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Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Cambridge Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Philosophy. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

๐Ÿ“ขJOB: #PhilJobs
The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026.
See the full advert here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN866/a...

26.11.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
From Research to Resonance: Turning ideas into ventures.  A workshop with innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 5 December 2025.

From Research to Resonance: Turning ideas into ventures. A workshop with innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 5 December 2025.

Want to know how to move your ideas beyond academia to shape society? ๐Ÿงฐ

Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products

5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M

28.11.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Cambridge Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Philosophy. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

๐Ÿ“ขJOB: #PhilJobs
The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Philosophy with effect from 1 September 2026.
See the full advert here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN866/a...

26.11.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel part....

๐Ÿ“ฃ Warmest congratulations to PhD student Alice Hilder Jarvis on the publication of 'No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism' in the Journal of Applied Philosophy
@christscollegecam.bsky.social

Read it here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

01.11.2025 10:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last day of Do Ho Suh's Walk the House exhibition @tate.bsky.social
Sarah Fine was one of his collaborators for his Bridge Project

26.10.2025 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Christopher Benzenberg

Christopher is also affiliated with 'Reasonable Ideas on Kantโ€™s (meta-)metaphysics' at Humboldt University of Berlin
www.christopherbenzenberg.com

26.10.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ™ŒHearty congratulations to Christopher Benzenberg. He completed his PhD, 'The Power of Reason: Kantโ€™s Empirical Study of the Mind' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach). He is a postdoc at the Univ. of Notre Dameโ€™s History of Philosophy Forum.

26.10.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿง  Jessie Munton reflects on ignorance, forgetting, and why not knowing is as important to philosophy as knowledge.

Jessie Muntonโ€™s EXPs here in our collection with the Leverhulme Trust ๐Ÿ‘‰ linktr.ee/joinexpediti...

#PLPEXPeditions #ReliableKnowledge
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

23.10.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Jessie Munton, Professor of Philosophy @cam.ac.uk, reflects on how love, care and personal relationships shape what we come to know. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4628

24.10.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

20.10.2025 07:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Philosophy | Pablo Hubacher Haerle philosophie Pablo Hubacher Haerle, PhD student in Philosophy, Cambridge, Self-Image, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Theory of Action, Epistemology, Metaphysics of Mind, Wittgenstein

๐Ÿ™ŒSending congratulations to @pablohh.bsky.social, who completed his PhD on 'Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge' (supervised by Richard Holton and Jessie Munton) and has taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at CONCEPT at the University of Cologne.

www.pablohubacherhaerle.ch

22.10.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alex Fisher I am theย  Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow ย at the University of Leeds. I was previously a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University , funded by the Leverhulme Trust...

๐Ÿ™Œ Huge congratulations to
@alex-fisher.bsky.social
, who completed his PhD on 'Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality' (supervised by Alex Oliver) in 2024 and is now the Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.

alex--fisher.weebly.com

22.10.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs

20.10.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ™ŒWarmest congratulations to Alexander Hutterer, who completed his PhD on 'Knowledge and Cognition in Kant' (supervised by Angela Breitenbach) and has taken up a Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early Career Research Fellowship at Univ of Chicago
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

20.10.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lukewarm Goo: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Zoo Join sketch comedy group Lukewarm Goo (Footlights James Allen, Dom Andrew and Will Boyce) for a gooey sketch show. Expect goo on the way to the zoo.

๐ŸŽญ Come and see Cambridge MPhil Philosophy student Dom Andrew perform in 'Lukewarm Goo', at the Corpus Playroom, 29 Oct - 1 Nov

www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/com...

19.10.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Autumnal trees near the Alison Richard Building.

Autumnal trees near the Alison Richard Building.

