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Joe Lee-Doktor and Jacob O'Sullivan have started a podcast! It can be found on spotify, and it focuses on philosophy of science, maths, and politics, kicking off with episodes inspired by a conversation Joe had on a Flat Earth live stream. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/show/5tOr9z1...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Joe Lee-Doktor and Jacob O'Sullivan have started a podcast! It can be found on spotify, and it focuses on philosophy of science, maths, and politics, kicking off with episodes inspired by a conversation Joe had on a Flat Earth live stream. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/show/5tOr9z1...
Calling all York Philosophy students! Our new digital module evaluation system is going live on Monday and, to accompany it, we have a new guide for students on using it effectively (subjectguides.york.ac.uk/skills/surve...). Please evaluate your modules, it's an extremely valuable thing to do!
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Calling all York Philosophy students! Our new digital module evaluation system is going live on Monday and, to accompany it, we have a new guide for students on using it effectively (subjectguides.york.ac.uk/skills/surve...). Please evaluate your modules, it's an extremely valuable thing to do!
Tomorrow, Sandrine Berges will be giving a talk at the Bristol Departmental Seminar, on Mary Astell and slavery. For more information, see here! www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...
November: PHIL: Sandrine Berges 20 Nov | Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences | University of Bristol
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November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Tomorrow, Sandrine Berges will be giving a talk at the Bristol Departmental Seminar, on Mary Astell and slavery. For more information, see here! www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...
Tomorrow, Mike Stuart is speaking at the University of Aberdeen's philosophy colloquium. His talk is entitled "Imagination as epistemic firebrand." He argues that imagination presents an obstacle for veritist epistemologies of science, and sketches a radical alternative.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Tomorrow, Mike Stuart is speaking at the University of Aberdeen's philosophy colloquium. His talk is entitled "Imagination as epistemic firebrand." He argues that imagination presents an obstacle for veritist epistemologies of science, and sketches a radical alternative.
Martin O'Neill (@martinoneill.bsky.social) has just published a piece that reflects on the experience of bringing together philosophy and the practice of community wealth building, in an important new volume on public philosophy. Read the whole thing, here: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Martin O'Neill (@martinoneill.bsky.social) has just published a piece that reflects on the experience of bringing together philosophy and the practice of community wealth building, in an important new volume on public philosophy. Read the whole thing, here: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...
Sandrine Bergès recently gave the 2025 Antognazza lecture, with a paper entitled: 'Who is a Slave and who should be Freed? Astell, Marriage, and Chattel Slavery'. You can now watch it on the BSHP YouTube Channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...
Antognazza Lecture 2025: Professor Sandrine Bergès, 'ASTELL, MARRIAGE AND CHATTEL SLAVERY''
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sandrine Bergès recently gave the 2025 Antognazza lecture, with a paper entitled: 'Who is a Slave and who should be Freed? Astell, Marriage, and Chattel Slavery'. You can now watch it on the BSHP YouTube Channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...
Tom Stoneham was recently interviewed for the Voice of Islam (national radio) Breakfast Show, speaking about the Importance of Responsibility and Accountability. Listen to the episode here! soundcloud.com/voislam/brea...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tom Stoneham was recently interviewed for the Voice of Islam (national radio) Breakfast Show, speaking about the Importance of Responsibility and Accountability. Listen to the episode here! soundcloud.com/voislam/brea...
@tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
@tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy
Fiora Salis is editing a special issue of Philosophical Psychology with Kengo Miyazono! Potential topics include imagination, creativity and artificial intelligence. CFP here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
Calling researchers in philosophy and psychology to contribute to this special issue on imagination, creativity, and artificial intelligence.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fiora Salis is editing a special issue of Philosophical Psychology with Kengo Miyazono! Potential topics include imagination, creativity and artificial intelligence. CFP here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
In a paper just published in Religious Studies, Owen Hulatt and Lucas Oro Hershtein argue that apparent contradictions in the Talmud should be understood instead as mere (but genuine) conflict (rather than contradiction). Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud | Religious Studies | Cambridge Core
True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud - Volume 61 Issue 4
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November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In a paper just published in Religious Studies, Owen Hulatt and Lucas Oro Hershtein argue that apparent contradictions in the Talmud should be understood instead as mere (but genuine) conflict (rather than contradiction). Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Sandrine Berges will be giving the prestigious Antognazza Lecture, at the BSHP on Nov. 11th. Tickets currently sold out, but you can get still a spot on the waiting list! It will be held at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Library.
