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TALK! Ellie Robson @Philosophellie @kingsphilosophy will speak to us on “Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living” Ellie's website: ellierobson75.wixsite.com/ellierobson @UoNHumanities A27 3-5pm. #philosophy #ethics #susanstebbing #virtuethics #womeninphilosophy

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Feed: "Aeon | a world of ideas" By: Ellie Robson on Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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Our ‘Mary Midgley Masterclass’ with the next generation of (women) in parenthesis students at Durham University 🔥 @peterwest23.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy

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A book to look out for!!

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I'm going up to Durham this week to give a Midgley 'masterclass' with @philosophellie.bsky.social - we will be discussing Rings and Books, Philosophical Plumbing, and all the other Midgley content we can squeeze into an hour

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#philsky #philosophy www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk

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It’s reading week! So lovely to be back in Durham where I did my BA and MA 🌞 I’m in the Midgley Archives working on a new collection of previously unpublished articles by Midgley for Routledge!! #philsky #philosophy

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Do you have students working on the Wartime Quartet? Call for abstracts for this predoctoral conference is out now!! Deadline 31 March 28-29 June 2025. Trinity College, Cambridge

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Do you have students working on the Wartime Quartet? Call for abstracts for this predoctoral conference is out now!! Deadline 31 March 28-29 June 2025. Trinity College, Cambridge

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For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors

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My @aeon.co article on Mary Midgley ‘So many unmarried men’ is out now - aeon.co/essays/for-m... #philsk #philosophy

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

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I didn't know what to use as a banner, so I've put my favourite review of our book about women philosophers. It's my favourite because, one, he seemed to think there would be men in a book called "The Philosopher Queens" and, two, he still gave us three stars.

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📣 CfA - Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy (Annual BSHP Conference 2025) 📍Cambridge, 3-5 April 2025 The deadline to submit a paper/symposium proposal for the conference is coming up on 11 December bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

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Great to see my piece on #MaryMidgley’s moral philosophy in the latest edition of @retoday.bsky.social This little piece is part of a chapter soon to be published in a Palgrave collectedvolume on #Midgley edited by the brilliant @philosophellie.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #philsky

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"We are rational animals, such that our rationality constitutively shapes the fundamental kind of animal we are" - Read @guylongworth.bsky.social's review of Matt Boyle and Mylonaki Evgenia's exciting edited collection "Reason in Nature" 👇 #philsky

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The DRL is celebrating its 10th Anniversary (!) with a conference July 2-4th 2025 at the University of Manchester! CFA below: submit your talks, projects, and ideas to promote all things diversity and inclusivity in Philosophy by 10/03. Here's to the next 10 years! philevents.org/event/show/1...

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I’m teaching a brand new course at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social this term in my new job as a lecturer! It’s 100 years of ethics (1920-2020) taught entirely through the work of women philosophers I wonder if history will look different by the end!! #philsky #philosophy

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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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The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.

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Have a listen to me and my colleague Jess Leech chat to Peter Momtchiloff about all things OUP! #philsky #philosophy 😊

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Happy New Year! 🎇 We’re kicking off 2025 with our Winter Event Series, featuring an exciting lineup you won’t want to miss!❄️ Check out the details below

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New Year, new cover reveal! Here's what our @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of American and British Women #Philosophers in the #19thCentury will look like, and we're thrilled! Women philosophizing about metaphysics, #ethics, #gender, #aesthetics, politics, #logic, race, religion, education...

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We're back next Monday for Monima Chadha's (Oxford) Proceedings talk 'Must we Construct Persons?'. Come along - we have tea and biscuits! 🗓️Monday 13th January 2024 ⏰ 17:30 - 19:15 📍Woburn Suite, Senate House 🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi... Follow for more! #philsky #philosophy

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I'll be taking over the #projectEPIC blog this year from @eabyrne.bsky.social who will also be joining our wonderful colleagues at Nottingham - including new project member Alice Monypenny! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/01/alic...

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@irismurdoch.bsky.social Murdoch on why appreciating nature and being mindful can help us live a good life (& why relentless egos like Musk and Trump can’t) on.ft.com/4gWSRvp

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Some classic Mary Midgley wit 🤣 (discovered by Midgleyan, Ian James Kidd) #philsky #philosophy

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The DRL is leaving X! Being able to share our news widely is very important to us, as we're a small, volunteer-based community - please give us a hand in building our following back on: - Bluesky: https://buff.ly/3VbD6bo - Threads: https://buff.ly/499zTPk - Facebook: https://buff.ly/4eR1CW4

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Big thanks to Kate @philosofemme.bsky.social for having me to talk about Midgley at Regents Park College @ox.ac.uk - featuring some fantastic questions from students 😊

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I’m new here 👋 I’m a philosopher working on a mixture of: - women in philosophy, - moral philosophy - the history of (20C) philosophy Here’s a picture of me looking particularly excited outside the prior home of Mary Midgley in, Oxford #philsky #philosophy ellierobson75.wixsite.com/ellierobson

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I need one of these in my office.

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