we need a name of this theory Jo,,,something like :
“the stable background law and peaceful politics theory”
09.03.2026 08:23
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we need a name of this theory Jo,,,something like :
“the stable background law and peaceful politics theory”
The importance of rules, laws and norms is that they create a stable background system so that people can peacefully get on with their lives, knowing what will, and will not, bring them trouble. I suppose some people must find their absence exhilarating.
Super excited to announce our big annual conference! 🥳
"Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI"
📍Prague, October 12-14
Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly 😇
Please share widely! 🙏
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FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
New podcast: very grateful to my hosts Alex and Dara at Inspire Us. Recorded at SOAS in London.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUO...
‘The hair’s breadth that appeared to separate the two progressive options – a split vote that might have enabled a Reform victory – turned out to be a chasm.’
@piercepenniless.bsky.social on the Greens’ by-election victory.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
earl grey tea
A good society is where people have plenty of legal rights but never even have to think of going to law to enforce them.
A bad society is where legal rights are fragile or contested or violated and the courts are overloaded with cases.
A terrible society is where rights are not legally protected.
a cup of early grey tea with honey and two lime drops should help towards full recovery
The cover of a book by Martha C. Nussbaum called "The Republic of Love: Opera and Political Thought"
Forthcoming! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Do you want to Exec Committee Member of the Aristotelian Society?
We are looking for 3 more committee members to join us as of September 2026. More information available in the link below.
Deadline: Friday 27th March 2026.
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy was founded 100 years ago by Bertrand Russell, Harold Laski & the suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas, among others. Its mission, then as now, is “to educate the public in the subject of philosophy”. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h... #PhilosophySky #philsky #philosophy
Parabems
Cover of The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, a newsletter for alumni of the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Beneath the title and university seal appears a grayscale illustration of the Institute of Philosophy building in Leuven: historic façades frame a small square with a central monument and a large, wind-swept tree, while several figures walk or stand in conversation in front of the gated entrance.
In the latest volume of The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter you'll find an interview with Emeritus Prof. Stefaan Cuypers, a piece on the Case4EU Project by Griet Galle, a presentation of the Chair of Ethics & AI by @lodelauwaert.bsky.social & much more! hiw.kuleuven.be/en/study/alu... #philsky #philsci
if you like this cello piece have look at
“Prelude to a soul”
and
“Marazion”
Composed by Argentine cellist
Sebastian Plano
🙌🙌🙌
that is Nassau Hall original my built in 1754
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/
Scottish independence is sneaking up on Westminster
The SNP are confident of calling and winning another referendum
By Chris Deerin
Returning this September @blackwells.bsky.social
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026
well done, vegans or no vegans
Unfashionable idea 537: For Searle, knowledge is most likely to be advanced through free inquiry, and claims to knowledge can only be validated (as opposed to dogma or speculation) as knowledge by being subject to the tests of free inquiry. 🧐🤔🎆
If you’re in Oxford this weekend, don’t miss this free event in the Philosophy in the Bookshop series I run @blackwelloxford.bsky.social
well done
“The impossibilities of one generation are the platitudes of the next.” R.H. Tawney
Thx
There is Big Think interview where Dennett elaborates on this, it is worth watching
leasehold or freehold ?
precisely
He explains how consciousness can bee seen via an analogy of a magician
So conscious acts are like watching magic tricks, we know that the magician dos tricks but what we see looks like magic
We simply need to learn how those tricks work