Zoe Walker

Undergraduate Diversity Initiative - The British Society of Aesthetics UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY INITIATIVE for the BSA CONFERENCE In an effort to increase diversity in British aesthetics and philosophy of art, the British Society of Aesthetics launched this new initiative...

Undergraduate Diversity Initiative

The BSA aims to encourage UK undergraduates from underrepresented groups to consider further study in philosophical aesthetics.

We therefore fund several places for students at our annual conference.

Find out more below.

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Just Kidding? Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech Abstract. In this paper, I discuss two roles for the concept of joking in political speech. First, I discuss how claiming to have been joking can provide s

This is probably what Donald Trump believes counts as a joke in his world. He'll soon be claiming it was sarcasm or that he was "just kidding."

Zoe Walker (@aweakmoralizer.bsky.social) has written a really nice piece on that.

"Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest"

I think I've heard that one before...

The old “just a joke” eh? A classic. Guy’s *hilarious*…

Zoe Walker (@aweakmoralizer.bsky.social) has written about this:

doi.org/10.1093/pq/p...

So glad you liked it! And that it articulated a thought you'd had as well - I haven't thought much about comedy in poetry so your thesis sounds v interesting!

Comic objectification ABSTRACT. Is finding someone funny a way of treating them as an object? And if so, does that make it immoral? In this paper, I argue that seeing someone as

You've heard of sexual objectification, but what about comic objectification? In a new paper, I argue that sometimes, comedy involves treating people as objects. This can make it immoral, when seeing people as comic objects plays a role in justifying their oppression. Check it out:
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