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sandrine Berges will be giving the prestigious Antognazza Lecture, at the BSHP on Nov. 11th. Tickets currently sold out, but you can get still a spot on the waiting list! It will be held at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Library.
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
More here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
Only a few days left to submit an abstract for our workshop on Acquaintance with the Ineffable! Email [email protected] to submit an abstract by midnight on Saturday 1st November. (Registration details to follow.)
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
Acquaintance with the Ineffable
Abstracts are invited for a workshop on ineffability and acquaintance, to be hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of York on 8th January 2026.
There is a longstanding tradition of...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Only a few days left to submit an abstract for our workshop on Acquaintance with the Ineffable! Email [email protected] to submit an abstract by midnight on Saturday 1st November. (Registration details to follow.)
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
More details here! philevents.org/event/show/1...
In a few hours, the conference "Imagination & Creativity in Scientific Practices" will begin, hosted by the University of Parma. Mike Stuart will be speaking there, arguing against the coherence (and usefulness) of the concept of fictional truth for epistemology of imagination.
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In a few hours, the conference "Imagination & Creativity in Scientific Practices" will begin, hosted by the University of Parma. Mike Stuart will be speaking there, arguing against the coherence (and usefulness) of the concept of fictional truth for epistemology of imagination.
This Friday in Luxembourg, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk entitled "Imagination as an icon in the anti-truth revolution."
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This Friday in Luxembourg, Mike Stuart will be giving a talk entitled "Imagination as an icon in the anti-truth revolution."
Jacob O'Sullivan and Sam Dickson have just been published in Metaphysica! Their paper is titled "The Broad Escape from Narrow Fictionalism." Here is a link to the official version:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And here's another to the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DICTBE
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And here's another to the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DICTBE
The Broad Escape from Narrow Fictionalism
Fictionalism is a popular approach to handling possible worlds discourse. It gives one the power of possible world semantics without being committed to undesirable consequences. The standard approach ...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jacob O'Sullivan and Sam Dickson have just been published in Metaphysica! Their paper is titled "The Broad Escape from Narrow Fictionalism." Here is a link to the official version:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And here's another to the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DICTBE
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
And here's another to the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DICTBE
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Some weekend reading for anyone curious about the case for wealth taxes, and other policies to reduce wealth inequality.
From Howard Reed and me for the @fairness.bsky.social:
"Win-Win-Win: Taxing Wealth for Fairness, Revenue and Growth"
fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win
From Howard Reed and me for the @fairness.bsky.social:
"Win-Win-Win: Taxing Wealth for Fairness, Revenue and Growth"
fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win
Win-Win-Win
Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth
fairnessfoundation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Some weekend reading for anyone curious about the case for wealth taxes, and other policies to reduce wealth inequality.
From Howard Reed and me for the @fairness.bsky.social:
"Win-Win-Win: Taxing Wealth for Fairness, Revenue and Growth"
fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win
From Howard Reed and me for the @fairness.bsky.social:
"Win-Win-Win: Taxing Wealth for Fairness, Revenue and Growth"
fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win
In a new paper, Keith Allen and colleagues show that people vacillate between at least two views of seeing: a) we see things themselves, and b) we see things indirectly via mental images and inference. Both are "common sense." Read the whole paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In a new paper, Keith Allen and colleagues show that people vacillate between at least two views of seeing: a) we see things themselves, and b) we see things indirectly via mental images and inference. Both are "common sense." Read the whole paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On Oct. 8 James Clarke was at Durham University's Centre for Political Thought, giving a paper entitled "J. B. Erhard’s Revolutionary Natural Law Theory."
