Our fave answers to “why did you choose philosophy, theology, and religions?” from our freshers! #philosophy #freshers #uon

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR! A bright and sunny start to the 2026-27 academic year ❤️ Looking forward to 👉 students returning and new 👉 teaching 👉 research seminars 👉 noise and busyness on campus 👉 the constant smell of coffee More: tinyurl.com/ycarpw5r #philosophy #uon #nottingham #freshers #teaching

Delighted that our Theology & Religion courses are ranked in the top ten of @thetimes.com UK University Rankings 2026 League Table! More: tinyurl.com/55ddyx84. #colleagues #happy #success #trs #theology #religion

Welcome to our new students, home and international! 👉 Welcome Week 22-26 September 👉 new starter checklist 👉 MyNottingham app 👉 events calendar 🐇📘💻😀🏹 Link: www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservi... #uni #uon #university #fresher #study #nottingham

A successful day of talks at the UoN Department of Philosophy for the Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics A Level Study Day! A privilege to welcome such thoughtful, engaged, and genial students to our department! #schools #alevel #philosophy #uon #Nottingham

Very happy to announce that I won a Marie Curie fellowship last year, and will be heading to Nottingham @uonphilosophy.bsky.sociall! My project 'Imperfect perception' will look at the experiences of sensory impairments and dysfunctions. Excited to start 😊

Delighted to welcome @giuliamartina.bsky.social as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, 2025-2027. She'll be working with Craig French on a project entitled 'Imperfect Perception' on sensory impairments in philosophy of perception. Web: tinyurl.com/3arb5fp8 #philosophy #perception

Looking forward to our workshop on mental health and the philosophical life today! #philosophy #mentalhealth #therapy

RESEARCH! @asalgadoborge.bsky.social on Spinoza, God, parts, and attributes! Read: tinyurl.com/je3k66ju (open access). #philosophy #spinoza #earlymodern #god #metaphysics

RESEARCH! Excellent essay on epistemic injustice, medicine, and gender by Eleanor Byrne and Marjolein de Boer in the new @OUPPhilosophy handbook of philosophy of medicine! More: tinyurl.com/28mab9kr #philosophy #medicine #epistemicinjustice #gender

WORKSHOP Mental Health and the Philosophical Life 📆 2th September 🌏 Lenton Grove A26 @uonhumanities.bsky.social Depression and philosophy, emotion and disturbance, mental health pluralism, practical identity. Registration: [email protected] #philosophy #mentalhealth #depression

PUBLIC! Cool to see @asalgadoborge.bsky.social‬ quoted in this Economist article which quotes an article of his in Proceso - chains of influence! Read: tinyurl.com/yc3k23sx #philosophy #news #politics #harris #us

PUBLIC! Still a few tickets available for this Friday! 👉 Fri 22 Aug 👉 12-1pm 👉 NottIngham City Library #philosophy #ai #nottingham #technology #life

Clearing is open for many of our Philosophy courses! Web: tinyurl.com/yeyzzsm4 Tel. 0330 041 5590.

PUBLIC! New episode 1135, with Dr. Ian James Kidd. We talk about philosophical misanthropy. #Philosophy YouTube: youtu.be/qMjDupmcxEM Podcast: bit.ly/3HpAfIe #philosophy #misanthropy #humanity #ethics #pessimism

PUBLIC! How are AI technologies affecting the choices you make about how to live your life? Come find out with Dr Lydia Farina! 👉 Fri 22 Aug 👉 12-1pm 👉 NottIngham City Library Book tix: tinyurl.com/3sur3pkk #philosophy #nottingham #ai #nottinghamcity #autonomy #work #life

CONGRATULATIONS! Philosophy graduates celebrate their successes this afternoon! Bask in your wisdom and in the sunshine! Watch: tinyurl.com/47sk7cnw IG: tinyurl.com/a7hpma3y @uonhumanities.bsky.social #philosophy #graduation #success

RESEARCH! Excellent staff research day - super talks on ⭐️ lichens ⭐️ explanation in physics ⭐️ hylomorphism ⭐️ humblebragging ⭐️ moral supervenience ⭐️ personal identity ⭐️ the irresolvability of philosophical questions #philosophy #research #colleagues #cool

POSTGRADUATE! Congratulations to Ewan Swift whose successfully defended his PhD thesis, “A Critical Philosophy of Microaggressions”! Supervised by Koshka Duff and Christopher Woodard , examined by @jkisolo.bsky.social and ‪@lukebrunning.bsky.social‬ #philosophy #phd #success #postgraduate

EVENT! Looking forward to our staff research day this Friday! #philsophy #research #colleagues

RESEARCH! "the burdens punishment creates for innocent children and dependents of those punished are no less morally troubling than the burdens punishment creates for innocent, falsely convicted people." Zach Hoskins's new paper in @the-joap.bsky.social Read: tinyurl.com/bhmbj4ty #philosophy

TALK! Craig French spoke on psychotherapeutic pluralism at ‪@thebsps.bsky.social‬ conference today! Conference: tinyurl.com/2x7jy7pe. #philosophy #psychoptherapy #pluralism #research #philosophyofscience

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

OUTREACH! Enjoying our @suttontrust.bsky.social summer schools this week! Great sessions on ➡️ethics ➡️theology ➡️equality ➡️transformative experience ➡️metaphors ➡️future generations #philosophy #ethics #theology #alevels #schools

EVENT! Jon Hoover @jhoover04 is a respondent. today at @BirkbeckUoL, at the launch of Yasir Qadhi's new book Understanding Salafism Details: tinyurl.com/5n8uerhp #islam #salafis #book #birkbeck

