Available now! American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 3, featuring contributions by @nirfresco.bsky.social, @loehrgui.bsky.social, @antoninbroi.bsky.social, @nicemm.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/issu...
Nicholas Emmerson
@nicemm.bsky.social
Philosopher without portfolio. Until recently, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Iceland. My website: https://nicholasemmersonphilosophy.weebly.com.
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
Hot off the press, my latest article wades into the quagmire that is debate between generalists/particularists about moral principles. I defend a novel(ish) position which I call "moral invariantism". I'm told it'll be open-access for the next three months at the link below.
Moral Invariantism
Abstract. Traditional debate concerning the existence of moral principles has been dominated by two opposing positions. Moral generalists maintain that moral principles, characterized as exceptionless...
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As a former resident of Birmingham, I find this strategy a little rich…
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3mo agoLabour’s eve-of-poll squeeze messaging on the Greens in London: You like Sadiq, don’t trust the Greens with your bins.
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share
Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator
The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…
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Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.
A weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence
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Curious why my latest paper left one notable astrobiologist "unpleasantly surprised"? Follow the link and you might just find out! #philsci #philsky #astrobiology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Scientific Progress, Astrobiology and the Pursuit of Knowledge | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Scientific Progress, Astrobiology and the Pursuit of Knowledge
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