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On Oct. 8 James Clarke was at Durham University's Centre for Political Thought, giving a paper entitled "J. B. Erhard’s Revolutionary Natural Law Theory."
Students, check out the new-and-improved careers website for York students! It's full of great resources: www.york.ac.uk/study/careers/
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October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Students, check out the new-and-improved careers website for York students! It's full of great resources: www.york.ac.uk/study/careers/
Joe Lee-Doktor spoke at the recent anti-racism protest in York's city centre, making it clear that our department is against the recent racist attacks that have taken place across York, including on campus.
Aerial shot courtesy of Jacob O’Sullivan.
Aerial shot courtesy of Jacob O’Sullivan.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Joe Lee-Doktor spoke at the recent anti-racism protest in York's city centre, making it clear that our department is against the recent racist attacks that have taken place across York, including on campus.
Aerial shot courtesy of Jacob O’Sullivan.
Aerial shot courtesy of Jacob O’Sullivan.
Calling all recent philosophy grads! If you graduated between May and July 2024, make your voice heard by filling out the national Graduate Outcomes survey!
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Summer 2024 graduates! If you completed your UK higher education course between May and July 2024, it's now your turn to complete the Graduate Outcomes survey!.
Keep an eye out for an email, SM...
Summer 2024 graduates! If you completed your UK higher education course between May and July 2024, it's now your turn to complete the Graduate Outcomes survey!.
Keep an eye out for an email, SMS, o...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Calling all recent philosophy grads! If you graduated between May and July 2024, make your voice heard by filling out the national Graduate Outcomes survey!
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www.linkedin.com/posts/gradua...
How should we address the impact of AI on education?
Tom Stoneham recently took part in a discussion on the topic, hosted by Times Higher Education and Google for Education. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/Ic2JWSn...
Tom Stoneham recently took part in a discussion on the topic, hosted by Times Higher Education and Google for Education. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/Ic2JWSn...
AI, future skills and industry partnerships
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September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
How should we address the impact of AI on education?
Tom Stoneham recently took part in a discussion on the topic, hosted by Times Higher Education and Google for Education. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/Ic2JWSn...
Tom Stoneham recently took part in a discussion on the topic, hosted by Times Higher Education and Google for Education. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/Ic2JWSn...
In a new paper, Matthew Ratcliffe explores the phenomenology of being haunted by loss. Matthew identifies characterizes this feeling as involving the ongoing experience of possibilities being "foreclosed." Read the paper here: t.ly/0Xug-
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In a new paper, Matthew Ratcliffe explores the phenomenology of being haunted by loss. Matthew identifies characterizes this feeling as involving the ongoing experience of possibilities being "foreclosed." Read the paper here: t.ly/0Xug-
Some updates from our recent grad, Daniel Kim!
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Some updates from our recent grad, Daniel Kim!
Have the constant and avoidable losses of environmental habitats got you down? You're not alone. A new publication by Pablo Fernandez Velasco and Louise Richardson argues that this feeling is *essentially* a shared emotion, because of the shared places that make up our identities.
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Have the constant and avoidable losses of environmental habitats got you down? You're not alone. A new publication by Pablo Fernandez Velasco and Louise Richardson argues that this feeling is *essentially* a shared emotion, because of the shared places that make up our identities.
Dave Ingram's article 'Presentism and Eternalism' features in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, edited by Nina Emery, to be published later this month. This year, Dave will be teaching The Nature of Time for undergraduates and Time, Tense, & Existence for MA students.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Dave Ingram's article 'Presentism and Eternalism' features in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, edited by Nina Emery, to be published later this month. This year, Dave will be teaching The Nature of Time for undergraduates and Time, Tense, & Existence for MA students.