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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 34m

🗞️ How should states respect and protect the family life of refugees? Our Eilidh Beaton and co-author Matt Lister survey several questions and issues worthy of further discussion in their chapter in the newly published Handbook of Migration Ethics.

Refugees and Family Unification

The topics of refugee protection and family migration have both received significant attention in the philosophical literature. However, until recently, issues at the intersection of these two…

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 2d

💬 This time last week, our Mike Beaney gave a talk on "Integrational Creativity and Resonant Witchcraft" at a workshop on "Creative Imagination from Art to Science" at the University of Geneva.

Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

🗓️ Save the date! This upcoming Wednesday, LMU Munich's Michele Giavazzi will deliver the next talk in our colloquium series. He'll argue that existing accounts of voter incompetence betray an unduly apologetic attitude toward democratic citizens.

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 7d

💬 Today, our Fed Luzzi is giving a talk entitled 'Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition' at CEPPA, University of St Andrews. He'll argue that we should abandon the norm of excellence in favour of the norm of sufficiency.

Further details:

Events for September 2025 – CEPPA

Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs

ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · 20d

💬 Today, our Sandro Guli is delivering a talk entitled "Social Roles, Recognition, and Social Nature" at Wuhan University.

Earlier this summer Sandro also presented "Internalism and Externalism in Social Normativity: The Hegelian Model" at the International Social Ontology Conference in Dublin.

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 4

💬 Today, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social is presenting at the Digital Duplicates workshop in the Centre for Bioethics at the National University of Singapore. The title of her talk is "Avatars and Dementia".

Events - Centre for Biomedical Ethics – School of Medicine, National University of Singapore - CBmE

Digital duplicates are AI built representations of people, trained on personal texts, images, and choices so they can speak, decide, and create in ways that resemble real persons. The Digital Duplicates...

medicine.nus.edu.sg

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 29

📣 Our @paulasweeney.bsky.social has been appointed Associate Editor of the new open-access journal, JME Practical Bioethics!

The journal welcomes both traditional philosophy papers with clear practical implications & work in translational, applied, and empirically-focused bioethics.

Homepage | JME Practical Bioethics

An international open access, peer-reviewed journal, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group, dedicated to publishing bioethics research and covering urgent global issues such as…

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 27

💬 Our Ulrich Stegmann is presenting at the European Society for the Philosophy of Science in Groningen today. He'll explore how responses to pre-evolutionary homologies might reveal insights about relationship between lay and scientific cognition.

European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Programme

EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 13

⛰️ After the summer school, Anna, Esmé, and Eilidh joined a group trip to the Wudang mountains. Hosted by the Wudangshan Daoist Association and led by Dr Xuelin Deng, they learned about Daoist practice and visited several Daoist temples, including the Golden Palace and the Purple Cloud Temple. (2/2)

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 13

📚☀️🇨🇳 Aberdeen Philosophy students Anna, Esmé, Itzel, and Tom had a great time participating in the Political Philosophy Summer School at Wuhan University this month! Our Eilidh Beaton also attended and delivered three lectures in the programme. (1/2)

philo.whu.edu.cn/info/1011/74...

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 30

💬 Today, our Eilidh Beaton is presenting her forthcoming paper on Methodological Nationalism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

Her paper critically interrogates the call for political theorists to reject (nation-)state-centric ways of seeing the political world.

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 Calling all UoA Philosophy alumni! You're invited to a special online event to discover how postgraduate study could support your goals—and how we can help make it more affordable.

📅 Thursday 26 June
⏰ 1300-1400 UK time
🔗Register today: abdn.io/1ug

Webinar: Postgraduate Funding Opportunities for Aberdeen Alumni

Thinking about taking the next step in your career or returning to study?

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Jun 13

🗞️ Is trust necessarily risky, or "merely" vulnerable? Our @mattjope.bsky.social explores in his latest paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 26

💬 This weekend, our ‪@paulasweeney.bsky.social will speak at the public opening of Jordan Wolfson's "Little Room" exhibit at the Beyeler Foundation. The exhibit "expands the possibilities" of VR technology & and explores how it "shapes our thinking and perception of the body".

Calendar

Here you will find the latest events, parties and cultural happenings at the Fondation Beyeler.

www.fondationbeyeler.ch

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 23

📣 Our Beth Lord will serve as Deputy Chair of the Philosophy Sub-Panel for REF 2029.

Appointments made to lead REF 2029’s 34 Sub-Panels – REF 2029

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 14

🗓️ Join us on Tuesday 27th May for the latest conference in the Digital Knowledge Project, "Experts and Laypeople in the Digital World".

More info about the Digital Knowledge Project can be found here: www.digital-knowledge.org

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 11

🗓️ Upcoming conference on Spinoza and Simone Weil, organised by our PhD graduate Christopher Thomas and featuring a presentation from our current PhD student Johanna Alt.

Further info & registration here:

Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections

May 22nd-23rd Spinoza is widely recognised as one of Simone Weil’s most profound influences. Despite this, his influence on her ideas has been the subject of limited consideration in the relevant…

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 10

💬 Our PhD student Joyce Fungo is presenting "Writing as Protest" at the 3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference today! She'll argue that writing can be an act of protest & will outline the epistemic obligations of writing as protest under oppressive conditions.

3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference: Contestation and Transformation

09-05-2025 tot 10-05-2025 (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)

hiw.kuleuven.be

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · May 6

🗞️ Much has been written on the ethics of ‘ghostbots’, but some grief contexts do not involve death. In her latest paper, our @paulasweeney.bsky.social explores the use of personal avatar technology when a loved one's illness brings substantial cognitive change.

Creating Durable Biographies in Palliative Care: The Role of Continuing Bond Avatars - Philosophy & Technology

In this paper I explore the potential benefits and harms of avatar or chatbot representations of persons who are in palliative care. Much has been written recently about the benefits and harms of…

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 23

🗓️ Our Sandro Guli’ and Luca Moretti (University of Eastern Piedmont) are co-organising a one-day workshop on Social Ontology. They will bring together scholars from across Europe to explore questions about social structures, power, and collective agency.

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 18

🗞️ In a new paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Social Ontology, our Sandro Guli – with co-author Luca Moretti – argues that telic power cannot be entirely separated from deontic power, and that it helps explain oppression.

Sandro Guli' & Luca Moretti, Critique of telic power - PhilPapers

Åsa Burman has recently introduced the important notion of telic power and differentiated it from deontic power in an attempt to build a bridge between ideal and non-ideal social ontology. We ...

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 14

🗓️ This Wednesday, Fenrong Liu, Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, will share her work on the "fan-gu" pattern of argumentation in Xunzi's writings in our Colloquium series.

The talk will be held on MS Teams. Contact [email protected] for the link. All are welcome.

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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · Mar 26

Professor Jesper Kallestrup (University of Aberdeen) delivers the final @uofglasgow.bsky.social public talk in the first British Philosophy Fortnight on ‘Why Demagogues Lie Big’. #PhiloFortnight2025 #PhilosophyMatters

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 27

🎓 In today's alumni profile, Ian Nisbet—Fintech and Investment Risk Professional with experience selecting candidates for investment banking careers—explains the value of philosophy graduates from an employer's perspective.

#PhiloFortnight2025 #PhilosophyMatters

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Aberdeen Philosophy @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social · Mar 26

🌍💉⛑️ To what extent may states prioritise their own citizens' interests during periods of global crisis? Was "vaccine hoarding" during the COVID-19 pandemic unjust?

Eilidh Beaton explains how philosophy can guide us, guide us, even in crisis situations #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025

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