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Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:00-19:00 Cathays, Cardiff Full details ––

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Anyone aged 18 and older in Leicester, Leicestershire, or Rutland can sign up to the libraries for free and borrow up to 10 books at a time. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/all-...

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— The Woman Destroyed — :: Exhibition of Hélène de Beauvoir’s paintings opens in London this Friday. :: Runs until 2nd March.

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Excellent discussion of my paper at the philosophy of education group at Birmingham — thank you! — hope I wasn’t too distracted by the spectacular views from the seminar room window.

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Celebrating Simone de Beauvoir's 117th birthday by spending the day in cafes and a library trying to write something about existentialism.

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On the fifth day of Christmas a cancan line of one-legged turkeys dragged santa and his sleigh finally towards the light.

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Philosopher: It seems to me that there are in fact seven mutually irreducible varieties of explanation, of which at least five might be pertinent to this question, but to see this we need first to get clear on what explaining per se amounts to …

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New paper just published! Rethinking Existentialism: A Response to Eshleman, Kirkpatrick, and Romdenh-Romluc Sartre Studies International 30: 64–92 (2024) Argues for integrating my readings of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Fanon with readings offered in critique of my work. Free pdf :: bit.ly/mypapers

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Call for Abstracts: UK Sartre Society Conference (7-8 July 2025) At Maison Française d'Oxford. The UK Sartre Society invite abstracts on any aspects of the works of Beauvoir or Sartre. www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/call-for-abs...

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Londoners! & other locals. Next month the Amar Gallery is opening the first British solo exhibition of Hélène de Beauvoir (sister of the frequent subject of my posts here). Its title and theme—The Woman Destroyed—is drawn from a joint project of 1967, written by Simone, illustrated by Hélène.

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Just found a setting that makes bluesky infinitely better …

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For the first time, this award goes to a philosophy professor…

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I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago. And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production. #philsky iai.tv/video/sartre...

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Big old machines at Underfall Yard. #Bristol

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I thoroughly enjoyed discussing the philosophical ideas of James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre at How The Light Gets In a couple of months ago. And I'm very impressed that @iai.tv have done such a superb job on the production. #philsky iai.tv/video/sartre...

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Cardiff University's new degree programmes in philosophy bring this ancient and enduring subject directly to problems that society faces today. bit.ly/CdfPhilDeg

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Philosophy friends! Do consider submitting something for the upcoming deadline for the British Society for Ethical Theory's 2025 conference. We have Analysis Bursaries to assist with attendance costs. Make your paper part of the super program!! sites.google.com/view/british... #philsky

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Too modest, Gilbert. #philsky

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"What is new is a theme running throughout our degrees: the usefulness of philosophising in working together to address problems that we face collectively as organisations and as a society." – me on the virtues of our brand new BA and MA philosophy degrees at Cardiff University ::

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Cardiff Annual Lecture 2024 :: Quiet As Its Kept: On Epistemic Fragility :: – Professor Kristie Dotson – live on YouTube Tuesday 19th November 8.30pm - 10.00pm UK time Full details: bit.ly/TRIPCdf2024

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Simone de Beauvoir vs longtermism ::

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stop rising bollards

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RIP the Evening Standard Still very pleased I liberated this from one of their iconic newsstand boxes in Euston Square twenty years ago ...

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