EVENT! Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy 17 July 2025 @UoNHumanities Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @thebshp.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social #philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley

Nice day to do some philosophy! Nice place to do it! #philosophy #sunshine #sun #uon #nottingham #ideas

PUBLIC! Prof Jon Hoover's new video series, 'Exploring the Qu'ran' - 👉text and transmission 👉interpretation 👉themes 👉the daily life of Muslims 👉interfaith relations Video 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHl4... #islam #theology #quran #religion

RESEARCH! Check out our graduate student Megan Drury's article "Concepts and Contexts: Towards a Theory of “Hermeneutical Bastardization”". Read: tinyurl.com/46xdu6m5 Megan: megandrury.weebly.com #philosophy #epistemicinjustice #concepts #feminist #research #cool

The best way to end the #DRLAnniversaryConference: thinking of expansive pluralism and metaphilosophical myopia with Ian Kidd!

The Diversity Reading List Project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary! bsky.app/profile/dive... High quality texts in philosophy by authors from under-represented groups. ➡️texts ➡️blueprints ➡️events Web: diversityreadinglist.org. #DiversityAnniversaryConference #philosophy #diversity

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY! Illness often makes philosophical issues come “alive” for us. Ian James Kidd asks: can philosophy help us cope with mortality? Read: iai.tv/articles/nam... @iai.tv @uonhumanities.bsky.social #philosophy #illness #mortality #science #suffering

PUBLIC! Art and science and the early universe! Our colleague Dr Lina Jansson is part of a project called the Gravity Laboratory! Check out their exhibition! 29 June - 25 July @ Green's Windmill, Sneinton, Nottingham. Details: tinyurl.com/mpr49wcp. #philosophy #art #science #cosmology #universe

CHAIR III: Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human/AI Interaction 10 July 2025 10.15 - 3.15 Monica Partridge E07 University of Nottingham Speakers: 👉Professor Jen Parker Starbuck 👉Professor Samantha Walton, Register: forms.office.com/e/f2009ATaKr IMG: Steve Johnson Unsplash

OPEN DAY! Here’s a mega-list of our modules! Y1 Being Human Gender, Justice, and Society Introduction to Philosophical Traditions Introduction to Practical Philosophy Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy Metaphysics, Science, and Language Philosophy of Religions 1/4

OPEN DAY! Come visit us! 9.30 – 4pm Great Hall Trent Building 👍 info talk! 👍 taster talk! 👍 chat to our students! 👍 meet our staff! 👍 spot the campus bunnies! Details: tinyurl.com/yc68ndmm #openday #nottingham #uon #philosophy #alevels

TALK! @asalgadoborge is speaking on Spinoza on the distinction between modes and propria at the Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy X at @rug.nl‬ #philosophy #spinpza #earlymodern #talk

RESEARCH! Our PhD student Aristotelis Ioannis Paschalidis has a think-piece just published by @unesco.org. Read: tinyurl.com/y6svmpj3 #philosophy #AI #language #linguistics #authenticity

RESEARCH! We have four centres and networks! - Centre for Social Philosophy - Political Epistemology Network - Centre for Theology, Philosophy, and Religion - Philosophy of Mental Health Read: tinyurl.com/2sr8um25 #philosophy #society #politics #religion #mentalhealth

TALK! Ian James Kidd speaks at Gent University conference "The Silent Patient" organised by @sigridwallaert.bsky.social‬ #philosophy #silencing #medicine #patients #brightsiding #epistemicinjustice

RESEARCH! Stephen Barker's book 'The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality' is out soon with @Routledge_Phil. #philosophy #time #motion #metaphysics #physics

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY! Our super colleague Teresa Baron discusses her book 'The Artificial Womb on Trial'. Listen: tinyurl.com/2ack76yv Teresa: www.teresabaron.co.uk #Philosophy #consent #reproductivejustice #bioethics

TALKS! Three this week ... First, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social spoke at @epsse.bsky.social conference in Paris on "ground empathy"!

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

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY! Ian James Kidd argues there can be pessimism without despair and nihilism. Time to rethink pessimism! t.co/lJ7RkWcoPq #philosophy #pessimism #despair #nihilism #antinatalism

PUBLICATION! Benedict Rumbold on the right to petition! Read: tinyurl.com/4zt8vskm #philosophy #rights #petition #politics #research

EVENT! 'Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics' Speakers: - Celia Coll - Mark Silcox - Clotilde Torregrossa - Jinhui Wang - Alex King In-person: June 10th @UoNHumanities A2 Online: email [email protected] Funders @britaesthetics.bsky.social‬ & @aristotsoc.bsky.social‬ IMG Jason Leung

EVENT! Our annual Lumsden Lecture is today! Mohammad Saleh Zarepour @mszarepour.bsky.social from Manchester Philosophy! “The Problem of Future Contingency in Islamic Philosophy” In-person: 3–5pm @UoNHumanities A03. Online: tinyurl.com/4y3zb4fz Includes prize-giving and social afterwards ❤️

Fiona Ellis and Ian James Kidd are speaking virtually at the Hamilton Centre @ufresearch.bsky.social on spiritual alienation 2-3 June - a project led by Prof David McPherson. Read: www.spiritual-yearning-and-alienation.com #philosophy #religion #alination #spirituality

Our excellent colleague Dr Matthew Duncombe is speaking on indeterminacy and Eubulides' paradoxes today in Ankara! Event: phil.metu.edu.tr/en/indetermi... #philosophy #ankara #talks #indeterminacy #cool