They're all having way more fun than us over in the philosophy of mathematics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Math Proofs, Gender Proofs | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Math Proofs, Gender Proofs
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Matthew J. Cull
@matthewjcull.bsky.social
Philosopher at Trinity College Dublin. Author of What Gender Should Be (Bloomsbury) 2024. they/them https://matthewcull.wixsite.com/philosophy
I redid the section on social construction in the Stanford Feminist Metaphysics article last year, and I am once again tapping the sign:
Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social! Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
This should be a good time! Deadline for abstracts is 15th October www.conceptsatwork.net/call-for-abs...
Concepts at Work - Call for abstracts
What is it about? The conference is about concepts, broadly understood: the way we structure our thoughts, categorise phenomena, define objects. The starting point of the conference is that many conte...
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esteemed colleague: the problem with contemporary academia is relativism Me: Holy shit! metaethical noncognitivism? EC: LOL no...no not those relativists Me: So....neocarnapian metametaphysics? EC: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? EC: Oh, you know the ones
"Children as Commodity and Changeling: Gender Disappointments and Gender Disappointment" philpapers.org/rec/CULCAC-3 👀👀
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Tamsin the Sword Mother ⚔️@tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · last mo.Okay, my ACTUAL take on all this transsexual Discourse™ is that we never should’ve stopped calling ourselves “sex changelings.”
I'm reminded that I should promote these more: myself, Fiona Woollard and Jules Holroyd run free workshops on inclusive language in various aspects of perinatal care. Aimed at care practitioners, but all welcome! engagedphilosophy.org/inclusive/
Inclusive Language and Practice in Perinatal and Postnatal Care
Project Resources Register for a workshop About the Project Centre Co-director Jules Holroyd (University of Sheffield, they/them), with affiliate member Matthew Cull (Trinity College Dublin, they/t…
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Keir Starmer seeing this and immediately demanding that Labour take a tougher stance on "Kids being up past 8.30pm" to demonstrate how much more 'serious' they are.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani jokingly signed a mock executive order repealing bedtime for kids for the duration of the 2026 NBA Finals, whose games start at 8:30 p.m. EST.
The new issue of TSQ is out, and somebody thought it would be a good idea to let philosophers be in charge of it: read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/13/2
Volume 13 Issue 2 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press
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I will say, I was for some time very puzzled by the politics of a vocally anti-trans birthing group who also kept posting praise of 'FTM's
If you're in or near Edinburgh this Sunday, please do come along to Tills Bookshop, where I'll be interviewing Andrea Ford about her new book, Near Birth: Contested Values and the Work of Doulas. theasa.org/conferences/...
Near Birth
Why should you care how babies are born?
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Matthew J. Cull, Children as Commodity and Changeling: Gender Disappointments and Gender Disappointment - PhilPapers
‘Gender disappointment’ is regularly reported by those whose child’s sex does not match the sex that they, the parent, desired. With symptoms ranging from mere fleeting sadness to documented cases of ...
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Slate@slate.com · 2mo agoI was devastated to learn I was having a baby boy. I’m far from alone. slate.trib.al/jQk2xDd
Does anyone have a Times subscription? I need access to an old article they wrote about me and some collaborators!
Have you ever wondered about how feminists should approach the fact/value distinction? Boy, have I written a paper for you! “Should Feminists be Humeans? Facts, Values, and Barriers to Entailment”, out now, open access in Synthese. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This August at TCD we're running a workshop on feminist philosophy, social ontology, and the corporation. It's a really exciting lineup of speakers, including keynotes by Carol Gould, Vanessa Wills, Naima Hamrouni, and Jade Fletcher. Please email me at cullm@tcd.ie if you'd like to attend!
"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”
First two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in historic moment
The first two transgender MSPs have been elected to the Scottish Parliament ...
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If you're looking for something to get you through the long weekend, here's an interview for Embrace the Void on epistemic injustice, primary harms/wrongs, hermeneutical injustice, and whether appealing to the notion of epistemic injustice helps defend or undermines the notion of objective truth.
Embrace the Void@etvpod.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social to discuss his book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. Really fun and valuable chat on a topic quite relevant to our current void. Enjoy!
🚨Only after few days left to apply to this opportunity at Edinburgh. A fully-funded PhD studentship on a project about COVID-19 vaccine and memories. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
To tie this into the happening discourse on the analytic/continental split: This book's bibliography features Ásta and Rach Cosker-Rowland, alongside Sylvia Wynter and Paul Preciado. It is possible, you can do it!
Matthew J. Cull@matthewjcull.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew book forthcoming!
This year's awards for godawful branding are heating up in the University category. What seemed like a shoe-in for "Beyond Warwick" is turning into a tight race.
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 5mo ago“Leave a Future” is the University of Minnesota’s first new tagline in 20 years. People aren’t quite sure what it means, or what to think of it.
Part of me wonders whether this contract was an illusion all along. That the medium of presentation is not neutral is something that is widely appreciated in other art theory for other artistic forms, but perhaps the apparent transparency of code belies this in software.
Chris Franklin@errant-signal.com · 5mo agoI think one of the truly insidious things about the DLSS stuff is that it sort of... breaks a contract about computer usage we don't really even have a name for?
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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Question for philosophy of sport people: Are there *any* papers on transgender people in your field that aren't about which category transgender people should be allowed to participate in?
Just finished @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social's new book. It's great! My only complaint is that it isn't (just) an introduction: it's a pretty comprehensive survey of the field of epistemic injustice!
Language question: Has anyone come across the terms 'impregnable' or 'impregnability' being used to mean 'not possible to impregnate'? I've only heard them used in their 'invincible' and (very occasionally) 'possible to impregnate' senses.
When will Amie Thomasson disavow this terrorism??
Fenner Tanswell@fennert.bsky.social · 6mo ago"nails hammered through red candles, chalked symbols and red tape in which the words “anti meta physical front” were printed." Defenders of Thomasson from Williamson have gone too far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...