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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

Gweithdy Athroniaeth Trist

GALAR, TOR CALON, & RHITHWELEDIGAETHAU

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Caerdydd)
Lucy Osler (Caerwysg)

13:30-17:30, Dydd Gwener Medi 26

1.57 Adeilad John Percival
Prifysgol Caerdydd

Cofrestrwch yma: bit.ly/CdfGHH

(Bydd y gweithdy yn Saesneg)

Mae gan y poster ddelwedd o fenyw cyborg yn crio a'r un testun ag yn y post hwn.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

A Sad Philosophy Workshop

GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)

13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September

1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University

Free! All welcome!

Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky

Poster has image of a tearful cyborg woman and the same text as in this post.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

A Sad Philosophy Workshop

GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)

13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September

1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University

Free! All welcome!

Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

Gweithdy Athroniaeth Trist

GALAR, TOR CALON, & RHITHWELEDIGAETHAU

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Caerdydd)
Lucy Osler (Caerwysg)

13:30-17:30, Dydd Gwener Medi 26

1.57 Adeilad John Percival
Prifysgol Caerdydd

Cofrestrwch yma: bit.ly/CdfGHH

(Bydd y gweithdy yn Saesneg)

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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 29d

Coming soon ––

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me

:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::

–– contents pages are in the thread below.

#philsky

Image is book cover with the release date beneath: 13 November 2025.

Artwork on the book cover is Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP – an abstract painting in yellows, greys, whites, and black.

Book is published in Penguin Classics.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 Places are still available on our MA Philosophy ✨

Optional modules:
- Telling, Believing and Knowing
- Equality and Injustice
- Dimensions of the Mind
- New Directions in Aesthetics
- Contemporary Feminist Philosophy
- Interpersonal Relationships

Full information:
bit.ly/CdfMAPhil

#philsky

Cardiff University coat of arms, including one angel and two dragons.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 Mae lleoedd ar gael o hyd ar ein MA Athroniaeth ✨

- Modiwlau dewisol:
- Telling, Believing and Knowing
- Equality and Injustice
- Dimensions of the Mind
- New Directions in Aesthetics
- Contemporary Feminist Philosophy
- Interpersonal Relationships

Gwybodaeth lawn:
bit.ly/CddMAAthr

#philsky

Arfbais Prifysgol Caerdydd, gan gynnwys un angel a dwy ddraig.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 19

PS: the paper is entirely open-access.
CC-BY 4.0 license.
#philsky

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨Congratulations to our doctoral student Thom Hamer ✨

whose paper

✨ 'A Case for Contingent Absurdity' ✨

has just been published in

✨ European Journal of Philosophy ✨

Llongyfarchiadau, Thom! Gefeliciteerd!

A Case for Contingent Absurdity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨Congratulations to our doctoral student Thom Hamer ✨

whose paper

✨ 'A Case for Contingent Absurdity' ✨

has just been published in

✨ European Journal of Philosophy ✨

Llongyfarchiadau, Thom! Gefeliciteerd!

A Case for Contingent Absurdity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 14

Picture of a smiling student with the text:

Clearing at Cardiff
Discover more
cardiff.ac.uk/clearing

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 12

Cardiff University philosophy graduate Daisy Onyewu explains what she loved about her degree and how philosophy helps in her career ::

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Image Works @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social · Jul 23

Delighted to have @daisydixon.bsky.social and Durre Shahwar kicking off ‘The ‘art’ of research’ Away Day here in Cardiff today, helping us explore new creative routes into our research through images and autofiction 💕

PowerPoint slide for the Image Works Away Day in a wood panelled room

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

And finally our keynote speaker —

Jennifer Mather Saul

— speaking on near-relations of linguistic dogwhistles

Photo of Professor Saul speaking in front of a projected slide that says: Near-relations of dogwhistles

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Sarah Fisher considering what is communicated when we get ChatGPT to write our emails for us

Photo of Sarah Fisher speaking in front of a project slide that reads:
Question
What happens when we delegate our communicative tasks to large language models?

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The afternoon begins with Chris Heffer outlining his thoughts on unintentionally misleading speech and the criteria for offensive-presumptive terms

Photo of the linguist Chris Heffer introducing his talk in front of a projected slide that that reads:
Offence-Presumptive Terms
Misleading Lexis and the Judgment of Linguistic Offence

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Emilia Wilson arguing that prioritising the evaluative framing aspect of a classificatory term over its descriptive meaning can provide a better understanding of the world.

Photo of Emilia Wilson making the final point in her talk beside a projected slide setting out her overall conclusion. Slide reads:

A wide array of words have both a descriptive meaning and evaluative framing

We can depart from the former to utilize the latter, leveraging a frame to produce a perspective in our hearer

The tendency to mark these uses as 'real’, ‘true’, etc reflects a prioritization of the evaluative dimension

Frames are vital representational tools: I’ve suggested we are still (sometimes) using words as representational devices when we do this

Suspicion of these kinds of revisions is in tension with paradigmatic success-story
of revising ‘rape’

To argue that ‘lexical exploitation' (i.e., persuasive definition) is always manipulative or not a communicative act is untenable

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next up, Kyle Adams all the way from the University of Waterloo thinking about whether/how we can assert things with graphs 📈

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Daisy Dixon kicked off our workshop on social, political, and manipulative speech this morning by wondering exactly what lying is.

Photo of Daisy taking questions at the end of her talk, with Anna Klieber chairing

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A. @nonamename.bsky.social · Jul 16

On Friday (18/07) there's a HYBRID workshop on Social, Political & Manipulative Speech in Cardiff, with some pretty awesome people - feat. keynote by Jennifer Saul! If you happen to be around or want to join online, you can find a registration link (& program!) here sites.google.com/view/cardiff...

Poster for the workshop on blue-green-purpleish background, with a purple megaphone and a big white speech-bubble. The bubble reads:
WORKSHOP July 18th, J.P. Building 1.29A
Social, Political, Manipulative Speech
10:00-15:15- Workshop talks by Daisy Dixon, Kyle Adams, Emilia Wilson, Chris Heffer & Sarah Fisher
15:45-17:15 Keynote by Prof. Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo): "Near-Relations of Dogwhistles"

Underneath the bubble it reads "Full schedule & registration via QR code"
there is a smaller speech-bubble with a QR code in the left corner of the poster.

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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thomas Payré comparing descriptions of urban scenes in Sartre’s first novel La Nausée and his unfinished later novel La Reine Albemarle

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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · Jul 8

Darren Gillies drawing on Sartre’s theory of imagination to argue that bokeh in photography inhibits imaginative participation in the image

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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · Jul 8

Jonathan Mitchell developing a theory of sensory episodic memory grounded in Sartre’s theory of imagination

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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · Jul 8

Chris Burdett arguing that Sartre’s seemingly pessimistic theory of romantic relationships is both true and helpful

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · Jul 11

"People must see themselves as the authors of their own emancipation."

Excellent new open-access article on the dangers of externally induced regime change with particular reference to Iran ––

–– coauthored by Cardiff philosopher Patrick Hassan.

"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan (keywords: Iran; Regime Change; Anti-Imperialism; Post-Colonial Theory)

Calls for regime change in Iran have surged once again following the June 2025 aerial bombardments by Israel, encouraged by hawkish factions in Washington and Tel Aviv. These military actions, ostensi...

www.thephilosopher1923.org

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