New issue of Hypatia, 40.3, is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. @agomoni.bsky.social Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Moral offsetting

I am once again contemplating this banger.

Social! Ontology! It's ontology, but social!

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

Captions for the photo of me talking on the SWIP panel at joint session are welcome. Photo credit: @drjoeslater.bsky.social

"But Baedecker, for all his wayward charm, is a notoriously unreliable guide."

In London for the British Academy conference* on the Ethics of Health Communication, talking about our (Fiona Woollard, Matt Cull) project on inclusion in perinatal & postnatal care! *organised by my fab colleague Ben Davies! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... #philsky #Philosophy

R&R telling me I should be more sympathetic to Cull and their work. I’m trying, okay??

Come work with Kenneth and I! The required specialisation is actually super broad: if you want to do interesting and fun work on the nature of corporations please apply. Bonus points if you can do empirical work: we’ll stand by in awe and clap every time you use a number philjobs.org/job/show/291...

I wrote a really short piece for Hypatia about being an abolitionist and a survivor and why philosophers are such jerks (Literally I started writing this after giving a talk about the book I wrote with Barrett Emerick since Q&A made me feel like utter shit) doi.org/10.1017/hyp....

The ECB is struggling to get women to play cricket at all, so great to hear that they've banned a subset of them from taking part 🙄

this pair of conference photos from David Chalmers' website says it all

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph. Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

A small tip, a small *hint* for any journalist who has an interview request for a member of a marginalised group: make sure you don’t have a bunch of dehumanising tweets about that group on your twitter feed.

I made it a good 1000 pages into Knausgaard's big new series, but I think I am finally done with it. I kept thinking it might be more than facile readings of """big ideas""" if I kept going but that is *how he gets you*

Found a Fanon quotation in a recently released book which appears to have been copied from Quotable Quotes at *Goodreads dot com*. Going back to the original one finds the relevant text split across several pages, and changed on several rather important issues of interpretation. Incredible work!

New post for TDOV! I've uploaded copies of all the resources on trans-inclusive perinatal care published for the NHS in 2021 by the Brighton & Sussex Gender Inclusion Midwives. Plus, some newer resources and information. It's important that we continue to share and build on this important work.

S. J. Henckel - 'Trans Identities and Epistemic Injustice', open access

Jade Fletcher is organising a conference on a topic that I'm ashamed to admit I have things to say about: metametaphysics. It will be great fun but my god, has philosophy gone too far (yes, yes, the answer is yes) www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

The 2025 Thinking Trans Conference is this week and there's still time to register! Attendance is free both in-person and virtually: philosophy.lafayette.edu/2024/12/29/t...

Looking forward to the follow up volume on feminist movements outside of time and space.

You only asked the LLM for advice on policy as a little goof in the office right? Right???

Yeah British sci fi is grim dark only because it extrapolates from our current state capacity

JOAP ESSAY PRIZE WINNER 2024 The Editors are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 JOAP Essay Prize is Rosa Vince, for their essay "After Objectification: Locating Harm" The paper is open access, read it here: doi.org/10.1111/japp... #philosophy #philsky #appliedphilosophy #essayprize

Upcoming workshop w. @fionawoollard.bsky.social and @matthewjcull.bsky.social on our 'toolbox' approach to inclusive language (focus on peri/postnatal care). 10th March. please share with your networks! Details on this basic flyer! docs.google.com/presentation... #academicsky #philsky

There's biting the utilitarian bullet in the Omelas thought experiment, and then there's this version of it where you bite it on the basis of some shoddy claims about political messaging

Here's the research paper with @matthewjcull.bsky.social and @fionawoollard.bsky.social that takes applied philosophy of language to gender inclusion in pregnancy and birth and shows how it CAN be done well. You just need a toolbox of linguistic strategies! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Updated the 2025 Thinking Trans Conference registration page with a tentative schedule! We are holding the conference March 27-28 at Lafayette College and on Zoom, with no registration fee: philosophy.lafayette.edu/2024/12/29/t...

Excited about this Chinese translation by 有靈 (Yo-Ling), for Taiwanese publication Queer Margins, of the article myself @matthewjcull.bsky.social & @fionawoollard.bsky.social originally wrote for The Conversation about gender inclusive language in pregnancy &birth! www.queermargins.tw/how-gender-i...

Bringing this energy to 2025. (From: philosophynow.org/issues/165/B...)

One thing that always astonishes me is just how useful a walk and a think can be to writing. I began my lunchtime walk with a structurally incoherent paper, and hey presto, after a walk, a sit, and a stare off into the middle distance for half an hour or so, structural issue solved.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be speaking in this EXCELLENT conference on logic and feminism: www.uib.no/en/bnwp/1742... (alas, online rather than getting to go to Norway).

I know many people are looking for presents for their loved ones at this time of year. Why not pick them up a copy of a "compelling" and "excellent" book of cutting-edge transfeminist philosophy? What Gender Should Be is only £13.99 at the moment! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-gend...

Last chance to register for the Society of Women in Philosophy Ireland conference, "World-Building in Times of Violence", NUI Maynooth, this Friday and Saturday 6th and 7th of December. #philosophy #feministphilosophy #SWIP #philsky shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

Obligatory trans philosophy/trans theory starter pack - please ask if you would like to be added to it! go.bsky.app/15BFHxc

The userbase shift from twitter to Bluesky has been so useful for lecturing about platforms, network effects and inertia. Like “check out this (relatively small) divestment from twitter: it only took grand political upheaval in the global hegemon!”

I thought I’d do a little thread on some of the books and articles that I read or reread and which stuck out to me whilst writing the feminist metaphysics entry for the SEP #philsky #feministphilosophy

This semester I've been teaching a course called 'Business in Society' for the first time. The main idea was to do political philosophy and theory for business students, just as we do business ethics. This has involved getting them to think seriously about capitalism as a way of organising society!

New Stanford Encyclopedia article out today, written by myself and Katharine Jenkins: Feminist Metaphysics plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi... #philsky

Last touches on the SEP article on feminist metaphysics today. It's a real banger, some big rewrites of what we got from Haslanger and Asta, and a bunch of brand new stuff. A lot has happened in the past decade.

Teaching political Marxism to my business students this week, aka "An anglocentrism so advanced that it provicialises Europe"

My essay “Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell” was just published for the APA Blog! This is the first of my two polemic essays about trans philosophy! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...