Also what a moment to realise you are casually talking to the remarkable #GillianAllnutt. Listen to her read #Solitude here: youtu.be/3jBRncmRxhE?... #poetry #NorthEast #philosophy #poetrysky #philosophysky @litandphil.bsky.social

Gillian Allnutt reads 'Solitude'

YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize

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Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh@drelizabethmac1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fabulous keynote presentations from the brilliant Karen Simecek & Vid Simoniti at the @inparenthesis.bsky.social #PhilosophyInTheWild homecoming event. Impressive insights & if you don’t already have their books I would strongly encourage you to snap these up #poetry #arts #philosophysky #booksky

I’ll be there!

(women) In Parenthesis@inparenthesis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

EVENT: Poetry Readings: A Celebration of Philosophy, Poetry and the More-Than-Human World 15th June 6pm to 8pm Join us for an evening of philosophical reflection on the role that poetry can play in connecting us with non-human animals and the environment. www.litandphil.org.uk/event/poetry...

Do you have a work in progress you want to share with our network? The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS to our 2026/7 Online Seminar Series is now open. We welcome abstracts on topics within the Women in Parenthesis scope of interest. For more information, see our website: www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

A CfA for the 2nd Predoctoral Conference on the quartet in Manchester in June: deadline 20 February. For more information about how to submit and attend please see our website: www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

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A @inparenthesis.bsky.social update: Proud to be helping to organise this Symposium that builds on @domlash.bsky.social agenda setting work here. CfA The Quartet-in-Film Symposium: Vice & Violence Winchester in June @uniwinchester.bsky.social www.winchester.ac.uk/research/Our... #filmsky #philsky

Mary Midgley saw philosophy as mapping relationships between fields. Though she never fully critiqued economics, Nat Dyer argues her ideas on myths, reductionism & ecology offer a powerful challenge to today’s economic orthodoxy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNCodkhbrk

Please enjoy this piece originally posted by PAN Works Fellow and Virtual Writer in Residence, Mara-Daria Cojocaru, PD Dr. phil., in which she discusses humans and wolves with Professor Greg McElwain. #animals #ethics #wellbeing #compassion #conservation #empathy #communities #intrinsicvalue

“This may ultimately make things messier, rather than tidier, on the ground”

Interview with Greg McElwain, Team USA for “Philosophy in the Wild”

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Amazing!

Grumpy Philosopher@stevecooke.org · 7mo ago

It's taken a few years, but I've finally framed and hung the painting I did of Mary Midgley shortly after her death. Now, she can stare over my shoulder when I'm in an online meeting or seminar, judging people who start on any bullshit.

We were pleased to welcome as one of our key note speakers @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social who spoke about the work of the philosopher Mary Midgley. #ThoughtfulConference2025 #PhilosophyMatters #WorldPhilosophyDay

I'm doing an online webniar tomorrow at 3pm (UK) with the wonderful @inparenthesis.bsky.social team on 'Mary Midgley among the economists' Looking forward to joining the dots between one of our best recent philosophers and the critique of mainstream economics More info & zoom link below 👇

Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989. Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

We're excited to announce our new Online Seminar Series for the 2025-6 academic year!! We have 5 fantastic talks coming up. For titles and abstracts see our website - and get the dates in your diary! www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/ #philsky #philosophy

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One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social #Midgley

Nigel Warburton@nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com

The wonderful @philosophellie.bsky.social on Mary Midgley’s animal thought.

Nigel Warburton@nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com

"I suppose in a very admirable and harmless way, I take science to have a religious aspect. That is, it involves people responding to the vastness of the universe." -Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction #marymidgley #philsky

"We rejoice in the whole of nature and being part of it, as something to which we belong." -Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction #marymidgley #philsky

Back at the very special #dewisacre for more #philosophyinthewild ‘finding hope in mixed communities’ & this time - with the adults! It means the world to us that the adults relished this event, fell in love with the wisdom of #MaryMidgley & that Ned the cat was so happy & involved too 1/3

Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh@drelizabethmac1.bsky.social · last yr.

Back in the garden, for #philosophyinthewild, which has been a truly #mixedcommunity garden this week! 🐑 @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social #PhilosophyMatters #MaryMidgley #Arts #Poetry #Hope #FindingHopeInMixedCommunities www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/philosophy-i...

Back in the garden, for #philosophyinthewild, which has been a truly #mixedcommunity garden this week! 🐑 @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social #PhilosophyMatters #MaryMidgley #Arts #Poetry #Hope #FindingHopeInMixedCommunities www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/philosophy-i...

Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh@drelizabethmac1.bsky.social · last yr.

It would not have been right to post on Tuesday, but we had a wonderful day at #ErwDewi @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social with #SheridanJames for thefirst in our #philosophyinthewild workshops for #TeamWales #TeamPembs #FindingHopeInMixedCommunites @inparenthesis.bsky.social notesfromabiscuittin.com

"Central to thinking about animals is the idea of community: a genuine unity of beings which are important to each other." -Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction #marymidgley #philsky

"How to think involves how to live." -Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction #marymidgley #philsky

"The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world." -Mary Midgley, Beast and Man #marymidgley #philsky

“Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.” -Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By #marymidgley #philsky

"The trouble with human beings ([Butler] said) is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough." -Mary Midgley, Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers #marymidgley #philsky

The philosopher Mary Midgley undergirds a lot of my thinking (even about economics) I just reread this piece I wrote about her in 2020 and it still holds up pretty well philosophynow.org/issues/140/M...

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

Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy

A workshop devoted to the work of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) and Mary Midgley (1919-2018) and their place in and relation to the history of philosophy. ​ When : 17th July 2025 Where : Monica...

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"Great philosophers, then, need a combination of gifts that is rare. They must be lawyers as well as poets. They must have both the new vision that points the way we are to go and the logical doggedness that sorts out just what is, and what is not, involved in going there." -Mary Midgley, UDC

We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky

Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...

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Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social public philosophy blog! #marymidgley #philsky

Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...

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"Our need for each other – our need for all the normal intercourse of human life – is not a weakness but a strength...Of course our dependencies are dangerous, but who wants to live safely like a billiard ball or a doll that never leaves its package?" -Mary Midgley, The Solitary Self #philsky

Specific grievances wear out; the unchangingness of group hostilities marks them as fraudulent. They are not responses to real external dangers, but fantasies. We erect a glass at the border of our own group, and see our own anger reflected against the darkness behind it. -Mary Midgley, Wickedness