📢 New article: “Appraisive Things” by @julesholroyd.bsky.social & @liao.shen-yi.org! Why use prizes, trophies and statues to praise others when words might suffice? The authors show how the finitude and durability of things enrich our understanding of praise.

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Appraisive Things

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"Appraisive Things", my paper with @julesholroyd.bsky.social, now out in official typeset form! doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Appraisive Things | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Appraisive Things

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕@liao.shen-yi.org · 2w ago

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

This project started a long while back. I was a big fan of @julesholroyd.bsky.social 's "Oppressive Praise" (the article), which I think of as a part of this new wave of works on diagonal moral psychology. Though praise is valenced positively, it can still—sometimes—be morally negative.

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Chong-Ming Lim@cmlim.eurosky.social · last mo.

Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

On route to Zurich for this awesome workshop! www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/seminar/n...

Excited and honoured to have my book in the APA's recently published book spotlight! blog.apaonline.org/2026/05/22/r... #Philsky #Philosophy

Out now! A new paper written with Lel Jones in the Journal of Social Philosophy! Tl;dr: responsible persons need capacities not only to comply with norms, but also to resist! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Can it really be legal for our employers to assume we are taking part in ASOS (by not replacing teaching missed due to strike) and lock us out on that basis? Yes, this is what UoS management are doing to us.

I'll be online later today with Cheshire Calhoun and Karen Stohr at the Pacific APA for our panel session on Positive Moral Philosophy! I'll be talking about using things to praise. Details on p.33 of the program (session 4D)! www.apaonline.org/mpage/2026pa... Join us! #Philosophy #philsky

Delighted that Sheffield won department of the year in the annual BPA prizes!! And fab to see colleagues @chongminglim.bsky.social and Jim Chamberlain getting recognition too. bpa.ac.uk/prizes2026/ #Philosophymatters #philsky

BPA Prizes 2026 - British Philosophical Association

The British Philosophical Association is delighted to celebrate the inaugural recipients of our new BPA Prizes. These awards were established to recognise and promote the outstanding breadth, depth, a...

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Philosophy of cog sci job at Sheffield - 3yr post. Get in touch if you have questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU853/l... #philsky #Philosophy

Lecturer in Philosophy of Cognitive Science at University of Sheffield

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Great conversation with Tareeq Jalloh available now!

IDEA: The Ethics Centre@idea-leeds.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social sees Jim speaking with philosopher Tareeq Jalloh about the ethics of drill rap - often celebrated for its creativity & authenticity, yet heavily criticised for its alleged links to violence. What’s really at stake when society debates the ethics of drill?

Should pornography be authentic? Some people think so, and partly because they think this would make it better ethically rather than just, well, better. Rosa Vince disagrees!

IDEA: The Ethics Centre@idea-leeds.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Jim hosts a discussion from an academic lens with Rosa Vince (IDEA, University of Leeds) about feminist critiques of pornography, specifically those around “authenticity”, and explores questions about representation, discrimination and harm in the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social

oh good. I'm so glad our overlords have invested in this definitely robust and reliable tool. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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Our PhD programme is in the top 10 for overall PhD programme & top 10 for climate in the latest APDA graduate programme survey! Sheffield is the only UK uni to appear in the top 10 for overall PhD programme &one of only two UK unis to appear in the top 10 for climate. apda.ghost.io/2026-data-up...

Call for abstracts for this great looking conference from the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC). salzburgethics.com/emrc-confere... Deadline for abstracts March 15th! #philsky #philosophy

Went to Cardiff to give a talk on functionalist accounts of praise and the feedback and discussion was absolutely brilliant. I'm happily writing it up now. Lovely to see @nonamename.bsky.social, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social and others! #philsky #philosophy

Last Fri we went to York for an awards event for infant feeding and our work on gender inclusion got recognised alongside a bunch of other amazing stuff folks are doing. @fionawoollard.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social #philosophy #philsky #philosophymatters

Congrats Tareeq! This is awesome news, and an awesome paper :)

Journal of Applied Philosophy@the-joap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇 doi.org/10.1111/japp...

And here's a further reading rec: I reviewed Maitra &McWeeny's edited volume on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, which is awesome. So many provoking and exciting chapters, fruitful exchanges and disagreements! Check it out! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Feminist Philosophy of Mind, edited by Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny

‘Would contemporary debates in philosophy of mind be furthered by taking note of feminist insights?’, the editors, Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny ask, in

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If you're looking for guidance on holiday reading... Jess Isserow has written a fab review of my book! As well as giving a good overview of the book itself, it is also a fun read. The critical points are fair and well taken! Thanks Jess! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Reminding White Rose Philosophy folk (Sheff, Leeds, York): a week til deadline for submitting abstracts for the second network event, to be held in Sheffield, Dec 18! Funds available to support attendance. Details (how to submit, how to register) here: engagedphilosophy.org/2025/09/19/c... #philsky

CFA: White Rose Practical Philosophy Network, University of Sheffield, 18th December 2025.

Abstracts are solicited in particular from MA, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers in Philosophy. The University of Sheffield will host the next meeting of the White Rose Practical Philosoph…

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Today! Giving these thoughts a whirl at Milan Statale, where I've been enjoying being visiting fellow since September #philsky #philosophy

Today! At Uni San Raffaele, I get to discuss the functions of oppressive praise with the fab Milanese philosophers! #philsky #philosophy

Than to the connecting power of #philsky, I'm delighted to be zooming into a reading group session on my book Oppressive Praise tomorrow with @paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social !

This is very exciting! I feel honoured to be alongside such other fantastic authors! #philsky

The Royal Institute of Philosophy@triphilosophy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Oppressive Praise" by @julesholroyd.bsky.social (published by @oxunipress.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you: ded1.co/how-we-do-it... #Philosophy #Philsky

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Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege. (📸 Hidden Palestine)