Pekka Väyrynen

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Great city, great colleagues; if you fit the (quite flexible) profile, you should apply.

We'll consider any combination of these specialisms in social and theoretical philosophy. You may have equal levels of research specialism in both, or one may be more dominant; the two areas may reflect two aspects of your work or different non-intersecting areas of interest. Spread the word! 2/2

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

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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

A real cliffhanger there: "some-..."!

Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy "Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.

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Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

Top-level shitposting.🤌

Some other highlights from EMST: Janis Rafa's multisensory installation "We Betrayed the Horses", Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroideries, and Nabil Boutros's "Celebrities/Ovine Condition" (portrait photographs of 65 sheep). The building is also amazing, with a terrace overlooking the Acropolis. 2/2

Xavi Bou, Ornitography #237, 2922. Sturnus vulgaris and Falco Peregrinus, Common Starling and Peregrine Falcon. Roses, Catalonia. C-Print on Aludibond. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Senda, Barcelona.

Xavi Bou, Ornitography #226, 2022. Sturnus vulgaris, Common Starling, Roses, Catalonia. C-Print on Aludibond. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Senda, Barcelona.

Anyone in Athens soon, visit the "Why Look at Animals?" exhibition at EMST. Of course varied, but a high hit rate. I LOVED the 8 conceptually and visually amazing chronophotographs of bird flight paths by Xavi Bou (xavibou.com). His Ornitographies book at home on a lazy Saturday is a real treat. 1/2

Ethics | Vol 136, No 1

The October 2025 issue of ETHICS is now available on the University of Chicago Press site www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2025/... #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

Well done Songkick.

I hope more people will come to a long overdue realization that academia dot edu is an utter crap company.

Finding new, more foolish, ways to make the future of the UK's higher education sector more perilous isn't easy, but somehow the head of the OfS has managed it. The decision to create that organisation was a disaster.

This is so well done. Pretty much all killer no filler.

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Confirmed speakers: Bahram Assadian (Leeds), Maria Alvarez (KCL), Helen Beebee (Leeds), Otávio Bueno (Miami), Mik Burley (Leeds), Chris Daly (Manchester), Stephen Mumford (Durham), Rowland Stout (UCD), Andrea White.

Organized by the Centre for Theoretical Philosophy at @leedsprhs.bsky.social. 2/2

Call for Registration: A two-day conference (Sept 18-19) at University of Leeds in honor of the work of Helen Steward and Scott Shalkowski -- two excellent philosophers and colleagues who are retiring. Details and free registration at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

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Ethics | Vol 135, No 4

The July 2025 issue of ETHICS is now available on the University of Chicago Press site www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2025/... #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

7th Frankfurt Metaethics Conference (FrankMeta.7) FrankMeta.7 is designed to bring together philosophers working on normativity and metanormativity, broadly construed

In transit to FrankMeta.7. Very much looking forward to a bunch of interesting talks and good discussions! And then one tentative oddball paper that'll kick it all off... #philsky

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IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

"support diverted from certain subjects including journalism and media studies towards lab-based courses" we ALREADY DO THIS, it is why the tuition fee is the same for humanities subjects as STEM subjects, we cross-subsidize internally across faculties, why do no government ministers understand this

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...

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!
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Here's a link to the survey: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Here's that rare thing: an academic survey I am going to fill in. #ref2029

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.

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Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

Home Office visa fees are an utter racket, which all international academics working in the UK know from firsthand experience.

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

the standards of legal academia are laughable. There’s no peer review; it’s only student editors, whose job is literally just to check whether your cites say what you say they say