Amy Taggart

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So to say.

As it were, as it were.

Martha Nussbaum on lunch at Iris Murdoch’s house: “I felt that her very intense gaze went, as it were, straight through me, to something that was not me at all, but to which I was somehow related…She fixed me with her eyes and went on, eating pate absent-mindedly with her fingers…” 👀 #philsky

Idea: policies that do good things instead of bad things

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I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

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Things can only get weirder.

Ok, I admit the brown cardigan is a bit of an aging academic cliche. In my defence I thought it was only going to be an audio.

YouTube video by Slow Meadow - Topic Borderland Sorrows

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The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is asking British nationals in Bahrain, Israel, Palestine, Qatar and UAE to register their presence online at gov.uk

And then there are the animals themselves of course.

Many more than 40,000 in fact!

Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy Podcast In this episode Miles is joined by Cathy Mason (Central European University, Vienna) to discuss her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good'. https://bl

New Iris Murdoch podcast episode! We're joined by Cathy Mason from @weareceu.bsky.social to discuss her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good', from @oupphilosophy.bsky.social.

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opera). Apparently Proust, just twenty, invited the powdered, perfumed, puffy Irish giant to his family's apartment for dinner but Wilde, after taking a single glance at the heavy, dark furniture, said, 'How ugly everything is here,' and left. Even if the encounter was brief (or even

Edmund White on Proust inviting Oscar Wilde to his parents’ home for dinner.

Daylilies at the water's edge - 1914/1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110355

Wondering what it is about me that’s screaming “AI Generated Brain Training for the Over 60s Amenable” at Google.

Philosophical Exercises

I have a little blog where I write about philosophical exercises and they make me really happy. My last post was about bird-watching as a philosophical exercise. I predict I'll talk about the things that make my heart sing more and more.

philosophicalexercises.blogspot.com

as a side note I think we should do this again, I'd love it if my job was to reach out to famous artists about their views on the news of the day, I would like to print that in the newspaper

The whole album is so beautiful. I’m sad I didn’t see her one performance date in London before tickets sold out.

Monet described his interest in water and reflection as “an obsession.”
In 1908, he wrote: “I hope something will come of all this effort.”

His Water Lilies series would go on to become a core icon of the Impressionist movement.

YouTube video by Max Cooper Max Cooper & Rob Clouth - A Moment Set Aside (Official Video by Dimitri Thouzery)

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Ireland should mainstream human rights to protect environmental advances: UN expert DUBLIN — Ireland has made important progress in protecting the environment, but these advances are at risk unless strategic projects, infrastructure and activities with potentially significant environ...

UN expert says Ireland has made important progress in protecting the environment, but these advances are at risk unless strategic projects, infrastructure and activities are rigorously assessed and legally compliant.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I’m so tired of disruptive technologies. So tired that I’m going to lie on the sofa and read a paperback book.

YouTube video by CalvinHarrisVEVO Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80's (Official Video)

Calvin Harris had to change his entire personality as a result of shame after doing an 80s song - and that was satirical.

Just in contrast to every song from the 80s I think.

Bid to encourage protection for hedgehogs as numbers fall www.rte.ie/news/environ... ⚖️

How the Light Gets In, the philosophy and music festival, has lined up Michael Gove for this year. Unclear if he's been booked as a philosopher or as a musician, both intriguing possibilities.

Actually, ‘I’m a Philosopher Get Me Out of Here’ could definitely work for them as a rebrand.

Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 43, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

The latest issue of @the-joap.bsky.social has two great back-to-back animal ethics papers. @stevecooke.org explores animal rights and wonder; Daniel White offers a vegan case against new omnivorism.

Both, incidentally, are critical of my arguments about the ethics of eating!

This drawing of an approaching storm (around 1913) shows Paul Henry's consumate skill with charcoal, the location is likely to be the village of Dugort on the island of Achill on the west coast of Ireland.