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Philippa Foot

Philippa Ruth Foot was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics. Her work was inspired… more

Philippa Foot
H-index: 29
Philosophy 49%
Political science 19%

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philosophellie.bsky.social
Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989.

Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

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amytaggart.bsky.social
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
inparenthesis.bsky.social
Our speakers themes (see our website for full titles):

1. @natjdyer.bsky.social on Mary Midgley

2. Larry Blum on Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams

3. Dominic Lash on Elisabeth Anscombe

4. Molly Bellamy on Iris Murdoch

5. Freya Gerz Iris Murdoch and Elisabeth Anscombe
inparenthesis.bsky.social
We're excited to announce our new Online Seminar Series for the 2025-6 academic year!! We have 5 fantastic talks coming up. For titles and abstracts see our website - and get the dates in your diary!

www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

#philsky #philosophy
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'The Wartime Quartet—Three years on'

A super interesting review by Megan Laverty in Philosophical Investigations! Read here:

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by Philippa FootReposted by: Iris Murdoch

inparenthesis.bsky.social
We're excited to announce our new Online Seminar Series for the 2025-6 academic year!! We have 5 fantastic talks coming up. For titles and abstracts see our website - and get the dates in your diary!

www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

#philsky #philosophy
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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
Unforgettable summer with #Midgley & the #philosophyinthewild project & reading heaps of #Murdoch in between. Excited to be teaching the Great Texts module @uniwinchester.bsky.social this semester with a focus on #Foot’s #NaturalGoodness & therefore big links to #Anscombe @inparenthesis.bsky.social
nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Just released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com
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endsexisminschools.bsky.social
Delighted to welcome @inparenthesis.bsky.social as Author Supporters for the End Sexism In Schools charity. Rachael & Clare stand with ESIS in calling for 50% of whole, taught class novels and reading lists in schools to be authored by women, with 50% the lead protagonist being women and girls.

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social
EVENT!

Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy

17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities

Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...

@thebshp.bsky.social
@inparenthesis.bsky.social
@philosophellie.bsky.social

#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
inparenthesis.bsky.social
Super well done to the incredible pre-doctoral philosophers who presented papers and posters at our Wartime Quartet conference in Cambridge this weekend with fantastically inspiring keynotes from Jane Heal and Sabina Lovibond. Photos coming soon!
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inparenthesis.bsky.social
Sasha-Lawson Frost, Jean-Gabrielle You, Alan Tapper, Cathy Mason, Sarah Drew Lucas, Duncan Richter, Eyja M. J. Brynjarsdóttir & organizers (thank you!) Frits Gåvertsson and Jonas Hansson!
inparenthesis.bsky.social
Just back from beautiful laid-back Lund. What a smorgasbord of brilliant work on Quartet(+) figures @lunduniversity.bsky.social, incl from MtQ's @philosophellie.bsky.social @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social

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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
A break in proceedings to tour beautiful #LundCathedral
#Lund. Also daren’t head home before a trip to get cardamom buns and going via the Lego store #Sweeden #Denmark
#Midgley #Lego bricks #philsky

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Day 2! The Somerville Group: Influences, impact and legacy @lunduniversity.bsky.social #philsky #Midgley #Murdoch #Foot #Anscombe

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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
A very moving final session on the work of Julius Kovesi - an ‘associate of the Quartet’ and a fascinating philosopher that I am so glad that I now know about. A superb paper and session by Alan Tapper @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#philsky
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www.juliuskovesi.com
drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
Wonderful to be at stunningly beautiful @lunduniversity.bsky.social for The Somerville Group: Influences, impact, & legacy conference. 100% worth a 3am start to be here for the start & keynote from the Philosopher Queens Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman @inparenthesis.bsky.social #philsky
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A quick reminder, this is happening tomorrow!
inparenthesis.bsky.social
Join us next week for our final online seminar for this academic year!

‘Discussing Relationality Starting From G.E.M. Anscombe’
Chiara Pellegrini, University of Padua
3rd June 2025, 3pm - 4.30pm BST

More info here: www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
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Join us next week for our final online seminar for this academic year!

‘Discussing Relationality Starting From G.E.M. Anscombe’
Chiara Pellegrini, University of Padua
3rd June 2025, 3pm - 4.30pm BST

More info here: www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
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philtalkradio.bsky.social
TODAY: Josh and Ray explore the life & thought of Mary Midgley with Clare Mac Cumhaill from @durham-university.bsky.social, co-author of "Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought #Philosophy Back to Life" – 11a on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #WiseWomen
Mary Midgley
The life and thought of the pioneering eco-feminist.
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inparenthesis.bsky.social
Check out this gorgeous record (olfactory and calligraphic!) of the 'multi-species' poem created by #philosophyinthewild’s #TeamRomania – together with USAMA ethology and human animal interaction students - at the European Bison reserve in Hateg #mixedcommunity www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/romania/
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Just before Team Norway's workshop for sixth graders on the mutualism between humans and eider ducks on the Vega Archipelago takes place tomorrow in Lånan, an island cluster south of the Arctic circle, the interview w/Devon Fredericksen is out. Please read & share your thoughts. #Philosophyinthewild
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Call for Abstracts: Women in Parenthesis 2025-6 online Work in Progress series!

We welcome talks on the Wartime Quartet and connected figures! Have a look at the link below for previous talks

Send 250 words to [email protected] by 31st July 2025!

www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

#philsky

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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
Planting trees and plants in memory of some amazing women 💚

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#philosophyinthewild project (if you don’t have #EloiseWilliams’ magical books in your life you need to remedy this now) 5/5
#philosophymatters #readingmatters #childrensvoicesmatter #animalsmatter #naturematters #philosophy #storytelling #reading #philsky #booksly
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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
‘To an adult in formal dress, engaged on his statesmanly interactions, the fence is an insuperable barrier. Down below, where it is full of holes, it presents no obstacle at all. The young Homo sapiens, like those of other species present, scurry through it all the time.’ 1/5

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Slowly building my vintage Weil collection…
inparenthesis.bsky.social
Team Romania 💚4 #PhilosophyintheWild had their first field trip to the #rewilding reservation for #Europeanbison - check out the documentary linked on our website for background and more information - and a small prize for those who can identify the species of ethical naturalism alive in the video.
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Here's an interview with brilliant philosopher and teacher @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social who is leading Team Wales 4 #PhilosophyintheWild - explaining why listening is so crucial to improving relations, not just with humans but with all animals. #publicphilosophy #marymidgley #philosophywithchildren

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