My latest book, How to Understand Others, is now available for pre-order from @yalebooks.bsky.social and all good bookshops (RRP £20). The book represents the culmination of 10 years' interdisciplinary work on the topic, written to be accessible to all. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

How to Understand Others - Yale University Press London

An incisive and witty philosophical guide to how we can make sense of ourselves and other peopleHow do we really come to ‘understand’ others—or even to...

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‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions

‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions

The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history

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I nearly missed it, but today is 70 days to publication of When Things Get Personal. Chapter seven explores issues about to whom and how we give credit - what we admire or are proud of people for. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

When Things Get Personal

How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally

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I’m excited to share that my new book on Mary Midgley is available to preorder! It’s due out December 10: www.bloomsbury.com/us/mary-midg... #marymidgley #philsky @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Great discussion yesterday on how the BBC might become more co-creational. www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/blog/co-crea...

Co-creational BBC: could ‘engage’ be the BBC’s newest public purpose?

Campaign and Communications Manager Beckie Shuker reflects on our recent roundtable: 'The beating heart of our nation: toward a co-creational BBC'

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🔥 Key researcher, Cathy Mason, was recently re-featured in the Editors' Picks Week Aeon Weekly @aeon.co, where their editors selected Essays that have stood out to them with themes and ideas worth revisiting. Read the essay 'Why love matters most', below👇️ #philsky #irismurdoch #love

For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays

For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

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Next Monday we've got Anil Gomes (Oxford) speaking to us about 'Iris Murdoch on God, Good, and Soul'. Free and open to all. ⏰ 18.15, 11 May 2026 📍Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anil-gomes/

Yes. But the traditional news media has its flaws, too. It can be exclusive and ignore important insights. And that's where the co-creational news media model comes in as a promising alternative to both: toolkit.publicinterestnews.org.uk.

Co-Creational News Media Toolkit

Our toolkit gathers tips and good practices for co-creational news media.

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Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The big difference between the social media age and traditional media is editorial control. No one says ‘yes, but what’s your source?’ or ‘you’re contradicting yourself here’ or ‘hold on, that doesn’t follow!’ or, ‘mmm, we won’t get that past the lawyers’ or even ‘sorry, but this is terrible.’

Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works" ⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026. 📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way) 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/

Sharing another review of my recent book on political legitimacy. With many thanks to @marcel-jahn.com! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fabienne Peter: The Grounds of Political Legitimacy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-887238-2) £63.00. 246 pp. - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

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New Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

"Like a latter-day Socrates . . . [Nguyen] advocat[es] a kind of playful rebellion against rules and metrics. . . . I give this excellent book five stars." @financialtimes.com reviews C. Thi Nguyen's new book, THE SCORE, on sale next week. www.ft.com/content/9446...

The Score by C Thi Nguyen — more than a numbers game

A subtle and stimulating philosophical examination of scoring systems and what really matters

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With heartfelt thanks to Amanda Greene for her generous and insightful review of my book on political legitimacy! academic.oup.com/mind/article...

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy, by Fabienne Peter

There are words that come up so often in public debate that we lose track of their meanings, especially once they have been weaponized. A prime example is

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Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The Center is very sad to report the untimely passing of Andrew Cooper (Warwick), who was a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in 2023. Andrew was an outstanding philosopher in addition to a wonderful human being.

This is happening tonight! Please note the unusual location...

Aristotelian Society@aristotsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Next week: Malcolm Keating (Smith College) joins us at the Aristotelian Society: Kumārila on the First-Personal Pronoun ⏰ 18.15, Monday 10th Nov 📍 Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/malcolm-keating/

The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

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A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book! What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether' Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity aeon.co/essays/how-t...

How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays

As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

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Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃 Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP philpapers.org/rec/ROBSSO-4 #philsky

Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers

The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...

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Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kantian moral change

Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....

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youtube version of political legitimacy with @fabiennepeter.bsky.social youtu.be/4evuGHKJpCY

Political Legitimacy with Fabienne Peter

YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast

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Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford. Please repost and register now! @blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods

For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton

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The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality

For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays

For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

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Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume. Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response. academic.oup.com/book/60047/c...

Runaway Reasons

Abstract. This chapter raises a challenge for a common claim, which is that reasons are the mark of the normative. The claim tends to be accepted even by d

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Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information. We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇

Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit. For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...

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New toolkit helps journalists build trust through public collaboration

The project provides a roadmap for news organisations seeking to bridge the gap between elite journalism and social media chaos, offering a third way that prioritises both truth and community engageme...

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