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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 5d

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries.

“EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors.

www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

The figure shows how much global food systems contribute to pressures on all nine planetary boundaries.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 7d

Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.

Marilù Papandreou, Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-Human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators - PhilPapers

philpapers.org

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 4d

🎧

Baghon Main

YouTube video by Arooj Aftab - Topic

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 5d

This is sort of like watching a philosophy themed Jerry Springer Show. Quite niche entertainment/horror.

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 6d

I have to say York’s library is amazing. Completely open to the public. Excellent coffee & salads. Plus I seem to be able to consume the entire environmental philosophy section at my own pace since (1) I’ll never complete my time at the university (being unaffiliated) & (2) no one reads anymore 📚 💙

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Erich Hatala Matthes @ehatmat.bsky.social · 7d

The Routledge Handbook of Nature and Environmental Aesthetics is now out. Lots of great stuff, including a chapter by me on Beauty and Love of Place. Check it out, and ask your library to get a copy! #philsky

Routledge Handbook of Nature and Environmental Aesthetics

This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of philosophical thinking about the aesthetics of the natural and human-made environments, exploring the topic's foundations, key ideas, and cur...

www.routledge.com

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re working on underrepresented or non-canonical philosophical themes or figures, now’s the time to polish up your manuscript!

3 months left to submit to the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy.

Deadline: January 1, 2026
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

#philsky

Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 New journal alert! 🚨
We hear it's a great one 😉

And there's an open CFP for the next volume: journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 8d

"Law is both ideal and strategic...If we want to get from here to there, it is straightforward to plot a route if we get clear about the destination. If we start and just want to go to a 'better' place, our course is not clear. Ideal theory directs our practical efforts." - Martha Nussbaum
#philsky

Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · Jul 7

Getting the feeling that the application of non-ideal theory to pro-vegan & vegetarian food system arguments might just be a more philosophically sophisticated version of: "But bacon." 👀 #philsky

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12d

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 12d

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.

“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 15d

Who aligns the aligners?
#philsky

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 16d

York is now Venice.

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 18d

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Gloaming

YouTube video by Angus MacRae - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 19d

I have a burning Bergson question 🔥

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 20d

“There is a whole world of unheard voices and unsought inspiration waiting to inject freshness and novelty into philosophers.”
✨ Yes ✨
#philsky

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting interview with @axdouglas.bsky.social re his general take on philosophy and what not.

www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...

Conversation with Contralytic: Against Identity – Interview with Alexander Douglas

Conversations with Contralytic is a digital series of conversations between the editorial of Contralytic Journal and international academic philosophers on the present, past and future of philosophy. ...

www.contralytic.co.uk

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you 😅 It was almost all over for me. No more Cartesian rabbit holes please.

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 21d

I am still very much wondering about Charli XCX Dualism. Can you please put me out of my misery before I start googling pop lyrics?

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 21d

Later today (12:30) I will be tuning into Oireachtas TV

(www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...)

to watch

Prof Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social
Mr Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social
Prof John Sweeny

& Prof @hannahdaly.ie

give expert evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee...

www.oireachtas.ie

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 22d

Oh, nice! 🌍

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 23d

This is from the 'Essential Mary Midgley' volume, edited by David Midgley. I think it's an extract from 'Science and Poetry' - one of her less widely read publications. I remembered it as one of those refreshing straight talking Midgleyean paragraphs 🦉

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 23d

Looking forward to attending ‘Mary Midgley Amongst the Economists’ - the upcoming first seminar of @inparenthesis.bsky.social's 2025-6 series 👀
@natjdyer.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 24d

The Philosophy in China series is back from summer break! Today we look at the significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/daoism-polar...

#philsky #laozi #daoism #podcasts #hopwag

36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism | History of Philosophy without any gaps

www.historyofphilosophy.net

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 25d

Buying all the books my grandfather wrote at the Rare Books Fair even though I already have them 💙 📚

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Amy Taggart @amytaggart.bsky.social · 26d

#sold ✍️
#philsky

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