Ellie Robson

Mapping Connections Mapping Connections | In Parenthesis

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!

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Iris Murdoch Review 16 (2025) Cover and Contents Reveal! This year is a North American Special Edition.

Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.

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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

How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

An absolutely fantastic article by @axdouglas.bsky.social at @aeon.co .

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So saddened by the death of Jane Goodall who described herself as “not a scientist but a naturalist”

Her Oxford Biography is here: doi.org/10.1093/ref:...

Introducing British idealist Hilda Oakeley – a guest post by Emily Thomas It is with great pleasure that I introduce our first guest post. Its author, Emily Thomas, is a postdoc at the University of Groningen where she currently holds a Netherlands Research Council (NWO)…

Hilda Oakeley was the (acting) Head of Department at King's College from 1925-30 and Head of Department in 1931. @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social

Read more about her in this 2015 blog written by Emily Thomas:
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/i...

U. Göttingen has launched Bildersturm, a major research project addressing the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. It aims to overturn traditional images of the discipline by highlighting women philosophers and establishing new role models for the future: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/670560.html

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

YouTube video by Philosophy Talk Mary Midgley: Roving Philosophical Report

One of the first philosophers to write about #climate change, Mary Midgley, was born on this date in 1919. For our episode earlier this year, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore Midgley’s ideas about #animals and the Gaia hypothesis: youtu.be/yraIY5Uhb98

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Sounds great Nat!!

Super excited for this! The first talk ‘Midgley Amongst the Economists’ is on the 22 October by @natjdyer.bsky.social

Ellie Robson & Peter West, Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living - PhilPapers The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...

Happy to have had ✨final acceptance ✨ at the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) for the first paper on Susan Stebbing’s Ethics! 😃

Co-authored with @peterwest23.bsky.social

We worked so hard on this & I can’t wait to see Stebbing on the pages of JHP

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At Elizabeth Anscombe’s house in Cambridge 👸

I recommend the Wartime Quartet tour of Oxford available here: open.spotify.com/show/1p37fcZ...

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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

Iris Murdoch on Love @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/for-i...

Lecturer in Ethics Education (AEP)

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

Ancient Renaissance Woman - Philosophy Talk In her time in the 4th century, Hypatia was one of the most famous philosophers in Alexandria, and indeed in the ancient world. She studied so many different things—mathematics, astronomy, philosophy—...

“As we get set to re-broadcast the start of our #WiseWomen series, head over to Philosophers Corner to read the blog about that first episode exploring the life and though of Hypatia of Alexandria” | @philtalkradio.bsky.social philosophytalk.org/blog/ancient... #Hypatia #philsky

This looks fantastic!

Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy Call for Papers: Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy   Dates: May 28-29th 2026 Location: Northeastern University London (Devon House, 58 St Katherine’s Way, London) Organiser: Pe...

Call for papers for a conference I'm hosting in London in May 2026 - Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy:

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Wonderful to be on this podcast and talking about Midgley on Animal Ethics!!! Thanks for having me Nigel 🤓

Just released - two new episodes of the Philosophy Bites podcast - listen here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.philosophybites etc) Philosophybites.libsyn.com

Are you planning a philosophy conference in the UK? The deadline for our next round of conference is 1 September 2025, you can apply for up to £500. More info below!

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Excited for this!

Advance copies arrived 😃😬

Just 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

This Sunday KALW will air the final episode in season 2 of our #WiseWomen series, exploring the moral #philosophy of Philippa Foot.

The series has been a remarkable two-year journey, from Hypatia of Alexandria in 4th-century Egypt to Foot and the "Oxford Quartet" of the mid-20th century. 1/

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY!

Ian James Kidd argues there can be pessimism without despair and nihilism. Time to rethink pessimism!

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J. L. Austin

Updated SEP entry: J. L. Austin. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aust...

Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy A workshop devoted to the work of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) and Mary Midgley (1919-2018) and their place in and relation to the history of philosophy. ​ When : 17th July 2025 Where : Monica...

Upcoming workshop on Susan Stebbing and Mary Midgley: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb...

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