 December www.bset.org.uk

Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended. Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.

Very sad to see my uni (University of Nottingham) suspending its Music degree and all undergraduate courses in Modern Languages, on the basis that they have low uptake and the uni hasn't enough money to carry them. Students will lose out, the uni will lose out, society loses out ...

CFP: 2026 British Society for Ethical Theory Conference (13-14 July 2026 at University of Leeds). Keynotes: Krister Bykvist (Stockholm), Jennifer Saul (Waterloo). Paper submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025. More info at www.bset.org.uk. This is consistently a very high-quality conference! #philosophy

"Oppressive Praise" by @julesholroyd.bsky.social (published by @oxunipress.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

Our 2025 Ethical Challenges lecture will be given by Professor Roger Crisp (Oxford) on 'The Badness of Extinction'. All very welcome! Tues 14th Oct, 6-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre B, Building 65. Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy #PhilosophyMatters

Philosophy job at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190

“Yet things change, and time moves in mysterious ways. As every year passes, we seem to get closer to, not further away from, World War Two.” From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social writersmosaic.org.uk/content/on-a...

Excited for our autumn 2026 series of the Penelope Mackie research seminars! #philosophy #research #events #colleagues #fun

I saw Paul McCartney in concert last night & predict he has a very bright future ahead of him. 👍 #MarkMyWords