Lauren Berlant reading group ๐Ÿ“š

Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlantโ€™s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras

From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0

07.10.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
B&W hard copy of a volume of Aristotelian Society 2025

B&W hard copy of a volume of Aristotelian Society 2025

Table of contents and first page of an article

Table of contents and first page of an article

Didnโ€™t expect to receive a hard copy of this volume. So satisfying to hold. An honour to philosophise alongside these wonderful thinkers. Hereโ€™s the link academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

30.09.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Unity of Pictorial Experience This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Seeing-in is the experience of seeing something in a picture. This experience is present to the subject as a single, unifi...

๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ“ขCongratulations to Rose Ryan Flinn @sidneysussex.bsky.social
on the forthcoming publication of 'The Unity of Pictorial Experience' in Philosophers' Imprint.

journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...

03.10.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Domino Theory of Disease | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core A Domino Theory of Disease - Volume 92 Issue 2

My paper 'A Domino Theory of Disease' is out and available *open access* with Philosophy of Science! ๐Ÿฅณ @philscijournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

19.05.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...

latest by the dream team of @pasliwa.bsky.social and Tom McClelland #philsky

23.09.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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A reminder that our 2025 Philosophy essay competition is now open. Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in submitting. โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“š

Visit royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/bodies-... for full details.

#philosophy #essay #competition #prize

12.09.2025 09:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI, Art and Morality - LCFI This blog is written by Dr Milena Ivanova, a Senior Teaching Fellow at LCFI, Bye-Fellow of Newnham College and Senior Teaching Associate at Cambridge PACE. The question whether artificial intelligence...

Check out the latest CFI blog on AI, Art and Morality by our Senior Teaching Associate Dr Milena Ivanova๐Ÿ‘‡
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

10.09.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
White banner with an image of a lecturer giving an academic presentation. The words 'Postdoctoral Fellowshipsโ€™ are written on the right-hand side.

White banner with an image of a lecturer giving an academic presentation. The words 'Postdoctoral Fellowshipsโ€™ are written on the right-hand side.

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships close soon. Open to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences, the scheme supports completing a major research project and gaining university work experience. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk

10.09.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mellor, Hugh, 1938-2020

I wrote a Biographical Memoir of my PhD supervisor Hugh Mellor for the @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

29.08.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Mellor, Hugh, 1938-2020

Prof Tim Crane (CEU, former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy) has written a @britishacademy.bsky.social Biographical Memoir of Prof Hugh Mellor (1938-2020) @darwincollegecam.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social @peterhousecam.bsky.social

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

02.09.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships | Faculty of Philosophy Call for Expressions of Interest for 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications: Faculty deadline midday Friday, 31 October 2025 Expressions of interest are invited from potential appl...

๐Ÿ“ข 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship applications, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

#PhilJobs

www.phil.cam.ac.uk/leverhulme-t...

07.08.2025 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two graduands in b&w attire stand on both sides of a short woman in red shoes. On the edge of a lawn with Kings College Chapel and the Gibbs building in the background. All beaming

Two graduands in b&w attire stand on both sides of a short woman in red shoes. On the edge of a lawn with Kings College Chapel and the Gibbs building in the background. All beaming

These are Isaac Kean and Jack Wright who graduated with PhDs today and who both wrote important dissertations in philosophy of economics. So proud to have supervised them. Thanks to @kingscollege.bsky.social for putting on a great party despite the rain!

24.07.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dr Sophia Dandelet delivered the Mind Fellow Lecture at the 99th Joint Session #jointsession25 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @aristotsoc.bsky.social @sidneysussex.bsky.social ๐Ÿ‘

29.07.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can we perceive modal properties? Can we see only how things actually are, or are we also able to see how things could be? Much work in philosophy of perception assumes that our visual perceptual experience is restricted to the actua....

Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky

26.07.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Social Science: A Constructivist Account Abstract. What sort of inquiry is social science? This question used to preoccupy philosophers, but fell off their agenda due to a stalemate between so-cal

Prof Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social @kingscollege.bsky.social was a symposiast at the 99th Joint Session @aristotsoc.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social.
Read her paper, 'Social Science: A Constructivist Account', here:
academic.oup.com/aristotelian...

14.07.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@cambridgephilos is following 20 prominent accounts