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If this goes through, it’s another huge loss to philosophy and UK HE. Kingston is home to The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), the Iris Murdoch Archive, and more.

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We're looking forward to this at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in September!

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So sad, where the Iris Murdoch Archives are based.

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'Murdoch has more to offer on the subject of politics than the woolly Platonism often projected onto her.' Nikhil Krishnan on Iris Murdoch’s political progress

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We're new to bluesky 👋 (women) In Parenthesis is a global research centre exploring Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch and connected figures! We hold conferences, seminars and reading groups and are a growing network. Join in here: mappingthequartet.org #philsky

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New Podcast Episode! We talk to #DanRead about his new book on Iris Murdoch and Evil. soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

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Brigid Brophy here on Aubrey Beardsley. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Just two places left on Miles Leeson's new online course on Murdoch and Art with LiteratureCambridge. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2025

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I’m today years old starting my first Iris Murdoch novel, “The Black Prince.” Omg this is good

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In the second instalment of our series for LGBTQ+ History month, our student Zoe Byrne introduces the lives and work of Somervillians Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot. https://buff.ly/4aXwjJc

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New Blogpost! Emma Beck (nee Stone) remember a visit to her parent's house by Iris and John in 1965. Photographs by Janet Stone, curtesy of the wonderful Ian Archie Beck. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/02/11/e...

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Coming in November from Chatto and Windus - @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social - 'Poems from an Attic' the selected poetry of Iris Murdoch. Just over a hundred selected from a thousand extant, complemented by a substantial introduction and preface. Pre-order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...

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Quartet Conference coming up this summer! Full details on the poster. 👇

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A deep motive for making literature or art of any sort is the desire to defeat the formlessness of the world and cheer oneself up by constructing forms out of what might otherwise seem a mass of senseless rubble. (7) #SundaySentence Iris Murdoch / Existentialists and Mystics

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Philosophy Friends: I am very excited to release a brand new episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series on Classical German Philosophy & Post-Kantian Thought featuring Dr. Lesley Jamieson (Uni of Pardubice) on The Life & Philosophy of Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8y...

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"Excuse me gentle biped, might I interest you in some delightful prose from the dame Iris Murdoch? We here at the House of Litterature have quite a selection." #booksky

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When in ‘the big smoke’ it’s important to go and visit one of your Queens! @irismurdoch.bsky.social #IrisMurdoch #PhilosopherQueen #WomenInPhilosophy

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Coming up in July at @univie.ac.at - a Murdoch Summer school for PhD students! Full details via the link and poster. pace.phl.univie.ac.at/the-philosop...

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Salvation by Words: Iris Murdoch on Language as a Vehicle of Truth and Art as a Force of Resistance to Tyranny www.themarginalian.org/2019/02/12/i...

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“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues Miles Leeson. | https://buff.ly/3Ehj5ug Is it possible that imagination is not a way to escape the world? #philosophy

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You can now catch up with the four recent episodes on Murdoch, produced by Radio France, here: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...?

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A new podcast, The Ill-Read Millennial, has just launched and the first four episodes are going to focus on different Murdoch novels. The first, on Under the Net, can be found here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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"Iris Murdoch was one of the greatest novelists of the late twentieth century, as well as a British philosopher"

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Our next public lecture at Chichester will be the first by our newly-doctored Maria Peacock! All welcome, full details on the poster.

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'Impossible to read Plato without seeing that the whole of religion is there as well as the whole of philosophy & that they are one.' Iris Murdoch's Journal, 30th May 1975

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First revelation of 2025 Why wasn’t I introduced to Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch when I was younger 🤯

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You can now listen to Justin Broackes' keynote from the 2024 Iris Murodch conference here: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

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Oh my, Iris Murdoch is a genius.

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Delighted to share that my essay about Iris Murdoch, her Irishness and Platonism, "The Platonism of the Unicorn" has been published by the Annual Review from The Philosophical Society in Oxford. Check it out 👇 #Irismurdoch #Irishstudies #Platonism

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I'll be running a creative writing course for the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in February on philosophical fiction. From sci-fi to Iris Murdoch, there will be something for everyone! It's in-person and you can sign-up/find out more here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/lets... Please repost!

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