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Sara Van Goozen

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Lecturer in Political Philosophy (UoYork). Ethics of war, global justice, animals. Posting in personal capacity but mostly about work. She/her, fucking massive nerd. I write for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · Nov 11

Bunch of new followers so will say: hello! I'm a philosopher working on just war theory, animal rights, global ethics, and related things. I help run Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social, a great public philosophy blog - give us a follow and lmk if you want to write something for us

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah! Love it!

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

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Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education

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Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social · 2d

📣JOB ALERT📣
Lecturer or Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of Leeds. AOS: Social Philosophy + at least one of: Metaphysics, Epistemology, or Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mind, or Action. Details at jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Closing date 5 Nov 2025. #philosophy 1/2

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 2d

Same, but for me, in my 20s, it didn't feel like The Injury - it's only in my 30s I realize it was The Injury all along (I didn't do enough physio in my twenties bc it didn't feel like I needed it and now it's too late)

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SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 4d

Also Dutch People: God has already decided who is saved and who is fucked and there’s no way ABSOLUTELY no way to know which is which.

Dike: *leaks*

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

I think that's fair! I guess it's partially in their interactions with, say, elves and humans rather than just dwarven society per se. That said I always read distinction between mountain dwarves and hill dwarves in DnD to be partially about this, but basically nobody plays hill dwarves

Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

Also I would be lying if I didn't say that I like Viking shit and beer, and in most fantasy properties thats the niche filled by dwarves so...

Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

I guess so! Didn't notice it at all but im typing on a wobbly train so not that surprising :)

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 4d

"If orcs didn't want me to hit them in the face with my pickaxe, why did they name themselves so similarly to ore?"

Karlûngr Zircondig, Turning Point Mountainhomes

sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 4d

aesthetically i wish to be an elf but spiritually i am plumbing the depths for ore and reclaiming my ancestral hold from the vile orcs

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

I have no idea why there is a random link in my first comment there lol

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

And a range of more "modern" modes of production and living. Thinking of LOTR dwarfs, WHFB dwarfs specifically, the "digging to deep but we're gonna keep going anyway and deal with the consequences when they pop up" just hits a sweet spot for me.

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 4d

Not to fan the flames of schism, because I agree to an extent with both of your reasons for liking dwarfs, but I will also add a third, partially unrelated set of reasons: I like dwarfs because they allow you to explore the tension between nature and artifice, and between (a type of) pastoralism

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 5d

JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 5d

📢Call for Papers for free #Pacifism & #Nonviolence workshop (to be held in April 2026). Deadline 5 Nov. Full info in PDF in CfP tab here: brill.com/view/journal.... Please circulate widely.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5d

You are not ‘just vibing’, your actions have violated the Geneva convention and laws of armed conflict.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 5d

Just leaving this here, showing that educating overseas students is the only university activity that doesn‘t cost more to deliver than it brings in. Maintenance grants are very welcome, but the source of funding for them is not. They‘re making a broken funding model even more broken.

Chart showing that amongst educating overseas students, industry-funded research, government funding, charity funded research, and educating domestic students, only overseas students is profitable.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 5d

International fees currently subsidise domestic fees. So the government is taking from the only pot that subsidises educating domestic students in order to subsidise educating domestic students. Cynically, I suspect the logic behind this is to performatively demonstrate toughness towards foreigners.

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 6d

Though one might consider that a procedural-substantive point, rather than purely procedural I suppose.

Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 6d

I agree in general! (With 2 relatively decent popes in a row I occasionally feel a decently strong urge to start going to church again and this is a big reason ill never do it) But at the same time: given these particular critics' are generally extremely pro-hierarchy, the procedural point does bite

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 6d

it's so fucking funny to convert to the kind of christianity that is specifically defined by having a guy in charge of it then yell at that guy when he tells you how to be christian

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d

Above an image of a couple kissing in the kitchen which is labelled "cooking together is a form of intimacy" a Twitter user has posted "She turns on the oven. Three seventy five. She presses start and prepares the meat. I come up behind and hug her. I give her a kiss on the neck. The oven beeps and the food goes in. For the next fifteen minutes we banter and enjoy each other’s presence. The timer beeps. She takes out the food and prepares the sauce. Then she serves it. It’s delicious. I’ve had it a hundred times and it never gets old. I could eat these dino nuggets with ketchup forever"

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 6d

It's great that they absolutely couldn't work out an actually helpful way to describe Mounk

Screenshot from the How the Light Gets In describing Yascha Mounk as "Champion of Liberalism" (everyone else in the screenshot gets normally informative, if overly flattering, descriptions e.g. "legendary literary theorist"

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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 6d

I agree that the mainstreaming of Yarvin is the issue here but like - aside from him, what an incredibly cursed group of speakers. Bastani-Annunziata Rees-Mogg-Campbell-De Botton-Mearsheimer-Yarvin is a nightmare blunt rotation

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Nico Müller @nicodmueller.bsky.social · 6d

Not gonna lie, this ego boost came at just the right time. It's nice to see some people actually read what I write… and like it!

Here's that paper for free: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Now I'll go respond to peer reviewers for another paper that were *not* so thrilled about my work. Wish me luck…

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Dr Silvina Pezzetta, reading:

🔥🐕 "In a burning building, would you rather save a dog or a war criminal? If you rather save the dog, you might be an innocentist" says Nico Müller in his thought provoking paper.

After many years working on animal rights, finding this kind of papers gives me hope about new (and relevant) topics to inform animal ethics and animal rights research areas.

If you find the opening question appealing, and you doubt about innocentism because it contradicts the principle of equal consideration of interest while being close but no the same to redistributive justice consideration of interest.

You can download it or comment and I will send it to you (it is open access).

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