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Fabienne Peter is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a former head… more

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by Fabienne Peter — Reposted by: Fabienne Peter

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A nice discussion of recent work on political legitimacy -- including my book!

What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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'The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether'

Read St Andrews Philosopher @axdouglas.bsky.social 's piece for @aeon.co on the radical and potentially transformative idea of rejecting identity

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How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays
As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Judith N. Shklar, Alan Richardson , and 1 more

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Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃

Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social

We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP

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Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers
The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...
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by Daniele Lorenzini — Reposted by: Fabienne Peter

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Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, "Kantian moral change"

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Kantian moral change
Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....
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youtube version of political legitimacy with @fabiennepeter.bsky.social

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Political Legitimacy with Fabienne Peter
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Nigel Warburton

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Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford.

Please repost and register now!

@blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
@philoswarwick.bsky.social

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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods
For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Iris Murdoch

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The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality
For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Judith N. Shklar, Colm O’Cinneíde

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Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
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by Fabienne Peter

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Newish paper on what I call runaway reasons in Oxford Studies in Metaethics -- just received my hardcopy of this volume.

Runway reasons are robustly normative but fail to track the fitting response.

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Runaway Reasons
Abstract. This chapter raises a challenge for a common claim, which is that reasons are the mark of the normative. The claim tends to be accepted even by d
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by Fabienne Peter

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New toolkit helps journalists build trust through public collaboration
The project provides a roadmap for news organisations seeking to bridge the gap between elite journalism and social media chaos, offering a third way that prioritises both truth and community engageme...
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by Fabienne Peter

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Our toolkit for co-creational news media has launched!

Find out how the news media can enhance well-informed political debate and be socially inclusive.

www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/pinf-la...
PINF Launches New Toolkit for Collaborative, Accountable and Caring Journalism
Jonathan Heawood, Executive Director of PINF, introduces new framework designed to reshape trust, participation and truth in the media.What do you get when you put 50 experts in a room to talk about t...
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Yesterday, we - the UK's independent journalism community - launched a Co-Creational News Media Toolkit.

For 2 years, @publicinterestnews.org.uk, alongside academics Fabienne Peter, Rowan Cruft and Jay Howard, worked with a group of co-creational media producers...
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Andrew Chadwick

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Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information.

We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇
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The Supplementary Volume of the PAS 2025 is finally out!! Enjoy! academic.oup.com/aristotelian... #philsky @aristotsoc.bsky.social
Issues | Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Hugo Mercier, Constantine Sandis , and 4 more

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Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
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Next Monday 16th June we've got Sarah McGrath from Princeton coming to chat to us about: 'What (if anything) is moral experience?' #philosophy

⏰ 17:30, Monday 16th June
📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2024-25-programme/sarah-mcgrath/
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by Fabienne Peter

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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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by Fabienne Peter

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Karyn Lai on the Zhuangzi on human diversity

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The ancient Chinese text of the Zhuangzi teaches us to reject entrenched values – and treasure the diversity of humanity | Karyn Lai
The Zhuangzi prompts us to reflect on the shallow attitudes of those who want to draw attention to what some people lack, rather than what they might have
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Fabienne Peter

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'“Political leaders in those moments of deep economic insecurity have two options. One is to acknowledge the environment that they’re in. We’re in a globalised world.....Or....You choose blame. Blame the other, blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions, blame.".'
‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter

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We are naturally connected: to the wild world, animals, one another. @gsmcelwain.bsky.social has an excellent overview of Mary Midgley's work, which is always relevant and increasingly prominent. From the APA blog. #philsky
Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy
Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Richard Bellamy, Virginia Mantouvalou , and 1 more

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Final Version:

225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right

Text & signatories here -

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OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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by Helen De Cruz — Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Olivier Klein, Sarah Bracke , and 1 more

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Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

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Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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by Lea Ypi — Reposted by: Fabienne Peter

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If you always wanted to know what moral socialism is about, now is the time to find out! I am so delighted to be giving this year’s Eva Colorni memorial lecture, joined by Amartya Sen @ LSE. 11th June 5pm, free but registration required. I hope to see many of you there!🌹
The Idea of Moral Socialism
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Foundations of Morality workshop at the University of Leeds, June 10-11. Keynotes: Julia Driver (UT Austin) and Michael Smith (Princeton). Programme and registration details are now up at philevents.org/event/show/1.... Registration deadline: June 1st. Join us there!
#Philosophy
Foundations of Morality Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of foundational questions about morality. We are open to perspectives from both metaethics and normative ethics, addressing questions such as: W...
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NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers

Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Next Monday, Vid Simoniti is speaking at the Aristotelian Society. Come along for his talk 'Thinking without Knowing: a Defence of Aesthetic Cognitivism'. Draft paper on our website!
📍 Senate Room, Senate House
⏰ 17:30 on Monday 19 May 2025
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Frisbee Sheffield is speaking at the Aristotelian Society next Monday! Come along for her talk 'Socrates and Dialogue as the Greatest Good'. Draft paper & abstract on our website!

📍 Woburn Suite, Senate House
⏰ 17:30
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

#philosophy #philsky
The Proceedings – The Aristotelian Society
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Reposted by: Fabienne Peter, Michela Massimi

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Unless I'm missing something, it seems like the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, is now published online - so if you or your institution has access to Oxford Academic you'll be able to read and download all the chapters:
The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology
Abstract. Interest in social epistemology and work in this area have exploded in recent years with the publication of a vast quantity of exciting and wholl
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Join us next Monday (28th April) for the next Proceedings talk by Léa Salje from Leeds University.

Léa's talk is entitled 'Artspeak'. Her draft paper is available on our website!

17.30-19.15
Institute of Eduction, 20 Bedford Way, Room 642
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