@inparenthesis.bsky.social
We are a research centre that supports scholarly work, philosophical engagement, and projects on Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley & Iris Murdoch. Follow up for updates and join our network Mapping the Quartet!
With the help of scholars, we're mapping historical/philosophical connections to the Wartime Quartet.
Our latest Margaret Macdonald - written my philosopher Oliver Spinney. You can read it on our website!
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/quartet-biog...
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
This looks like a fantastic talk for anyone in the area (wisconsin-madison)!
'The Life and Philosophy of Alice Ambrose' - a public lecture by Sophia Connell
philosophy.wisc.edu/event/public...
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
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
'The Wartime Quartet—Three years on'
A super interesting review by Megan Laverty in Philosophical Investigations! Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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
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.
10.08.2025 18:28 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0One is the brilliant #EllieRobson @philosophellie.bsky.social on #MaryMidgley and #Animals! Not to be missed and again, what an incredible resource and gift #PhilosophyBites is #philosophy #philsky @inparenthesis.bsky.social
#Midgley
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
29.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
EVENT!
Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
17 July 2025
@UoNHumanities
Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...
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#philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley
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!
predoctoralwartimequartetconference.my.canva.site
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
Day 2! The Somerville Group: Influences, impact and legacy @lunduniversity.bsky.social #philsky #Midgley #Murdoch #Foot #Anscombe
14.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1A 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
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
13.06.2025 11:26 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2Sasha-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!
16.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Just 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
16.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0A quick reminder, this is happening tomorrow!
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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/
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
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/
07.05.2025 20:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.04.2025 11:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Call 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 anabarandalla@me.com by 31st July 2025!
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
#philsky
'Humans have always lived in 'mixed community' with other animals' (Mary Midgley) - our new 'philosophy in the wild' project explores the nature of 'mixed community' across 13 global sites! Check it out and please share widely. Next stop Norway! www.notesfromabiscuittin.com
15.04.2025 06:49 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
'Humans have always lived in 'mixed community' with other animals' (Mary Midgley) - our new 'philosophy in the wild' project explores the nature of 'mixed community' across 13 global sites! Check it out and please share widely. Next stop Norway! www.notesfromabiscuittin.com
15.04.2025 06:49 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
#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
notesfromabiscuittin.com
‘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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Planting trees and plants in memory of some amazing women 💚
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Slowly building my vintage Weil collection…
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