Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford on Virtue Ethics commencing in January 2026! Looks like a great opportunity for a recent grad student or early postdoc working on virtue.

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Daily Hume quote: "Good and ill are universally intermingled and confounded; happiness and misery, wisdom and folly, virtue and vice. Nothing is pure and entirely of a piece."

Great to listen to the latest episode of @biounethical.bsky.social. As always, great content and very interesting conversations!

www.biounethical.com/episodes/epi...

"Philosophers like to talk a lot, but must take listening seriously"
My interview with Mara-Daria Cojocaru about Team Wales for "Philosophy in the Wild" @inparenthesis.bsky.social
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Two more fabulous Midgley talks by @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social and Tom Whyman on listening and ecology 👂🌷🌸🌻

Philosophy in action from sunny Cambridge! So grateful to @philosophellie.bsky.social for the wonderful panel and for these pictures!

Wonderful symposium session on #MaryMidgley at @thebshp.bsky.social annual conference. Firstly the brilliant @philosophellie.bsky.social #SophiaConnell on Midgley’s Zoological approach to Aristotle’s Ethics. Followed by equally fantastic @enricogalvagni.bsky.social on Hume & Midgley on the study 1/2

Very glad to now be formally affiliated with @technomoralfutures.bsky.social at Edinburgh Futures Institute. After spending the past few years working on moral concepts and their history, it is now time to also start thinking about their future!

www.technomoralfutures.uk/our-people-a...

New Iris Murdoch Podcast! We're joined by Bridget Clarke from @umontana.bsky.social to discuss her new book from @cambridgeup.bsky.social on Murdoch in the Women in the History of Philosophy Series.

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BSHP starts soon! Looking forward to being part of a fabulous symposium on Mary Midgley (very strongly represented at the conference with 6 talks on her, including a keynote 😱)! Full programme here: bshp.org.uk/site/assets/...

Incredible that Kant could only think of three things to critique

Out of context quote of the day: "Any crash course on evil
must acknowledge a great debt to the Scots" -Mary Midgley

History of Philosophy postdoc!

I’m organizing a conference for philosophy graduate students—The 14th Annual Arché Graduate Conference! This will be a great opportunity for students to present their work, network, and spend some time on the charming Scottish coastal town, St Andrews! Please share with your network. #philsky

My “philosophical methodology” is to stare out of the window and hope desperately that something occurs to me

I’ve been looking at some biographical material of the founders of modern physics and it’s striking how much attention they paid to philosophy: Bohr was obsessed with Kierkegaard and his followers, Einstein read Kant. Heisenberg read Plato's Timaeus.

I wrote something that I actually find philosophically satisfying. Now let's see how it gets rejected by every possible journal out there.

Warmest congratulations to Eric Sheng (University of Oxford) and Darcy Forster (University of Sydney), who are the winner and runner up in the BSHP Graduate Essay Prize competition for 2024

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I'm halfway through a sabbatical dedicated to writing a book based on my yearly interviews with Mary Midgley from 2011-18 for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.

I'm curious about which topics people are most interested in? Feel free to DM!