Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup. @ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
Giuli Cavaliere
@giuli-phil.bsky.social
Lecturing @ UCL Philosophy - posting on repro decisions, infertility and parenting (and Tequila, my cat) https://www.giulicavalierephilosophy.com/
A few days left to apply!
Giuli Cavaliere@giuli-phil.bsky.social · last yr.We're hiring! x4 permanent positions: 2 open, 1 non-western and 1 value theory. Please consider applying/spreading the word! More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We're hiring! x4 permanent positions: 2 open, 1 non-western and 1 value theory. Please consider applying/spreading the word! More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Fertility rate hits record low in England, Scotland and Wales
Last year’s total fertility rate of 1.41 for England and Wales was lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1938, ONS says
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People having IVF should get time off work for appointments, say UK campaigners www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People having IVF should get time off work for appointments, say UK campaigners
Report finds more than a third have considered leaving their job due to the physical and emotional strain
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There needs to be a process of re-education, [...] one that acknowledges the realities of taking on a child with extra needs.A LifeLessOrdinary doesn’t have it right.It definitely is harder to adopt a kid who has been through the ringer. But, by goodness, it’s worth it. www.elle.com/uk/life-and-...
The UK’s Adoption Industry Is In Crisis
It's time to peer deeply into the UK’s adoption industry and see what can be fixed
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The Future of Practical #Ethics, IDEA Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social - Registration open! 8th – Wednesday 10th September 2025. Programme and abstracts available here: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
Programme | The Future of Practical Ethics
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Clearly,” she added, “the answer lies not in limiting choice or selecting who gets to exercise choice; the answer is to expand real choice to all people.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report
As right-wing governments seek to blame a rejection of parenthood, a survey reveals a lack of choice, not desire, stops people having the families they want
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The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
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@UCL Philosophy is hiring!!! Nine days left to apply. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... (#philsky people, give us a share! Thx!!)
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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@UCL Philosophy is hiring!!! Nine days left to apply. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... (#philsky people, give us a share! Thx!!)
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
ucl.ac.uk
A week ago there was an open letter signed by politics researchers urging Keir Starmer to abandon his proposed anti-immigrant policies. With the support of the organizers, I've created the same petition but open to all academics. Read and sign the letter here: molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html.
Petition
An Open Letter to Keir Starmer We, the undersigned, strongly advise against the proposed changes to the UK immigration system of May 12, 2025, and your associated rhetoric. We are UK-based academics.....
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I recently co-authored & circulated (with @alasianuti.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based political academics & writers signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Theory
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Theory. The successful candidate will conduct research in any area of polit...
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Giulia Cavaliere resists Barnes's skepticism toward the possibility of developing an explanatory and extensionally adequate account of #health doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 5/9
In #vol38issue3 we host a symposium for Health Problems (OUP), a book authored by Elizabeth Barnes. Follow this thread to learn more! #philsky #booksky 1/9
Really nice to be in Atlanta for our workshop on Intimate relationships and the state. Watch this space if you're interested in the topic—Res Publica special issue to follow!! philevents.org/event/show/1...
I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire. www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
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"In short, once the central institutions of capital were at risk, every shibboleth of neoliberal economics was thrown to the winds, with doses of mega-Keynesian remedies beyond Keynes’s own imagination." Perry Anderson for the @lrb.co.uk Regime Change in the West? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
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"I loved them, and I still love them, but more important than loving is understanding and respecting them, and this includes, more than anything else, understanding and respecting their choices to end their lives." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.
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My new paper with the wonderful Francesca Cesarano is out! Check it out if you're interested in #fertility treatment #gender socialisation and #autonomy - #ivf #feminist #philosophy #philsky doi.org/10.1017/hyp....
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Choices: Autonomy, Harm and Gender Socialization | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Choices: Autonomy, Harm and Gender Socialization
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My new paper with the wonderful Francesca Cesarano is out! Check it out if you're interested in #fertility treatment #gender socialisation and #autonomy - #ivf #feminist #philosophy #philsky doi.org/10.1017/hyp....
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Choices: Autonomy, Harm and Gender Socialization | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Choices: Autonomy, Harm and Gender Socialization
cambridge.org
For over a decade, the Israeli centre dominated the opposition—and squandered its moment. It promised to safeguard democracy, restore unity, and bring stability. It delivered none. My new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social. There are lessons here beyond Israel.
Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · last yr.Centrists have long promised Israeli liberals moderation and stability. But as they’ve taken their place as the dominant opposition to the right, Israel has descended into its most extreme era yet. @shaiagmon.bsky.social on the complicity of the Israeli center:
Woah, my book is published! Available online! Please read it! Or at least get your library to order it, or maybe download some PDF chapters with good intentions... :) academic.oup.com/book/59557 #academicsky #philsky
Oppressive Praise
Abstract. This is a book about praise: in particular, the expressions we use to elevate others, esteem them, celebrate the things they do. These expression
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