Join us on August 1st at Bolsover castle for Margaret Cavendish's MindFest! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-... Sophie White will be onsite throughout the day giving lightening talks, exploring Margaret’s bold ideas and asking questions such as do animals think, and can we touch colours?

Margaret Cavendish's MindFest at Bolsover Castle

Step into the mind of Margaret Cavendish at Bolsover Castle's MindFest!

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Read Tom Stoneham's response to Andy Hamilton's viral reflection: 'Why isn't Durham University taking AI cheating seriously?': listed.to/@24601/74508... @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy

Congrats to our newest philosophy graduates! (All of them were human, but not all of their supporters were! Photo credit: Mary Leng)

This week, Mike Stuart will be speaking about "Pragmatic Understanding and Scientific Robotics" at the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice in Cambridge. See the full program here: spspcambridge2026.com/program

SPSP Conference 2026 Program | SPSP Cambridge 2026

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 conference program. Hosted at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Numbers "are no more real than Sherlock Holmes." Watch Mary Leng on Philip Goff's video philosophy series, here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcSO...

Are Numbers Real?

YouTube video by Philip Goff Philosophy

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This week, Louise Richardson will be a keynote speaker at the Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Louise will be speaking about grief and memory. For more details, see: cfs.ku.dk/summer-schoo...

This week, Louise Richardson will be speaking at a conference in Berlin entitled "The Physical World and Its Perception: Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy." Louise will be speaking about "Structural Features and Naïve Realism." See details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Deadline for submissions for the Philosophy of Science & Race Prize has been extended to July 1st. Please consider submitting your own recently (2021-2026) published work in this area or nominating a scholar whose work on this topic you admire. #HPS

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Deadline extended to July 1, 2026! Complete details here - mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p... PSA Philosophy of Science and Race Prize (Jul 1) - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... PSA26 UPSS Session (Aug 1) - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

York has been ranked 9th in the UK for philosophy in the Complete University Guide league tables (2027). Read the full results here: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table..., and our story about it, here: www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/a...

As part of York's Festival of Ideas, Sophie White and Mia Gane participated at the HRC Family Fun Afternoon. Sophie presented on Margaret Cavendish's Mind Lab, and Mia presented on "What's your dream home?" The future philosophers loved it!

As part of York's Festival of Ideas, Isobel Standen hosted an interactive activity session called 'Can you teach a robot right from wrong?' during the Family Fun Day event. Some photos!

Sam Dickson, Robin Pawlett, and Daniel Garcia Saavedra have just published a paper about epistemic malevolence. They critique the received definition and propose one that captures more intuitive instances and helps suggest ways of addressing it. Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence

The aim of this paper is two-fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current...

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We’re looking for returning Philosophy and Philosophy joint honours undergrads to mentor 1st year students in the 26/27 academic year. This is a chance to support new students as they settle into university life and begin their studies. Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next week, James Clarke is giving a talk at the University of Fribourg: philevents.org/event/show/1... The title of James's talk is "J. B. Erhard on Enlightenment and Revolution".

Registration is now open! Styles of Perception: From Historical Perspectives to the Digital Age 📅 30 June – 1 July 2026 📍 University of York How are our perceptual experiences shaped by history, culture, society, and technology?

Sarah Wood has published a new paper in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. It's called "Illuminating experiences of grief and loss in people with dementia," and it's accessible here: rdcu.be/fooXg link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Illuminating experiences of grief and loss in people with dementia - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

This paper investigates experiences of grief amongst people with dementia. This is a topic that has largely been neglected, with most research focusing on the experiences of caregivers. I draw on this...

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Isobel Standen from @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social and colleagues from the Institute for Safe Autonomy brought their 'Robodog!; Sophie White also from Philosophy introduced us to the world of Margaret Cavendish, and Ben Eyes from @school-of-act.bsky.social shared 'Ghost in the Piano'.

Here are three photos from Shanghai Jiao Tong on 18 May, where Tom Stoneham gave a lecture on 'Existential Risk as an Ethical Problem' and engaged in a roundtable on differences between UK and Chinese approaches to AI regulation and governance. @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy

Tom Stoneham recently took part in launching the inaugural issue of Modern Philosophy, titled "George Berkeley’s Works and Legacy." The event at Yangzhou University was sponsored by the Center of Modern Thought at the School of Social Development and Yangzhou University.

Is this Brandolini's Law finally overturned? (Brandolini's Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it)

We are hiring two postdoctoral researchers, to work on questions about the impact of AI on science! See details here, and direct questions to mike.stuart@york.ac.uk! Please share broadly! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN637/r...

Research Associate x 2 at University of York

Recruiting now: Research Associate x 2 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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In a new paper just published in Mind, Rob Trueman helps us navigate the "higher order" turn in metaphysics, presenting a new deflationary view that justifies a standard but metaphysically controversial assumption. Read the paper here: philpapers.org/rec/TRUFPP

Robert Trueman, Fregean predication - PhilPapers

My aim in this paper is to offer a novel justification for β-Equivalence. β-Equivalence is a standard principle of higher-order logic, but it is metaphysically controversial. My argument for β-Equival...

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Congrats to Dave Ingram, the new President of the Philosophy of Time Society! www.philtimesociety.com

Daniel Morgan on how far neurophysiology can take us in resolving the controversy about whether addiction is a moral excuse: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Shallows of the Addicted Mind1,2

One influential approach to the question of why addiction excuses focuses on the question of what addiction is and, more particularly, on what addiction turns out to be in the light of scientific inq...

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What is it like to feel haunted by something? To find out, read Matthew Ratcliffe's new paper "From hauntology (back) to phenomenology," published yesterday in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From hauntology (back) to phenomenology - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Since Derrida’s introduction of the term hauntology, there has been much discussion of ghosts, spectres, and hauntings across several disciplines. This work is not exclusively phenomenological in focu...

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Tom Stoneham is in Nanjing giving a trilogy of talks in moral philosophy: "A Critique of Moral Rights," "A Critique of Moral Intuitions," and "A Critique of Moral Perfectionism." Here he is with host Prof Tao Tao. More updates on Tom's tour coming soon! @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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Daniel Garcia Saavedra has published a new paper in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. Read it here: doi.org/10.33735/phi... Daniel argues that many smells are experienced as "here," around the nose. These experiences are multi-modal: they combine smell with the feel of the air in the nose.

If you're within striking distance of York, the 'Picturing Grief' exhibition runs until Sunday 10 May at Thin Ice Press. Six artists respond to work on grief from the AHRC Grief Project @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @hrcyork.bsky.social at the University of York projectinggrief.com/pg-exhibition

Two fabulous opportunities to come and work at Egenis on Stephan Guttinger’s automated science project! 1) A fully-funded PhD position: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 2) A postdoctoral research position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p... Please share! #philsci #philjobs