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Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy A workshop devoted to the work of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) and Mary Midgley (1919-2018) and their place in and relation to the history of philosophy. ​ When : 17th July 2025 Where : Monica...

Upcoming workshop on Susan Stebbing and Mary Midgley: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...

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...and we're running a workshop on 20th Century Women Philosophers and Aristotelianism next week

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The view from the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, where @philosophellie.bsky.social and I are spending the next few weeks as Summer Fellows at the History of Philosophy Forum

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The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington’s rejoinder to Stebbing A number of recent papers or monographs have examined Susan Stebbing's criticisms of Arthur Eddington's scientific-philosophical writing. These papers focus on Stebbing's critique of Eddington's at...

My paper 'The philosopher versus the physicist: Eddington's rejoinder' has just been published with the BJHP (@thebshp.bsky.social):

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Reaching the final weeks of editing a 10 chapter collected volume for Palgrave MacMillan - ‘Midgley on Moral Philosophy and Ethics’ 🤯

Which means rereading 10 amazing chapters featuring Midgley on: wickedness, naturalism, Gaia, myopia, environments, the self

Authors below!

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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

I’m afraid I know nothing! But a quick google suggests she’s very interesting! @schuringa.bsky.social have you heard of Clarke?

When psychical research and analytic philosophy shared Cambridge | Aeon Essays Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?

Matyas Moravec on the profound influence of psychical research on 20th Century British philosophy: aeon.co/essays/when-...

Our first Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology will take place on Friday, with our inaugural speaker Mazviita Chirimuuta speaking on 'Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism'.

Please sign up to attend on Friday:
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Mazviita’s lecture is titled ‘Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism’ and will no doubt be excellent

Register here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual...

Our ‘Mary Midgley Masterclass’ with the next generation of (women) in parenthesis students at Durham University 🔥

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I'm going up to Durham this week to give a Midgley 'masterclass' with @philosophellie.bsky.social - we will be discussing Rings and Books, Philosophical Plumbing, and all the other Midgley content we can squeeze into an hour

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Really pleased to announce that the inaugural Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London will be delivered by Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh).

More info & register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual...

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For Mary Midgley, philosophy must be entangled in daily life | Aeon Essays For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors

Mary Midgley and @philosophellie.bsky.social in Aeon!

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Chirimuuta Wins Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize - Daily Nous Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) has been named the winner of the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. She was awarded the £20,000 prize for her book, The Brain Abs...

Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience recently won a Royal Institute of Philosophy administered award for Transdisciplinary Philosophy dailynous.com/2024/11/08/c...

Really pleased to announce that the inaugural Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London will be delivered by Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh).

More info & register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual...

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DeepThinking to Some Purpose A questioning frame of mind

DeepSeek: “The conclusion would be that, by Stebbing's standards, I wasn't thinking because there's no genuine puzzlement. However, the process mimics thinking through structured information processing. I need to explain this distinction clearly.”

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Fido Dogstoyevsky this time (from A Close Shave)

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Yes, the answer to the question 'What is Western Philosophy?', is obviously: philosophy espoused by me.

📚 For me, this is the best philosophy book of 2024! 🌟 Highly recommend it to anyone interested in the philosophy of (neuro)science. Plus, it's open access!

Check it out here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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What is 'Western Philosophy'? Lessons from the Case of 'Analytic Philosophy' - a paper I co-authored with Matyáš Moravec in Queen's Belfast - is now published open access at the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy:

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Never spotted Pluto’s Republic in The Wrong Trousers before #philosophy #philsky

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this has, hands down, been my most controversial and polarizing comic. please enjoy (or hate):

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