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Philosopher. Also a lion. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/longworth/

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Everybody’s questions The Royal Institute of Philosophy was founded 100 years ago by Bertrand Russell, Harold Laski and the suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas, among others – a “nucleus of savants”, as Viscount Samuel, the I...

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08.01.2026 17:51 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky

08.12.2025 18:17 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

Excellent! Let’s try to find space to chat more. :)

05.12.2025 17:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks very much for inviting me along! :)

05.12.2025 16:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Such an inspiring discussion on the Varieties of Communication and Self-Talk ! Very many thanks to the online and onsite audiences and to our speakers Anna Drożdżowicz @guylongworth.bsky.social @sofiiarappe.bsky.social @andypeet.bsky.social & Martina Wiltschko ! @martajorba.bsky.social

05.12.2025 16:43 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Clayton Littlejohn, Disinformation is for Degrading the Value of Information, not Confirming Falsehoods - PhilPapers According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion 2024a; 2024b). The view improves upon previous accounts that focused upon the potential fo...

I have news. Wonderful news.

New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.

philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF

29.11.2025 00:41 👍 108 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 0
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Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

28.11.2025 09:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Rebecca Buxton, Justice in waiting: The harms and wrongs of temporary refugee protection - PhilPapers Temporariness has become the norm in contemporary refugee protection. Many refugees face extended periods of time waiting for permanent status, either in camps or living among citizens in their state ...

This Labour government are (frustratingly) making my work more and more relevant every week. Five years ago, I argued that temporary protection policies for refugees are grossly unjust, and here we are making things worse for them again.

philpapers.org/rec/BUXJIW

17.11.2025 09:52 👍 28 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

Delighted to see this and can’t wait to read!

18.11.2025 10:14 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Rachel Reeves urged to scrap international student levy over concerns for growth Business groups slammed ‘university tax’ and warned a rise in fees will have ‘unintended consequences’ for the UK

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

18.11.2025 07:17 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Care about the Social Sciences, or need to know why you should? Have a read of this report, published today. acss.org.uk/wp-content/u...

12.11.2025 10:01 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Ack, understandable! He’s brilliant, I think. :)

11.11.2025 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stuart Hampshire, Innocence and Experience.

Stuart Hampshire, Innocence and Experience.

Book 30.

11.11.2025 18:33 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Jitu

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31.10.2025 08:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates Data on employment outcomes for new graduates and young workers.

Worried about employability? Study Philosophy!

According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Philosophy graduates have very low unemployment rates.

SOURCE: www.newyorkfed.org/research/col...

26.10.2025 17:22 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Leunissen, Aristotle’s Physics: a critical guide.

Leunissen, Aristotle’s Physics: a critical guide.

Book 29.

25.10.2025 15:53 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Discrimination, Non-Complicity, and Reasons that Mask Disdain’. With Scott Altman and Alan Patten PEA Soup is pleased to introduce October’s Ethics discussion, featuring Scott Altman’s (University of Southern California) paper, “Discrimination, Non-Complicity, and Reasons that Mask Disdain,” wi…

Continuing: The PEASoup Blog/ETHICS discussion peasoupblog.com/2025/10/disc... on Discrimination, Noncomplicity, and Reasons That Mask Disdain, a free article by Scott Altman at doi.org/10.1086/736746 with a précis by Alan Patten philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy

23.10.2025 13:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, fair. I mentally deleted “ambitious” and it seemed to still make sense. :)

21.10.2025 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not sure what ambitious parents are, but sounds legit.

21.10.2025 07:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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21.10.2025 07:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

20.10.2025 06:43 👍 10628 🔁 2783 💬 603 📌 264
Early modern diagram of the brain

Early modern diagram of the brain

Today's new episode: Cartesian Science!

From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-sc...

#hopwag #philsky #descartes #historyofscience #podcasts

19.10.2025 06:44 👍 71 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 4

Yay! Great minds, &c. :)

17.10.2025 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…

I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...

17.10.2025 07:00 👍 83 🔁 28 💬 13 📌 12

Haha! That’s an especially good one, thanks! :)

14.10.2025 05:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis.

Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis.

Book 28.

13.10.2025 14:31 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Windy, eh?

04.10.2025 07:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

*Suggested title: Reason and Porpoise.

04.10.2025 07:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was great fun. Decision and consent; Arendt vs Kant on banality; Foucault on revolution; cetacean psychology.*

04.10.2025 07:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looking forward to our welcome conference for new graduate students.

03.10.2025 07:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0