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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 2d

St Andrews philosopher Greg Restall is featured in this new philosophy channel.

Ping Pong Philosophy 🏓 @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

🎙️ In the very first episode of Ping Pong Philosophy, I sit down with Greg Restall, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, to talk about possibilia, proof-theoretic semantics, and more!🏓 Full episode out now!

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Greg Restall on possibilia, discussing logical pluralism with Graham Priest and more I EP 1 🏓

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 4d

A recent review of St Andrews Philosopher Bradley Hillier-Smith's book in Ethics and International Affairs:

'The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees offers a novel, thoughtful, and persuasive ethical analysis
of how states should respond to refugees.'

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The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth $170, eBook $48.44. | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core

The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth 48.44. - Volume 39 Issue 2

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 11d

The University of St Andrews Philosophy Department is now accepting preliminary applications for the 2026 call for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships!

For more information, visit: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/r...

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships - Department of Philosophy - University of St Andrews

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 18d

Professor Jens Timmerman, a world-leading expert scholar on Kant's philosophy here at St Andrews, has just published a new book: Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie, through @universitypress.cambridge.org

www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 24d

St Andrews is proud to rank as third best in the UK for philosophy in the Guardian university guide

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Best UK universities for philosophy – league table

The study of how to think about ideas and ask questions about truth, right and wrong – includes ethics, history of philosophy, logic

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 24d

My Philosophical Manifesto

This interview with Contralytic ended up being my philosophical manifesto.

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 25d

St Andrews' resident philosopher of human rights Adam Etinson has two book chapters in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

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The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 28d

St Andrews Philosopher Alex Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social was invited onto BBC Free Thinking to discuss his recent thoughts, research and book on Against Identity

You can hear the interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

And Alex's book is here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...

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Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds

Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 29d

You can hear St Andrews Philosopher Mara van der Lugt speak about her recent book Hopeful Pessimism on the Gray Area podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

And the book itself is available here:

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Hopeful pessimism

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 14/07/2025 · 52m

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Sep 10

St Andrews philosopher of Human Rights @adametinson has co-edited the comprehensive and rich Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Human Rights with James Nickel

Essential reading for anyone interested in the Philosophy of Human Rights

plato.stanford.edu/entries/righ...

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Human Rights (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Sep 9

St Andrews philosopher Ben Sachs-Cobbe's overview and analysis of 'The Ethics of a State Pension' has just been published in Philosophy Compass.

You can read it here:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Ethics of the State Pension

This article suggests that future ethical analyses of state pensions should focus on either or both of two distinct ideal types of state pension, one of which is intended to serve a sufficientarian p...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Philosophical Quarterly, hosted at St Andrews, has a call for papers for their latest special issue: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics'

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Sep 2

There's still time to apply for a British Academy postdoc at St Andrews! Our internal deadline is 12 September. Details here

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/r...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships - Department of Philosophy - University of St Andrews

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Sep 2

'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether'

Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity

aeon.co/essays/how-t...

How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays

As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · Jul 9

At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Jun 30

New guidance from the World Health Organisation on the ethics of health research priority setting has just been published. St Andrews philosopher Joseph Millum was the lead writer!
www.who.int/publications...

WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting

This guidance aims to synthesize current good practice for incorporating ethics into health research priority setting. It is relevant to anyone making decisions about what research to support or condu...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Jun 12

Health research funding is scarce. How can it be allocated fairly? Join us noon on June 23 for the launch of WHO’s new Guidance on the Ethics of Health Research Priority Setting.
www.who.int/news-room/ev...
#healthresearch #ethics #prioritysetting

Launch of WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting

To explore the new guidance and its implications for practice, we invite you to join a virtual panel discussion hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 June 2025.

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Last week, CEPPA's very own Joseph Millum (together with Ben Colburn) wrote about the assisted dying bill for 'The Scotsman'. Find the piece here or email the authors for a copy: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Assisted Dying Bill Scotland: Why fears about coercion of vulnerable people are misguided

In countries which allow it, there is no evidence that people are coerced into assisted dying

www.scotsman.com

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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · May 13

Philosophers: spread the word! Starting May 27, Arché celebrates its founder in a three-day Crispin Wright conference. Like anyone who knows what Crispin has meant for this place, I am so happy that this is happening. Programme here:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 30

Get your ticket! Our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe has put together an exciting event for the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival, covering the ethical pros and cons of asymptomatic testing for Alzheimer’s biomarkers.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/alzhei...
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Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test - Edinburgh Science

Soon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know?

www.edinburghscience.co.uk

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 29

Coming up on 10 June: the finals of The Ethics Cup, an ethics debating tournament hosted by our department that emphasises substance over style and tries to inculcate important civic virtues like intellectual humility, civility and tolerance.
ethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 28

Our very own Mara van der Lugt’s new book, Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child? (Princeton University Press) is a finalist for the 49th Annual PROSE Awards of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
publishers.org/news/associa...
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Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists and Category Winners for 2025 PROSE Awards - AAP

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) unveiled the 101 Finalists and 37 Category Winners for the 49th Annual PROSE Awards honoring professional and scholarly works published in 2024. “The 2025 ...

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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 27

Today at the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Katherine Snow (Princeton) - ‘Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis’
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our ideas aren’t just for other academics! This month Ben Sachs-Cobbe presented some joint work with @axdouglas.bsky.social on the case for a job
guarantee to a room full of DWP civil servants, and they seemed pretty interested!
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our own @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social has just published a paper arguing that controlled borders means that those born into affluent states have unjust advantages, freedoms, rights, and powers over others.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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The Egalitarian Case for Open Borders: Moral Arbitrariness

This paper argues that recent debates on egalitarian objections to immigration restrictions overlook a crucial, powerful normative principle that underpins objections to inequalities: any inequalities...

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